Attracting Flickr comments...

[AVTEZ59]

Just wondered how people attract any comments for their Flickr postings. Obviously they have to have some merit and interest....but I've seen lots of comments and thought, "yes, but not that good..."
Is it a question of smart tagging ??...or something else ??


BTW...I have a Flicker account with some postings...how do I embed a link to Fickr on this forum ??

Cheers

Terry

[Dave]

From my limited flickr comments I think it has a lot to do with the quality of the photo.

Sounds kind of obvious I know but as my photography has improved I've found that I get more comments.

As for tagging it helps because it enables more people to see your photos and more likelihood of someone leaving a comment.

If you want to link to your flickr in your sig for example just insert the url from your photostream as a link.

The AVF flickr group has instructions on how to link your photos when embedding them on here.

[tontoshorse]

Join and post to some groups (try AVF for one) and add comments on others. Don't get too uptight though at any lack of comment, as you've seen some groups seem to comment for comments sake, not AVF I hasten to add!

[AVTEZ59]

Thanks DaveW and tonto......is this the way ??

Flickr: Avtez59's Photostream

[tontoshorse]

Originally Posted by AVTEZ59

Thanks DaveW and tonto......is this the way ??

Flickr: Avtez59's Photostream

Thats the way, you may want to put your link into your signature to save typing it out on every post.

Nice pics in your Flickr too.

[AVTEZ59]

Originally Posted by tontoshorse

Thats the way, you may want to put your link into your signature to save typing it out on every post.

Nice pics in your Flickr too.

Tonto...thanks again....but please take me through an idiots guide into this 'Signature' thing !!

[tontoshorse]

Originally Posted by AVTEZ59

Tonto...thanks again....but please take me through an idiots guide into this 'Signature' thing !!

Click on the "control panel" tab at the top of the screen - its in between blogs and information.

from there click on edit signature and paste your link in there.



jobs a gud'n

[Radiohead]

Fit women with big norks always works well :D

[AVTEZ59]

Originally Posted by Radiohead

Fit women with big norks always works well :D

Now that's funny.....

[Ned Senior]

gleaning masses of info from all you folks in these here parts... and there was me just living in GC and computers....

THANKYOU all

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

I would suggest you read that silly thread about pimping your image. That undoubtedly will get comments coming.

Another longer term thing is to join groups on subjects you like and that you take images of. Then go throgh the pool and comment on and tag images as fav's that you like. Also I'd suggest going to the artists profile page for those images and adding the person as a contact. You may find that if your images are decent you get reciprocal contacts. Every morning with my coffee before work I look at my contacts new images and if I get a chance or am moved I post comments. I suspect that many of the comments on my images are from contacts or folk seeing images in my groups.

oh and you can also look at yoru contacts favourites to quickly find even more images you might like...it's all very incestuous....

Gordon

P.S. If that fails I agree with the naked women comment