People looking up the large size of your photos on flickr

[Godfrey]

consider the possibility that they have a high res device, say 2-5x higher than most flickr viewing devices were a few years ago, and they'd like to see your image larger than a thumbnail.

Then they can buy a print at whatever size I offer. Sorry, that's not my concern at all. Photo buyers, that is, people who actually BUY from images on the web, know that an online image is low resolution and only a representation of the full size image.

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[bwcolor]

I keep 99.99% of my Flickr Images as private images, but full size. I only make a few photos public that I post here, or distribute to my daughter's soccer team. I don't know what efforts are required to overcome the privacy safeguards.

 

[dct]

have over 4.5 million views on my flickr also culturesponge

used to reluctantly accept that my large sized files could be downloaded or re-hosted - then decided to make public photos max 500 pixels, large enough to see the image - but no good for prints ect, also changed tags & titles to not include camera or lens info

now down to 200-500 (ish) hits a day, but alot happier to keep the flickr habit

best
alex

+1
I don't use social network minded sites for photo publishing, but even on more serious sites (like here) I usually upload fotos at a low resolution. It is part of my post processing workflow resizing a copy of the keepers to a 1920px photo for my home server and a 800px one for mail, web, etc...

 

[brbo]

Where do you see the stats on how many times a certain photo has been viewed at full res, etc.?

 

[michaelwj]

I'm a pro photographer.

Hence the double edged sword.

I guess you have the same options as most retail stores, make access easy and accept some theft, or make access hard to limit it. Implement whichever is right for your market (Target or Tiffany).

 

[Addy101]

I'm a pro photographer.

This doesn't explain why you post hi-res pictures on Flickr.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

you can download the images even when you 'disable' it on flickr. if you don't want people to access big files, don't give people access big files.

 

[batey_1020]

I'm a pro photographer.

My feeling as an amateur photographer would be that being a pro photographer it would make you more inclined to protect your work when sharing?

Do you protect yourself when you issue a contract with image rights as a professional?
Take the same sort of care when uploading to the internet by restricting the ability for your images to be used for things you don’t approve of.

 

[znapper]

I never upload high-res shots to flickr, the largest I allow there is 1280*1024 -with signature.

 

[jarski]

always posted 1024px on long side, also set same on Flickr though it does not matter much..

its becoming low these days, my first gen Nexus 7 has higher resolution.

 

[YYV_146]

I do that all the time, mostly to check out how sharp a lens is at the extreme corners...

 

[Brian Legge]

I understand peoples positions but I find looking at photos 500x or smaller difficult on the displays I use. Basically, any galleries 500x or smaller I generally skip. I'm sure I miss out on good work from people but it isn't worth browsing shots at resolutions so low that I can't easily see the detail photographers wanted to come across in the photos.

Part of the mess is that some people run 800x600 monitors while the average is closing in on 1920x1080. That makes the size of a 500x image vary dramatically. Throw in mobile devices and its a huge mess.

I'm only mentioning this as I could imagine people losing sales or interest at some point if others browse images the way I do. We're closing in on 4000x displays in the next few years. Images below a certain resolution will look like post stamps. If nothing else, it may be worth uploading higher resolution and gating (if possible) access to your chosen resolution so that you can adjust in a few years if it makes sense to you then.

 

[Rob-F]

Block downloading.. I have downloading of my images blocked to prevent people from getting my full size image..

But you have to download before you can see an image on your computer. Perhaps what is meant is that you can download but be prevented from printing?

 

[brbo]

Where do you see the stats on how many times a certain photo has been viewed at full res, etc.?

Anybody ?

 

[jbielikowski]

Yeah sure, everybody download your photos to print them. Wishfull thinking. With proper tags flickr is great for pixel peeping, and when doing research on a lens looking at 500px photo wont help me much. Another thing is camera porn, sometimes I'd like to make a new wallpaper for my desktop and with HD resolution original file help very much.

 

[koven]

There is no "copyright registration" in Germany, in which OP seems to be located.

actually I live in Toronto Canada and Brooklyn a few weeks out of the year. I just used the .de domain to be cute. 😛

Anybody ?

If you have flickr pro, just click under stats.


OK so i guess I have no choice but to manually re size every picture and replace them in flickr. Times like this I wish I had an intern.

 

[brbo]

If you have flickr pro, just click under stats.

I have flickr pro and there is no option to view how many times a photo has been viewed in full res as opposed to viewed in lower res. I guess you have flickr pro pro pro subscription.

OK so i guess I have no choice but to manually re size every picture and replace them in flickr. Times like this I wish I had an intern.

Or you could spend two seconds in flickr settings and set the highest resolution that your photos can be looked at and disable downloads (afaik flickr plugged the hole that allowed downloading of full res pics to anyone a while ago). Or indeed, hire an intern to do that for you 😉

 

[nikkor-watching]

Sounds like someone is using flickr as cloud storage and making it public...!

 

[Rob-F]

Would this work: Only upload to Flickr a low-to-medium-res version. Say, 600 by 400. Anyone who wants a decent print has to buy it from you offline. Or, does Flickr require a higher res version? I don't know; I don't post there.

 

[koven]

I have flickr pro and there is no option to view how many times a photo has been viewed in full res as opposed to viewed in lower res. I guess you have flickr pro pro pro subscription.

It will show if a photo was viewed full res under under referrers > Flickr


the link will say something like

which is the link to the large version of your file
http://www.flickr.com/photos/______/9473129665/sizes/o/in/photostream/


Its only happened a few times but it was always to pictures that have +6000 views.

Or you could spend two seconds in flickr settings and set the highest resolution that your photos can be looked at and disable downloads (afaik flickr plugged the hole that allowed downloading of full res pics to anyone a while ago). Or indeed, hire an intern to do that for you 😉

Thank you!