Michael Markey
Veteran
In the UK everybody has to pay $149 a year to watch the TV .
That's the cost of the licence fee which goes to fund the BBC , whether you watch the BBC or not.
Compared to that Flickr is a bargain.
That's the cost of the licence fee which goes to fund the BBC , whether you watch the BBC or not.
Compared to that Flickr is a bargain.
ruby.monkey
Veteran
Off topic - if you're registered blind, you get a 50% discount. Stay away from iPlayer and live TV and you don't need a licence at all.
olifaunt
Well-known
Yes, that is true, but I don't know other photographers offline and photography can be very lonely, so faving people's images are a shout-out that they are not alone. It builds a virtual community that can be quite valuable. For me I ask what is the ultimate purpose of the photos I take? Basically I select a small fraction to be seen by whoever follows me on Flickr and whoever are in the groups to which I submit them, and that's it, nobody else will ever see them! If I were to never share my photos some way (and Flickr is the only place I share them) I probably would stop doing photography - I am no Vivian Maier. A fave is an acknowledgement that someone has seen and appreciated it, and it can mean a lot when coming from a good photographer. (A fave I got from Shin Noguchi, for example, made my week once.) Sure, photos that include pretty young ladies always get more faves than photos that include handsome men, for example, but those extra faves are usually not people I generally take into account.
Erik van Straten
Veteran
Yes, but that is true for all people who practice individual arts, writers, painters and poets.
However, viewing your own photos on Flickr can give a sense of distance that is useful for judging a photo. The same effect is achieved when a painter looks at his painting through a mirror. It is then for him as if he is looking at the work of someone else. That is very useful. All (good) painters do this.
Erik.
jarski
Veteran
Don't know why it is, but I've noticed the same. Once something is shown to others, it's easier to view it more objectively also personally, even if nobody comments anything.
taemo
eat sleep shoot
I've been using Flickr for over 10 years and was Pro until earlier this year as I didn't see any benefit since everyone was already getting 1TB of storage.
Plus I also have a private Flickr account that I've been using as backup storage for the past couple of years.
After digesting the news, I have decided to keep my public Flickr account free and just use it to share my most recent photos online.
For my private Flickr account instead, I have decided to fork the offered 49.99$ as I still plan on using it as backup storage.
Funny enough, I agree with the sentiment posted before me.
To me, it does not feel like my photo is done until I exported it off Lightroom and uploaded on Flickr.
Plus I also have a private Flickr account that I've been using as backup storage for the past couple of years.
After digesting the news, I have decided to keep my public Flickr account free and just use it to share my most recent photos online.
For my private Flickr account instead, I have decided to fork the offered 49.99$ as I still plan on using it as backup storage.
Funny enough, I agree with the sentiment posted before me.
To me, it does not feel like my photo is done until I exported it off Lightroom and uploaded on Flickr.
bmattock
Veteran
After earlier stating I'd be parting ways with Flickr over this, I realized I am out of time to get the staggering number of my photos moved over to my own domain before the end of the year - too much going on to bother with this right now.
So given the 30% discount they're giving to the end of November, I decided to put my decision off for a year by buying the Pro account. Not a huge expenditure, but it feels like my arm is being twisted and I do resent it. I will probably still end up dumping Flickr in the end, but at least not for a year now.
On the bright side, I've sold a number of photos via Flickr, and been fortunate enough to have some magazine covers as well as my photos in books, brochures, pamphlets, and so on - the money I've earned has not been very much, but sufficient to afford paying for the account. Flickr can be a very good place to have your photos found by others, the key is to use tagging efficiently.
I've been neglecting it, and my photography in general, for several years now, and my photostream has become nothing much more than a huge photo dump of veterans photos (my way of giving back to fellow vets), but perhaps I can get things cleaned up now that I'm motivated by having to pay to use it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wigwam/
So given the 30% discount they're giving to the end of November, I decided to put my decision off for a year by buying the Pro account. Not a huge expenditure, but it feels like my arm is being twisted and I do resent it. I will probably still end up dumping Flickr in the end, but at least not for a year now.
On the bright side, I've sold a number of photos via Flickr, and been fortunate enough to have some magazine covers as well as my photos in books, brochures, pamphlets, and so on - the money I've earned has not been very much, but sufficient to afford paying for the account. Flickr can be a very good place to have your photos found by others, the key is to use tagging efficiently.
I've been neglecting it, and my photography in general, for several years now, and my photostream has become nothing much more than a huge photo dump of veterans photos (my way of giving back to fellow vets), but perhaps I can get things cleaned up now that I'm motivated by having to pay to use it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wigwam/