Topic: More with the Flickr thing...

[Ezzie]

So today I just deleted both my Flickr and Ipernity account. I think it will be nice to focus just on the blog and Filmwasters.

Who will be admin for the 52 rolls Flickr group?

[ManuelL]

I also decided to remove my pictures from Flickr and declined the changed Yahoo data protection conditions (in Germany).
Will get me more motivated to get my own website running.

[Late Developer]

I also decided to remove my pictures from Flickr and declined the changed Yahoo data protection conditions (in Germany).
Will get me more motivated to get my own website running.

I deleted all mine last night. I've left a message for any contacts who might want to keep in touch via my blog but getting the photos out of Flickt felt like quite a cathartic experience.  New website will be up and running in the not too distant future, I hope....

[SLVR]

Well looks like they changed it again... I have a different view for viewing peoples photos. I HATE it. Im going to start looking for alternatives soon. Flickr was the king when it came to uploading photos. Now its just gotten stupid. 

[tkmedia]

Well looks like they changed it again... I have a different view for viewing peoples photos. I HATE it. Im going to start looking for alternatives soon. Flickr was the king when it came to uploading photos. Now its just gotten stupid. 

well...the text and comments are at least somewhat improved over the previous beta.

[Francois]

They said that they wanted to go for a cleaner look... if that means anything?

[jharr]

The bbcode embed codes only embed the original size, no matter which one you pick. So now to link photos here, you either have to upload two 'originals' and embed the smaller one or find another solution/site. Unfortunately, iPernity only allows Club members to see the embed code, so I guess I'm stuck using Photobucket to link photos?? What has the world come to??

[Hungry Mike]

James has raised a good point. What are the other options people are using?

[Bryan]

Click on the push pin icon, that's how I did this.

[SLVR]

here's the kicker though, it doesn't remember what your previous setting was like the old flickr did.

[tkmedia]

you can always try to manually change the file names suffixes for different sizes.

s   small square 75x75
q   large square 150x150
t   thumbnail, 100 on longest side
m   small, 240 on longest side
n   small, 320 on longest side
-   medium, 500 on longest side (no suffix)
z   medium 640, 640 on longest side
c   medium 800, 800 on longest side†
b   large, 1024 on longest side
o   original image, either a jpg, gif or png, depending on source format

[SLVR]

Ive done this before as well, but its not entirely foolproof. Some file links are different than others for some reason

[Sandeha Lynch]

At least Photobucket has now upped their game with their slideshow function.  Pretty good ... http://www.sandehalynch.com/slideshows.htm

[Phil Bebbington]

What is the push pin icon 

[Bryan]

If you go to the icon that says "share this photo" (looks like a rectangle with an arrow) you will see the facebook, twitter etc icons.  It's directly under those on the right.  It looks like a push pin.  click on it then below you can select the size and copy the url for the picture.

[Phil Bebbington]

Cheers, Bryan

Very useful - I'd prefer not to take a bat to this screen next time I share a photo.

[jharr]

Click on the push pin icon, that's how I did this.

Hmmm. I tried this and only ever got the original size. Here is the code for the last post on THIS THREAD. I have tried with IE and Chrome with the same results.

Code: [Select]

The latest in my ongoing photo essay...
[url=http://jamesharrphoto.blogspot.com/2014/03/pushing-through-xii.html]http://jamesharrphoto.blogspot.com/2014/03/pushing-through-xii.html[/url]

Sorry about not embedding the photo, but apparently Flickr in their great wisdom has turned off the bbcode option for embedding photos. Unfortunately, iPernity doesn't have it either! Really I have to go to Photobucket to get this simple feature!!???

[url=https://flic.kr/p/mrJHHt][img]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2936/13418382793_b8d6868e4f.jpg[/img][/url]

[url=https://flic.kr/p/mrJHHt][img]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2936/13418382793_b8d6868e4f_t.jpg[/img][/url]

[Bryan]

Just above the url code it shows the size of the image.  You can click on that to get a drop down menu to select the size you want.  I wonder if the change to the new Flickr hasn't fully taken affect for everyone.  I'm using firefox.

[Francois]

Just checking if it works...




Looks like it does.
Here's the how to:
First, click on the box with the arrow for sharing.
Second, click on the pushpin for embedding.
Third select the resolution.
Fourth, copy the address.

[jharr]

I figured out a work-around and wrote it up HERE.

[mcduff]

Actually, I think I can live with this change. Really I am just using flickr for two things: 1) mainly as a place to park photos for this site, and 2) if I am somewhere and a someone says "you are shooting film???" and I can point them to my pics and the pics of some of the crazy cats that I follow.

So I really am not spending hours trolling flickr and looking at lots of pics. Every now and then I try to get a pic liked by droves of strangers and then I ask myself why I am doing it. I would rather have the occasional comment from folks here than lots of comments from people I don't know. As long as I can embed pics here from flickr in a reasonably convenient manner (as it seems possible with the current version unless they screw it up again), I am good with it. Thanks for letting us all know that things have changed there once again and for the suggestions of workflows (including your note, Tony, about changing the suffix if you accidentally grabbed the wrong size).

[tkmedia]

I dont even bother putting photos in groups except for the ones I manage.

For the new design I also dont like that it is hard to tell if a photo has already been invited to a group.

[mcduff]

Interesting. Dropbox is making serious moves to become more than just a file storage service. In addition to flogging other services (such as its mail offerings), it is beefing up its photography features. Notably today it announced Carousel - a photo app for iOS and Android. While a nice phone app is important to me for a photo hosting service, it is not the main thing I am looking for, as I mainly use it for posting images here or for sending links to friends. However, I think that putting cash into phone apps is certianly dropbox's way of signaling a serious interest in photography.

The funny thing is that almost all my files that I post here are at one time or another on dropbox. However, for me to start letting folks see my dropbox images would radically change how I use dropbox. Currently I do not share anything in dropbox, and I like that. I can keep work related docs there without worrying too much that I have accidentally granted permission to someone. (And, no, they are not mission critical, highly confidential work docs, I would not post them in dropbox and try to minimize their online presence.)

It will be interesting to see how dropbox evolves with regards to photography.

[Ed Wenn]

Thanks for the Pin tip...I had only fallen foul of the new layout once before I stopped trying to link to Flickr images, but this new level of functionality is fine by me.

[mcduff]

OK this is really turning into a bit of a "beating a dead horse" thread but I fired up the Flickr app on my iPhone today and it had updated itself. (It is out for Android too.) It used to be not too bad for scanning pics of those I follow but it is now even more of an Instagram clone than the previous version. Taking photos with the iPhone has been part of the app forever but now it is even more front and centre (with goofy old-timey filters of course) and other features have been removed. I may go back to the web version on my phone when I check out the pics of those I follow - and that is a real step back. To add insult to injury, the camera part of the app - which is supposed to be the centrepiece - is really buggy on my iPhone 4S. It may be worse than what they did to the web version!

[tkmedia]

If you want the slightly older 'photo view' from a few months ago, you can always change to older web browser agents.

[jojonas~]

I think I heard someone say that switching to french gave you some old version back

[Indofunk]

I think I heard someone say that switching to french gave you some old version back

I'll switch to the Tamil version ... that's probably still on v 0.01

[tkmedia]

another change

[jojonas~]

and a good one at that! like a mix of the old photoviewer and the new.

[tkmedia]

I like the group section, as it tells me if the photo has been invited without multiple clicks. I like the return of the map.

I wish they have better way of improving tags (autofill) based on camera and film you define or a basic database. Like say it was shot with a rolleiflex it could automatically add TLR, 6x6, medium format, etc. Say it was shot on pan F, it will add ISO50, B&W, ilford, film, etc.

Say you have album based on camera type, it will add tags to the photo automagically when added to the album.

[Francois]

I did notice that on some of the tags the system now adds a drawing of the camera it was taken with... or at least something close to it.

[tkmedia]

looks like the 'notes' feature is missing.

[Francois]

For me, the full changes came only last night... probably some stuff was left in my cache.

[SLVR]

I'm not sure if its been mentioned here but I constantly get a bug where when adding photos to groups, any group which moderates their photostream gives me a popup warning me of the moderation, then when it goes away I get bumped back up to the top of my groups list. I have to say this is really annoying especially when Im scrolling up and down my groups list multiple times just to add to groups.

[Hungry Mike]

http://thomashawk.com/2014/08/the-new-and-improved-flickr.html

Interesting enough but has any actually noticed improvements?

[Francois]

Well... the improvements to the groups thing are negligible. I still find it annoying that I have to scroll back up a thread to go back to the discussions.
But the picture viewing is a bit better... though I miss the old close X in the right corner to go back to the previous view...

At least now they have people actually working on it, not just fixing bugs and keeping the servers running.

[jojonas~]

I noticed from the flickr help group that a new groups view is coming. I still have the old one.
I dunno about you guys but it all started to flow easier for me atleast. not as slow anymore.

[Francois]

Maybe the found a deal on a bunch of old PC's and decided to add them to their server

[jojonas~]

anyone else notice that the tags are back to normal?
ie they lead to the photographer of the shot's other photos that are tagged the same.





I am happy...
 

[Francois]

I've been using their beta for the groups and must admit that I kinda like it... that's scary!

[jharr]

I am getting so discouraged with the Groups on Flickr. I just left the Alternative Photography Process group because out of the first 5 photos I viewed ALL of them were iPhone photos. Since when is an iPhone photo and Alternative Process!!?? I am finding the same thing with other supposedly analog groups I view there. It's like an iPhone invasion. It's too bad because there used to be some good active discussions on those groups about things that interest me. The groups that are still active are just too active to keep up with (I Shoot Film comes to mind). I guess I will content myself with filmwasters.com and just use Flickr for storage/sharing and forget about the community that used to thrive there.

[tkmedia]

I'm only in three groups, mostly because I administer or created them. Not very active in discussion.

Camera-wiki.org
Photos for a free online encyclopedia of cameras and photography.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/camerawiki/

Film in Chinatown
Chinatown captured on film.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/2455778@N20/

Rerapan
127 B&W
http://www.flickr.com/groups/2678251@N24

[jojonas~]

I run a few too. most of them are just for creating specific collections of images but the bronica one gets some good discussions (I created  it just three months ago)

rain on film is really the only one I've had problems with maybe 30% digital in there so I asked to be admin so I could clean up the pool and moderate the inflow. we shifted to submission by approval and it has gone real well since then

Minolta AF-C
(not huge but it was abandoned by the admin so I was glad to take over)
https://www.flickr.com/groups/minolta_af-c/
50 members
332 photos
4 topics

Bronica 6x6 Focal Plane SLR
(my precious )
https://www.flickr.com/groups/classicbronica/
73 members
728 photos
21 topics

Rain On Film
(themed group, yeah)
https://www.flickr.com/groups/2138035@N22/
203 members
973 photos
2 topics

LOMO LC-A loves BW film
(I had a hard time finding bw lc-a shots so I created this)
https://www.flickr.com/groups/lc-a_loves_bw/
116 members
1,126 photos
9 topics

FK Prisma Göteborg
(for my photo club)
https://www.flickr.com/groups/fkprisma/
13 members
146 photos
20 topics

Göteborg Filmdivision
(Gothenburg captured on film)
https://www.flickr.com/groups/gbgfilm/
24 members
430 photos
7 topics

LAST CAMERA superheadz
(camera specific group again. my camera didn't work though )
https://www.flickr.com/groups/2143165@N20/
8 members
16 photos
3 topics

[Indofunk]

Film in Chinatown
Chinatown captured on film.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/2455778@N20/

Ah, so you must have been the one who invited me in

I'm a "member" of 75-odd groups, but mostly I'm just a leech ... I submit photos when they fit the theme only so that I can get views and faves. I don't even read the discussions  But when I'm Googling a problem and come upon a helpful Flickr thread (which is quite often actually), I will sometimes join in.

[Bryan]

I like the "Rain on film" group Jojons, I may have to join to get inspired to take more pictures during the rainy Seattle winter months. 

I'm in a small group called "Use the Force: Unassisted film".  They made everyone in the group moderators, all 56 of us, so that's the only one I moderate. 

https://www.flickr.com/groups/usetheforce/pool/?donepending=1

[Indofunk]

I like the "Rain on film" group Jojons, I may have to join to get inspired to take more pictures during the rainy Seattle winter months. 

I'm in a small group called "Use the Force: Unassisted film".  They made everyone in the group moderators, all 56 of us, so that's the only one I moderate. 

https://www.flickr.com/groups/usetheforce/pool/?donepending=1

I just joined both of these groups, and tried to add a photo to the rain on film group and found that it was already there! Weird, I don't remember adding it, but I'm glad it's there

[Bryan]

I just exercised my Moderator authority and approved your photo Satish  .  I see we're up to 58 members now!

[jojonas~]

I like the "Rain on film" group Jojons, I may have to join to get inspired to take more pictures during the rainy Seattle winter months. 

I'm in a small group called "Use the Force: Unassisted film".  They made everyone in the group moderators, all 56 of us, so that's the only one I moderate. 

https://www.flickr.com/groups/usetheforce/pool/?donepending=1

I just joined both of these groups, and tried to add a photo to the rain on film group and found that it was already there! Weird, I don't remember adding it, but I'm glad it's there

yes, I invite photos that I like to the pool to try to advertise the group

[jharr]

I would join Rain on Film, but I live in San Diego and my contributions would be well, non-existent.