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BackdoorArts
Senior Member
Tag your photos excessively
Join and add photos to groups to increase views - whatever groups apply
Comment on others photos, follow them and hope they follow back
Find and read blog posts on boosting Flickr traffic and follow the advice
Take and post good photos
Keep you fingers crossed and hope you get Explored regularly
Join and add photos to groups to increase views - whatever groups apply
Comment on others photos, follow them and hope they follow back
Find and read blog posts on boosting Flickr traffic and follow the advice
Take and post good photos
Keep you fingers crossed and hope you get Explored regularly
Steve Bell
Senior Member
MAMF, you said "I am not doing it to make a shed load of money but it is nice to see your own work appear in a magazine or book, making just a few££££$$$$$ would be nice so how do I go about it?."
Most unlikely. Flickr is trawled for free images and is regarded as fair game by publishers, newspapers and designers. Over the years I've had many requests to use photo's, but those requesting never have a budget and are looking for free usage. Sometimes even low res images will be lifted for web use. Even the UK Guardian Online took one.
Flickr: stevebell's Photostream
Most unlikely. Flickr is trawled for free images and is regarded as fair game by publishers, newspapers and designers. Over the years I've had many requests to use photo's, but those requesting never have a budget and are looking for free usage. Sometimes even low res images will be lifted for web use. Even the UK Guardian Online took one.
Flickr: stevebell's Photostream
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
While there will always be those who want images for free and/or will grab and use with no attribution, Flickr does list ownership and copyright information as described by the photographer, so anyone doing so does it at their own peril. There is nothing within the user agreement that explicitly allows for the free sharing of images. But as always, policing is left up to the photographer.
With that said, I've sold several images for publication after being contacted by someone who found my image during an image search. Not a lot of money, but a $50 licensing fee here and there for an image you weren't necessarily looking to sell is nothing to sneeze at.
Nero
Senior Member
That issue exists on pretty much every social network site that allows you to upload photos.
Did you have your photos added to a variety of groups to get noticed, or did they find your account?
Like backdoor hippie said
Tag your photos excessively
Join and add photos to groups to increase views
I joined a few of the local newspaper groups, and put pictures on there flickr group, and had a couple printed in the local paper,
You can create public or private groups. so put your best pictures you want people to see on the public page, and your private pictures save to a private page for family and friends to look at.
Tag your photos excessively
Join and add photos to groups to increase views
I joined a few of the local newspaper groups, and put pictures on there flickr group, and had a couple printed in the local paper,
You can create public or private groups. so put your best pictures you want people to see on the public page, and your private pictures save to a private page for family and friends to look at.
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
No groups on any of the stuff that was found. One was based on location tagging (another important thing - stick your stuff on a map if it's relevant) the rest was someone looking for something specific in the search.
oh,, make money from photos! my observation has been network network network, enter contests,, etc etc etc,
there are so many pictures littering flickr, 500 px,, etc, that only people really making money are the people who create
the sites.
instead, stay more local, build over time your reputation thru persistence, time, time and maybe maybe, you will sell a few.
and over time, if your reputation builds,, get picked up.
or maybe grins, the sheer brilliance of the photos magically raises your work over the billions of other photos.
there are so many pictures littering flickr, 500 px,, etc, that only people really making money are the people who create
the sites.
instead, stay more local, build over time your reputation thru persistence, time, time and maybe maybe, you will sell a few.
and over time, if your reputation builds,, get picked up.
or maybe grins, the sheer brilliance of the photos magically raises your work over the billions of other photos.
SkvLTD
Senior Member
Plus today the industry is super-saturated with wannabees to a point where certain areas become more about who you know than how well you shoot and edit. Customers just don't care as long as they can tell the photo is slightly better than from a phone.