Use Flickr, get work
Neat story of a photographer who got photos into an exhibition because he posted his work to Flickr.
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October 15th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
It is simple amazing what the internet and Web 2.0 technology will acomplish - I have seen more photos that are absolutly breath taking with Flickr and Zoomer than I ever would at an art gallery.
October 15th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Reasons why I love Flickr:
1. Dead easy, even my non-techie Dad uses it in conjunction with his digital camera.
2. Awesome search. Has completely displaced Google images for me because Flickr searches give better results.
3. Image bandwidth is expensive, for $25/year it’s completely worth it for Flickr to host them for me.
October 15th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Scoble, sorry to go off topic, but is it just me, or are your Scobleshow episodes not iPod compatible?
I’m subscribed to the feed in iTunes and they download in full, and they were compatible upto and including the photowalking episodes, but beyond that, they won’t sync.
Just wondering if you knew?
Paul
October 15th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
This is a great story. I wish my photos were picked up by the MTA.
October 15th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Flickr, to me, is one large portfolio centre. Much of the photography posted is better than commercially available options. I have hired 3 photographers on contract work through Flickr.
October 15th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
That is awesome.
October 15th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
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October 16th, 2006 at 6:29 am
I really like Flickr as 1) easy online portfolio for friends and family 2) easy offsite storage (not “downsampled”) 3) easy “minimal click” photoprinting– less trouble then film!
The social networking is kind of cool, too.
Just hope Yahoo doesn’t eventually mess it up. They ain’t Google. Lots of Yahoo services work poorly or not at all (Yahoo Video….).
October 16th, 2006 at 8:16 am
One of my LJ friends, Chris Blakely, got some of his pictures up on the WA State Tourism site through his Flickr posts.
October 16th, 2006 at 8:18 am
*sigh* and if he were an offline friend too, I’d probably have spelled “Blakeley” correctly.
BTW — while my link above is work-safe, he’s also a burlesque dancer, and takes pictures of some of the shows he attends. Don’t wander too far if you’re at work…
October 16th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Interesting — I hadn’t noticed before that WordPress changed my double-dash into an emdash and my straight quotes to smart ones. I don’t have a problem with that happening on comments, but I hope it doesn’t do it on normal posts.
October 16th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Flickr’s great.
I sold a photo to be used on the cover of an Italian book.
October 16th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
got photos into an exhibition because he posted his work to Flickr
Eh? He got in, because his photos were good, or just because he posted to Flickr? Any idiot can post to Flickr. Besides half those exhibitions are ‘poety contest’ scams, just a cull for a copyright-free photo library.
The film traditional Linhoff and Arca Swiss types are still the true art, and in fact such photos have increased in value to collectors.
October 16th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
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October 16th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
How is using Flickr to demo what you can do, different from using Linked-in as place for your resume/recommendations?
October 16th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
[...] Use Flickr, get workNeat story of a photographer who got photos into an exhibition because he posted his work to Flickr. [...]
October 17th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
@Paul,
You’re not alone. iTunes stopped syncing ScobleShow for me too. It’s weird. The format of the videos is .mov on download–maybe that’s the problem? Do they need to be mp4?
October 17th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Chris and Paul: I’ll check into that.
October 21st, 2006 at 9:36 am
thats just amazaing,
i’m a flickr freak myself!
good luck.
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