I’ve just posted this image which will no doubt appear sometime in the future when it has been approved. It is also available on these sites 500px, Tumblr, Instagram, which link to my Facebook and Twitter accounts. All of which you can see without joining anything.
Some members did break away onto flickr, but these are a very small number compared to the overall loss. I have just posted an image here, having tried to get some engagement, but to be honest I don't see the point of Caedes anymore. I get no exposure here. My friends don't know when I post because Facebook is not linked in. (Not everyone has hundreds of friends they don't know on Facebook, that is a very old fashioned view of social media.) Most websites, science journals, museums, magazines etc have Twitter and Facebook accounts to widen their audiences. To not engage with social media is an anachronism nowadays. Where are the RSS feeds? Where are the push notifications on my phone. Where is the modern website that works with touch tablets? Have you tried using Caedes on a tablet? Who sits at a desk nowadays? Yes I know some people do, but my mother (92) uses a tablet to view the nice pictures on, but not Caedes.
From an artistic perspective, the main reason I do not post here is lack of exposure. I get more people seeing my work on Instagram in 10 minutes than in 1 year on this site. In 24 hours the image above has the following stats. Instagram - 700 likes, 40 comments: 500px - 400+ views, 40 likes, 19 faves: My friends see the pictures I post on 500px, or any other site, as soon as I post them via Facebook, and often leave comments of engage socially about them. Professional photographers sometimes even grace me with comments and likes on Tumblr, and 500px, some even offer some critical comments.
For real feedback, I post to 1X and get torn to shreds, which helps me learn a lot. Those guys are extremely professional, especially if you want to get into the curator’s choice. Yes, professional photographers choose what gets approved, and it is hard, but so worth it. FYI, I have yet to get ANY image into the curator’s choice, so I know I am not that good despite all the accolades on the other sites.
What then is Caedes for? Help from other photographers by leaving critical comments? I don't get any, and I daren't leave any for fear of offending people. So not that anymore. Exposure? Obviously not. Nice pictures? Hardly, when the Main gallery is 90% mediocre B&W images for many pages. To be honest much better images can be found on 500px, 1X, and other photographic sites.
Sorry, but like Blackberry phones, Caedes is nearing the bottom of a downward spiral that will only change when the people in charge decide create some relevance to it in the modern mobile world that now exists.
Can this be changed? Yes, if there is a will. The quality can be improved, but people have to be willing to have images rejected. It can be linked to social media and increase its wider circulation, but newcomers will appear and things will change. An emphasis on showing off its historical works could be used on Twitter and Facebook to bring back artists, rather than just photographers to get the old mix back. Will this change the cosy clique based site it has become? Yes. But to do nothing is to see this once great site continue to whither and die, which is something I do not want to be part of.
Some members did break away onto flickr, but these are a very small number compared to the overall loss. I have just posted an image here, having tried to get some engagement, but to be honest I don't see the point of Caedes anymore. I get no exposure here. My friends don't know when I post because Facebook is not linked in. (Not everyone has hundreds of friends they don't know on Facebook, that is a very old fashioned view of social media.) Most websites, science journals, museums, magazines etc have Twitter and Facebook accounts to widen their audiences. To not engage with social media is an anachronism nowadays. Where are the RSS feeds? Where are the push notifications on my phone. Where is the modern website that works with touch tablets? Have you tried using Caedes on a tablet? Who sits at a desk nowadays? Yes I know some people do, but my mother (92) uses a tablet to view the nice pictures on, but not Caedes.
From an artistic perspective, the main reason I do not post here is lack of exposure. I get more people seeing my work on Instagram in 10 minutes than in 1 year on this site. In 24 hours the image above has the following stats. Instagram - 700 likes, 40 comments: 500px - 400+ views, 40 likes, 19 faves: My friends see the pictures I post on 500px, or any other site, as soon as I post them via Facebook, and often leave comments of engage socially about them. Professional photographers sometimes even grace me with comments and likes on Tumblr, and 500px, some even offer some critical comments.
For real feedback, I post to 1X and get torn to shreds, which helps me learn a lot. Those guys are extremely professional, especially if you want to get into the curator’s choice. Yes, professional photographers choose what gets approved, and it is hard, but so worth it. FYI, I have yet to get ANY image into the curator’s choice, so I know I am not that good despite all the accolades on the other sites.
What then is Caedes for? Help from other photographers by leaving critical comments? I don't get any, and I daren't leave any for fear of offending people. So not that anymore. Exposure? Obviously not. Nice pictures? Hardly, when the Main gallery is 90% mediocre B&W images for many pages. To be honest much better images can be found on 500px, 1X, and other photographic sites.
Sorry, but like Blackberry phones, Caedes is nearing the bottom of a downward spiral that will only change when the people in charge decide create some relevance to it in the modern mobile world that now exists.
Can this be changed? Yes, if there is a will. The quality can be improved, but people have to be willing to have images rejected. It can be linked to social media and increase its wider circulation, but newcomers will appear and things will change. An emphasis on showing off its historical works could be used on Twitter and Facebook to bring back artists, rather than just photographers to get the old mix back. Will this change the cosy clique based site it has become? Yes. But to do nothing is to see this once great site continue to whither and die, which is something I do not want to be part of.