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GSFC Photo Club Flickr Site Conventions

Sydney Cain

Scott Hull

October 10, 2012Slide2

What is Flickr

Flickr is an online photo sharing website that is hosted by Yahoo.

Flickr is a great way to organize your photos and share them with friends, family and other photographers within the Flickr community and beyond.

For more detailed information about how Flickr can work for you take the Flickr Tour

http://www.flickr.com/tour/

Title your images and provide detailed descriptions. Receive feedback from various Flickr users.

You can add comments to the specific tags to provide more information in addition to the title and description sections.

With Geo-tagging, you can map out where the image was taken.

Tag people, so that viewers can see what photos they are in and so you can easily track them down in the future.

Tag your images to make them easier to locate for your friends and family or, if you’re a pro, so that you generate more traffic to your imagery. Slide3

Who uses Flickr?

One of the best reasons to be part of the Flickr community is to see what other creative minded individuals are doing.

Personal users:

Many people just want to share their latest creative imagery with Family and Friends in an organized, easy to search manner.

Professionals: Many professional photographers use Flickr as a way to present their portfolios to clients. Bloggers: Due to the creative commons setting, many bloggers use Flickr to find images to host on their blogs and/or social media sites. Flickr claims to host over 4 billion images!Groups: The biggest draws to Flickr's community are groups, which let users create and contribute to themed groups. Each group has a shared pool of pictures that any of its members can contribute to. Each group gets its own forum for chatting about topics or individual pictures.

An interesting article titles “Who on Earth uses Flickr?” can be found here:

http://www.sciencetext.com/flickr-photo-

gallery.html

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Components of Flickr

Photostream

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'Photostream' is the first thing Flickr takes you to when you click someone's name or login to you account. It is a steady stream of every photo you've ever shared, newest at the top.

Once you have uploaded your photos they are always available in the photostream, but you may have to scroll to older pages to view them. SetsA “set” is a series of pictures that are categorized together by the photographer. The organization of sets is up to the photographer but can be focused on a theme, an event, a time, the possibilities are endless. Collections

Flickr introduced this feature recently and it allows users to put several sets together. This would come in handy if you went on vacation, as you could create individual sets for each location, and then group them together as a collection.

Groups

Groups

are essentially like public Sets which everyone can add to. Groups allow photographers to come together and pool their photographs based around a common theme. For aspiring photographers the

equipment groups

are

dedicated to a specific camera, lens, flash or a new light modifier. Style based groups encompass things such as beautiful bokeh, black & white, abstract and so on. The final most popular type of group is the subject based group, covering things such as nature, food, travel, sport, nudes, colors and people.

For more information visit:

http

://digital-photography-school.com/

flickr

or

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9703620-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

WebwareSlide5

Flickr Options

We have considered two basic

approaches:

Everyone shares one Flickr site (current)

Establish a Flickr Group, where each person has their own Flickr site, and shares photos to the GroupOption 1 has the advantage that not everyone needs to create and maintain their own siteOption 2 has an advantage for everyone who already has their own Flickr site, since sharing is easier than uploading twiceDecision for now is to stay with Option 1Slide6

Current Status

One site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfcphoto

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Site was created 5/26/2011, upgraded to Pro 6/5/2012787 photos uploaded to dateAt least* 19 different photographers have uploaded26 sets, including Snap and Shares, outings, meetings, and other opportunities to share* that’s one problem – not all of the photos are labeledSlide7

Club Site GrowthSlide8

Organization

Uploaded photos all go into the

Photostream

The photostream shows

the latest up to 20 imagesFrom there, the photos should be credited and placed into some sort of category; or they flow away in the stream and can be difficult to locate if there are not any tags within the photo or they are not included in any collections or sets. In addition, each photo needs to be identified, since we are a large group with one accountGeneral conclusion: we need some standard approach to labeling and organizing the photosSlide9

Uploading

Log into the site, and follow the instructions provided

There is n

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need to reduce the resolution of photos before uploading - we have unlimited uploads with the Pro accountDefault permissions are set to “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons”If you want higher protection, you can reserve all rights on any or all of your individual photosPlease do not change the account default protectionWhile you are logged in, you have total control, so please be careful and respectfulSlide10

Labeling Conventions

Pick a descriptive title; not P4848966G

Easier to reference in discussions

Easier to find later

Include your name in the Description block as you are uploading“Taken by…” or just “By…”Consider telling the story while you’re thereAlso consider adding: Tags Notes Map LocationSlide11

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Sets

If a set doesn’t exist to describe your photos or purpose, you are free to add one

Snap and Share set names:

MM/DD/YYYY Snap and Share

Include a description of the event, etc.Include the date“Club outing to the Kenilworth Aquatic Garden, June 26”“S&S topic for this month is children” “I had the opportunity to go on a photo safari to New Zealand to shoot the migration of the spotted zebras…”Slide13

More Components

of

Flickr…

The components below are

geared towards individuals looking to use Flickr as a professional photography resource. ExploreThe Explore section of Flickr is where the big boys come out to play. If you really want to start getting recognized or noticed in the community then this is the area that you really need to understand.Flickr Explore is the name given to the 500 most interesting photos selected each and every day by Flickr’s (top secret) “interestingness” algorithm. These automatically grouped photos are then thrust right to the forefront of the site and are viewed by thousands of people every day. Getting one of your photos ‘Explored’ is a sure-fire way to build your reputation.

FavoritesFavorites are photos by other people that you want to bookmark in Flickr, so they are easy to find later. You can add any photo that you can view to your favorites. There is no limit on the number of favorites you can have

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Contacts

Flickr's community is a social network of sorts. You can make friends (Flickr calls them contacts) and track their newest photos. When you want to make another Flickr user a contact, just click on his or her name. This will take you to his or her photos page. Slide14

Tagging your images

Tags

Tags are short identifiers you can later use to categorize and search for photos. Sorting by tags lets you create sets on the fly--of just your pictures, or yours plus the community's. People often tag pictures with names, locations, event descriptions, and theme, for example: "Mountain," "Everest," "Cold," and "Vacation."

Tag your portraits!You can tag your images with the names of the people that appear in the photograph. By doing this your friends and family can easily “search” by their name to find images that they are in. It is also an easy way to collect images of one person or a family.

Notes

On any of your pictures click the Add note button above the photo

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Just like a Post-it note, you can write a quick message for others to read.

The

cool thing about notes is they don't get in the way if viewers don't want them. To see them, users can just move their cursor over a picture to pull them up.Geotagging Geotagging is a special method of tagging photos with their location. After doing this to several of your photos from different parts of the world, check out Mappr, which will give you a visual representation of where your photos were taken on a large map.