Starting a photo-story, where do I put it?

I'm kinda half-sure this isn't a response you might be looking for, but I'll just toss in my two cents anyway. To me the best place to put up a photostory is really right here on DoA, in the Photostories subforum.

I know one con is that not everyone has a DoA account. But imo dA isn't much for photostories unless you want to join up all your pictures together into one really long one cuz people don't want to have to keep clicking through pictures; Flickr's more or less ditto with dA; and putting it on a blog where there isn't much BJD activity (LJ for example, maybe unless you x-post it to some dollie community) will require you to pimp out your photostory in a place where there is much BJD activity and you'll eventually have to come back here to do that, because where else can you find a larger community of dollie enthusiasts? XD;

If one's photostory isn't being noticed, top reasons ranking for that are most likely to be the photography or the plot, or even the background or how the dolls are being posed, etc etc. People are different and have their own turnoffs to different things, but due to the policies set by the mods for DoA and just plain human courtesy they're of course not going to say anything unless you ask in big bold red letters for crit.

Another plus to post it here is that everyone and anyone actually has a chance to make their photostories well-known. Off the top of my head, take mendokusai's series for example. She makes good use of lighting and editing so that her pictures aren't obscured or show anything dodgy like a messy background for example, and that's the first step to bringing the readers in. Adding to that is how her way of posing dolls is almost always spot-on so that her characters actually look real, as well as witty and natural conversation like how one would encounter IRL, so good directing always enhances good plot tenfold. To top it off, mendo updates pretty regularly so that people don't forget her stuff and are kept interested.

/shameless pimpage FTW

 

Mendo's photostories can be found easily in the 'Gallery - Photostories' section of the forum.

 

Images are fairly easy. ^^ You need to upload them to a hosting site like photobucket or flickr. Then you just copy/paste the location of the picture liek this: [ img ] your image url here [ /img] and you're set.
I know photobucket is fancy and does it for you.

For more info, go here: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?175179-FAQ-How-do-I-post-pictures-and-links

I think the photo limit on DoA is 12(?) pictures to each post. If you have over twelve, start another post below your main topic post.

^^ Hope that helps you~

 

I...I didn't even know DOA had photo stories. D= Looking forward to yours Pupe,

 

Pupe I think the small box thing means your link is broken^^
Try checking your photos' URL again in the tag

 

hey heres some helpful links and info for you guys

Before posting, please use the Search to make sure that your question has not been answered already. We encourage members to bump old threads rather than starting duplicates.

how to post pictures
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/faq.php?faq=techhelp#faq_picandlinks

where to put a photostory?
in the Photostory section
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?37-Gallery-Photostories

you kind of have 2 options for your pictures, one is the Photostory section and thats for your pictures with a story or dialog for the pictures

or you can post in the gallery of just pictures,
gallery is here
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?16-Gallery!

Please please remember there are rules for each section they are listed as a sticky (meaning they will alway be at the top of each section)


Live Journal is a good free blog if you are interested, but if you are wanting the BJD community to see your pictures and read your stories I would suggest starting here.

as far as promoting your photostories you can post a story and then bump( posting simply to make it apear in the top ) once a day, that is not the same as commenting on other peoples comments.

if you have not already check out the Forum FAQ its at the very top of ever page under the DARK BLUE line
or here http://www.denofangels.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?14-Forum-FAQs

hopefully that was helpful for you

 

I tend to post photostories in the various photostory sections of the BJD forums I am a member of... but I also put the pictures (with story content) on Flickr and on my BJD Photostory blog as well.

I also hope to start turning them into videos for my youtube channel.