Simple photographer site

I needed a simple way to create user specific photo galleries in a joomla 1.x site.

I came across Simple Image Gallery http://www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/17/42/ - this allows my completely web newbie photographer to upload all user images to a folder assigned to them, then create an article that creates a page of thumbnails from that folder as well as creating a lightbox slideshow.

Then I completed this hack:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=178&t=124296

Once she is done all of the previous, she logs into her Joomla backend and enters the Joomla User Manager and specifies that after login, the user will arrive at their personal photo gallery to preview their shots.