RANT WARNING
In a recent post I said I was confused why some of my shots made it to explore on flickr.
Let me first state that I know how explore works … I wish it didn’t work that way but I know how quickly people comment and “favourite” your work has a bearing on what makes it.
I was merely stating that some of my images that are in explore, supposedly the top 500 photos of the day, should not be there as I don’t feel they are good enough.
That’s all I was saying. I wasn’t saying I’m better than all of you or that you all suck because we all know that in both cases that is not true. I was merely using my assigned space on the tubes to vent about how I feel my recent popularity on flickr is not always reflected in my work.
Let me also say that yes, I am trying to get into this photography thing full time. Please do NOT think for a minute that I think I am better than any of my friends or family at wielding a camera. If we line up all our photos together we all have very different styles. I am just fortunate that some people like my style enough to pay me to turn up and point a camera at them. And after paying me to do that some of them even like me enough to pay for the photos.
Take it from me, there is nothing more humbling then being able to charge a shooters fee that covers your time on the shoot but does not include any photographs or images. That’s the best compliment a client can give you.
Rant over. Go back to what you were doing.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:54 am
It seems my comment sparked this, at least in part. I wasn’t commenting on your shots at all, just on the Explore algorithms (which change every so often anyway).
My view is that Explore is currently showing “popular” shots; they might be popular because the person has lots of contacts who view every one of their shots, they might be popular because they have a half naked woman in them, they can also be popular because they are actually good. This is the case with (I reckon) about half of the shots in Explore.
Yours were good, which is why they got there.
November 28th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I was only stating that if your photos got in to Flickr it should be (in some part) due to you actually knowing something about photography. I was just wondering why after making Explore you chose to put yourself down about it. Even though it is basically a popularity contest, I’m always wrapped when mine make it on!