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I'm on Flickr and not just since yesterday. But there only in the last three or four weeks has been so right away. I did not have much time to demand university, school and family take their toll. But in the evening, to relax, I've looked at photos and my latest, and some older set. This is something I noticed:

First The other works can be incredibly inspiring!

Sure, you could see flickr as a showroom for their own pictures. (And that is probably so.) But that's only half the battle. Many groups are on the rules that demand for each image set, a certain number of comments Award or contract awards. One must almost by decree dealing with the images of others.

It struck me how many really good pictures there. This open our eyes to new things. Fresh Wind, good ideas and inspiration. "I would also like to make," I think to myself often. Unusual perspectives, new perspectives. Ideas to implement. Do Not Copy (Copy one style can not), but drawing on other new banks to enter.

Second Rules are important!

A community can not exist without rules. First, it often sounds very harsh: Those who do not comment on the specified number of images is a warning. Those who do not respond then thrown out. Who blocked moderators can pack his stuff and virtual find another playground.

But it is wise from bad experiences. "Post and run" rampant, the "I'll take it to me and then I get away" mentality too. By monitoring the rules of the avoids. There are even groups that publish the names of the exiled, excluded "grubby children." Anyone who is interested only in his own advantage is dispensable. In normal life away from the virtual world is no different, but it always falls back on how many crossings there is such a rule. Discipline is the beginning of freedom.

Some rules but also understands the geneigteste not users .

Third Be good, then there are others!

We know a few phrases in German that go in this direction:

• What goes into the forest, comes around.
• What goes around, comes around.
• Always act the way you want to be treated.
• One hand washes the other.

This is also true for communities like Flickr. With the "Giving is more blessed to give than to" number I want to do here, but much depends on Gegenseitgkeit in life. It is however important to remain honest and authentic. I can not praise something to the skies, which I can not stand, and what did not I like.

I have got used to fly over the first two or three sides of a group in which I set a new image, open to me the most interesting images in new tabs in the background and then they fly over. I forgive then group awards, and to prefer to write sometimes the best work.

4th Strategy is everything: The point in time.

What time is it in New York when it is 20 clock? What time in LA? Flickr is an American platform, and most of the resonances come from there. So always put the pictures that they do not pass on this important clientele. Way, even at night, while I (and most Europeans) take a nap and be in the REM stage, plenty of comments. Too late, but it should not be, you will have the European co-Flickrer in the boat. At night around 1 or so at 8 are rather bad timing - the optimal time window 16 to 21 clock Central European Time. Since Americans are already on, the Europeans still awake.

5th Strategy is everything, the second: The choice of the groups

Small and unknown groups have the advantage that does not add as many images in rapid succession come - the images will remain longer on the top sides. Most digg not so deep into the periphery. Large, well-known groups, however, have a huge reach - because it rains a lot of fast response, provided that the images have the appropriate quality. Specialized niche groups, for example, Old, forest roads, women's shoes and 50mm lens users should always be with the portfolio. There is dug deeper experience, because inclinations and fetish worship is there.

Some groups are considered high-quality guarantee and are accordingly well received - what are they, well, you can see from the groups of images that come particularly well. If in doubt, just look at the pictures pools that you do not know about you but stumbles again, and call to browse. Since everyone can quickly find the right mix.

"Invite only" groups are usually very good - you should not ignore invitations reprehensible. Also during his wonderful discoveries can be made.

6th Size does not matter!

Both the groups as well as in its own portfolio is: Size is not everything! Not the quantity but the quality is of crucial importance. Rather less upload images, but try the pre-set internal quality control and really good stuff. What good is it if you have a photo stream, as it is so nice to Flickr, was of 827 photos, which nobody wants to see that are not annotated and no one loves? Nix. But:

7th Size matters!

278 comments, many awards and plenty of people who describe an image as favorites, are the icing on the cake of every photographer. Then goes from the number of awards, in order to qualify for the next group (where the quality of the basin group is significantly better because the chaff from the wheat), that is not defective. On the contrary: Each special award allows the ego to swell. (Anyone who says otherwise is lying is what in the bag!)

8th Success can be planned!

Suppose that a shot has a quality which is the internal quality control, which may include family and friends to ravishes beglücktem shout, then it is time to present the image on Flickr. Again, even if you feel nothing for the photo, you will also be able to move anyone else do so. Now, if the strategies taken to heart, the images placed cleverly acts, the rules: in order not to be excluded from the group and is generous to others (Keyword: GOOD KARMA), a success of the pictures is almost nothing in the way.

I even have pictures to Flickr, which languished for four or five months without significant reactions to himself. But first, since they are presented targeted, because what is happening.

The most glaring example: The "pack formation," now reached over 250 comments and more than 60 favorites loitered until two weeks ago with 4 (four) and a commentary (in words: one) around the Flickr favorites in landscape. The few groups, which included the image were small, unknown and not very happy comment. And now these enormous growth rates. If you had answered very well to do so.

9th Success is not planned!

There are pictures that go with almost all groups to which they belong, like hot cakes. And suddenly the skin there anymore. Images that I consider even less prominent than, have experienced the highest honors in certain groups, but the top pictures do not run well there. Why? The answer probably only knows the God-person photography. Wrong time? All group members suddenly become ill from swine flu? Total failure of the network? I do not know. Not really. Something as abruptly and unexpectedly makes a dash through the cheap plan.

10th Show off your best pictures in the best light!

Taking pictures and not at all as it goes! Well Informed shots or spontaneous strokes of genius are set at Flickr. Professionals like to make a matching frame around the image, preferably black, and their videos with words, of course, must not distract or even disturbing. As a "Pro" at Flickr has one key advantages: It is in the choice of groups not bound to a maximum of 10 and must not already set to replace images. I initially had only a few pictures frames, and the writing was not what I imagined it. (A user wrote in a commentary: "Very atmospheric absorption only in the context of the text is annoying!"). Criticism, so as expressed constructively to improve the incentive, of course. Now I've thought about my design, a simple but reasonable way I think found the photo presentation - a Flickr whole experience now nothing stands in your way.

I will statuieren in the coming days once the example of an image: "Breaking Through" goes into the race with 6 comments and favorites. I will show the development - and also not exclude low-and setbacks.

It will be interesting.

PS: If this blog some of the "photo Happen" will not be visible, so I've determined the pictures replaced by Flickr. Gradually, I will deal with the problem.

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