flickr question

thebaz

posted some new photos on flickr , and not happy with some of them so i want to delete some of them ... as i have nearly used up my 20 MB monthly quota , does deleting newly uploaded photos, result in your quota also being reset accordingly ? as far as i know quota is unchanged even when you delete newly uploaded photos .. is this correct ?

Calina

No, your quota is not reset accordingly. The quota is a bandwidth allowance, not a storage space allowance:

"When you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 20MB worth of photos each calendar month. This is a bandwidth limit, and not an amount of space that you have to play with on Flickr servers.

Deleting photos will never recover any of your monthly upload limit."
(from FAQ on flickr)

If you're using that much of your allowance you might want to consider buying a pro account which gives you a 2 gig upload allowance per month which I personally haven't yet come close to hitting. It costs about 25 dollars a year.

thebaz

Thanks , i screwed it up this month , by uploading some photos twice, and a few i'm not happy with -- but i guess the pro might be an other option, $25 dollars a year is not bad for pretty much unlimited uploading !

thebaz

Do people think you should keep your flickr account as tight as possible, and keep purging photos you are unhappy with ?
is a large number of photos in your collection advisable, or will a small number mean not only better quality , but also easier for others to pruse ?

I'm sick of a lot of photos in my collection , and want to delete many .

Calina

People use flickr in different ways. Currently I have more than 2000 photographs on flickr, of which I've only cleared out 1. A lot depends on if you're going to go down the road of a pro account. AFAIR, Flickr limit the number of pictures which appear in your account if you have a free account to something like 200. If you're going to operate within the confines of a free account, you may want to clear stuff out for that reason.

Alternatively, if you want to delete stuff you're no longer happy with, I wonder why you might consider it not a good idea to do so.

How easy it is for people to peruse depends on how you organise them. I think you're limited to just three sets on a free account. The other means of making them easy to explore is to ensure you've got sensible tags on the photographs.

I'm currently in the process of updating the tags on about half my photographs purely to make it easier for some people to find certain photographs.

I don't get your quality argument. Do you mean the pictures to be of better technical quality or compositional quality?

I reckon its up to you. In any case, I use my flickr account to store photographs for my two photoblogs, and as a result, I pay more attention to what's going on, gallery wise, in the blogs than on flickr.

thebaz

Calina wrote:

I don't get your quality argument. Do you mean the pictures to be of better technical quality or compositional quality?

I know when i peruse other peoples photos, whether other peoples prints from a chemist, or online, i just want to see the top quality ones , hate going average stuff , just want the high quality stuff . i know it is subjective , and a good photographer can put up a lot more than an average one .
Just wanted to know how other people tidied up there accounts, theres no doubt some photos you will always think good, but others, certainly for me , look boring , and bad to my eye a couple of months later.

elven

I do tend to go back and delete pictures that I don't like, further down the line. It's no popularity contest - but I have a few contacts who I can rely on for decent feedback and if they are silent on those ones, I take that as a hint!

If you don't feel happy to look at them yourself, take them off - if you want to keep it as a portfolio of sorts, best just to limit it to your favourite stuff and that way you won't cringe if you give the address to someone...