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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. Anything makes as abruptly and unexpectedly thwarted 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.

When traveling by car. The sun pushes itself out from behind a cloud. Short ran right twice, mobilized the camera, and make two or three shots. One of them had prior to the inner filter quality inventory - this here. Another one moment that you must take if he offers himself. No, let me, I can do tomorrow - that does not work. I love this picture. Maybe because I've screwed auuch not long remember: Simple RAW development with small corrections in terms of contrast and saturation.

Recently had our friends (the one with the wedding , the shoes are not made ​​for long marches and the party ) visited by a friend. My pictures are somehow really good, they were the best. Well maybe, but the longer I am dealing with them, the more they are viewed and edited, the more they lose some of their magic. At least for me.

Presumably, one should take pictures to put in an optimum state (by adjusting, cropping, error correction ...), and afterwards they can disappear for some time on a hard drive. I dig it then that is again, they seem fresh and new. Or I add them immediately, without having given them too much attention - it has a similar effect. All other blocks the view.

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[From the rules of a group photo to Flickr]

What does the poet tell us that?

Someone once said that the real wage of the photographer comes from within - from the knowledge that they have just added something very special. This feeling of satisfaction of a very special shot. (Now you think but please not again to a * so * dirty stuff!)

Special photos but need appropriate opportunities. Yesterday it was such, we were invited to a party that had the edge way to do it with dirty stuff, although at a high level, but also with the pleasure of physical fitness by (* dirty stuff *!) The wings of the dancing leg the beat of the music. It was dimly lit (* dirty stuff! *), It was hot (* S * ... you know!), And it was really well blended music. The illumination in addition to artificial fog was really after something, and there were a number of good photo opportunities.

And then this:

Stand on it small plate, the ball head, time delay 1/8 seconds, and gradually ramped up the ISO to 1600. A few photos, not all bad, until this opportunity arose. I pulled the trigger, after I had looked at some time the light rotation, at the very moment that I thought was entirely appropriate. Boom Boom, a slight acceleration frequency (which had nothing to do with * dirty stuff *), then I gave the camera to the hostess to see the picture. (No idea why I have not even seen it, maybe I was concerned, it was not turned out the way I had hoped. But no, I do not think that was the reason I felt that I shot a special was successful.)

She looked at the picture on the screen in silence, then a faint "Very cool!" Rather breathed than spoken. Then I looked at the monitor - it was perfect!

From the RAW image I developed along with the color version and a monochrome, that is so:

Both have their place, both ended up at Flickr. And of course I am happy about awards and group invitations and favorite choice, but the real satisfaction is intrinsic. An incredible bargain.

Yes, I know that no one writes H crane. Back in the 1870s, they wrote it abeer however, perhaps inspired by the crane that just emptied the boat ... A Krahn.

I grew up in a darkroom. At least photographically.

The old man had to jump a Canon A-1 (as always occurs to me what an old bag, I am even now: the A-1 fell on my 1980 in the hands). In school I had an art teacher who was incredibly well the basics and teach tricks of photography. With him we were sitting in the photo lab, wrapped Ilford from FP-4 and Agfa Pan 400 film from a big roll and printed the photo cans themselves exposed film did not go to the lab: Prepare developers await the development time and always set to the rhythm tip, then fixer pure, dry, finally - the dark room full program, including the different prints on paper with different gradations.

The love of black and white photography has continued until today. For some time I photograph and digitally in monochrome. Thanks to the RAW mode, I can get the color version still, if I feel like it.

Why I like SW Sun? Now draw these pictures to look at the essential, to graphical elements on contrasts. The content is dominated, not a surfeit of colors. The World in Monochrome is not just a discolored - it opens up new possibilities, even for images that would otherwise not be considered because they were too colorful or taken in bad light. Color distractions are of no consequence. Monochrome images are a reduction to the statement on lines, geometric shapes and structures.

Sometimes sepia tones as well do a picture. Please take your time on an experiment! A really good picture looks in Black and White!

Here is a picture that has emerged on the B5 for Lauenburg / Elbe. The monochrome color variant

and the sepia-tinted: