Taking Candids

Hi all, I want to take candids at events, etc and hand out tickets to redeem photos from the web. How in the world do you keep track? I want them to enter in a pass code from the ticket I gave them to view ONLY their photos.

If they want the photo, they have to pay for it as the web only shows a (c) version.

So, how do you track the photos that belong to a particular pass code?

Vast ideas are rare.

Half vast ideas like this are more common

I don't understand what Jon means, but I'm sure it's just from a lack of experience. However, what I have considered doing for precisely this sort of this is take a picture of the card with a pre-printed code on it before taking the candid, take 1+ candid(s), then take a picture of the next card. Then, when in LR (or otherwise), keyword the candid(s) with the code you took a picture of beforehand, then deleted the pictures of the codes once you're sure you keyworded them all correctly. If you continue with what I use, when you upload to SmugMug, all the keywords will be intact and easily findable at yoursite.smugmug.com/k​eyword/YOURCODEHERE. Hope this helps...

I guess I just don't see any reason for going to all this trouble.

Why not just hand them a business card with your URL on it and let them freely go there and seek out the gallery listed by event/date, then if you really need to organize within the gallery.

Any time you use password protected galleries, you can pretty well bet that a lot of people will forget the password or lose the slip of paper with it on it.

I have probably 100 galleries online with probably more than 10,000 images in them. Only one is password protected, and that's a wedding.

I've been posting shots from events online for over three years now, and have never had even one person mention any concerns about passwords and such.

amfoto1 wrote in post #5778173
I guess I just don't see any reason for going to all this trouble.

Why not just hand them a business card with your URL on it and let them freely go there and seek out the gallery listed by event/date, then if you really need to organize within the gallery.

Any time you use password protected galleries, you can pretty well bet that a lot of people will forget the password or lose the slip of paper with it on it.

I have probably 100 galleries online with probably more than 10,000 images in them. Only one is password protected, and that's a wedding.

I've been posting shots from events online for over three years now, and have never had even one person mention any concerns about passwords and such.

Good advice. I just assumed they would appreciate the privacy. I was at a Tigers game last week and there were several photographers doing that. I thought that the ticket was to claim your own photo with noone else viewing.

What should the chare be for that??? $15

You would have to have your cards printed with consecutive numbers that start with #1 for each event. Then you can reset your camera count so the cards correspond with their image number.

This isn't practical because you would have to hand someone a card for each photograph you take of them. And if you delete a photo and not through away the card all the counts won't work.

The people I have seen at baseball stadiums are Fan Foto. Each photographer has cards with their own number. You go to the website and pick the date and then the gallery number. Then you have to go through all of the photos taken by that photographer. You could try different cards for each hour of the night, but that seems to be too complex.

If someone wants privacy maybe they shouldn't let someone photograph them, or even be in public at all.

ryant35 wrote in post #5787289
If someone wants privacy maybe they shouldn't let someone photograph them, or even be in public at all.

+1 for that. I don't see the need for having people only view their own pictures. Lump 'em all together, hand out generic cards.

Right-O- Thanks all, I won't worry about it then.