Pixbuf – A social media tool for photographers

pixbuf.com

32 points·evahenson··5 comments

TL;DR:

Upload your images, they extract EXIF for metadata, resize it and upload to all your services. Automatically social sharing buffer comes with analytics aggregated from all your services - you can now see how popular your work is and why.

The part about share it automatically with your followers when it's the best time seems to be interesting.

Yeah, I currently do this manually, and being in the opposite time zone of my target audience, it is pretty annoying (especially with Instagram where you must use the app). Will immediately try this out once there is IG support.

> "See the big picture of your work to know what to shoot next time."

There's a bunch of reasons why your photo of a bat flying overhead with sun shining through wings gets a lot of likes. It doesn't mean you need to go out next week and shoot more bats.

Good photographers shoot what their own eyes and minds find appealing, not what stats tell them to. Photography should encourage conversational feedback and analysis. Counting hits and likes takes away from the intellectual sharing of ideas sparked by the image, replacing it with the cold currency of analytics data.

Unless you're publishing for stock libraries or something, 'number of likes' isn't reliable as a measure of success. (And shouldn't they be using https for sign-up and login forms? Okay, they're in beta... fair go fair enough).

It's a pretty big turnoff when a site asks for an email address before they've demonstrated they can provide value for me.

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