If the primary purpose of your photography is to share nearly each and every snap out of your camera, then you definitely shouldn’t abandon your Flickr account (or perhaps you should even go sign up for one). Individual images can be neatly grouped into categories such as landscapes, animals, people, still life or even My Summer Trip 2010. We love that you share with us too! Flickr allows its millions of users to link a single image, or group of images, almost anywhere across the web with imported metadata and other subject identifying tags. In fact, many of you use Flickr to then repost your images right here on Digital Photography School. In terms of its ability to share images across the web, Flickr takes the cake. So agree or disagree, here are my personal thoughts on why you should (or shouldn’t) abandon your Flickr account. Take it with a grain of salt, but also carefully think on it before either following my advice or disregarding it.

I’ll caveat the remainder of this post with the reminder that this is an opinion. But if you have aspirations of growing in your photographic career, you may want to consider your continued use of this or any other photo sharing behemoth. It’s likely where a lot of you share your images on the web.

For millions of budding photographers, it’s a place to freely share their photos with friends, family and categorized communities of other camera wielders around the world.įlickr is a great digital tool that has been responsible for the curation of images from the ultra mundane to the graphic masterpiece, the pornographic to the iconic and the out of focus to the nationally archived. Millions of photos are uploaded to the site on a daily basis from all around the world and of every subject you could possibly think to photograph.

When it comes to photo sharing, Flickr is without a doubt, the ten ton gorilla in the room.

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