Flickr is a “free or pay” online platform to store and share digital photos. It has been generally believed to be a great example of the way of Web 2.0 application. Flickr was launched in February 2004 by Ludicorp，and Yahoo purchased Ludicorp and Flickr in March 2005.
The key feature makes Flickr outstanding is the presence of tags, which can be used for marking photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness, for which a patent is pending. The function of tagging enables users to find imagines related to the same topic or even the same place names, so that people can find out others sharing on the same subject. It is the first website to implement tag clouds,
Actually, the real value of Flickr should not only in photo sharing, but also to build the social network based on sharing photos. In the age which people do not know what is social network, Flickr already have created one. Groups are used as a way to communicate with fellow members of Flickr around common photography interests. By choosing to follow groups, recent uploads of the group will sometimes appear on a user's homepage when they log on. The relationship between users is not the traditional, for example, one can put the other person into “family” group without adding friends first. Such flexibility largely encourages sharing, giving comments and interaction between users, as well as improving the database.
Grasping better photography will sure to enhance the popularity of your photos shared on Flickr. Here are some tips:
It is hard to make perfect concentration on a photo, to move a little to the left or right, or zoom in or out just a little more. Using the zoom on your photos will not only change how close your subject appears but it will also change the depth of field. You can hold the camera horizontally or vertically to include the whole shot.
When you take a photo of a friend, a pet, or an animal, do not let the surroundings to distract attention away from the subject. Standing further back and zoom in with your largest lens magnification. This will minimize the depth of field, which means only your subject should be in focus
Using a tripod will keep your camera steady which will make your photos clearer. For example, if you are using a 500 mm lens, the minimum shutter speed you would normally need to use without a tripod would be 1/500 second. When using a shutter speed slower than this simple rule of thumb suggests, a tripod is in order.
Some of people may ignore the function of mode setting, like ‘portrait’, ‘landscape’, ’sports’, and ‘night’ etc. This function can help to change the aperture, shutter speed, ISO, making the shot more life look.
It appears Flickr does a lot in terms of bringing people together, even strangers with similar interests. For example if you're a dog fan and love taking pictures of your dog, you'd be able to connect with others just like you through tagging.
ReplyDeletePutting that side, how do you think companies can utilize Flickr? While a company can use a site like Facebook to market their ads based on "likes" and what people put on their pages, how would Flickr do the same? Just a thought. I've wondered this too.
Facebook did a great job to find out what people are interested in by calculating the number of "likes". Even though Flickr does not have this function, its flexibility largely encourages sharing, giving comments and interaction between users, as well as improving the database.
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