Flickr Explore

Freddie59

How do you know which of your photos has made the explore page on Flickr (one of mine has). Tried help in Flickr and Googled it as well to no avail.

Roen

Clicky here and throw in your username.

Freddie59

Roen wrote: »

Clicky here and throw in your username.

Thanks for that Roen.:) Found straight away. It's interesting that the photo concerned has had 36 views and makes it onto explore, yet another one with over 300 views doesn't. Although I did see a comment that one user had a photo with over 4,000 views and no explore either.

City-Exile

It's got to do with views, within a certain period of time.
To be honest, it has about as much value as the "medals" that people award you.
Some people take it all way too seriously!

DjDangerousDave

Which pic was it?

Freddie59

Not taking it too seriously City-Exile - just curious. Enjoying the photography too much.:) Dave, this was the pic concerned:

City-Exile

I wasn't talking about you, Freddie.
Some people come on to your stream to congratulate you on making it to explore.
To be honest, I'd be much happier if one of them bought a print, rather than filling my comments with badges & awards.

Paulw

I get a few of these lovely cool awards. Getting more and more lately, for some reason. They are quite annoying really.

Have to agree, I'd prefer if people would buy prints.

Freddie59

City-Exile wrote: »

I wasn't talking about you, Freddie.
Some people come on to your stream to congratulate you on making it to explore.
To be honest, I'd be much happier if one of them bought a print, rather than filling my comments with badges & awards.

Have to agree with you there. Only one or two myself, but some photos I've left comments on are inundated with those things.

Stephen

I don't get any of that award bolloxology... possibly because of the quality of my stuff :pac:

Paulw

I don't always think it has much to do with quality. I think it's more that someone sees your photo and likes it. It's not like the awards actually mean anything.

I've one image on Explore.

City-Exile

Most people giving out awards are trying to fill a quota, because they've joined a group with some stupid rule like "Post One, Award Two."
I love nothing better than dumping a load of images into these groups & awarding none!

I've noticed quite a few people warning that comments with awards will be deleted.

Ricky91t

out of all the people who post here only the op has been explored ,while i was active on a teenage photography group i found that alot of teenage girls got explored with images that were ok but compared to pics seen on people flickrs here your pics are on a totally different level

311

Four of my photos are in explore ,which I knew nothing about:(

City-Exile

I had plenty pictures in Explore, Ricky.
They drop out after a while.
It seems to help if you post your pictures at a time when a lot of yanks are online.

Ricky91t

City-Exile wrote: »

It seems to help if you post your pictures at a time when a lot of yanks are online.

oh

Lol i must try doing that sometime:pac:

melekalikimaka

my stupid photos only get in, ones i hate... so i in turn hate explore

Cabaal

awards are nothing to do with quality,

Anouilh

City-Exile wrote: »

I wasn't talking about you, Freddie.
Some people come on to your stream to congratulate you on making it to explore.
To be honest, I'd be much happier if one of them bought a print, rather than filling my comments with badges & awards.

So many people on Flickr are amateurs, so getting recognised by Explore is a little mark of success... or at least that some of one's photos are better than others in the logarithm that Flickr "objectively" uses.

A quick way to find Explore photos is to key a Flickr name into the BigHugeLabs search engine.

I have had ten photos in Explore and am now interested in the colour schemes that seem to have the best success.

The photos can be found by scrolling down this page:

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/dna.php?username=77969956@N00

Hugh_C

I've had 61 in explore, but there again some of the stuff I put on flickr is of a fine art nature which seems to help. I also think it depends where your clicks are coming from and their frequency. It doesn't seem to depend on views or faves. If that was the case I'd just upload pictures of cute girls in bikinis or less.

I routinely delete comments containing those stupid animated GIFs. I hate them.

kgiller

Ive never had a photo in explore
I dont think that its from the number of views over a short period of time, rather a combination of views, comments, fav's etc.

Valentia

Paulw wrote: »

I get a few of these lovely cool awards. Getting more and more lately, for some reason. They are quite annoying really.

Have to agree, I'd prefer if people would buy prints.

There's a greasemonkey script that will hide all those awards crap. Don't remember where I got it but google should have it.

I meant to say in another thread that the "Hug" picture with nearly 200,000 views never made explore so there ya go. For new people, the reason it has so many views is because someone put it on Digg and the views went ape **** mad for a week or two.

Paulw

Valentia wrote: »

I meant to say in another thread that the "Hug" picture with nearly 200,000 views never made explore so there ya go. For new people, the reason it has so many views is because someone put it on Digg and the views went ape **** mad for a week or two.

But it is such a cute photo.

Anouilh

Hugh_C wrote: »

I've had 61 in explore, but there again some of the stuff I put on flickr is of a fine art nature which seems to help. I also think it depends where your clicks are coming from and their frequency. It doesn't seem to depend on views or faves. If that was the case I'd just upload pictures of cute girls in bikinis or less.

I routinely delete comments containing those stupid animated GIFs. I hate them.

I would like to know more about this.

Fine art used to be sepia and blue toning, preferably with loads of dof technique. What are the current trends?