The best of the best
I’ve finally got around to updating my Flickr Photostream and I thought I’d use todays blog to give you a sneak peak.
Flickr is another thing in the realm of “social networking” that it took me a while to get to grips with (see my post RSS… WTF!) but now I love it for showing off the best of my photography. I find that with my Nikon D40 I’m now taking hundreds of photos but getting some fantastic results, sometimes completely by accident! For example at Lucy & Dave’s Wedding I took approximately 400 photos, 96 made it to Facebook, but only the best 10 made it to Flickr.
I work on the principle that Flickr is for showing off the best of the best. People only like looking at lots of photos if they are in them, they are from an event they were at, or they show friends making idiots of themselves. In all other cases people don’t want to sort through piles of boring photos. Digital photography means we can take many more photos at a much lower cost, however it doesn’t change the fact that looking at someone elses holiday shots is as boring as it ever was.
A friend who also subscribes to this principle on his website is Graeme Watson (who I also have to thank for being my teacher in DSLR photography, getting me to a level of understanding to be able to take the pictures you see below.)
Anyway, sit back, enjoy and if you’d like to see more please do mosey on over to my Flickr Photostream.
That’s an interesting comment that you’ve made about the relationship between Flickr and Facebook. I’ve always been conscious that I’ve been posting material on Flickr where I’m not happy with the quality, but have been persuaded to upload so that distant family can view. As a very recent, and somewhat reluctant recruit to Facebook (what can I post which people might be interested in …?) I think I’ll follow your suggestion of posting the family interest photos there and keep Flickr for my better work.
I guess it’s whatever works for you. Nearly all my friends, and now my dad, siblings, aunts and cousins are on Facebook so it’s an easy way to share photos of events. But like you said if family don’t use Facebook then Flickr is the obvious place to share pictures. I know people who put all their photos on both. I suppose that I am lucky to have nearly everyone I’d like to share pictures with on Facebook so I have the luxury of being able to make the distinction.
Any chance of a copy of those 400 odd photos of our wedding lovely lady? Would love to see them – the facebook and flickr ones are fab!!
xx
Yes definitely! I need to get some more CD-Rs and then I’ll do a CD for you, and both sets of parents x x x
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