I have been reading the photography is not a crime blog a lot lately. There is a lot in play here when it comes to cops and photography. I know that cops are worried that a photograph does not tell the whole story about what is going on. That does not give cops the right to trample over people because they are taking a photo.
I need to take more photos of police officers. I need to stand up for my rights. I think that every photographer needs to stand up like this.
For the third year in a row, my photo a day project failed. I have sent out to take a photo every day of the year and have not been able to keep it up. I have a hard time with this for two reasons. I have a hard time finding the artistic drive that the project needs. I start to run out of themes quickly into the year. After a while I started to get lazy. It would have taken a lot of effort to take photos that are new.
Part of the problem is that I have some 8000+ photos on flickr. There are lots of things subjects in this area which I have already shot. It was also hard to find the time. It was not at the front of my thoughts everyday.
Here are a few things I can try next year to make it work better.
1. Pre-plan more photos - Try to have my next week of photos figured out before I get there. This will help me figure out when I need to go out of my way to get a photo. 2. Let myself take photos I have taken before. If I need to take a photo of City Hall or the Mary Statue it is okay. 3. Do not go to the same well too many times. I got bored because I took too many photos of myself in the same way. This got really boring after a while. 4. Put time aside to take pictures. It is hard to find time some days. It might be easier to find the time if I put it on my calendar.
Let me know if you have any hints about doing a 365 photo project.
This is my most viewed photo. I do not think this is my best photo ever. I do not think these women are the most attractive in my photosteam. When I took this photo, it wa just a spontaneous snap shot. I just had a few seconds to take it. They did not take to time to pose most most people in costume take. Maybe that is why it is so well liked.
This is also my most commented photo. But part of that has to do with Supergirl having a belly ring. People wonder how a person with skin the strength of steel gets a belly ring.
For a long time this was my most viewed photo. It is easy to see why this photo was the most viewed photo. This is where my obsession with Metal Slave Bikini Leia. This was the moment I found out that there are so many women who dress like this at comic book conventions. I guess this is where I found out I should try to take more photos of women in costumes.
This photo has been viewed so many times because it was blogged so many times. During comic con it turned up on six different blogs. People loved the idea of a Steampunk Ghostbuster. I have to admit that this is one of my favorite costumes of all time.
I am not sure how blog views are counted. I know that most of my flickr views come from inside of flickr. Site referrals only account for 2% of my views. 2% of 1.2 million is still 24000 views. Maybe a big chunk of that is part of this photo.
Views on Flickr: One Thousand Fourty Eight view photo
I average between 1900 and 1100 views a day. This is the range my views stay between. Some days I see a big bump, but it never falls below 1100 views. Everyday my photostream gets as many views as this photo has totally. That is a strange idea. At the high end of views, photos get 100 to 70 views. On the low end hundreds of photos get 1 to 2 views. I think this is very interesting.
Look at all the elements of this photo. It is easy to see why this photo has so many views. It is a great costume group. I think that is one of the reasons it has so many views.
My nephew noticed that I took lots of photos of signs. Yes it is something I do all the time. Some of my most viewed photos are of signs. If it was not for Comic Con they would dominate the top of my popular lists.
I was surprised to find out that Wolverine is one of my biggest search terms for my photosteam. I am not sure why over 5000 people in the past year have searched for Wolverine. I know it is my Comic Con that keeps people coming back.
This is a great photo because it is an in joke. Not everyone knows this is Spider Man. Not everyone knows that this is actually from a comic book. Lots of people think it is combining the Unknown Comic and the Fantastic Four. I am happy this has so many views.
Views on Flickr: Six Hundred Eighty One View Photo
This is my 200 most view photo. Flickr users know the importance of this because 200 is the default last photo when users are looking at their most viewed photo. I hope that someone sees this as interesting. This photo has a lot of elements that make my photos interesting. I think I do a pretty good job with my best photos. I think my 200 best photos are pretty good. That might be because I take so many pictures that I am only getting lucky. I will still take that.
In 2005 at comic con I decided that whenever I saw someone with a comic book themed tattoo I was going to ask them if I could take a picture. I had not noticed that many comic book themed tattoos before. Taking photos of them really made me notice them at comic con. Now whenever I see a tattoo I have not seen before I want to take a picture of it.
Tattoos get a lot of views on Flickr and on my blog. In Sad Salvation's referral log I see lots of images searches for tattoos. I think it is easy to see why this photo would get so many views.
Lets go down the checklist here, Comic con - Check, Woman - Check, Corset - Check, Costume - Check, Goth - Check, Spider web - Check, Mowhawk - Check. I have no question why this photo has over 500 views.
Above 500 views there are very few Comic Con photos. I will keep on going to Comic Con because of this. If I leave the west coast, I will have to go to the New York Comic Con or Dragon Con in Atlanta.
I am not sure what I can say about this photo. It is really not like any the other photos in my collection. It is the typical "Stand here and pose with this person" photo. I love the expression of both Chris and the woman in the grapes.
I wonder what other people think when they see this photo.
Tattoos get a lot of views on my photostream. They also get lots of views on my blog. I love taking photos of Tattoos. I do not have any tattoos, but I respect people that do. I think there is a lot of art in tattoos. I also see lots of commitment in tattoos. I love when I see a tattoo that I have never seen before. I love when a tattoo has a good theme. I love when I have the feeling that I have seen something I would not see anywhere else. That is what makes photographing a tattoo special.
I am not sure what makes searching for a tattoo on flickr special.
I once had a conversation with another flickr user about views on flickr. I asked him about how many views his photos average. He said he did not take not of that. He said that he has about hundred contacts and all his photos get about 100 views. This idea blew me away. I knew that this did not happen to me. I know that most of my contacts do not see most of my photos.
When I got to know this flickr user better I found out how this might be true for him and not true for me. He posts about three times a month. He also only posts about two or three photos at a time. I post between 20-30 days a month. I also post between 100 - 300 photos a month. I think it is much harder for all my viewers to view all my photos.
There are other problems. I know that many of my contacts do not long on often. At least 50 of them have not uploaded a new photo in 2008 yet. I know that I am uploading several days worth of photos between when they log on. That gets me less views.
I would love if all my contacts saw all my photos. I know that is not going to happen anytime soon. I know that I am not even going to average that many views. I could reduce my number of contacts to see what happens, in the end I am not sure that would help.
Costume photos are very popular on my photo stream. A large percentage of the photos with more than 200 views are from Comic Book Conventions. Most of these photos are of people in costume. As I get close to the top of my most viewed list, it is almost all people in costume. There will be several more of these photos in this project.
When I look at my biggest search terms, they are all most all comic book terms. I think this really says something about the people who are using flickr. It will also have a lot to do with which of my photos are actually interesting.
One hundred fifteen photo is my average view. That means that average view is 71 views higher then my median view. That means that my photo views are very top heavy. This is not a surprise to me. This photo is ranked 1631 in overall views and my median photo is ranked 4112. That is a pretty big spread.
This photo is a good example of what I get rewarded for. It is something funny that is in everyday life. I have a good eye for these things. I can see what photos might people laugh a little. It is better to be one of a few people that can express something funny than to be one of a huge crowd who is technically good.
I have no idea why this photo of my trash has 100 views. It is not a good photo. it is not an interesting photo. It is a photo of trash. There is something that always happens all the time. I am often asking myself why are people are looking at this photograph. Now there is a stats feature on flickr, but it was not there when they were looking at this photo. I do not know why people looked at this photo. I just know that they did. Hopefully I will be able to figure this out in the future.
This photo starts to show what kind of photos I can take when I take when I do a good job. I think that this is a good portrait. The SB600 flash I use here really does a good job. It really improves what I do with lower light.
This photo is good enough that the subject asked if he could use the picture for his Facebook profile photo. I can see how better photos are getting more views.
At 50 views I start seeimng photos that I think are good. Before this my photos are ordinary at best. I will admit that I think they are a little under rated at 50 views. I think the photo above should have over 100 views. This photo is not special, but I think it is good. Around here I can see photos that I want other people to really see.
You might ask why 44 views. This happens to be the median view of my photostream. I have about 150 photos with 44 views. Over the last two years my median started at 30 view, crawled up to I have lots of photos of people in sitting around coffee shops at meetings. These photos look the same often. I think this is a little better that the average photo like this.
This photo could get more views if I spent time improving the tags and adding it to more groups.
This is what a twenty five view photo looks like. The subject of the photo has a limited appeal. This photo has my sister at the Giants game. The photo is pretty well tagged and it has been added to my standard number of groups. I think this is a pretty good example of a twenty five view photo.
This is what a photo with ten views looks like. It is a good idea, but it is not there. It is a photo that you can find all over the place on flickr. There is nothing special about it.
This is a pretty typical five view photo. I have about 100 photos with 5 views. All of them are poorly tagged. Most of them have poor composition. all of them have been uploaded in 2008. They have been added to few groups.
I cannot say the above photo deserves very many views. I like the idea, but it is not executed well. It is missing that thing that makes it a good photo. That thing is a real idea of that the shot is telling us. Once again, a poor photo does not get rewarded on flickr.
I want to start a new series of blog posts looking at views on flickr. Above is a photo titled 2008 Spring Vacation: The Motel Room. This is a good example of a photo that only has two views. I did not have any photos on flickr that have been posted for more that a month that has only one view. In practical terms, this is on of my worst photos on flickr. I have not be rewarded for posting it on flickr.
One of the things that I notice is that it is poorly tagged and not in many groups. Right after I post this photo I will update the tags and add the photo to more groups. Even as I do that, it will not get this photo that many extra views. There are few good elements in this photo. I expect in a few weeks this photo will top out at about ten views.
I have not blogged a photo in a while, so here you go. I have been posting some old photos on Flickr lately. I guess I am getting bored with the photos I am taking right now. I have been feeling that way for a while.
Looking at old photos is strange. The first thing that stands out to me is how I could have taken a better picture. I could have framed it better or composed it better. I think I am a better photographer now, just because I have looked at so many photos. It makes me want to go retake all these old photos. That is not something I can always do.
My Average view per photo on flickr is 110. My median views per photo is 47. This tells me that the photos with the most views have a lot of views. The median photo is number 3677. My average view photo is number 1559. I get have my views from 21% of my posted photos. I wonder how it is for other people. I know I can figure something out something by looking at these photos. I am just not sure what I can learn.
Take a photography everyday (Failed) Post at least 200 pre-2005 to Flickr (Failed) 200,000 Views of my flickr Photostream (Failed) Post 2000 photo to flickr (Pass) Spend the night at 12 places outside of San Jose (Pass) Use my text messaging more. (Pass) Use up all 500 of my monthly text messages at least once (Pass) Blog at least 150 photos. (Pass) Be open to the changes that come (Pass) Listen to 120 new albums (Pass)
I got 7 out of 10 passing. I am not sure that is a passing grade because the three hardest are the ones I failed at. I think it is important to keep track of these things.
I see this phone now and I wish I did a better job. I wish this was a better photographic. I wonder what I will find if I look back at the photos from this day. I need to look at more of my old photos in 2008. I need to put time aside to look at what I did before I had Flickr.
This photo is another example of how I lack the photographic skill to get the photo I want. I also lack the Photoshop skill to turn it into the photo I want.
Lane Hartwell is pissed off at people stealing her photos, or at least infringing on the copyright. (Yes I am one of those people who think theft and copyright infringement are two different things.) There are items on Scott Beal's Liquid Squid and Like it Matters. I wonder if people like me make it harder on people like her. I know that I am not a great photographer. I am no where near Lane Hartwell in skill or talent. I am the kind of person who does not police his photos. I am the kind of person who does not know if people use my photos. Only once have I ever dinged a website for using a photo of mine without telling me. I had them add my name because I wanted to help the person who was in the photo.
I wonder if the web has made photography less valued. I wonder if so many people are willing to give it away for free, does it make it easier for other people to take? I am wondering if it is something that cannot be avoided because of the way other copyright holders act.
I am not sure why this photo now has over 500 views. I wonder if someone boing boinged the Crotch Shot group. It is not a good photo. This might be my most viewed bad photo in my flickr photostream. Most of my bad photos do not get any views. I do not even remember who's crotch this is. I guess it takes all types.
Someone I meet recently just looked through all of my flickr photos. I always think someone could learn who I am if they looked at my photos. She took me up on this offer. She said that she learned three things about my from looking at my flickr photos.
1) I love people 2) I love color 3) The little things are important to me
I did not expect her to notice these things. They are all true about me and my photography. Even though I told her that she would learn about me from looking at my photos, I was not sure what she would learn. I think my photostream holds truths, but not truths I could figure out. I am just thinking about how I took the photos and want I am going to post.
One of the things I like the most about photography is that it helps reduce my desire to buy stuff. Most of the time I think, I would like to photograph that, not I would like to buy that. I never have to buy anything in this photo. Of course I can spend that stuff on photographic equipment.
I am trying to figure out if this photo is any good or not. I like the lines and the color, but I am not sure if it is anygood or not. I am not sure it really says anything. I might need to view it in the context with other photos from San Jose for it to mean anything. I am not sure every photo can stand on its own. I think that is just the reality of photography.
I know there are panels about costuming at Comic Con. I would like there to be a panel about Photography at Comic Con. I would love to here how other photographers approach Comic Con. I would like to know how they handle the technical challenges. I would like to know how they approach the subject matter. I would like to know what they look for in a photo.
I love taking pictures at Comic Con. It is easy to see on flickr that my photos are not like other people's photos. I think that is cool. I think even if only comic con photographers showed up at this panel, it would still fill up a small room. Now I just need to figure out how I get Comic Con to have a panel like this.
I have been swimming in Comic Con Photos. I have been back from comic con for two days and I am not half way through the photos yet. I posted as many as I could while I was at the show, but I took around 2000 photos. It is a lot to go through and look at. Posting all of them would not be satisfying. I know I will be posting these photos for a while yet. Hopefully I will still have people's attention by the time I am done.
Looking at these photos so often, I think I develop crushes on some of the subjects of the photos. I see something in the photos that just draws me in. I cannot look away from the photo and wonder what the people are like. I think about the photography so much, I feel like I know more about the person that I do.
The moment of the photograph lasts a very long time for me, while it is just a nanosecond for the subject. I do not know if this woman will ever see this photo. If I met her again I know I could not explain how the photo effected me. I have tried with other women in the past and it has not come across.
I am not sure why the photos I take have this effect on me. I am not sure why I get the feeling that I know something about my subjects. This may be why I like photography so much. It is a way to capture a moment that cannot be captured any other way.
I have not taken any really good photos lately. There has been nothing that stands out and cries to be posted. I am keeping up my 365 project for this year, but I feel rather uninspired when it comes to photography. I just cannot find anything to geek about. I will have to think about this.
I have received a lot of complements for this photo. I think I am more or less lucky when it comes to a photo like this. I have to put myself in the place to get a good photo.
Thinking about photography, the first and hardest challenge is finding places to take photos. It is not always easy to go out and find things to take photos of. Sometimes it is as easy as just walking down the street. For a photo like this I had to find my way up to the top of a mountain at sunset.
The second challenge is knowing that the shot will look like before you take it. You have to be able to see your subject in the world and have an idea what the photo will look like. Even if you are not totally correct, you need some idea. I think this is what some photographers call having an eye.
The third challenge is having the ability to capture the photo. Sometimes it is a matter of skill, sometimes it is a matter of equipment. I often see a shot that I do not have the lens to capture. If I had more skill I would be able to get shots with lessor equipent
The last thing you need it luck. Sometimes you get the photo without trying. Sometimes you have everything set right and you still cannot get the photo. Some people looking at my flickr photostream might say that I rely a little too much on luck.
I am not sure if this is my best photo of 2007, but it might be. Tell me what you think.
At the SFlickr second anniversary meetup I got in a conversation about Flickr Rankings. The guy was talking about how we are all obsessed with explorer. That is the bit thing at Flickr. He got his father on flickr. His father is now retired and spending all his time taking photos. He father is getting more photos into explorer than he is.
I told him that I do not care about Explorer or interestingness. I do not care about these thing because I cannot predict what photos these ratings will reward. I know it has something to do with how comments an your photos and who likes them. That is not interesting to me. I am never sure what will get the good ratings. I told him that is why views are my obsession.
For a long time my obsession was with my most viewed photos. I quickly learned that my most view viewed photos were going to sort them self out. After the group laptop stickers got posted to boing boing some pretty bad pictures got over a thousand views. I realized that I had no control over my most viewed photos.
Now I am interested in the middle of my collection. Where is the 50% point for photos, the average, I think this is a real measure of a photostream. I even started a group for people to post those photos, The Middle. I think of the great things about flickr is seeing how good average is. With hundreds of average photos all together you can see how beautiful this world really is.
If your middle photo is too good, you are not posting enough photos. If your middle photo is too bad, you need to take better photos. I think there is a zen of the middle photo. This is where you learn what someone thinks of flickr.
As of March 22nd, I have had my Nikon D50 for one year. Flickr has was the main driver for me to get the D50. In that year I have been obsessed with flickr and taking photos to put on flickr. Many times If I know I will not be able to put the photos on flickr, I will not bother taking them.
A year later, I still really like my camera. It is not perfect, but it has served me well. It might be the most useful piece of consumer electronics I have ever purchased. I know that I had a camera before my D50, but it did not inspire me the way my D50 has. It did not make me think about photography or take chances with photography the way my D50 has.
There is still a lot I have to learn about photography. I know that I do my best learning when I go out and take pictures. My Nikon D50 makes me want to go out and take pictures. That is a good thing.
Is there anything I should try taking a picture of in the next year?
I did not make any resolutions for 2006. It seems like I take some years off. I am not sure these are really resolutions. They are goals. I know that these are not that challenging. It still stuff I want to try to do this year.
Take a photography everyday Post at least 200 pre-2005 to Flickr Use my text messaging more. Use up all 500 of my monthly text messages at least once Blog at least 150 photos. Be open to the changes that come
I failed one of my goals for 2006. I tried for the second time to take a photograph every day for a year. I know lots of people who try challenges like this. It is long enough that it hard, but it is not a lot of work. You just need to make sure you do it everyday. It is about being thoughtful.
I first tried this in 2004. That time I only got a month into the project before I failed. That was before I was a flickr user. I was interested in Digital photography at the time, but I did not know anyone else doing the same thing.
This year I thought it was a good time to try this again. In 2005 I really got into digital photography. I started using Flickr a lot in 2005. I started to meet a lot of people doing digital photography. It seemed like the right project for 2006.
The project started off well. Flickr is the perfect tool for a project like this. Not only did I have a place to put all my photos. I also had a good way to show the photos month by month. It helped me keep track the photos.
I failed at the start of August. I cannot remember why I failed, why I missed some days. My guess is that the living of my life distracted me from taking my camera everywhere with me. I currently not even sure what days I missed. I know that I stopped posting photos from everyday.
This year I will try again. I will try to take a photograph everyday. I will try to find new things to take photographs of. I will try to find new things to take photos of. I will try to cover as much new territory as possible.
Here are my month by month photo a day sets from 2006. I made sets for the months that I failed also. I want to see how many days I missed total. I think it might help me in 2007.
I think this is my best photograph of 2006. I took this driving back from Comic Con in San Diego. We were detoured off I-5 because of a brushfire in the hills. It was hot and hazy to start with. There was a lot of smoke in the air. I had heard other photographers talk about taking sunsets after fires before.
Traffic was really slow. I dropped far behind the car in front of me. Knew the car would fit into the photo. I grabbed my camera and snapped some photos. It is always fun to use my steering wheel as a tripod.
The photos turned out great. I played with the colors until I got what is above. The colors just jumped out at me. The funny thing is that this photo is not like most of my photos. Some times I try to capture some beautiful, but it is not what I am doing most of the time. It makes clear that a good percentage of photography is just having your camera ready when you need it.
I am happy I took this photo. When I started 2006 I could not have predicted I would take a photo like this. I like the idea that I do not know what the future has for me.
Awhile ago I decided that I wanted to get more of my photos on Flickr 100 views. I have created a set on Flickr for photos that I think deserve 100 views. You can come over to flickr and tell me if you agree or not. I think these photos are better than the amount of attention they have received so far.
There are a few different types of rewards on Flickr, Interesting, Views, Favorites, and Comments. Views have always been the reward that has been the most important to me. To me, what I really care about is how many people see my photos.
For most people on Flickr the most important reward is Interestingness. It has become a way to measure how good photos are against the Flickrverse of users. It is not that important to me because I do not think I am a great Photographer. When I look at my photos that are some of the most interesting photos, I do not think they are my best photos. I feel that I am rewarded for whimsy most of the time. Here are my photos that rank in the most interesting for specific days. I know that people even go as far as to game the system to get more interesting.
I would like to have about 25% of my photos to have 100 views. Right now about 16.5% of my photos have 100 views. I know this is a meaningless measurement. I know there are no meaningful measurements when it comes to my photos. I know that most of my photos I place on flickr are not great. My photos are about what I see in my life more than trying to take great photos. Even if they are not great photos, I still want people to look at them.
Here is some random data about my photos.
Total Photos Posed: 4230 Photos with 100 views: 700 Photos with 200 views: 285 Photos with 1000 views: 28 Percent of photos with 100 Views: 16.5 Number of views for photo ranked 2115: 37 Photos who at last 1 persons counts as a favorite: 454 2115th most interesting Picture Total Photostream Views 90,279
I went to the tapestries art festival in San Jose on Monday. One of my goals was to take photograph of cool products. The first one I found was the Record Purse. It was kind of cool. When I pulled my camera out the guy jumped in front of me and said no photos. He said that it was patented product and that his wife wanted to protect the design. I said that the patent protects the design. I told him I was only going to post a photo because I thought it was cool and that would promote his product. He said that he is only doing what his wife said.
If I wanted to steal the design of the purse I would have just bought one and reverse engineered it.
Fling had set up a portrait shoot for the The South Bay Photography Meetup Group. I found out about this and I was happy to come along. I have decided that I need to be around more photographers if I want my photography to get better. I like shooting Portraits and I had nothing better to do.
It was a fun time. Erin, the model was very cool. I had a great time interacting with her. She made it pretty fun to take photos of her. She and Fling have a really funny rapport and I feel right in there.
I posted a few photos in my Flickr photostream. I will post more once I get back from comic con. I am only 2 days into this vacation and I have already taken over 1000 photos. I think this is a good sign. I will have a lot of photos to choose from to post to flickr.
The photo shoot only lasted two hours, but it took a lot out of me. I was pretty much done for the day. I am not sure why it took so my energy. I guess it was a lot of focus. At least I got my packing done
I did go see A Scanner Darkly. I wanted to see it before I left for Comic Con. It is a good movie, but I cannot tell if other people would like it. I think it has a lot of flaws and the pace is very odd, but it took a lot of risks. I like the way the animation fits into the world.
I have my Comic Con Pass. I am very excited. I am looking forward to the trip. It will be good to get away for a little while. The trip seems to have taken on a new insignificance. There is a lot of things I need to hold off until I get back from San Diego.
This year I plan on taking more photos because I have a better camera and I am more involved with Flickr. I think last year Comic Con was one of my tipping points getting me more involved with flickr. There is something I love about talking photos of people in costume. I guess it is not something I get to take pictures of in my everyday life.
Jimmy Gownley was nice enough to get me a pro badage. I wonder if that will change the way people treat me at the show. My guess is that nothing will change. It is still cool to have a pro badge.
Going to Comic Con in Sad Diego is my big vacation for the summer. I like it because it is a chance to see my friends and the show is fun. The summer is going by so quickly. Comic con give me a chance to put work aside and just do something for myself. That is going to be a good thing with the way this summer is going.
My photography has hit a wall lately. I have not been that happy with the photos I was taking, but I did not know where to go to improve them. I know lots of people who take photos but we rarely talk about how to take good pictures. We do not chat about technice. When they do talk about taking photos, most of it goes over my head. It clear that they expect everyone is talking from the same level of knowledge. Often I am too shy to speak up and make them explain in more detail.
Another problem is that I have a really hard time learning from books. There are lots of books about digital photography. I have read a couple of them. The problem is that I do not retain that knowledge. I have never been a book learner. I have always been better at retaining lectures.
Last night I took fireworks photos with wirehead and Digital Trav. These are some of the best photos I have taken in a while. I would not have shot pictures this good without talking with them about the settings. They gave me lots of ideas to try.
I need to go on more photo shooting events with the SV Flickr Folks. I think that is the best way for me to learn about photography. I think I can really learn if I am asking questions while I am taking the photos.
As anyone looking at my flickr account can see, I have been thinking a blog about photography lately. The newness of my new camera has not worn off. At this rate the newness may not go away for months. It is so cool and I love the kind of pictures I can take with it.
Having this camera makes me want to take lots of photos. I have been averaging 50 photos a day since I got it. That is a lot of photos. Some of them are good, some are no better than my old camera, and some of them just stink. I am taking a lot of photos so I can learn how to use this camera.
I also take a lot of photos because I am looking around more. I spent some money on this camera (and camera accessories) and I want to get the most out of it. It is also very enjoyable to use the camera. In cases where I used to take just one or two photos, I am now taking ten photos.
Now that I am taking so many more photos, I am not sure what I should do on flickr. Up to this point I have seen myself as a journaling photographer. I was just taking pictures of my day to day life to share with everyone. I was not worried about the limits of my camera or my skills. I was just working with what I could.
With my new camera I can take some better photos. One out of every 50 or so look really good. I have noticed that most of my flickr friends who are really good post very few photos. To make those photos stand out you limit how many you post. Maybe you post everyday but you only post one photo.
But there are thousands of really good photographers on flickr right now. There is only one person living my life. If I quite posting the photos of my everyday life, I might lose what makes me special on Flickr.
I guess I need to figure out what I want out of flickr. Do I want it to be about my life or do I want it to be about my photography. I can keep on posting the good pictures, but they will be lost amount the flood of all the other photos I am posting.
I know that my good photos are not what get the most views. Views are about lots of funny things. All of the sudden all of my photos of laptops have over 1000 views.
I have no idea how to messure what people like about my flickr photos.
I have an Olympus digital camera that I bought 8 months ago. When I bought it I also picked up the 128 MB smart media card. With that much memory, I can hold 221, 1024 x 768 .JPGs. I have never filled up the memory. The best I think I have done is is to take 150 pictures over three days.
I am thinking it would be a challenge to take 221 photos in one day. The challenge would be to fill up the card taking normal pictures. I know that I could fill up the card. I could take 14 picture as 1984x1488 TIFFs. That is not want I am thinking about. I am not sure what I can do with that many pictures. I am not sure I would have enough subjects. I think it would be a good way to spend a whole day.
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