Written on Nov 11th, 2008 by Dave Adams
Posted In: Social Media
Ten Tips To Improve Your Flickr Experience
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Top Ten Tips on improving your Flickr experience
- Level:Beginner
- Tools:Flickr
- Time:Infinite
You’ve been using Flickr for a while now, but you don’t seem to get any comments or views on your work. You’ve been busy taking hundreds of great photographs, and you would love it if just one or two people would stop by and tell you they like what you have been doing, but its not happening.
So whats gone wrong? Why do some people seem to get hundreds of comments for every photo they upload to Flickr when you get none?
While I don’t have all the answers, and my Flickr photostream is by no means popular in comparison to the big hitters on Flcikr, I do get steady stream of feedback, which is nice. So here are some tips to help you improve your Flickr experience and perhaps boost your popularity. Most importantly it may get the ball rolling and kick start your participation in the Flickr community.
1. Photo Quality is Critical and Volume Counts
This is the first tip, and its critical. Get this wrong and (99% of the time) no one will take any notice of your photography. You have got to get the basic photography skills right and be uploading only your very best work.
Uploading hundreds of shots of the same thing with only small variations in content mean that people will get bored very quickly. Limit the amount you upload to a small proportion of the photos you take, and make sure you only upload your best. Remember that for anyone who has made you a contact, they will only see the last five photos you uploaded in their contacts list (unless they have opted to only see the last photo uploaded by contacts), so that last photo you send to Flickr is vital. Its got to be the best it can be as that may determine whether a contact checks out your photostream or not.
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