How to get more comments and fav's on my flickr photo stream?

Question

Ive been on flickr for a while now, and this year, got alot more into it, as im enjoying photography alot more!
Yesterday i added alot of my photos to groups, and added more tags- i got ALOT more comments and fav's as they were obviously being noticed.


Is there any other way that i can get people to look at my photos ? + i do update my stream regular
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16646595@N07/
Thanks! xxx

Answer 1

If you want people to see and respond to your photographs, you'll want to get your photos -- and yourself -- "out there":



- use descriptive tags, to make your photos searchable; some people also tag in different languages

- join groups where your photos would fit well, and add your photos to the group pools (be sure to understand each group's rules first!)

- if you're looking for critique and advice, search groups for "critique" for the right places for that

- participate in group discussion

- add people whose work you'd like to keep up with as contacts

- comment on other people's photographs



In the long run, it's mostly about networking. Find people you want to comment on and follow regularly, and some of them will reciprocate. It takes time, for most people, but one thing I know for certain (thanks to Stats) is that most of the comments on my photos come from people who call me a contact and who saw my photo on their "your contacts" page.



You can only control so much. If people don't like your work, they won't add comments and/or faves. Perhaps try joining some critique groups that can help you figure out where your strengths are and where you might need improvement. There are loads of them on Flickr, you just have to search the groups for them.



ETA: I took a quick look through your stream and noticed you do a lot of model photography. Joining some modeling groups I think would certainly help to give you a bit more exposure.

Answer 2

You get out of Flickr what you put into it. If you want serious feedback (rather than sparkly gif awards and pointless comments like 'wow! great pic') then join groups which are specifically relevant to you - your work, your techniques, your gear etc.



Tag well (as you are doing) and INTERACT - visit others streams & comments on their work - it's a two way process. If you just sit back & wait for comments, unless your work is exceptional, you'll wait a long time.



Get more into the portraits groups rather than teen groups (yup, I know you're a teen!) maybe get into off camera lighting & checkout the Strobist groups.



You have some excellent work on your photostream - I particularly like the model work - I think you would benefit with some additional lighting - when you have the opportunity to play around with the ambient/flash light mix you can get very creative!



Also - the EXIF data indicates shooting on Auto modes - take control of your exposures with manual and try spot metering.



I like what you are doing though - shows a good level of competency with a camera & I'll add you as a contact.



P.S. Do you shoot with that Rolleiflex?

Answer 3

Actually good photography is not correlated to the number of comments/faves you have on flickr. You can often see great photographs which don't get anywhere near the recognition they deserve, whilst some rubbish makes it into explore.



Look at this one for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/richard314159/5910068580/in/photostream it's from one of my friends, and should really deserve more recognition.



You see flickr is popularist, and hence real artist will never gain the upper hand. Put your photos in the right groups, butter people up, whore yourself out and follow every single fad there is and you'll get noticed. That's hardly the achievement you want to remember yourself by is it?



Hopefully you'll realise that it doesn't matter, as long as you like your work, and the people who matter like it, you shouldn't really care what the idiots on flickr think.

Answer 4

Just keep shooting, posting, and interacting with other photographers. You have to give if you expect to receive in return. Just posting to groups and running isn't enough. You have to comment on others' photos as well and participate in discussions in those groups.



Make contacts and talk to people, engage with them. If you're doing nothing more than expecting others to flock to you but giving nothing in return, then it's little more than selfish endeavor that's all about you and your photos and less about being supportive and engaging with fellow photographers.



By the way...a lot is two words, not one.

Answer 5

Well, you've gone trough the trouble to produce trendy looking pictures. It's just a matter of doing social networking. Add other people, comment and fav. Be a memeber of a few groups.

Answer 6

this is what i do:

-add A LOT OF contacts. go through photos u like on other ppl's streams, and add contacts.

the more contacts you add, the more ppl will click ur photostream and add u as a contact. once ur a lot of ppls contact, they will see ur newly uplaoded photos a lot more often. which means more comments. i have over 300 contacts i added. those ppl added me as a contact also, and i got more comments once i started addding more ppl



-join lots of groups (as u already are doing, which is great)



- if u have a tumblr/fb/twitter, you can always post ur flickr link, and more ppl will click and check it out



-add interesting photo tags/titles to ur photos.



-link other photos in ur captions if u like.

example:

sometimes when i do a survey from a tag on flickr, in the survey if i answer something like " last thing u drank: coffee" i would link the word "coffee" to another photo of mine of like a starbucks cup or wutever.

heres the link code to doing that < href = " link to ur other photo " > type text here < / a > (all without spaces tho.)



- once you have a lot of contacts, tag a few of your contacts that seem to comment alot on ur fotos, and once they are "Tagged" to a photo of urs, they will look at ur photo and most likely give u feedback on it:)



-if u have a loooot of photos that you upload all in one day, u might not want to do that anymore. bc i noticed that if i upload like 10 photos a day, iits so much at once, so fewer ppl comment. if i add one or two photos every couple days, more ppl focus on those two photos and u will see the amount of comments/favorites go up. if u upload a lot at once, ppl will only see the first few on ur photostream most likey, and wont look at the rest. i hate when that happens cuz it might be a really good photo that u had but theres not even any veiws on it just bc its so far back in my photostream where no one looks. so upload very few every few days and more ppl will see it/more likely to comment on it/favorite it/etc.



-after i got more comments/contacts/favorites from other people, i started to delete my old photos at the verrrry end of my photostream that no one got around to seeing/commenting. and i re-uploaded them after i started getting more feedback from others. and they get more comments once u re-upload them later on after adding a lot more contacts



i hope this helps



(by the way, your photosteam is gorgeous! you have such great talent!)

Answer 7

I get more views and awards by firstly entering post 1 award 4 groups for example and then you are more likely to receive more views and awards.

Another way to get more is to remove from a group that you got lots of awards from and the re-submit it so that it can potentially gain twice as many.

Answer 8

only way to get more favourites, is to take good photos that people are interested in...