Fridays at Five - Share Your Pics

Your first order of business for this weekend - snap some pictures for the Towner Jones Photo contest discussed right here, on last week's fridays at five. We've got some great entries so far! Don't forget that there's a $25 B&H Gift Card up for grabs - plus, of course, bragging rights.

Next up, (and with the photo contest in mind) this weekend's project is to find a way to share your work!

There's a bunch of great ways on the 'net to put your work online:

The following sites offer great photo sharing features.

(1) Flickr - you can be online in just minutes, and it doesn't cost anything for a basic account. Set up accounts with friends and family, or share them with the whole world.

(2) Picasa - google's flavor of the same service, great features, and a free account

(3) Join NAPP - The National Association of Photoshop Professionals has a great online portfolio section were you can share your pictures with the photography community. The membership fee is well worth all the features, but that's a whole blog entry in itself.

Photo books:

Another fun way to be creative and share your photos - photo books can give any photographer a confidence boost, when you see your pictures in a coffee table book. Sure you paid to have the book made, but no one else needs to know that. I've personally used MPIX, but if you pop over to Jeff Revel's site, PhotoWalkPro, you'll find some good reviews of other sites that do photo books and the like.

Well that's all for now. All the best, Rob 

UPDATE: I forgot to mention, make sure you share with us how and where we can see your stuff... we're always interested in seeing the awesome work of our fellow photographers.