Photo and Pictures

Flickrvision 3D is one of the service showing your photos from Flickrs API. Remember turn on and off flickr api if you don´t want your photos shown. This is the strength of the service but also its weakness. Photography have been more or less a professional robbed from its status by photographers putting up their photo to use on sites like Flickr.

Today photography is only paid if you are aware of your photo being used. More and more services are using APIs like Flickrs and are not aware of that it both killing the professionals and promoting the unknowns. This making the photography more a marketing profession than actual a photographic.

Read more about on the site about Flickr and other services that are a mashup with flickr…

You can always use the Creative Commons search to find images that you may use. I’ve also a page where you can find more pictures for free even some public domain. You may not actually use the images you find through Google’s image search anyway. They are Copyrighted.

Foto: wstryder

You will of course also get the up in a neat way to your blog. I sometimes use captions to my photos and it’s not as difficult as you think. When using images from Flickr that’s what so you should link back to the photographer when the image is required “By”. Then it’s good that you know how to make a picture text. When you use images on Flickr, use the “small” size and the link to the image on Flickr and photographer.

You can just copy the code and add the image links you’ve found, but do not forget to link to the flickr photographer or what the license tell you. If the picture demand that you are “noncommersial” be sure you fit the license.

You start your photography carrier with almost nothing. Two empty hands and a camera. There is ways to help you out starting a photoblog is one. There is service that can help you as a photographer or artist.

You start publishing something with help of Open Office that is open source and free. You save your work as an PDF. Then you upload it to Issuu and voila you will have a free book you can embed in your photoblog. You can use it to start an successful photo carrier or simply give others free tips. All is up to your imagination.

You can of course use Issuu to find your favourite e-magazine. Simply surf and make friends. You can use it as any community though its not easy. Could be much better here. I had a hard time adding friends. Why not be an poet as you present your photography. I made a try on swedish…So different can the result be.

Mattias Inks have done so and uploaded his creative work. He is an artist working with his moleskin so he simply uploaded his moleskin. You can read his blog and look at his homepage. I have an old interview with him i will translate from swedish.

Scrapblog is a Web service, but I feel like any program you have on your computer. It is easy to create your work. You can choose to use a ready-made theme or start with a blank page. There are lots of functions and features to make your pages like that Web 2.0-controlling, or if you have quite a different style.

There are stickers, backgrounds, forms, texts and speech-bubbles and much more. You can rotate the images, giving the reflection or make transparent. You can then publish your Scrapper and then see what your friends or relatives think of your new creations. They can comment directly on your scrapblog. Here you can see my little test. Here is someone who can be a little better than I do. You can certainly do much better. You could put on some music, too. If you are testing, you can well make a comment below and add a link there. It would be fun to see your creations. You can embed your creations on your own blog.

You are not limited to photos, you can add video as well. Let’s just see if I can get my wife to stop and test it here MUCH cheaper digital version instead. Scrapbooking is a very expensive hobby, I have noticed (should I say being with photo). Can i say that she is still scrapping and being a major custom at Papprika, which are the local scrapbooking store.

The reason i didn’t translate anything yesterday that i discovered things is much easier today and how much services like Flickr and Picasa web have developed only during the past years. Embedding a slideshow into your blog is nowadyas so much easier than it used to be.

We all remember the time when you have to hack into flickr code and do a little researched to embed your own slideshow into your blog. Today you simply copy the code and paste it onto your blog.

This is code from my Flickr

This is code from my Ipernity

Code from Picasawebb


Remember that you don’t automaticly receive the right even though its simply. You need as an example model release if you are showing people commercial. On Wordpress.com they remove the options to embed your slideshows, though it is a good place to market yourself.

If you want to embed your slideshow on your ipernity blog you need to go to source otherwise the editor sees the code as text.

With a simple link you will be at map

Following a question from a reader so I started to look at this to find out their photos on Flickr. I had been given to me that it was complicated, but I quickly learned that it was very easy. Just go to the image you want to put on the map and then you will find a link under “Additional Information”.

When you click it, you will enter a map mode where you see your image in the bottom and the map above.

You can maneuver around the map by dragging the map, or use arrows. You can zoom in and out also. It is good to start with a large map to zoom in to the right place. Try also typing names instead of search. It is quite possible that others have put pictures there and then the map will zoom into the right place.

When your at map you place the pic and pull it over
the map where you want it.

Flickr has lots of nice features and one of the newer so-called “cluster”. Flickr assembles clusters of images that are tagged with the same thing and you can easily get an overview. I found it easy to surf around the different clusters and find new nice collections of photos. Here are a few that I got stuck in africa, climate, twister and photo. You can easily surf on through the proposed similar tags or guess on a custom tag in the box where it says Jump to:. Flickr cluster is of course a great way to find inspiration for new, interesting subjects and ideas.

It’s really exciting to explore flickr. There will be new functions all the time also, there are a lot of mashups that facilitates enormously.

Together with Google maps has a number of services popping up and developed, where you can select a location on the map. On selection, you can then link to an image or pair it with a movie even. Some are not so difficult to use either, and can be a good way to select a site for a friend or perhaps show where there was a tree growing with image on the tree. With these tools, we can identify all the earth together.

I discovered the World Explorer, operated and developed by Yahoo, where you’ve linked the map (Yahoo maps) to Flickr, so those who want to outsource their images on the World Explorer. In Flickr, there is the possibility of linking their pictures to places even if it is not so simple. However, I think World Explorer is a fun way to explore different cities. Now that if you put your images it can be seen all over through Flickrs API. I think you can opt out that.

Easier to use and really useful when you want, for example, show their favorite spot for a friend and associate it with an image of the place is Tagzania. Tagzania is using Google maps, but is a stand-alone service so you must register in order to begin use it. If I for example where to meet a friend at the pub “Tranan” at Odenplan so I simply put out a marker and places where a URL where the image is located. It may be on Flickr or another URL where you have your image. Each marker may be a URL, so it’s easy for you to copy and mail your friend, he finds crane at Odin. What could be better would be printed, which I can recommend. You can also see other tags on the map so you can find other markings. Nature photographer may be able to select the various observation points and share with their friends.

The third and final service, Community Walk is also really useful because you can mark out a path so you can show your walk or jog addition, you can add various media files. You can add there voice, images and video. Kristian from Bitlab Malmoe did a tour of Old Town in Stockholm. Christian has stayed here and there to film and he has marked the way he has gone. This would surely be a great way for tourist to show off their city by going out and filming short little snippets that are then put into the grid. You were going to shoot myself maybe your childhood town and talk about different places where you made little mischief. That would be fun if Lisa had a small matkaravan for the network as they themselves could follow. You can use Google Translate to translate it to your language, if your curious.

There are a lot of other nice features in Flickr and one is of their notes. Search by when you have entered the picture, press “Add note” you will then get a box where you can and write a headline and description. The box can be made smaller or larger and are a great way to make viewers of the picture’s attention to a part of the picture. Kosmar has built up one Mindmap of notes with links so you can be more creative with Flickr. You can then use the images on a whole new way. Clemens has used a picture of the London Underground system and this has then linked to different images in Flickr from locations. It is only your creativity is the limit how you use Flickr.

To submit an image on your website or blog to Flickr, the rules say that it is okay as long as you link back to Flickr, however, do not use Flickr to upload picture elements in a web design or similar. You just press on the picture and then the title “All Sizes”. Then you get choices on how big the picture should be on your website / blog. I have started a blog to show the power of using Ipernity, which is a “flickr” where you can upload “any” file or dokument. What i know they still have a hard time with .ODF files, but then you can save them as .doc which ipernity understands.

Once you’ve made your selection, you can find the code to clear the picture below. Just select it and copy it into your blog or website where you want it to be. If you want it to allow text to flow around so you can add the following code style = “float: left;” after the alt code. If you wish, of course, of course, replace the left to right, depending which side you want the image to lie around the text. You can find my group of photo and pictures on Ipernity. Downhere is an album of my pictures from my mobile.

More advanced: Flickr and other services using the API, and with it you can use different functions from other tjänser or on its own page. Through it you can actually get your sets slideshows on your own blog / website, but it requires some coding. Ipernity you can make albums and show them in your blog. Here you see my mobile’s pictures.

Flickr is probably the image service that has received most attention and probably rightly so. The idea is a community where you can meet and discuss the photo. Today Flickr is probably much more than that. You can read about Flickr on wikipedia. Please now that you also say yes to the terms of service (TOS) when you registry.

Many sites and service know of Flickr and uses its API. It´s a great way to let your pics get known. You can also use it if you don´t care that Yahoo have the rights and post them for others to see. You can also let friends and family see your pics and noone else. There are lots of features on Flickr.

You can upload your photos, but you can also submit those to your website or blog easily. At the same time, you can also build a network of contacts and getting to know people around the world through your photos. There are lots of functions and features. I thought I would present some of them. Also there is alot of third parties employing their API like Flickrriver.

Cnet has written an excellent newbie guide for how to boot into Flickr so I do not think I need to reinvent the wheel. Only be careful of knowing your rights when signing up to a service that is free. There is no thing as a free lunch.

What free photo service is the best? They plop up like mushrooms everywhere, free image service where you can upload your photos and share them. Which should I choose? I can not possibly take up all the way I make a selection. If you think I have missed any good service, so tell me in comments. It is not easy to find right in the jungle, and here comes some questions you should consider before choosing.

Questions you should ask before deciding:
1. Should photos be public or private?
2nd I want to show off my pictures on another website or blog?
3rd Do it make me sour if the service takes my pictures and they sell them?
4th What other features do I want? Slideshow? Gallery? Sound? Community?
5th Would I be able to get the prints through the service?

Always read the Terms of Service – some services to sell and with the images you upload. It is important to know what you approve to do with your images.

One can divide the services into three types …
The list is by no means exhaustive and it is safe to add services. I have tried to pick out good service. Comment if you think any service is poor or if you believe that any service is missing. Tell us also why you find it poor or excellent.

Social photo services
Flickr – If you have a free account, you can upload 20 MByte each month and Flickr shows only the 200 most recent photos. Flickr is one of the largest services. They have easy ways to display photos on blogs or websites. There is also a great community where you replace tips and discuss about lots of different things. Travel Photography, Stockholm and Gimpusers are just some of groups you can enter.

Ipernity – Looks alot like Flickr, but the small difference that you can share any file not only pics that it will do excellent. You can even share your .psd from photoshop and it will recognise it and even your .wmf from Moviemaker it will recognise as a movie. Takin 1000 files rather than 200 before you have to become Pro it will certainly make you more willingly to pay up. Doesn’t have alot of services that use theur API like Flickr.

Picasa Webalbum – Read more about Picasa webbservice yourself. Its imortant to know that if you use blogger your pictures end up here. Your space is 1000 MB, so its rather large. The service is tightly integrated with Picasa, which is a very good and simple photo album using simple editing capabilities, as I said to come back to. Picasaweb has still much to be desired.

Fotki – Your room is 50 MByte of free account, but the service offer just now unlimited service for a month. Seamless upload with several options. Java was able to upload entire folders at a time.

Services with more limited social interaction.

Yahoo Photos – Closed because of the buying of Flickr.

Photobucket – The free space is 1 GByte. Max file size is 500 KB and a size of 1024X728 pixels. It has now also introduced Slideshow and also able to upload videos. With Flock, which is a new browser so you can drag multiple images at once. You can also obtain paper copies, but it works not in Sweden.

Other services, photo services, which is a lot
Vox – On Vox gives you 2 gigabytes per month charge if I understood correctly. Vox is a site where you also can publish so that only some can see your material. Six Apart, which also created Moveable Types and Typepad says it is a good quality.

Xanga – On Xanga, you have 1 GByte space. The service leaves much to be desired in the formulation and design. It works reasonably well, but I can not recommend hand unless you are looking for a relatively large uttrymme. I’d rather prefer Vox than Xanga.

Photo Services to communicate / sell photos
iStockphoto – iStockphoto is where you can apply to have the opportunity to sell at your pictures. They put up artwork, photos, flash and video clip. It’s free to join the page if you want to share their photos for free.

Wikimedia – Great place to share their photos if you want to do it under the Creative Commons or GPL. Here you’ll find yourself a great shot that you can use without violating copyright. You can upload your own photos if you have an account. You do not have an account to copy the pictures and use those in your blog or on your website.

Summary: If you want a page where you want a rapid flow of images and communication is the Flickr applicable. It is important to save the images to be at his blog, I think Photobucket are best. Vox is a very interesting solution if you want a place to write, share their photos while you might want to limiting it to those closest.