Cool Link: Get Your Photos Noticed on Flickr
Many iPhoneographers — myself included — upload and display images on Flickr. More iPhone photographs end up online than in print — one of the reasons why I’ll sometimes give a pass to a photo app that doesn’t support full resolution. Other than sharing images with a close network of family and friends, many of us post to the Flickr community in an effort to have our images seen by a broader segment of the photography community. Basically, Flickr can be a great place to show.
In case you missed it, Photoble recently ran a great story, “10 Tips To Get Your Photos Noticed on Flickr”. In it, Yiie gives some excellent pointers on increasing the visibility of your posted photography and is a great tutorial to help your images get noticed on Flickr, or just a good refresher for those of us who’ve been posting there for a while.
This post would hopefully help the photographers out there who want their photos to standout from the crowd and gain some public exposure. Here are 10 tips to help get your photos get featured in blogs, magazines or simply receive more views. I’d be mainly focusing on getting noticed on Flickr. However, most of these tips can be applied to your online portfolio or any other photo platforms.
Click here to read “10 Tips To Get Your Photos Noticed on Flickr” at Photoble.com.
Not mentioned in the post, but one other tip that I’ve found that helps when posting to groups on Flickr is to post during the day for maximum visibility. For me, that’s around 11-2 PM Central Time here in the U.S. In many groups, images roll off the front page pretty quickly, but I’ve found it’s still of of the better places to be seen by the largest number of photographers.
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Marty is a self-employed graphic designer in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex. He is an avid Rangers baseball, Chicago Cubs, Packers and Highbury Arsenal fan. In addition to capturing random moments with whatever camera is close by (usually his iPhone), his other interests include coffee, film, music, and traveling in seats 5E and 5F with his fiancé.
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The main way to sell photos on Flickr is to generously and appropriately tag our photos. Since 2005, that's how I've sold to book publishers, to magazine articles, corporations, collectors, etc. The clients who have bought my photos told me that they find photos on Flickr mainly through tagging; they don't have time to actually look in groups and the Explore feature.
Along with many others on Flickr, I was very distressed that the new Flickr revamp shows our large-size photos which were presented at the default 500pix now at 640pix, with no option to opt in or out of this feature. Also, it's now much easier to right-click on any photo of any size, even if download is "disabled" on Flickr settings, and see the photo in all its glory using Picasa. No photography is safe from theft on Flickr (it never really was because of large sizes being displayed on slideshow), and that's why I moved my sellable photos to a secured website on Smugmug (even though screen shots are always an easy way to steal). Uploading very small sizes and watermarking is the only limited protection of photos on Flickr. I've had hundreds of photos stolen from Fickr over the years, and this new upsizing makes it even easier for theft. I use tineye.com to search for stolen photos.
Discussion of the new Flickr features: http://www.flickr.com/groups/newphotopagepreview/
Great comment, Deborah! Thank you for the tips and the warnings.
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