PhotoLog for photographers

Why a working photographer would store and deliver client work in PhotoLog instead of an AI-trained cloud platform.

Client work, stored the way you uploaded it

PhotoLog treats a RAW file as its own upload type — distinct from a processed photo or a video, not folded into a generic "image" category. Your original is stored as you uploaded it: PhotoLog does not replace it with a smaller or re-encoded version, so the full-quality file remains available.

Sharing a finished gallery with a client

A gallery share can grant view access on its own — enough for a client to see the finished work without being able to add to it or change it. This is the same general sharing mechanism events use for contributor access, applied to handing off a private gallery link instead of a QR code at a venue: choose view only, and the recipient can look, not touch.

Encryption

Client work is covered by the same encryption every PhotoLog upload gets — nothing about being a photographer changes that mechanism, so this page doesn't restate it. Seehow encryption works for the mechanism itself, what PhotoLog can still see, and where the honest limits are.

What this page does not cover

  • Working with a team, or splitting a shared library into per-person access — that's a studio question, not something specific to photographers. Seestudios.
  • Storing client work in a bucket you already control instead of PhotoLog's own storage — see bring your own storage.
  • The step-by-step client delivery workflow — a dedicated guide covers that separately: seedelivering finished work to a client.

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How we verified this

  • PhotoLog tracks RAW as its own upload type, alongside photo and video (PHOTO_TYPE_RAW), not as a variant of "photo" — the extension check that assigns it runs on every upload (verified 2026-08-27)
  • Requesting the full-quality, unwatermarked version of an uploaded photo (getPhotoImageObject with no watermark, quality 100) returns the file from its own stored path directly — no recompression or resizing step runs for that request (verified 2026-08-27)
  • Creating a share link that grants view access on its own, without upload or edit, is a general gallery capability (createGalleryShareLink) — not a mechanism built specifically for event QR codes (verified 2026-08-27)