boards.ie Flickr group

Fenster

A few of us here use Flickr now, so it only makes sense that we have a group, as I see a fair few photos posted here from said online social photo sharing site.

Add your photos to the group that you post here, so we can flame them all at length. I'm sending out invites to those from the boards whom I know on Flickr.

Clicky

Paddy20

Fenster wrote:

A few of us here use Flickr now, so it only makes sense that we have a group, as I see a fair few photos posted here from said online social photo sharing site.

Add your photos to the group that you post here, so we can flame them all at length. I'm sending out invites to those from the boards whom I know on Flickr.

Clicky

With all due respect to Flickr, I do not use them because they have no facility to expand hosted photo's to Full screen which makes an enormous differance when viewing.

Personally I use www.photobucket.com/
where by hovering on the bottom right of any photo, you are given the choice to expand the photo or photo's to full screen.

P. :cool:

Fajitas!

Er, it does, go to the All Sizes button!

Photobucket is grand, but theres no organisation or social possibilities with it. I didn't mind that at first, but when I joined Flickr, I found it much better!

joolsveer

I have added a photo to the Flickr group to make a start. The photo in question has not been posted here though. Is this an issue?

Fenster

joolsveer wrote:

I have added a photo to the Flickr group to make a start. The photo in question has not been posted here though. Is this an issue?

Meh.

joolsveer

Fenster wrote:

Meh.

Is it a problem? I have posted a fair number of photos lately on Flickr and I would prefer not to have too much duplication. In any event it seems to be a little easier to organise photo galleries there. This forum does not seem to be suitable at present for the posting of photos without some reorganisation.

Fajitas!

I don't think it should matter if they're here on not, their still photos we took!

Fenster

joolsveer wrote:

Is it a problem? I have posted a fair number of photos lately on Flickr and I would prefer not to have too much duplication. In any event it seems to be a little easier to organise photo galleries there. This forum does not seem to be suitable at present for the posting of photos without some reorganisation.

Its a written apathetic shrug on my part. Go wild.

skye

Just joined in - hoping to get some more shots tommorrow - weather permitting!!

rymus

nice one fenster

Paddy20

Fajitas! wrote:

Er, it does, go to the All Sizes button!

Photobucket is grand, but theres no organisation or social possibilities with it. I didn't mind that at first, but when I joined Flickr, I found it much better!

Er, thanks for that info, but having just gone through a load of pooh, whereby I was forced to join Yahoo ! a worldwide commercial billion dollar organisation ?.. which in good faith I did. I still can not find this mysterious " All sizes button " on the Flickr website ?... I am thoroughly pissed off .

P. :cool:

Fenster

Paddy20 wrote:

Er, thanks for that info, but having just gone through a load of pooh, whereby I was forced to join Yahoo ! a worldwide commercial billion dollar organisation ?.. which in good faith I did. I still can not find this mysterious " All sizes button " on the Flickr website ?... I am thoroughly pissed off .

P. :cool:

(And no, the irony of posting it on Photobucket hasn't escaped me)

Valentia

rymus wrote:

nice one fenster

Yeah!! Thanks.

Fajitas!

Paddy20 wrote:

Er, thanks for that info, but having just gone through a load of pooh, whereby I was forced to join Yahoo ! a worldwide commercial billion dollar organisation ?.. which in good faith I did. I still can not find this mysterious " All sizes button " on the Flickr website ?... I am thoroughly pissed off .

P. :cool:

No need to get uppity about it, I just said you can use that button.


If you don't like it, fair enough, don't use it. The Boards.ie group isn't trying to exclude people, but if someone does use Flickr, then why not use it...

Paddy20

Fenster wrote:

(And no, the irony of posting it on Photobucket hasn't escaped me)

As an oldie retired 'Silver surfer' who has only been taking photograph's for over 50 years who has also had [copyrighted photo's ] published in print media throughout the world, although I am newish to computing, and I am now a fully fledged member of Flickr, I still can not find that button at the top of my screen, maybe it only appears when a member starts loading photo's ?.. , and I am now more suspicious of their credentials than ever.

P. :cool:

Fenster

Its on the actual photo's page and its also dependent on the size of the photo - with a small photo it won't have the option to view a larger photo.

monkeyfudge

I joined up anyway. Now to put some decent photos up into my Flickr account.

BrookieD

i just joined also, just added a pic up for some reflection, comments etc

rabbitinlights

Ive stuck up a few, they are nothing special but I like them.

Sean.

Paddy20

Fajitas! wrote:

No need to get uppity about it, I just said you can use that button.


If you don't like it, fair enough, don't use it. The Boards.ie group isn't trying to exclude people, but if someone does use Flickr, then why not use it...

All is right in the world again, but if I had been told that first you click on a photo, and then you get the button ! it might have stopped me running around the Hill's of Donegal, pulling whats left of my hair out ?.....:p .

P. :cool:

Valentia

Oh Paddy! I tend to exhaust all avenues before making a song and dance about it. Anyway :rolleyes:

elven

I just uploaded a few of my pictures and now they are across the top of the whole screen... they need company - someone else better join in soon...

Oh and P.S. I used to use photobucket and thought flickr was unneccessarily complicated - but after getting into it I've discovered lots of fabulous things about it, namely these groups where you can browse others' pictures at length, and leave them comments too. I also like being able to mark a picture as a favourite, and then have a list of them all together that I can look through when I want to see some great stuff.

It's also good to have contacts and then if you go to your contacts page, you can see all the new stuff your friends are posting.

I'm not a sponsor or anything... I'm just surprised because I didn't like it at all at first and now I'm converted.

CrowdedHouse

LOL - first time to try it and thought I was using up my 'space' very quickly so I decided to remove and resize the pics-It was only then I realised it was an upload allowance ...oh well

Valentia

elven wrote:

I'm just surprised because I didn't like it at all at first and now I'm converted.

That is exactly how I felt about Flickr too. I must say I really like it after messing around with it yesterday.

captain P

I joined the group. I didn't like Flickr at first either, but now i really do.

Fionn

ok
I have a yahoo account, several of em probably!!

how...which group do I join or whats the story?

Fionn

ok
i got a flickr a/c

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48362569@N00/

seems to be different than the other ones i've seen here like it doesn't show my name for some reason!
anyway how do i get to the boards part of it or whatever?

it's very different than photobucket can it produce thumbnails like this

my disasterous morning in cashel

skye

Well when I click on your link it comes up ok as Fionn2006 - to join the boards group - click on the link at the start of this thread and you will see an option to join this group - be logged in first... and that should do it.

Fionn

ok
thanx

jlang

Good idea. I've signed up for the group (flickrID=afewscoops) but I don't get to put too much up there as most of my non-drunk-in-pub photography is on film.

jaqian

Fionn wrote:

can it produce thumbnails like this

my disasterous morning in cashel

Yeah. Check this out its yours:
Thumbnail:

Small:

Just click on all sizes and choose which size you want: square, thumbnail, small, medium , large and each one has its own webpage see web-address (URL) under the photos.

Dimy

Also check out the Boards.ie meetings group :

http://www.flickr.com/groups/boardsie_meetings/

Everybody can join the group, but the photo's posted there have to made during a meeting between boards.ie members like the meeting in Trim last weekend.

Valentia

Everybody can join the group, but the photo's posted there have to made during a meeting between boards.ie members like the meeting in Trim last weekend.

Yeah come on lads, I'm feeling lonely. Lets have a selection from all the travellers.

CoolBoardr

I just joined!

440Hz

Oh dear... another Flickr group to be addicted too... I think I might need professional help with my addiction.

Fenster

440Hz wrote:

Oh dear... another Flickr group to be addicted too... I think I might need professional help with my addiction.

We could always start a counselling group on Flickr...

Dimy

Valentia wrote:

Yeah come on lads, I'm feeling lonely. Lets have a selection from all the travellers.

I'll try to get a few online this evening

CrowdedHouse

Quick question re Flickr....why is it that if I look at the Boards pool without logging in (to Flickr) I can see 116*(my own are missing) pics and if I log in I can see 143* including my own ?

*at time of posting this message

Valentia

A sticky for this....maybe....before it disappears into oblivion. ?? ?

Fionn

hey cool

didn't realise about the thumbnails

jaqian

CrowdedHouse wrote:

Quick question re Flickr....why is it that if I look at the Boards pool without logging in (to Flickr) I can see 116*(my own are missing) pics and if I log in I can see 143* including my own ?

*at time of posting this message

Just a thought but are your pictures selected as "public" or "private", if private only you can view them.

Whats the link to your Flickr site till I have a look?

CrowdedHouse

Hi jaqian
I think it's ok now,I think it was because I was a new member I had to be Ok'ed by the Admins of Flickr before my pics were allowed into public areas

jaqian

Cool. Glad to hear you're sorted.

Hydromonkey

I joined and added a few of my first shots. Hadn't used flickr before, very impressed so far

elven

Remember if you've just joined up, to go to the 'Account Page' (the link is at the bottom of the screen under the 'My Account' heading) and choose 'screen name' from the right, and put your nick in there too so that you don't get all the 000s when you post a link to your photostream. The name you put in there doesn't have to be the same as your login name remember.

Hydromonkey

elven wrote:

Remember if you've just joined up, to go to the 'Account Page' (the link is at the bottom of the screen under the 'My Account' heading) and choose 'screen name' from the right, and put your nick in there too so that you don't get all the 000s when you post a link to your photostream. The name you put in there doesn't have to be the same as your login name remember.

Done, cheers

Downtime

I just joined aswell - been a member of flickr for a while. Some nice work there.

CreativeA

I joined Flickr a little while ago.. it's pretty addictive... Don't really know how I ended up here but I have joined the Boards group to see what's there!!

Fenster

Bump.