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I love looking though your Favorites. Sometimes I see mine :), thanks.
Sometimes it sends me traveling around the world liiking at peoples favorites. I ran across this one I thought you may like. :o
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Japanese Macaque - Canon EOS 1D Mark II N by Jesse Yardley, on Flickr
Hope you enjoy as much as I did.
Flickr has some extremely talented photographers showcasing their work and I spend a great deal of time on there, probably more than I should viewing others photos and reading discussions. It is a great place to learn and I have made many friends there also. Sounds like I am describing everyone here!
Here's my group of my fav's if anyone wants to take a peek. There is one guy (wild dogger) that takes some amazing wildlife shots in Africa with only a 300mm. How he dares to get so close amazes me!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtrocio...page1/?view=ju
Right now Flickr has changed their homepage to include an auto-play video advertising their new app (as if we needed more evidence that Yahoo doesn't understand what people want on the web.) So, I switched my flickr bookmark from their homepage to 'explore' which shows awesome photos of the day. Every day I get to see pages and pages of awesome images I wouldn't have seen otherwise. I highly recommend using the 'explore' page as your bookmark.
There are funny ones, too:Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidEccleston
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Beagle vs. Canon - 103/365 by HorstBursik, on Flickr
Hope to be able to do this one day!!!
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The Milky Way by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr
Have you tried "Fluidr" (http://www.fluidr.com/)? You can get the app from the App Garden at Flickr. It is a much better way to view explore; and you can view, comment, and fav your contacts latest pic's; or you can search, etc. If you want, you can click view on flickr, and it will send you to the picture in someones photostream in flickr. I have been using it lately and like it for exploring flickr.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidEccleston
Thanks conropl. I'll give this fluidr thing a few days and see whether I enjoy it, or if it drives me nuts. :)
I like that it defaults to a dark background. I don't like that when viewing an image in lightbox mode, to see it big, if I switch pictures using the arrow keys it leaves lightbox mode.
Great topic Mark, looking at favourites of other photographers is fun and can even be a little surprising. I enjoy the inspiration of viewing other peoples shots or as they may prefer, "art".
Flickr is a diverse forum, I wouldn't be without it.
In a similar vein, how much time do people take commenting on Flickr. I know at times I feel obligated to comment and I don't. Some people really look for and "need" your comment. I find it hard to keep up at times. I have about 250 "contacts" and I certainly don't comment on every post, probably only try and comment on about 10 contacts.
It seems that people that get over a thousand views and hundreds of comments have to spend a lot of time commenting themselves. I just wonder if anyone from this site, works hard at developing their Flickr audience. How much time does is it take? Are there any work benefits or sales flowing from this?
Made my day, week, month to see one of my shots on your favorites list. :) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ddt0725
Normally I just tag my photo with the lens, and sometimes a few other things, like "Aussie" on my Aussie shots. Rather than spending a lot of time managing comments to garner views, a few days ago I tried an experiment to find quick and simple methods of increasing my audience... joining groups for my gear. I've noticed some people have their photos in dozens of groups. I didn't go that far, just posting to the lens and/or camera group. As a bonus, I'm helping out anybody who's researching the lenses I'm using. I know I look at a lens' photo pool before buying. So, I posted a few shots from each lens and/or body to their respective groups. The views went up quite a bit, and I've gotten a few comments and a couple favorites. Not bad for a few seconds extra work on a couple pictures.
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Originally Posted by d0051m
Hey that's mine! Glad you like it.
For me, not much. I have 10-15 contacts, mostly from TDP, and probably spend 5 minutes a day looking over posts and commenting. I mostly belong to "lens specific" groups and only occasionally add my shots to those groups. Honestly, the only reason I started a flickr account was because for awhile it was one of the only ways to post high res images here on TDP. Now, I like the ability to comment on specific photos and do like occasionally looking through "groups."Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve U
I spend more time on flickr than I care to admit with viewing, commenting, answering PM's and reading discussions! I have about 250 contacts also and many have evolved into some valuable friendships. I prefer it so much more to facebook! If people notice my photos and comment, it is very uplifting and encouraging. I very much appreciate someone taking out the time to comment but if they don't, that is fine also. I have had 150,000 views but probably nowhere near that for comments! I prefer genuine comments and constructive criticism because someone really likes what they see or can suggest ways I can improve rather than just commenting out of a feeling of obligation or because they HAVE TO comment with a "comment code" on 3 photos in a group after they post theirs. In fact, I have gotten kicked out of a group or two because I didn't use their comment codes even though I was commenting on photos in the group!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve U
The only work I have gotten from it was the wedding I shot and I haven't gotten any sales. Sales would be nice!
Thank you for your input Denise. Your contributions are some that I follow and try to comment on and I have noted the amount of views and awards your work gets. I probably don't comment as much as you, but I can't imagine how some people manage to comment on their contacts work. Some people just go through and "fave" everything, but as Mark said at the start favourites leaves a trail for people to follow. And hopefully my favourites will also show some development and progression over time.
Tagging and the image description also raises the amount of views, it is interesting that images years old are still getting faved by people searching for that something "special".
Once you have contacts up around the 250 mark, you do have quite a few images to view everyday. Again it amazes me the people with 1000's of contacts, must have 100's of images daily to view..... if they want to.