Everything about Blogs and Blogging

A photoblog is simply a blog where photos are the sole, or at least the most important component. Photoblogging is either sending and including photos in a normal blog or a blog which is primarily based around collections of photographic images. Photoblogging is becoming a key part of the egalitarian world of photography - images are uploaded daily by professional, amateur and hobby photographers as visual web diaries available for comments and to be shared. In its simplest form, a photoblog is nothing more than a diary as it can be posted as frequently as you want which substitutes a picture for words. A picture is worth a thousand words? It does in fact apply here, not only to cut down the time writing down a thousand words but to express something so obvious or so abstract through the simplicity of a digital image. Some would say that photoblogging is photographing, but it is also data basing.

There are 3 basic types of photoblogs. Photoblogs on individual domains, photoblogs on blogging services such as Blogger that were designed primarily for text content, and photoblogs on photo specific blogging services such as Fotolog or Flickr.

Photoblogging is great because you have to keep producing to maintain a small (or rather large) and active community. But even if one has only a very small audience, photoblogging has its own reward. Moreover, the trend you're seeing today suggests that photoblogging is becoming a photography movement. If photoblogging encourages people to improve their photography daily, then I think it's a good thing. The beauty of photoblogging is the ability to "see the world" without any filtration before it arrives on our desktops. I cant tell enough people how great photoblogging is, but there are some proof that photoblogging is not only a great way to keep up inspiration, but has also proven to be a marketing tool. As a result, photoblogging has pushed the boundaries and preconceived notions of photography and sharing images. What I’m trying to say is that photoblogging is a relatively new phenomena and that as it grows in popularity and becomes easier to "manage", we will surely see more and more pro photographers doing it, and most importantly, enjoying it at the same time.

For the love of digital stuff that some of you might have, photoblogging is a great additional content-sharing opportunity. Photoblogging is indeed changing the way people share images in profound ways, and having said that, my feeling is that photoblogging is great, and that the people who photoblog are some of the most open, inquisitive, and interesting people anybody will ever meet. With electronic cameras becoming more affordable and telephones having built-in cameras, there is no way photoblogging will be left behind in the constant growth of popularity. Photoblogging became increasingly popular when mobilephones with cameras hit the market, and some services made it possible for their users to simply send a photo from their mobilephone directly on to their blog without even touching a computer. A visual form of the blog phenomenon, photoblogging is gaining mass popularity and throwing up new approaches to viewing and creating art. In a commodified age when copyrights restrictions abound and prices of art works rocket, photoblogging is refreshingly democratic and embraces the freedom and reflexivity of the internet.

Several photobloggers today are receiving sponsorship for their blogs, publishing their own books or selling their own prints. It is common for photobloggers to frequent other photoblogger's sites and along the way, to be influenced. In fact, many photobloggers pride themselves not just on posting a picture on a daily basis, but they insist that the picture has been taken that very day. Do you think more and more professional photographers will become photobloggers at the end of the day?

Other sites for photoblogging include Shutterchance and Expressions. Flickr (beta) is a great service and is very quickly becoming the photoblogging tool of choice for many bloggers. Some photo sharing sites are: flickr fotopages kodak gallery my-expressions shutterfly smugmug zoto.

Popular Photo Sharing Sites
Everything you need to get your photoblog started

Free Photo Sharing Sites

ipernity, pxSpot, Pikeo, vMix, AlbumTown, Flickr, FotoFly, Twango, Euro Photo Club, Fotki, Fotolog, Fotopic, Ringo, Webshots, Zooomr, Photobucket, Box.net, pix01, ComBoost and KlikShare

Online Photo Finishing Sites

ImageStation, Ofoto and Shutterfly

Subscription Based Photo Sharing Sites

Fotki, PBase, Phanfare and SmugMug.

Web Photo Album Generators
Create your photo albums on the go!

Software can be found on the internet to generate your own photo albums usually to share photos on the web, using a home web server. This is in general for advanced users that want to have a better control over the look and feel of their web albums, and the actual servers they are going to run on. Examples of free software include Panraven, Umibozu, Picasa, and jAlbum.

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