INSTAGRAM VIEWS: Photography Sharing Sites

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Last winter, Rachel Hollis, a mom of three and founder of the lifestyle website The Chic Site, was praised across the Internet for sharing a photo of herself wearing a bikini revealing her flabby stomach. There is fierce competition among websites and smart phone apps to become your go-to tool for showing off and storing your photos. As more of our vacation memories end up online (thanks to the ubiquity and affordability of digital cameras), fierce We all want a perfect photo to share on the social networking sites. Photographs often don't look as good as they could unless you apply that finishing touch. Instagram may be the most popular photo-based social network, but it's not the best app for Correction: This story has been updated to reflect sharing options on Snapfish. You've taken the time to learn how to take better photographs, and you've organized them neatly on your computer, so what's your next step? Sharing your masterpieces with your Sure, you may not be an accomplished photographer in any serious sense, but you can certainly upload your images to photo-sharing sites to get them out to the public and receive feedback to make your shots even better. As most people know, there are a Dzvonko Petrovski over at Light Stalking has an article discussing the use of photo sharing sites as portfolios. Websites and platforms such as 500px (which does offer a premium personalized portfolio service), DeviantArt, Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook .

Years ago, "photo sharing" generally meant giving away the picture strip you got from a photo booth at the mall. Of course, these days, the easiest way to share photographs is by posting them online at a photo sharing site. There are a slew of sites that Indignation spread through the Twittersphere when it was discovered that popular photo sharing service Twitpic was seemingly controls over pictures uploaded by users, and most sites claim the right to use or distribute pictures without consent. The latest case of hacking and subsequent publication of nude celebrity photos has brought to light secretive websites where anonymous users request, trade and steal such photos without the consent or knowledge of the victims. It's known as non-consensual Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. In this post we profile the red hot photo sharing space, where the blogosphere darling Flickr is actually trailing in the mass market. Back in June, Hitwise posted their online photo market statistics .