Things To Keep In Mind While Uploading Pictures On Flickr
Written by Anurag Bhateja on October 28, 2009 – 12:59 pm -Flickr is one of the biggest resource for photographers in order to share photographs. We, who are on flickr, upload photographs very often there in order to get recognition as a photographer. Now, while uploading a photograph, sometimes we just upload it and forget about many things that has to be taken care of. I am explaining the list of “to dos” when you upload a photograph there.
1. Title: Always try to be specific in your title. Avoid titles as IMG0808 or something like that. These are names given by your camera while saving it on memory. No one can recognize your work with such names. Be specific and to the point in title. It also helps you to get recognized by search engines.
2. Description: A very important part. You should write a small introduction of the place where you clicked, your subject, name of the model if any, information on the species of the animal/bird/insect if you are aware of and keep it precise. This is not important to stretch it like a long story. You should keep in mind that only 10% read full story, 20% take it personally, 10% comment and rest 60% just see the photograph and go away. So if the description is small and informative, there is chance that people will read and if they like, you will get more comments.
3. Reply to comments: People think that commenting on their own photographs is just to increase comments but I think you should reply to queries if occur or answer to a generous comment. Thanking all above in single comment can also be done. This creates a bond between you and your viewers.
4. Send to group: Keeping the rules of the groups in mind, you should add your photographs to groups. You should also visit those groups regularly and comment on photographs you like. Some group have rules to comment and fav so keep this in mind too.
5. Sets: You can make different sets and sort your photographs accordingly so that people can see photographs according to their interest.
6. Geotagging: Maximum of do not do that. It is marking the photograph’s venue on map. It is good to do as sometimes people search for photographs of a particular place so that they can see how it looks like. Geotagging the photograph properly will increase the chance of getting more people to your photograph.
Keeping the above points in mind will surely help you in getting good results for your stream 
Enjoy, keep blogging, keep reading and keep clicking
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Check Your Flickr Explored Pics On Bighugelabs
Written by Anurag Bhateja on August 25, 2009 – 11:12 pm -Those who are using flickr, must be aware of the importance of Explored! pictures from their stream. If you are not aware of it, let me give some introduction about it. Flickr, is a well know image hosting website which is widely used by photographers across the world. Everyday, flickr employees manually select 500 photographs and add them to explore a.k.a interstingness. The top photographs can be seen on Explore page. On every refresh, a new photograph is visible.
Now those who are lucky enough to get on explore, get more visits on their pictures as a lot of people visit the explore page daily. Bighugelabs, has a very cool feature called “scout” which check your stream for the explored pictures and show a list of them. Even if they are dropped from the explore’s 500 list, the image will be visible in the list on scout page, if you choose the option of include dropped.
How to check?
Goto http://www.bighugelabs.com .
Look for the drop down with “Jump to” just below the header images.
From the drop menu look for scout.
You will be redirected to http://bighugelabs.com/scout.php .
There you need to fill Flickr Screen Name or Email or User ID.
Say as my mailID on flickr is myname [at] yahoo [dot] com , as soon as I add it it will show the images which are on explore.
When I click include dropped, it will show the dropped pictures also.
What else can be done?
I can make a poster and add to flickr! Just click on “Create a Scout poster from these images” and save the image or directly upload it to your flickr account.
You can also link your flickr account to Bighugelabs and then whenever you visit the scout page, it will show your explored picture list in updated version. http://bighugelabs.com/scout.php?go=1 by going here the flickr account can be linked.
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Promote Flickr Profile On Facebook
Written by Anurag Bhateja on May 7, 2009 – 9:07 pm -If you are a photographer and want to promote your Flickr photos on Facebook than its quite easy to manage this. You can pull the latest uploads from Flickr and can show them in your Facebook profile. Follow the steps and link the accounts for best results.
1. Login to your Facebook profile.
2. Click on Profile from top bar.
3. Click on “Settings” just below the share button.
4. Click on Flickr icon.
5. Enter the username. Its your yahoo mail ID.
6. Click on import.
You are done!
Now everytime you publish a photograph in flickr, the facebook status will get updated automatically
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