SEO is definitely a reason to think about keeping Flickr. It may even make up the bulk of your marketing efforts and source of clients. For a wedding photographer in a small market, being able to have one of your images come up first when someone searches for “Kansas Wedding Photographer” can be a great way your work is found by potential clients.
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In fact, many photographers often post photos with the very intention of grabbing the top image search of specific Google keywords or phrases and then linking their professional website in their Flickr comment section. SEO (Keep)Īs an html site that allows you to tag, categorize and keyword each photo, Flickr is fantastic for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). That’s ok if you haven’t found your style yet, but recognize at some point it’s time to hone down on what you want to shoot and get rid of the excess fluff. What I often see with users on Flickr is posts for anything and everything. While you can and certainly should apply it to everything you shoot, most will specialize in a few distinct fields. Very few companies hire the same photographer anymore to shoot their landscape, automobile, fashion editorial, portrait or wildlife photo. Do you have aspirations of wedding photography, landscapes, food, macro, portraiture, lifestyle, fashion, etc? The days of the photographer as a generalist are pretty much dead. Part of refining your vision is also realizing what you want to shoot as a photographer. You don’t want a potential client to have to wade through the bad ones. Eventually you may realize that while you’ve got some good ones, others are pretty bad. Trimming down what you show people is an exercise in learning what you want to shoot and why certain photos appeal to you. It’s easy to post everything, because it doesn’t require you to think about why you like a particular image. Unfortunately, with Flickr, many of those types of photos remain on your page far past when they should, bringing down the overall impact of your imagery. It’s all part of refining your vision as a photographer. Even photographers who have been professionally shooting for over ten years are progressing and growing their eye every day, and finding out some (or much) of their old work is just not up to par. No where else will allow you to so easily group, store and share with different photographic groups.Īs you become a better photographer, you realize that photos you once thought were great are actually not that good at all.
If the primary purpose of your photography is to share nearly each and every snap out of your camera, then you definitely shouldn’t abandon your Flickr account (or perhaps you should even go sign up for one). Individual images can be neatly grouped into categories such as landscapes, animals, people, still life or even My Summer Trip 2010. We love that you share with us too! Flickr allows its millions of users to link a single image, or group of images, almost anywhere across the web with imported metadata and other subject identifying tags. In fact, many of you use Flickr to then repost your images right here on Digital Photography School.
In terms of its ability to share images across the web, Flickr takes the cake. So agree or disagree, here are my personal thoughts on why you should (or shouldn’t) abandon your Flickr account. Take it with a grain of salt, but also carefully think on it before either following my advice or disregarding it. I’ll caveat the remainder of this post with the reminder that this is an opinion. But if you have aspirations of growing in your photographic career, you may want to consider your continued use of this or any other photo sharing behemoth. It’s likely where a lot of you share your images on the web. For millions of budding photographers, it’s a place to freely share their photos with friends, family and categorized communities of other camera wielders around the world.įlickr is a great digital tool that has been responsible for the curation of images from the ultra mundane to the graphic masterpiece, the pornographic to the iconic and the out of focus to the nationally archived. Millions of photos are uploaded to the site on a daily basis from all around the world and of every subject you could possibly think to photograph. When it comes to photo sharing, Flickr is without a doubt, the ten ton gorilla in the room.
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