advice sought - webhosting united kingdom

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

11/05/2006 12:07:44 PM · #1

Hope i'll be forgiven for asking a question which has probably been asked before - but i've been trawling webpages and forums all day and not got the exact answer so here goes -

I'm in the Uk. I bought a small portable studio and went to take photos at a kids halloween party locally. some of the rsults were pretty good I think. (There's a couple in my portfolio.) I think if they were of my kids I'd have bought a copy.

I'm selling fairly cheap - starting at Â£4 - it's not high art or wedding photography - this is basically fancy dress souvenir photography. I got no sales at all on photobox - but several people have told me they have seen the prints and how good they are. So people have been copying the on screen image and printing them. I am told that this is unavoidable - just left click and drag them into paintbox - it's basically a screencapture as I understand it. Low quality - they can't get my original files - but i'm at the cheap end of the market here - and some people watch pirate films shot on hand held cameras with people walking in front of the screen and are happy with the result if it saves a couple of quid.

Photobox will not let me watermark the images - or reduce the size of the on screen images to make it pointless saving them.

So does anyone know of a web hosting gallery, based in the Uk, or at least with a printing opeeration based in the Uk, who allow watermarking or minimisation of on screen thumbnails ? Or any other solution ? Eg I'd use Smugmug or one of the US based sites but I can't find out from their FAQ's about the pricing and logistics of having prints done in the US and psoted to the UK.

Many thanks

Nikon D200

11/05/2006 12:28:51 PM · #2

One of the best things about Smugmug is the customer service. Why not shoot them a quick e-mail and ask about sending prints to the UK?

I wish I knew of a site based in the UK such as you describe.

One thought that came to mind is: why not host the photos on your own site? You can use Smugmug or any other place that allows watermarking to power the images on the back-end, and fulfill the print orders yourself in the UK.

11/05/2006 08:42:48 PM · #3

Thanks for that - i'm looking into it.

If anyone has any experience of doing what was suggested above and can offer any advice, I'd be grateful. I'm a real novice with web pages and such. i do have a volunteer who is good at the tech stuff who will do it all for me, provided I tell him what I want doing - he knows nothing about photo sites specifically.

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

11/06/2006 12:00:46 PM · #4

and thanks again to L2 for the email - for some reeason my thankyou email was returned to me

pix-al

Canon EOS-5D

11/06/2006 02:59:39 PM · #5

Hey,

Is your photobox gallery a "Pro Gallery"?
If so, the images displayed are really small, around 450 pixels (400 pixels across longest edge - just checked!) across so would look AWFUL printed out!

If not a pro gallery, I suggest you check them out...
My Pro Gallery (Not a great deal in there though...)

Message edited by author 2006-11-06 15:01:20.