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Maybe you all should limit how many images folks can post at one time...? I stopped by to see what is new and notice one person posting well over 100 images all at once...? Maybe that's a lttle too many snaps to look through ? Just a thought...
Originally posted at 1:59AM, 21 February 2008 PST
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neonlike (a group admin) edited this topic 9 months ago.
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I'm with you Jill. Just because we can do something like post a huge number of photos in whatever groups we belong to does not mean that we should do so. A little consideration on the part of people posting photos is appreciated; even if every one of a gazillion photos is individually fabulous, the sheer numbers can diminish the impact.
I also like to see some indication, in this group, that the photos are from the Cape.
Posted 9 months ago.
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Hmm, I never understood why, in some groups, posting, say, 10 images per month for a year is OK, but posting 120 images in one day is not OK.
Let's say I have been on Flickr for years, I have hundreds of photos of [cape cod]. Then I decide to join a certain group. I want to share all my [cape cod] photos with the group, but they only allow [x] submissions per day. So I submit [x] images. Days later I forget which ones they were, and I never get around to posting the rest, I have other things to do with my life than worry about a [x]-photo maximum.
From my point of view, it would be better to just post them all at once and be done with it.
Posted 9 months ago.
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Numerically it might make sense to post everything at once, but I think that it is a little self centered to do so, and it may be somewhat self-defeating. It is important to keep in mind that there is a big difference between simply uploading photos to Flickr, and posting to a group.
Why does anybody post photos to groups on Flickr? Speaking for myself (and most emphatically, only for myself) I put up photos because I think that people will get the same enjoyment from looking at my photos that I get from looking at theirs. I only post images to groups that I think will be interesting to other people in the group. I do upload more images to Flickr than I post to groups, but I don't expect anybody to look at those, except for those people whom I have some reason to expect will want to see them.
If a person posts a large number of photos to a group at one time (more than, say, five) that person is, in effect, saying, "You people in this group are going to find all of these images so compelling that I have to put them up all at once." Why else would a person post all of them to one group at once? Is any one photographer that good?
Perhaps one or two are. But faced with a hundred images by one person of average or even better than average talent, I'm not sure that I want to wade through all of the images to find the really good ones; I'm apt to give up after five. When LeKriz says, " it would be better to just post them all at once and be done with it" the implication seems to be that there is a necessity to post all of those photos to a particular group. Are all of your images that important?
Learning to self-edit is a skill that many artists, and photographers in particular, should work on. I like to look at the few best photos that any one person has to offer rather than wade through a slush pile of hundreds of accumulated photos.
Posted 9 months ago.
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Hear, hear.
Originally posted 9 months ago.
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Chris Seufert edited this topic 8 months ago.
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rflongley said: "Why else would a person post all of them to one group at once? Is any one photographer that good? "
But you don't address the crux of my issue. If I have, say, twenty photos worth posting to a group, what difference does it make if I post them all in one day, or post them five per day over four days?
They might be photos I took all at once, as you surmise. But they may be photos from my archives that I took over a ten-year period. They might be incredibly selective. The numbers don't tell the story.
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LeKriz edited this topic 9 months ago.
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@Chris Seufert: I think you mean "Hear, hear".
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I think the real problem, from a technical perspective, is variety. Because of the way Flickr "builds" photos in a pool, a person who uploads all 100 photos at once immediately forces me to either look at or reject PAGES of their photos in the group's pool before I get to see images taken by another photographer. When looking at a group pool, I prefer to see a range of styles, subjects, AND photographers. If I want to see photos from one photog exclusively, I will go to their page.
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I was a bit stunned to see the amount of images some members have overwhelmed the pool with. I have gone through and edited out a bunch of redundant images, leaving more variety and no one page dedicated to one photographer!
The rules now stipulate that members may post no more than 3 pics/day.
Please be selective and add your favorites and BEST to the pool.
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neonlike (a group admin) edited this topic 4 months ago.
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Thank you rflongley, Chris and neonlike! When someone has beautiful images they want to share a couple at a time, then that is nice! When someone posts over 100 snapshots ( meaning not art quality...) it is boring to most of us...WE don't know the people in the pictures, and how many pictures of a seagull do we need to wade through to find something of interest...If you want somewhere to post your vacaction snaps so your family and friends can see them, don't post them to groups, just send your family and friends links to your photos in your own gallery...
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That works for me ... I do try to limit my gulls to the gulls groups ;) jk
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To clarify my personal position on this matter....The posting of 100 photos or more effectively creates a wall of images that covers up all which was posted before it. It is, at its most basic, I think, inconsiderate of the other photographers. I propose that anyone feeling the need to post in this way should edit themselves, or the group should do it for them.
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