It is probably very obvious, but no one is ever going to see your photos and get to appreciate your perspective on the world around you if you do not share them. They’re also definitely not going to want to spend money on them or hire you to shoot for them if they never see your photos. It’s the unknown and potentially limitless possibilities of what could possibly happen if you do share your photos that are way more interesting to me than leaving photos sitting on a hard drive.
I think it is very important to keep in mind that you really should challenge yourself to take new photos every single day. Then you should edit and post those photos. Give them a little context or the backstory if possible as well.
For me, there are several different places I can post my photos to get them out into the world, some a little more obvious than others.
Social Media
The first place you probably think of is Instagram. I personally feel like Instagram is very time based in some ways, meaning that when you post matters a lot more than on other platforms. This is similar when it come to sharing on Twitter and Facebook.
You generally can set up to share your Instagram posts on Facebook without any real extra work. You could also use a service like IFTTT to automate a lot of different things from that one post. This gets back to getting your work out to be discovered, and not knowing where that will happen.
Print on Demand
Another route to go is to go the print on demand route. These are online platforms where you can post photos that can then be sold as prints on a wide variety of materials. You can control what options are available, depending on your image resolution (more options with higher resolution).
For photography, I personally have been using Society6.com. I have typically uploaded a group of 5 or so photos at a time or several from a set of images. You could definitely do this as your daily post, maybe using one of the mockups of a framed print as your post on Instagram and Facebook. Other platforms include RedBubble and FineArtAmerica, which I’ve yet to check out for photography.
Stock Photos
Another place to upload your photos is to a stock photo marketplace. A few weeks back I started using eyeem for fun to see what happens, not entirely sure anything will ever come of it but it’s an interesting platform that acts as a combination of social media platform, stock photo marketplace, and they also choose certain photos to put on other larger stock photo marketplaces.
One of the most interesting things here that may be slightly off topic but could help on other platforms is that the images are essentially automatically tagged by their computer vision technology. They certainly don’t always get it right but I just didn’t realize that kind of technology existed. I also recently started uploading some images to Adobe Stock as well and I will see where that goes.
Other Places to Post?
There are other ways to get your photo out into the world, and I’m very open to all suggestions. I think it’s just important to really keep challenging yourself to make time to take, edit, post, and share your photos on a daily basis.