36 Reasons Flickr is a Photographer's Ultimate Tool

@ blogs.photopreneur.com


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Quote .. Mention Flickr to some professional photographers and you might get a look that most people wear after sniffing sour milk. “It’s for amateurs,” they’ll tell you. Or “It’s all puppies, parties and sunsets,” they’ll say.

And yet it’s still the most important photo-sharing site on the Web, a place that photographers flock to for ideas and photo users surf for images. We’re not saying that Flickr is the only place you should be marketing your images, but here are 36 reasons why you should be using it to show — and sell — your photos.

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(*David Letterman voice*) .. And the Number one reason Flickr is the ultimate tool .. (*the crowd hushes silent*) ... They'll defend, to the death, your right to post somebody else's work as your own .... (*the crowd goes wild, as confetti streams from the rafters of the studio*)


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** waits for probable press release of 'Flickr acquires Picture.com ** to fully round off the Yahoo image rip off suite.

I've just set up a Flickr account...I needed to for a community I joined.
I will say this....it's an awful layout, badly designed for ease of use, it looks poor and I really am not a fan of it :)

Yahoo has a horrific attitude to copyright infringement and fall firmly in the ‘it’s the internet dude, share and steal alike’ ethos to digital rights management. It really is the old blood from a stone routine to get them to action any copyright violation and most of the time you have to rely on the good will of the poster to remove images they have redistributed without your permission. Hopefully some legitimate legal action (not the college fund virgin) will bite them on the ass sooner than later and prompt a change in attitude.

I choose to give Flickr the flick on principle. People who have such blatant disregard for international law, common decency and your feelings don’t deserve your or my support.

yes, Flickr is a tool, alright.

That really makes me appreciate what we have here at Caedes:-)

I just deleted my Flickr account after learning and reseaching a bit more.
Sadly the people on the other forums I joined don't seem to agree. Oh well.

I don't really see a problem. As long as you remember to only upload less than full-res imagesnobody's going to steal your work. For the record the only place I've had stuff stolen from was here.

I pulled all my pics off Flickr after Yahoo deleted my email account (taking my website with it, as I was hosted by Yahoo Small Business)...but Customer Service didn't know why it was deleted. Oh, well...I'm paying 1/10th their charge through Google now.