looking for Photo site info

[Rmosk]

Does anyone know of any site that I could upload the pictures from the event I've shot which allows me to save that specific event pics into its own page or something, that the people Ive been hired for can order photo specific items directly from there like posters, canvas, aprons etc

[Dennis_Hammer]

Exposuremanager is just what your looking for I use it. If you sign up as an event photographer you get unlimited storage and unlimited galleries. You can set up a gallery for each event and even customize the products available to them with your own pricing. Here is a link that gives you a discount and a free trial. Exposuremanager is $99 a year and 10% commission (and they don't charge for credit cards)

http://www.exposuremanager.com/aff/hammerphotos

[Mike R]

Another vote for Exposure Manager. I cannot say one bad thing about them, and their lab is superior. An added plus is that you can remove their name for your site. This includes the small "powered by" link at the bottom of the page.

[amfoto1]

Printroom.com is what I use. It's $99 a year plus about 16% of gross sales.

[zacker]

smugmug is great and supposedly will soon also let you sell stock photos and now allows video uploads also.


(for when canon gives into the "I --want-- an-- expensive point and shoot with interchangable-- lenses, crowd!) ;)

[digitalmouse]

I am not sure but my friend did something like that with these guys
www.bagsoflove.co.uk (http://www.bagsoflove.co.uk)
Good luck:D

[gary422]

Try leavethecomera.com

[Ham1]

smugmug is great and supposedly will soon also let you sell stock photos and now allows video uploads also.


(for when canon gives into the "I --want-- an-- expensive point and shoot with interchangable-- lenses, crowd!) ;)

It is not perfect for Stock photography, but we do allow you to sell Digital Files already. Commercial and Personal use licenses. http://www.smugmug.com/help/sell-digital-downloads

Markham

[convergent]

I would give another vote for ExposureManager... no offense Ham1. Take a look at this comparison and it should help you make your decision. http://www.exposuremanager.com/scripts/website.pl?rm=compare

My site is using it at http://victoryphoto.com and I've just started this about a month ago... moving from PhotoReflect and starting a new business identify after we relocated to a different state.

[ChrisRabior]

My dad uses exposuremanager. I piggybacked off it for a while, and figured I'd do a smugmug trial since I was already familiar with exposuremanager. End result - I converted to smugmug.

ExposureManager's customer service was lacking at best. SmugMug's is awesome.
In terms of customizing, SmugMug owns, and there's also a forum dedicated to helping people figure out how to manipulate the site to make it what they want.

The biggest initial draw I had to smugmug was the 50% off the first year for migrating from a flickr or other photo sharing account. The pricing was great, and if you didn't need all the stuff the pro account offers, the power user account is still pretty impressive, and a lot cheaper than exposure manager.

Last but not least, SmugMug tends to listen to the users. If you notice something missing, there are avenues for you to put in a request for that void to be filled. Shockingly, they actually listen. A lot of the site features are the direct result of people asking "hey, how come you don't do _________?"

But, in the end.. it's up to you. I'd recommend doing trials of both, seeing which one suits you the best.. and sticking with that.

[convergent]

My dad uses exposuremanager. I piggybacked off it for a while, and figured I'd do a smugmug trial since I was already familiar with exposuremanager. End result - I converted to smugmug.

ExposureManager's customer service was lacking at best. SmugMug's is awesome.
In terms of customizing, SmugMug owns, and there's also a forum dedicated to helping people figure out how to manipulate the site to make it what they want.

I'm sorry, but I can't let this one go... you are the only person I've ever seen on any forum that I've been on (and I'm on a lot) that has ever complained about ExposureManager's support. They offer probably the best support of any company I've ever dealt with having been in the tech industry for 26 years... and that's saying a lot. Do Google searches on EM and SM for problems with support and I'll be amazed if you find anything on EM. If you are confusing SM's Digital Grin forum and calling that support, then they do have a very active forum there. But that is not support. In fact, one reason that EM's Yahoo group isn't more active than it is (and it is pretty active) is that 95% of the people that ask a question either come back and say that EM answered their question directly, or the reply suggested they contact support. They are amazing good.

EM and SM are equally customizable. I went into this planning for a customized site, and you can take a look at mine and you'll see it is pretty unique. SM does have the forum with additional help on customizing from forum users, but EM provides support directly... and the two products are pretty much limitless in how you customize them. That said, EM has a huge edge in the fact that is totally brandable, and SM is not. Even the cart is branded, as well as the order. So if you want your own brand perpetuated throughout the customer's experience, EM is much, much better. If you don't care about your own brand and don't mind if SM peaks through to your customer, then SM is OK.

The biggest initial draw I had to smugmug was the 50% off the first year for migrating from a flickr or other photo sharing account. The pricing was great, and if you didn't need all the stuff the pro account offers, the power user account is still pretty impressive, and a lot cheaper than exposure manager.

Price wise, if you are comparing to SM Pro, then EM easily blows SM away in nearly every way. http://www.exposuremanager.com/scripts/website.pl?rm=compare

EM is $99 vs. SM Pro is $149.

Plus,

EM takes 10% commission vs. SM which takes 15%

Plus,

On every product except a 4x6, EM charges less for their products... in some cases significantly less.

Plus,

EM will let you do self fulfillment on some things if you wish... SM does not allow this I don't believe.

So when you add it all up, unless the only thing you are going to sell is 4x6s, and you intend to sell a ton of them, and you don't intend to mark up your products much at all, you will be able to offer lower prices to your customers with EM, and still end up making way more money.

Last but not least, SmugMug tends to listen to the users. If you notice something missing, there are avenues for you to put in a request for that void to be filled. Shockingly, they actually listen. A lot of the site features are the direct result of people asking "hey, how come you don't do _________?"

But, in the end.. it's up to you. I'd recommend doing trials of both, seeing which one suits you the best.. and sticking with that.

EM I believe equally listens to their customers. They have an open site for customers to recommend and rank feature requests by voting on them, and EM keeps the users aware of which requests have been accepted and which are in development. Perhaps SM does this better, but EM is not sleeping at the wheel in this regard.

I agree that a trial is a good way to go since both offer free trials. That is what I did, and the decision was easy in the end. The only advantage I felt that SM had was that there was a more active "discussion" about customization, but I was able to totally tailor EM to my liking without that forum, so I was happy.

[MJPhotos24]

EM support lacking? WOW, never heard that one - I always get an answer fast and of course they have the yahoo forum where they check daily to listen to ideas from there users on new stuff to ad. They're always helping and listening to there costomers!

[Ham1]

I would give another vote for ExposureManager... no offense Ham1. Take a look at this comparison and it should help you make your decision. http://www.exposuremanager.com/scripts/website.pl?rm=compare

My site is using it at http://victoryphoto.com and I've just started this about a month ago... moving from PhotoReflect and starting a new business identify after we relocated to a different state.

No offense taken at all. I do agree that EM is a great company. Their comparison chart is not completely up to date, but for the most part pretty accurate.

The place we really differentiate ourselves from EM is in presentation and style. It takes too many clicks to actually see a photo in a larger size and when you do it just isn't that big and it has product names and prices plastered all over the place. http://img.skitch.com/20081003-2jnkgibnbu1hd1ygs9hbjxxxk.jpg

Still, they are a great company and I very rarely hear bad reports about them.