Corynn Playing Portal, test chamber 3

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Sorry it's quiet, still learning the ropes!

Guy playing flute (test audio TASCAM DR-07mkII)

I only come on deviantART to participate in the Photohunts on photohunt. I really have no desire to attempt to link the profile.

I feel gypped by deviantART for taking the option of full-view on deviations away from free users. Free users used to have the option to load a deviation in full-view by default, but now you have to be a premium subscriber to be able to set that option. They took functionality away from the free users.

I have so much trash on my SmugMug that I will never be able to use it professionally unless I purge my entire account. I pay for HD videos on SmugMug too, but it’s mainly for archival purposes when I want to share my photos with family and friends. The gallery hosting SmugMug uses is entirely too compacted. Everything will stay neat and pristine on the visitor’s side, but when I log into my homepage, I’m greeted with 300 private galleries. That a fucking pain in the ass to sort through and find the one damn gallery I want to put my photo in.

In addition to that, I have to pick a gallery to put the photo in. Why? On deviantART and Flickr, each image is it’s own work of art, and is treated as such; images are displayed on their own page separate from the rest. I can decide if I want to put a photo in a gallery, but it doesn’t have to be in one; SmugMug forces me to pick a gallery.

Also, who the hell uses SmugMug? I’m not going to get any feedback whatsoever from putting my pictures up on SmugMug. The 4-5 years I’ve had my SmugMug account, I’ve only received three comments on three photos. Galleries on SmugMug are like looking through a family album, perusing dozens of images and then just smiling because they occasionally make you feel something other than bored. Flickr treats each photo on it’s own page, and while there are certain aspects of Flickr I don’t like, it outweighs the grudges SmugMug is wearing on me. I can look at the photos chronologically. 

SmugMug works for my step-father, Craig, because Craig processes hundreds of photos in the course of one month. He assesses photos on the level of detail and the subject he captured. I access photos on emotion, and the artistic originality of the photograph. Each photo is it’s own work, and as such, are much more infrequently posted than the batches of macro Craig pumps out in a muscle twitch. 

I like to keep SmugMug because it allows me to share everything I snapped with friends and family. I don’t have to invite people over to view the shots we got on some other day.

I can’t call deviantART my home anymore. I love Tumblr, but honestly Tumblr isn’t built for hosting a gallery of art like dA. I intend to purchase a Vimeo Plus account once I start getting serious about filming actual content, which will be $60/year and is for videos only. I don’t have any real alternatives. RedBubble is a art distribution site first, art hosting site second; Artician rapes you with ads to hardly even be desirable to use even with AdBlock Plus installed with the browser. Flickr has a 300MB upload limit per month. What the hell is up with that? They have an attractive feature set for a low price though. Anyone have any suggestions?

Tumblr and Vimeo both were once 100% free services. Tumblr then added premium themes, which are optional to the 10x more free themes. Vimeo introduced a subscription plan that dumps advertising, allows source file downloads, HD embedding anywhere, and 5GB upload limit per week, over the 500MB upload limit per week.

If a service or site needs to subtract features that were once available to free users, later requiring a subscription to attain at least the same level of functionality they once had, is a bad service. Tumblr and Vimeo did neither, and a both vibrant communities full of creative types and such. Hell, even Notch, curator of Minecraft, prefers Tumblr as his primary blogging platform.

You had me deviantART, but you had to fuck with your user base. Never take away features from the free crowd in favor of earning more revenue. You may be a business, yes; you also have lacklustre morale.

I have been reluctant to post my photography on FurAffinity for two reasons:

1. FurAffinity is a site about furries; you can't photography which does not exist.
2. I don't take pictures of animals. I don't have the budget nor desire to purchase a lens more expensive than a Mercedes.

But you know what? Fuck it. Keeping the site theme in mind, I won't post so often that it will distract too much from the phalluses and glory holes in your watch list. So enjoy some photography with your daily dose of animal love. <3

Why I'm Leaving deviantART and Frolicking to Flickr

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God Complex: Mutilated Lips (Ween cover)

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Yep, wasn't easy! There were a few words that messed me up, like how the hell do you say Psalm?

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