Good Flickr groups?

I think that moderated groups are generally better than unmoderated ones. Lots of people like to talk about how HCSP is full of jerks and blah blah blah but the photos (that's the important part, right?) are mostly very good. Just ignore the discussions.

For unmoderated groups, I often search the group for the most common tag (indicated at the bottom of the group pool page) and then arrange by interestingness. Tends to cut out a good deal of the clutter.
 
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cjm said:
I've been trying to get a photo in this group for a few weeks with no success... yet. It amazes me that some people have over 100 pictures in the group.

I can recommend the Canon RF Lens group but it's kind of a niche group (only pictures from Canon RF lenses).

http://www.flickr.com/groups/canon-rf-lenses/
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I joined to keep up with their content. I'll have to submit something for consideration...sounds intimidating though.
 
cjm said:
I've been trying to get a photo in this group for a few weeks with no success... yet. It amazes me that some people have over 100 pictures in the group.

I can recommend the Canon RF Lens group but it's kind of a niche group (only pictures from Canon RF lenses).

http://www.flickr.com/groups/canon-rf-lenses/
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Y'know... I am not all that impressed with the supposedly selected pictures to begin with. At least with HCSP, there's one here and there that just wow'ed me.

I just found out about this group from this thread yesterday, so, no bias here :)
 
maddoc said:
One of the better groups, indeed. I also like the group "The JURORS" http://www.flickr.com/groups/thejurors/

where your submission will be judged by some jurors and it takes three positive verdicts to make it into the main pool. Quite good photos over there.
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Just added a photo to this to check it out.

Now I'm all for constructive criticism, but I nearly fell off my chair when I read what they wrote. I'm not saying my image is the greatest in history, but they seem to be full of...

http://flickr.com/photos/7592660@N06/2774252445/

(theirs are the last three comments)...
 
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urban_alchemist said:
Just added a photo to this to check it out.

Now I'm all for constructive criticism, but I nearly fell off my chair when I read what they wrote. I'm not saying my image is the greatest in history, but they seem to be full of...

http://flickr.com/photos/7592660@N06/2774252445/

(theirs are the last three comments)...
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I have tried it couple of times and it went either yes, yes, yes (seldomly) or no, yes, no, no (mostly). It is really not easy to make it to the main pool, also they are very picky about small details (In my case some dust specks from scanning) but it is challenging ... Also it seems that they don`t like street photography a lot.
 
I think that describing hcsp as "elitist" gives too much credit to its arbiters. There are other groups that have excellent photos without the unpleasantness.

Two I like are Realidad Ficticia
http://flickr.com/groups/realidad_f/

and

http://flickr.com/groups/director-of-photography/

In addition, some of the equipment-oriented groups are very worthwhile. The Canon-RF group was previously mentioned. Another is the m-mount group:

http://flickr.com/groups/m-mount/

There is a rigid protocol for tags in this group, but it makes sense, adds consistency, and is valuable for searching. You can cut and paste the recommended tags when you post:

http://flickr.com/groups/m-mount/
 
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funkaoshi said:
HCSP is the best group on Flickr. It has consistently good photos, it's easy to keep up to date with, and they moderate things pretty heavily. That said, yes, the group is full of dicks. You can't win 'em all.

I haven't found anything else on Flickr that comes close to the quality of HCSP. They actually have a thread there where they ask members to recommend other groups. That might be worth a look.

Most groups on Flickr are dumping grounds. You have 100s of new pictures a day, no one looks at anything, most of the photos are crap.
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I agree 100% percent.

So far it is the only group worth browsing through that I've found from Flickr.

Of course still not near perfect... But there are a lot of good photos there.
 
urban_alchemist said:
Just added a photo to this to check it out.

Now I'm all for constructive criticism, but I nearly fell off my chair when I read what they wrote. I'm not saying my image is the greatest in history, but they seem to be full of...

http://flickr.com/photos/7592660@N06/2774252445/

(theirs are the last three comments)...
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They seem to like it. Me too.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll get onto it soon.
 
I am quite new at Flickr, I have been roaming around and these are the groups I am closely following:

Photography Critique (6,047 members)
Black and White (82,117 members)
TWIP Critique (3,625 members)
Hardcore Street Photography (HCSP)
I Think this is Art ! ( award 3 please! ) (38,086 members)
Critique This! [ -25 Only] (1,342 members)
Rangefinder Cameras (2,810 members)
StreetPhoto (6,445 members)
CANONET mon amour (780 members)
Classic cameras (pre-80s)... (684 members)
Kiev 4 (54 members)
Rangefinder-forum (836 members)
Konica Auto S2 (66 members)
Russia Daily Photo (537 members)
Street Composition (Fine Art Street Photography

As for the alledged Hard Core issue I felt something, I am not sure what, but I feel very comfortable with the StreetPhoto group.

As for the photographers I follow, there are two so far and I will welcome more recomendations:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abretusojos/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetphotography/

The last one was recomended to me by a nice RFF member. I am sure there must be many other great photographers out there, like this genius:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/layos/

I do not understand why I ignored Flickr for so long. Now I feel like a child in a free supermarket.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
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itf said:
They seem to like it. Me too.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll get onto it soon.
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That wasn't theirs... sorry, should have edited - I deleted their posts.

Basically, they all said they were not accepting it to the pool as it 'wasn't clear' or 'in focus' 'to their eyes'.

Judging by the absolute crap they do allow through, I'm taking it as a cpmliment... :D
 
Im a member of flickr, I have been for quite some time, its a place to up your work and show it to the masses and sometimes make a friend or two. However if you are looking for constructive crit you are never going to get it. there are a lot of brown nosers there. also there is a lot of 'politics' also. so i found out on the leica M mount group, who forcefully added tags (little bits of suplimentary information which helps (or hinders) searching for images), to my images because the owners thought it was becomming too labor intensive so someone invented a program to re-tag images not up to spec.. very annoying and very immature. so I left the group. anyway flickr itself is wonderful and well worh losing a few days a month prowling around..
 
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