purging flickr

thebaz

how often do you purge your flick account , and what do think is a good number of photos to store .
I'd like to keep it at around 500 photos , and about once a month i try to clear stuff down, bad stuff, but as i hopefully improve its nice to try and keep a record of old stuff that may not be quite so good technically , but records progress made.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/

440Hz

I do it when I get time, was just talking about that last night, mine needs a jolly good clean out!!

rymus

how often? Well.. it's been about two years since I joined and... well, I'll get around to cleaning it some day. Ahh unlimited storage, it's there for a reason.

City-Exile

rymus wrote:

Ahh unlimited storage, it's there for a reason.

Chalk it down!
What clear out would you want to be doing, like!?

rymus

what I've found over the last couple of years is that one mans trash is another mans treasure. Just because I think a shot is utter crap, doesn't mean the wider flickr audience will.. Anyway, I prefer to have everything up there in case I want to look up a photo I took ages ago. Depends if you use your flickr account primarily as storage or for display I suppose...

elven

I'm pretty ruthless with what I'll put on flickr - I have tons of pictures floating about the HD that I wouldn't put up, or have taken down after seeing it in my stream for a couple of days. Usually if it lasts a week and I don't hate it, I don't generally go back later and delete. But that's probably because I only ever put up 10-ish photos at the same time, which would be my favourites from a shoot. But I only post 1000px web versions on flickr, so using it as storage just wouldn't work.

What I do keep meaning to get around to is collating the raw files for the 500ish shots I have up there and burning them to a couple of DVD's to keep in separate places - at least if it all went pear shaped, and I had those, I wouldn't spend more than a month sobbing uncontrollably...

Stephen

I have about 350 shots up on flickr, many of them rubbish but I don't purge any of them. I have loads of photos of exotic cars up there and they get loads of views and favourites purely because of the subject matter.

440Hz

Due to the unlimited storage I tend to throw a good bit of junk up there as private, so that needs clearing out on a fairly regular basis. And then sometimes I just clear out shots that I no longer like/want up there.

Calina

I only purge my flickr account of duplicates. And I largely don't put stuff up there that I don't want people to see.

In part I use it is online storage, in other part...well the nature of what I do means I've a community looking at it from time to time.

I have more than 5000 photographs on flickr at the moment. Anyone want to top that?

thebaz

Calina wrote:

I only purge my flickr account of duplicates. And I largely don't put stuff up there that I don't want people to see.

In part I use it is online storage, in other part...well the nature of what I do means I've a community looking at it from time to time.

I have more than 5000 photographs on flickr at the moment. Anyone want to top that?

5000 !!! i'm getting freaked that i'm gone over 500 ... i'm a minimalist at heart , i'd like to be even more ruthless and only display 200

rymus

damn.. you beat me by 98

Hugh_C

I'm using mine as additional storage - I upload everything and make new sets for every month and make 'em all private. I only make the edits pubic. Only works for jpegs obviously which I'm using less and less. Waiting for flickr to come out with RAW support.

City-Exile

hughchal wrote:

I only make the edits pubic.

Might want to keep that private!

Hugh_C

City-Exile wrote:

Might want to keep that private!

Hahahahaha

Great catch.

My spell-checker lets me down AGAIN!

bigeoino

Calina wrote:

I only purge my flickr account of duplicates. And I largely don't put stuff up there that I don't want people to see.

In part I use it is online storage, in other part...well the nature of what I do means I've a community looking at it from time to time.

I have more than 5000 photographs on flickr at the moment. Anyone want to top that?

I also started by using my Flickr as an "off site" storage (i.e. in case of fire melting my PCs, External Hard drive, DVDs, and burning any physical Photos....) and a holiday picture repository for a trip to South America (to prevent loss of camera/ cards / rucksack meaning all my photos going too).

I wasn't too piccy (oops pun not intended). Any picture that I might want to look at ever again was added... And agree with rymus, there's some people out there who seem to like quite poor photos...

But especially when I got a 400D and the image size was too big.... I now only load some photos and then only in smaller sizes...

so I need to think of another off site storage mechanism - I'm sure my mum wouldn't mind me storing some DVDs there!


My Flickr photostream currently stands at 7,024 photos.:D

There is a lot of dross on there as the only ones I have ever deleted are duplicates...

I didn't even delete the interior photos of our flats which are uploaded (thus date-stamped) as a version of inventory control for when a landlord gets arsey about the deposit - have never needed to use them but, having the record seems a sensible precaution.

However I tend to keep any pictures of people (especially children) in the "yellow" zone (friends and family) - hence the discrepancy of numbers.

and now... having got this far am thinking what flickr is for... and whether I should clean it up (which may mean deleting photos and comments...) and try and make it a more professional stream or just continue as normal...

rymus

bigeoino wrote:

and now... having got this far am thinking what flickr is for... and whether I should clean it up (which may mean deleting photos and comments...) and try and make it a more professional stream or just continue as normal...

I thought about that aswell. For displaying paid work and other professional projects, flickr's same ol same ol themes dont really cut the mustard. It just doesn't look professional. I had thought about opening a smugmug account and sticking all the paid/freelance/semi-pro farting around work up there. I suppose smugmug has the advantage of incorporating a few different features like watermarking, image sales & processing, password protected albums and skinnable pages. It's not really too pricey either, I think it comes out at around $150 a year for their top level package.

magicbastarder

rymus wrote:

It's not really too pricey either, I think it comes out at around $150 a year for their top level package.

for that sort of money, you could buy your own domain and use free gallery software.

Calina

I'd just continue as normal to be honest. My head hurts thinking about doing it differently.

but that's just me.

rymus

you could.. (and I do with several domains) but it's alot of farting around to get a decent solution in place. Add to that if something breaks, you end up having to fix it yourself instead of being able to bitch and moan about it to someone else.

Gallery or Coppermine will do exactly what smugmug do, but with alot of modules, extra bits and pieces and yet more farting about. What no gallery software I've come across does yet is integrate online printing in a satisfactory way.

Calina

agreed. it's the print side of things is problematic.

rymus

and then some.. I've sold a few prints on my site to people in the US.. Because I'm calibrated to photobox, I then have to print, get it delivered to my address, take out hte photobox invoice, put in my invoice, pack it all back up and pay to post it out. Major pain in the proverbials. If I moved all that to smugmug, all I'd have to do is watch the money come in

thebaz

rymus wrote:

I had thought about opening a smugmug account and sticking all the paid/freelance/semi-pro farting around work up there. I suppose smugmug has the advantage of incorporating a few different features like watermarking, image sales & processing, password protected albums and skinnable pages. It's not really too pricey either, I think it comes out at around $150 a year for their top level package.

I never heard of smugmug , does it allow photos to be sold or is it just a more professional version of flickr , with better copyright protection ?

rymus

both really.. I wouldnt really equate it to flickr, it's more of a one stop shop for pro's to sell their wares. Handy if you, say shoot sporting events and want to offer the prints for sale. Dont know what their stance is on worldwide shipping though.

Calina

rymus wrote:

both really.. I wouldnt really equate it to flickr, it's more of a one stop shop for pro's to sell their wares. Handy if you, say shoot sporting events and want to offer the prints for sale. Dont know what their stance is on worldwide shipping though.

this being my problem.

Photobox provide the service but it's not ideal at all if you are outside the UK. And there are a couple of pro-print sites in the US and I'm pretty sure one of them ships world wide but then if most of your customers are not US based, shipping charges are a bit naff.

rymus

a wee bit.. but it's the nature of the beast unfortunately. Photobox, although they presumably have a massive Irish customer base, aren't interested in offering their pro galleries to Irish customers. It's all a bit disheartening

thebaz

rymus wrote:

both really.. I wouldnt really equate it to flickr, it's more of a one stop shop for pro's to sell their wares. Handy if you, say shoot sporting events and want to offer the prints for sale. Dont know what their stance is on worldwide shipping though.

Thanks Ryan, i've actually created a standard a/c free for 14 days .
Playing around with it, to see what its like

https://thebaz.smugmug.com/

initially it seams a bit slow !

Calina

I actually have a progallery through Photobox - I asked them to set it up for me - they said they "switched me to the UK" stream which in real terms means my account works on both photobox.ie and photobox.co.uk.

however the issue is remuneration which absent a UK bank account, is print credits.

rymus

so its like working in a zoo and being paid in animal feed... hmm, interesting strategy they have.

City-Exile

Calina wrote:

however the issue is remuneration which absent a UK bank account, is print credits.

That's a strange one.
You can purchase your pictures using PayPal but they can't transfer your money into a PayPal account?

Rymus, PM me the e-mail address that you used on smugmug and I'll use that when I register, to credit you with having pointed the site out to me.

P.

rymus

I haven't actually registered there... but I will now (mail [at] rymus [dot] net)

Calina

There tend to be ongoing rumblings about possible payment through PayPal but it hasnt' happened yet.

Borderfox

I had a look at www.amazinginternet.com for hosting galleries and linking back to and from my website. I do a lot of events and the pictures add up to over a thousand sometimes. At the moment I use Flickr but when I send out links to people to view it I send out the slideshow link as this looks a bit more proffessional than the plain site even if it is just a black background and moving pictures. I will have a look a smugmug as I can live with people looking at shots and emailing me the details and I get them printed

thebaz

thebaz wrote:

Thanks Ryan, i've actually created a standard a/c free for 14 days .
Playing around with it, to see what its like

https://thebaz.smugmug.com/

initially it seams a bit slow !

the quality of the photos displayed certainly looks better than flickr -- might be converted for my better stuff -- theres different levels of users , 40 dollars a year for standard user, and 150 to use smugmug to sell your stuff --