Divvyshot – photo sharing for the rest of us?
Divvyshot is a photo sharing site, fresh off the presses. Even though the name is hard to remember, the website is quite the opposite.
Divvyshot has taken a somewhat different approach to photo sharing where albums are thought of as events, and multiple people can easily contribute to them. Imagine a wedding where there will probably be lots of cameras and people taking photographs. Now imagine that everyone upload their photos to the same Divvyshot event, where all photos easily can be downloaded and shared. It is a very simple way to gather all photos in one place, even for non-techies.
If you are familiar with other photo sharing sites like Flickr, you will most immediately spot quite a few differences. The first thing you will notice is the website itself, with its simple and grey theme, yet stays very stylish and functional. All actions have icons with no visible labels, although they show descriptions on mouse over. It might not be completely user friendly, but you get the hang of all buttons after a while.
Nice features like directly importing photos from Flickr are done very well and work great most of the time. There are sharing features, where one can send photos to Flickr, Facebook and link to Twitter. It is also possible to download all photos in one click, which is very handy in the wedding example above.
So will I switch over to Divvyshot from Flickr? In short, no. A longer answer is that Flickr has a huge community, thousands of external apps, an API, integration with Aperture and Lightroom. I will however try it out on my parents and other people who might find Flickr too daunting but still want to easily share photos with friends and family.
Have a look at my Divvyshot account for sample albums.
Project 365 – A year in photos
New Year came and went fast this year. I do not any resolutions, but this year will be a little bit different. I have decided to take upon me the task of following Project 365 – and I have already started.
For those of you in the dark, Project 365 is a project where one would take a picture every day for a whole year. The theme can be varying, many take self-portraits, others follow a specific theme. I will however not follow any specific theme throughout the year, but taking a preferably defining picture of the particular day and from time to time have small projects and themes within the project.
Since winters in Sweden are cold and dark, many photos in the beginning will be indoors, but I will of course bring the camera outside every chance I get.
My goals for this project is to try out new things, and improve on old, in the end hopefully leading to becoming a better photographer. I would love to do lots of portraits and learn to use my two SB-600 flashes more accurately.
I thought about where to upload my pictures on the web. The natural place would of course be this very site, but since there are better places to upload photos to on the internet, I decided to go with Flickr. Since starting to use Flickr every day, I have grown more and more fond of it too. I even got a Pro account a couple of days ago to be able to use the site entirely.
The set for this project is called Project 365 – 2010 and will be updated (hopefully) every day. Even though I take a picture every day, there will probably be days when I won’t upload a picture to Flickr. Since I make up my own rules, I say that it is okay to batch upload pictures after the fact.
If you too decide to take part of this great project, have a look at the Project 365 Flickr Pool to see what other people are up to.
You should be able to see the set in the slideshow below.