One of the first things you need to start doing as a photographer is publishing your work. Now, many people do this in many ways. As a teenage photographer, (as I am), you will probably be looking for a thriving, free community to post your work to, and there is just that, Flickr.

Flickr is an absolutely brilliant invention that will allow you to publish your pictures to a stream of your work, for the whole world to see, (unless of course you don’t want everyone to see, in which case, you can set your work to be private. Flickr has two subscription types, Free, and Pro. I am a pro member, which is great for me. I’ll tell you about the advantages and disadvantages.

Free - features

Pro - features

As you can see from the comparison above, there is a rather large advantage to being a pro member. And the reason I include the thing about having a badge next to your name is that it is indeed a sign of respect amongst other Flickr members.

The price for a pro account is fixed at: $24.95

This is payable for by PayPal for quick and easy money transfer, and lasts a whole year of Pro services. The other great thing about it being PayPal is that you can be from any country, (near enough), to become a pro.

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Now that we have discussed memberships, other real advantages of Flickr come from the community side of things. Flickr is an immense community with people visiting your pictures all the time. From the community you will be able to get comments on your photos, (which more often than not provide great information on how to improve, and what is good and bad).

You can also join groups on Flickr, which is another great thing about it, allowing you to share you pictures in a Pool of other photographs about a particular subject. I have set up a Teenage Photographers group on Flickr, of which there are over 230 members now.

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Personal Experience: Since I have joined Flickr, over a year ago, I have learned so much about photography, types of photography, methods, the history, and I’m no shooting awesome pictures, thanks to the infinite wisdom you can discover on the site.

If you are at all interested in photography, and want useful tips on your photos and the subject as a whole, there is no questioning the fact that you should definitely join Flickr.

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There are other methods of displaying your work on the Internet, and the main other method is A personal Website.

I personally have a personal website, and on there I have a portfolio of my most popular work, which is viewed by hundreds of people each month. I have found that by having my pictures on my website, I have barely any feedback on them, and they seem to sit there, redundant. From personal experience again, I would have to say that having them on Flickr is much better for feedback and the likes.

The main advantages in my opinion to having a personal website holding your pictures is for later life, maybe when you want to have contacts that may want to purchase your photographs, as it is very professional, and is likely to put you apart from the crowd if you have a great design.

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In the end, when it comes to publishing your photos, as a Teenage Photographer, you best bet is Flickr, most certainly, you will be able to get awesome feedback on your images, allowing you to expand your mind to the possibilities.

And for when, in later life you want to turn your hobby maybe to a money source, or even a career, then you will most certainly want to be considering a website.

This has been my introductory guide to getting your work published on the Internet. If you have any feedback on this guide or would like to reproduce this, please let me know, either via email, or commenting.

I hope I have been of use, and I look forward to your returning visits…!

Charlie - Teenage Photographer

Welcome to a new website aimed at Teenage or Young Photogaphers.

I am Charlie Styr, I live in Shropshire in the UK, and this blog will hopefully provide you with some of the most useful information you will need.

I hope you subscribe to this, and tell your friends, it will be a constant soure of information!

Charlie - Teenage Photographer