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And me :)
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and Cave Art and Carl Fredrik!
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and Gantius' "Relic"
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Yes, well done everyone. Death to soft-focus kittens and long-exposure waterfalls.
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You could combine the two to interesting effect, though.
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Guess Where Long Exposure Kittens?
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More "Guess which waterfall I drowned your kitten in."
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Yersinia (a group admin) edited this topic 81 months ago.
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guess where i'm hiding the cardboard box that I'm suffocating your kitten in?
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As long as the kitten doesn't do a Sherlock Holmes and comes back from the Falls...
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Holding a Macro Flower in a sunset
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One for GWUK:
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Quote (benpatio):
"Yes, well done everyone. Death to soft-focus kittens and long-exposure waterfalls."
Exactly. And garish HDR, children wearing silly hats, beach sunsets, tasteful b&w nudes, close-ups of people's eyes, arrangements of fruit and/or sweets ... I am very tempted to start a Flickr Clichés group, in fact!
Edit: Oh god, how could I have forgotten the flower macros? Especially the ones that also include a touch of DoF??
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jonanamary edited this topic 81 months ago.
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Pah. I shall start positioning my children and kittycats in front of cryptic London scenes.
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A "subversion of flickr clichés" group could be a lot of fun.
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Yes, but no photoshopping! that kitten does need to be near the flower!
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Oh god, that sounds like such a plan. No photoshopping, but entries created in MS Paint perfectly acceptable. :)
EDIT: Ok, I admit it, I'm bored and I stuck an example together in Paint:
Anyone else want to have a go? :) Reckon I should submit it to The World Through My Eyes or something?
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I don't mind photoshopping myself, for a group of that type. Why put limits on the possibilities of subversion?
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"Exactly. And garish HDR, children wearing silly hats, beach sunsets, tasteful b&w nudes, close-ups of people's eyes, arrangements of fruit and/or sweets ... I am very tempted to start a Flickr Clichés group, in fact!
Edit: Oh god, how could I have forgotten the flower macros? Especially the ones that also include a touch of DoF?? "
I suggested to Yersinia a little while ago that someone should start a group called 'Vomit at My Cuteness', but that would not cover all the favourite cliches. Has anyone mentioned the aspirational cupcakes covered in pink icing, the coloured pencils (also with a touch of DoF), the staggeringly pretentious titles for staggeringly ordinary snapshots (whatever's wrong with the Snakes on a Plane approach to naming an image?), the views of the bridges and college campuses of Merkin, Arizona at night, the . . . well, enough already!
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You are all being very silly. Please get back to work right now.
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Quote (Barbara Rich):
"the staggeringly pretentious titles for staggeringly ordinary snapshots"
The ones called Untitled 11-05-06 or similar are the worst. Or the ones with mini poems for titles. Or inspirational sayings.
Oops, we're quite off-topic now, aren't we? Sorry! I will add, back on topic, that my (I felt, deeply ordinary) pic of the National Portrait Gallery made it to Explore thanks to GWL. I LOVE YOU GUYS hug hug hug now where is a picture of a pretty sunset I can use to illustrate my joy ...
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Yep, 'untitled' is the pits, as indeed are motivational sayings, odes on the death of a hamster and the like. Untitled actually means 'my art is so profound and complex that that I cannot debase my fake Holga picture of a bus shelter by giving it some simple descriptive tag - the viewer must contemplate it with careful gaze in order to work out its meaning for him/herself'. Well, raspberries to that.
Anyway, let's be thankful Explore didn't exist when Princess Diana died. Just imagine . . . .
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Barbara Rich edited this topic 81 months ago.
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Dear god yes, the Steve Irwin tributes are bad enough ...
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Haha, that's ace!
Not to mention the people who can't handle any mention of Steve Irwin.
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Yersinia (a group admin) edited this topic 81 months ago.
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Jonanamary I notice your cat has the same name as my eldest daughter - perhaps we could get a nice close up of them smelling said flower in soft focus :-)
(hurries off to delete all flower macros from photostream.......)
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Of course if everyone in GWL was to view, fave and comment on an agreed pic, we could see just how mundane a photograph we could get onto the Explore page.
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There's Steve Irwin tributes? Let's do a Richard Hammond group, that'd fox the Merkins...
We could start with this:
(Props to my mate and flickr contact smallbrainfield, who made this as a get-well tribute)
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steve_w (a group admin) edited this topic 81 months ago.
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.....glad you all got that off your collective chests!
I'm up for ben patio's suggestion to get a mundane photo onto 'most interesting' ....lead on bp
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Right well, here's a statistical challenge for Yersinia - can we have a graph showing the statistical correlation between emotional incontinence and bad spelling? And, heresy for some, I know, can the I Love My London Cliche group have a special corner for people who can't see the point of Banksy?
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Hmmm.
Well, the spelling would be easy to quantify, roughly. You could count the number of errors in the first hundred words or something, but I don't know if there's a scale for emotional incontinence that would be applicable online.
You come up with a scale, and a set of subjects, and I can run the regression analysis!
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Yersinia (a group admin) edited this topic 81 months ago.
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Well, if someone creates the cliche group I shall join...
And ok, I do see the point of photoshopping giant kittens into Tower Bridge
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That can't be real - no shark!
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of course if you photoshopped it in to Tower Bridge you would have to label it London Bridge.
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My kitten death cascade is now in my top ten most "interesting" shots. A bit more work and it should make explore.
Now, which groups are best to add it to for lots of comments and notes?
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Yersinia (a group admin) edited this topic 81 months ago.
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Not too many groups, just a couple is enough for explore, i think faving is the key for explore...
Try How Great is My Photo for comments, they are used to p1ss take I think...
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Well done team, stout effort - in at 49!
How high can it go?
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Up to 20!
Homemade's staircase is at 17.
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Front page
:-)
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@steve_w: Did I see that on b3ta's frontpage, or am I going mad? :) Well done your friend!
@myrtlemount: Let's get on it. I will provide the cat if you supply child and flower macro. :)
EDIT: OK, I did it! The FLICKR CLICHÉS group is now up, if not running. If anyone wants to be an admin, let me know.
Let's see how this develops ...
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jonanamary edited this topic 81 months ago.
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The kitten massacre has now reached #7.
The power of teamwork...
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Jonanamary, I have joined... this evening or tomorrow evening I shall work on some clichés
Hurrah!
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Damn! It seems to have peaked. Down to 9.
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Hmm. I noticed with my 'numberplates' that it started off pretty well with the GWL interest, ballooned when it got on Explore, then tailed off pretty quickly. Now down to number 38, with 2,057 views, 48 comments and 71 faves.
I don't know how the algorithm works, whether it's just those three factors, or whether it includes number of groups the photo is in, number of contacts you have, etc.
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Ben Jones Photography (a group admin) edited this topic 81 months ago.
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Untitled actually means 'my art is so profound and complex that that I cannot debase my fake Holga picture of a bus shelter by giving it some simple descriptive tag - the viewer must contemplate it with careful gaze in order to work out its meaning for him/herself'. Well, raspberries to that.
I'm sure there's a random title generator out there. Together with the random testimony generator. Or perhaps it's just a form letter. "I am continually staggered by the honesty and raw, painful beauty of [insert name]'s art. [insert name] causes me to re-evaluate my preconceptions about the world around me, and blah blah blahdy blah..."
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I had a quick skim-read of some discussions:
I think that notes, titles, captions , tags and sets play a part, as well as where the clicks, comments and faves are coming from. And maybe adding it to a few groups helps, but if you add it to too many, you're penalised.
I'm not sure about adding it to comment groups, because I hate commenting on photos I'm not that interested in, and then seeing them pop up in my "Comments" page every time someone adds an inane comment.
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It's also getting views etc. from ppl who aren't your contacts
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My most successful photos was actually only added to the 'Stick Figures in Peril' and the 'Great Signs' groups... somehow it got over 50 favourites along the way...
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Mine are nearly all GWL shots. I've never tried playing the system.
It's quite entertaining to see how easy it is to get a really mediocre shot with a badly photoshopped kitty into the top ten, though.
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One of my contacts once made it to Explore with a completly blank image... Lots of comments, favourites and notes seems to be the key. More weight seems to be given to people who aren't already in your contacts list; and a comment seems to be 'worth' more than a fav, BUT a comment and fav seems to be 'worth' more than the 'sum' of a comment and a fav from two separate users. I think what percentage of people in a group look/comment/fave might be an issue, too.
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Yersinia, Probably too late but if you search for a user called Junku on flickr you get a set full of airbourne kittens - prefect for phoshopping into a waterfall. (sorry I don't know how to do those hyperlink thingys)
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I saw those, and they're great - but they're all rights reserved. The one I used had a cc license that allowed derivative works.
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Help! Do I have to be a pro to put something in a pool. I have the perfect flickr cliche - it has text and everything (I was very "tired and emotional" and was trying to learn how to use photoshop and and yes yes I'm embaressed ok but now I am older and wiser.....). I just can't see how to add it and Mojolicious has retired to bed with a cold....
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No - You need to join the group first.
If you go to the flickr cliche group, it should have a link asking if you want to join the group - click that and all should become apparent.
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ah.....
of course sadly I think all my pictures fall into the cliche catagory. I'm very new to whole concept of photography and I don't get out much :-) But I've always been good at laughing at myself.
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oh and I'm Mrs Mojolicious so I'm very used to being laughed at by him :-)
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Hooray! That's Interesting Hit number two. :D
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@jonanamary: Yes, Paul frontpaged B3TA with this - he has a weird and wonderful imagination, and uses Photoshop for a living...
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Congratulations Tris2000
www.flickr.com/photos/25124954@N00/259331371/
was also on Explore
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