Yes, It's The Best Site For Photo Sharing In 2022: Flickr.com

Hey there, my name is Dylan. I'm going to do a quick video about my favorite photo sharing website on the Internet. It's an old one, it's one that may make you laugh and say, is it still around? Flickr.com Amazing site for photographers, for hobbyists, for amateurs, for professionals. It's a really cool community where you can post photos and it's just photos. You can upload videos to Flickr, but almost nobody does. But it's primarily a flow photo sharing website. I'll talk quickly about some of my favorite things about Flickr and why I continue to use it for so many years. I'll also talk about why, in light of recent events, it's a much better place than Instagram to post your photography. So looking at the feed here, this is my homepage and I will come out up front and say I am a paid member of Flickr. I do pay yearly for the pro membership, which has gone up in price and recent years, even before kind of all of the exhaustive pricing that we've seen across the spectrum in the world today. It's been going up and I think there's a lot to say about that. But I do think it's still a worthwhile investment. I'll show you why. So on the feed here, you're going to see photography first and foremost. It's not like Instagram or other social media where you can, you know, really scroll through. You have to take some time here, which is what I like about it a lot. You can go into this really immersive mode which lets you see photographers that you follow. You can also show groups that you follow, friends and family. You can put people as favorites, which is something that, you know, Instagram just does not do. There's an option for it, but you can't default to it. So you can really categorize your feed this way. You've got your stats up here, recent views, group discussions, Flickr editorial, etc. If you have the free version, there's going to be ads here. So click keep that in mind. But primarily for pro users, this is the experience you're going to see. So going into a photo here, awesome image, you get this kind of full bleed image here. My favorite part of Flicker is right here. This is the EXIF info. So I know that this photographer, Mike, used a Sony A7R Mark III. I can see he's adapting a Nikon lens to it. I can see the aperture he used. I can see that what focal length it was taken out. If it's his zoom lens. I can see the ISO shutter speed if there was a flash. And then probably the best part is you get to see the full EXIF info. So here you get to see what he's using. He's not a lightroom user. It seems like he uses Photoshop, Macintosh. This is something you can opt out of. But I love this. I think a lot of folks on here do enjoy it as well. You also get copyrights to your photos. So if somebody does want to download it and use it, there's certain use cases for for that. Flickr will tell you all about that in the link here. So again, what's the best part of Flickr photography? You get to see this beautiful image. You can even go full screen and really get rid of everything else and just see the image. I love that zooming in, right? Getting to see the details of images with no compression for pro users. And I believe if I'm not mistaken, free users don't experience compression either. You'll get the full image there. Going back to my feed here, see if I can go back. There we go again. I'm on the full bleed feed here. Here's a user that I love following that doesn't have pro and he posts photos from Ukraine, doesn't post the photos in full resolution so I can't go in. And again I'm looking at this on a 4k display. I'm really getting just a little bit bigger version of what I see in the feed. But really cool. Still get to see the camera he used to the lens. This is probably a third party lens that didn't connect to the camera. Again, all the information Again with Flickr I can go in and favorite a photo by clicking this little star. A lot like liking it. I can leave a cool comment. I could say hey man, really good shot. Love the warm tones here. So Flickr not as socially active I would say as other sites. But here's a cool thing. Views, faves, comments, right? And then say I really like this photographer and I see him in my feed. I can go through all the images that he's posted and really say wow these are really cool and quickly like them. You can see I favorited most of his images here but I really like them. I'm going to continue favoriting them Again some of my favorite things about Flickr so going through I just see this really, really great feed. Here's a photographer I really enjoy. His name's Brandon. Amazing, amazing photographer, shoots a lot on Fujifilm, has a bunch of very strange Fun cameras actually shoots on gfx. And if you're a GFX shooter, you know that the resolution on GFX is unbelievable. So I want to pull up an image here that was shot with a GFX50R and again, medium format. If you really, really want to get to know what this camera is capable of doing, Flickr is really the only way you're going to see it, save for downloading the RAW files. Zooming in here, he uploads his full resolution images and on a 4K display. This video is also in 4K. You can really look around just like you can do on a lot of other photo websites. Just the fidelity and sort of the resolution of the image. Really, really, really cool. So I really love that you can see how many views he gets, you can see how many faves. You know. This is taken last month. So you get to see who's looking at your photo, who's engaging with it. A lot of comments here, a lot of conversation going on. There's tags, there's groups, there's albums. Say, there's a lens I really like the Fuji GF 53.5 which I have, which I love. You can go into this group and this is all opt in. You don't need to do this. This is sort of the social aspect of Flickr. And you can go in here and say, wow, I like that lens. I love this picture. What is this lens capable of? Wow, that's a really, really crystal clear image off the window of an airplane. So again, photo from Brandon here. But you can find other photographers. I can click view all photos here and see a photographer that took a photo of something maybe I really enjoy. Say this photo here. I could say, hey, you know what, I like this photographer, right? Getting a lot of views was taken this year. I love where he's taking photos at. Again, I can zoom in and I can really enjoy the image and really to get a sense of it and follow him just like you can do on other photo sites. But again, it's the XIF info here I think that's so crucial. So this is a GFX1 hundreds image. In fact, it'll let me download the original image. Almost 12,000 by 9,000 pixels. Really unbelievable. Again, I can go full screen, really enjoy the image, Pixel peep if I want, I can really look around and say, dang, that is an awesome photo. Flicker is really the key for this. So when we think about where are we going in our photo journey on the Internet, are we staying on instagram Are we moving to Twitter? I see some people talk about Tumblr. I think Flickr is the best place for it. Yeah, it's paid. Yeah. You know, to pay, you do get some of the cool statistic features. Let's pull those up real quick. But I've been a Flickr member since September 2008. This is not sponsored. They've never given me a dollar. I've got 13.1 gigabytes of photos on there. I've gotten over 3.7 million views on my photos. You can see every day what photos of yours are the most popular. You can really dive into where am I good in my photography? Where are people favoriting my photography? What's my most popular photo of all time? It's this photo here that was taken in 2015 on an X100T. And again, there's that full resolution. I can see what that camera is capable of and I can really critique my photography. I don't have the horizon quite straight on that shot. Those are things that I've fixed over time. But going back to your photography six, seven, eight years later, it's really special. And I think a website like this can really motivate you. And most of all, it is a great source of inspiration. Yeah, there's hashtags, if you will, there are tags. You can put stuff in groups and go to beaches of the world. But most importantly, I can click on the camera itself and see where people are using it. You can see that there's a big spike recently in this camera. You can see some of the most hyped and interesting photos taken with this camera. We can pull up this photo here. Not all users enable full resolution photos and that's their creative. Right? But you can see an incredible shot at F8. Maybe I need to shoot more at F8 if I'm looking for results like this. So again, it's a great website for sharing photos. I don't know why more people aren't on this site. I've gone over almost none of the features here. But I just want to show you why I'm so passionate about this website and why I really hope that as we go forward, it becomes something even more successful. So thanks for watching. Have a good one. Take care.