Pownce (when it is working) is another place to post interesting photos.Ĥ. It's easy to set up and makes sure more people see your photos. Are you on FriendFeed yet? You should be. My blog, is my number two external referrer of pageviews to my Flickrstream.
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Flickr makes it very easy to blog your photos, you simply cut and paste the html code above your photo and you are now photoblogging with a direct link back to your photo. Do you have a blog or a photoblog? If you want more attention on Flickr you should. Consider places outside of Flickr to promote your photography. Frequently people will upload a batch of 30 photos from a concert or something with no thought as to which will be the last 5 of the 30 in order.ģ. If you are uploading more than 5 photos at once, make sure that you upload your best 5 photos last and what you consider your very best photo last of all. Anything beyond 5 photos in a single batch upload will largely be buried on Flickr. At present Flickr allows you to set your contacts most recent photos to their last photo, or their last 5 photos. The number one way that your photos will likely be seen in Flickr comes from your Flickr contacts looking at their Flickr contact's photos. The order that you post your photos to Flickr counts. Provocatively posed female self portraits or photos of attractive women in interesting poses, extremely saturated photos rich with eye candy like color, cityscapes, night photography, photos depicting movement and motion, silhouettes, dramatic architecture, unique portraits, creatively arranged macros and cross processed and some film photography.Ģ. This said, there are certain types of photos that tend to become more popular on Flickr than others.
Taking great photos is a prerequisite to everything else in this article. But, the better your photos are the more likely that you will get attention. I've seen people upload interesting things from a crappy iPhone camera and I've seen people upload interesting things that they spent 8 hours on Photoshop with. And I've seen incredibly beautiful and creative photos taken with a $40,000 digital Hasselblad. I've seen incredibly beautiful and creative photos taken with a $10 toy camera. Sometimes your gear and photo processing matters, other times it doesn't. Despite all the other things that you might do to promote your photography, none of it will matter if your photos are not interesting. This was my number one way to achieve popularity on Flickr in 2006 and remains the number one way today. Some of how one gets attention on Flickr has remained the same since 2006. I'm averaging about 14,000 page views a day on Flickr. It should pass 10 million sometime this week. According to a Flickr stats page that's been added since that time, the view count for my pages on Flickr now stands at 9,953,328.
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That said, I thought I'd write a fresher updated post on the top 10 ways, presently, to get attention on Flickr.īack in 2006 when I wrote my original article on how to achieve popularity on Flickr my photostream had been viewed almost 400,000 times. A lot has changed at Flickr in the past 2 years though and how imagery is rated and ranked on the site has also changed. This is why glory surpasses power and why wealth is overshadowed by prominence."Ĭaterina Fake, Co-founder of Flickr, 2005.Ī couple of years ago I wrote a post called Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr that proved fairly popular. To receive it outshines receiving any other kind of income.
"What is more pleasant than the benevolent notice other people take of us, what is more agreeable than their compassionate empathy? What inspires us more than addressing ears flushed with excitement, what captivates us more than exercising our own power of fascination? What is more thrilling than an entire hall of expectant eyes, what more overwhelming than applause surging up to us? What, lastly, equals the enchantment sparked off by the delighted attention we receive from those who profoundly delight ourselves? - Attention by other people is the most irresistible of drugs.
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