Personal photos on website?

I hope this the right thread.

For the personal photos and projects that you shoot that's different from what you are in business for. Do you 1) have a separate category/gallery on your website 2) use flickr or 500px 3) post it just on your personal Facebook page 4) keep it to yourself. For example I have some typical fireworks shots, park with the family, and some nice sports shot. I want to share but have no idea where to display them.

Flickr, and personal Facebook page.

Agree with Nathan, there is no reason to mix personal and business photos. It won't help and can definitely hurt your reputation to have shots that are not professionally posed, processed and set up on your business sites.
I use flickr and actually pay the $25 a year fee to allow me to post more than the 300 or so displayed limit they offer. But if you are only posting personal stuff, there is no reason you couldn't get by with the free option.
Facebook personal page and business pages can be tied together, but are displayed separately, so that is another option.

Just wondering maybe if I had a website just as online portfolio but not as a business. So Flickr is better than 500px.

I post some of my family pictures on my blog. It's a way of showing that I am human...but I'm not really a business, just a hobbyist that sells a few prints.

OneDeep wrote in post #17048989
Just wondering maybe if I had a website just as online portfolio but not as a business. So Flickr is better than 500px.

Haven't used 500px, so I can't make that comparison.

The question to ask yourself is this:

What difference would it make to the customers visiting your website?

If the answer is: They fit in with my style and offer some insight intro me as a person that I think my customers would appreciate.
Then stick em on your website.

If it's: Why are there random pictures of cats on this wedding photographers website?
Then keep em off.

Why ask a bunch of photographers? It's the customers that are important.

sirquack wrote in post #17048900
I use flickr and actually pay the $25 a year fee to allow me to post more than the 300 or so displayed limit they offer. But if you are only posting personal stuff, there is no reason you couldn't get by with the free option.

They don't do that anymore. Free users get 1TB of space, no limit on displayed pictures, and a max of 200mb per image. The only thing you can buy from them anymore is an additional terabyte of space and an ad-free interface.

I don't use any of those sites and frankly can't for the life of me work out why anyone does.
Just do your own site, Its far from difficult or expensive and you can have it how you want without problem and fuss.

If I want to put personal or even private client pics up, I just create a directory and put them in it. Without a link on the main site, no one else knows they are there or what to look for anyway so they are never seen.

Another example of doing your own site being so much more flexible and less stuffing around then these other things people are so pre occupied with.

djphotosyd wrote in post #17051743
I don't use any of those sites and frankly can't for the life of me work out why anyone does.
Just do your own site, Its far from difficult or expensive and you can have it how you want without problem and fuss.

If I want to put personal or even private client pics up, I just create a directory and put them in it. Without a link on the main site, no one else knows they are there or what to look for anyway so they are never seen.

Another example of doing your own site being so much more flexible and less stuffing around then these other things people are so pre occupied with.

I don't use other sites or paid sites either. But most people are incompetent when it comes to web development or basic hosting.

I just upload to my web server and host a private shared link.

I use flickr for images for things I'm going to post on forums and such because I find their quality and ease of use better than most other sites. However, it's possible to host images from your website and not show them to the public.

I have my own site via a web host. I post my portfolio there for all to look at and have password protected galleries that only certain people can access. I also use it to host images that I am going to post in forums.

If your personal photos are also indicative of what you're offering clients, I would post the ones you truly love on your website. Otherwise, Instagram is a great place, or your blog. I'm planning on utilizing my blog for more personal things so clients and prospective clients have a reason to come back!

nathancarter wrote in post #17048886
Flickr, and personal Facebook page.

+1, me too.

OneDeep wrote in post #17048857
I hope this the right thread.

For the personal photos and projects that you shoot that's different from what you are in business for. Do you 1) have a separate category/gallery on your website 2) use flickr or 500px 3) post it just on your personal Facebook page 4) keep it to yourself. For example I have some typical fireworks shots, park with the family, and some nice sports shot. I want to share but have no idea where to display them.

1) Don't mix family and business. Keep your personal family photos in the park off your business site. UNLESS it showcases what you offer (i.e. wife and kids posed on a blanket in the grass same as you would offer any family session). In that case you could probably get away with it. Snap shots of little Johnny coming down the slide covered in ice cream...not so much.

If the shots are personal family type shots that in past would have probably ended up in a family photo album for embarrassing your kids later on in life and you insist on sharing them share them on Facebook or on Flickr, Instagram, whatever other media site out there. Keep them off your business site.

2) IF by personal photos you mean shoots or photo projects that you're not paid for that express your artistic creativity and you want to showcase it sure put those on your site in a separate gallery, or on a separate page like a blog or something. Name it "Personal Projects", or "Artistic Snotgrasses"...whateve​r. Some way that anyone who navigates to your site, potential clients perhaps, know that those are not your standard work and are displayed there to express yourself as a photographer.