Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But CONGRATULATIONS regardless!!! A View is a view. That means someone cares!! On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > The "proof" is to ask them to buy a print or a small donation to support > your cute thing photos.If only everyone contributes a penny, you would be > $2500 richer. Sadly, if you get $25, that would be quite a feat (not from > your family etc. :-D) > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> > wrote: > >> This morning my flickr stats showed that I'd reached one-quarter million >> views of my photos. Not too bad for a middle-aged guy who lives in an >> ordinary American suburb and doesn't attempt to create an Internet cult of >> personality. Now, I don't really put that much credence in "number of >> clicks" as an indication of a photo's artistic merits. I basically just >> take pictures that interest me. I'm not trying to make myself famous for >> more than 15 minutes. >> >> Anyway, just for fun, here's what got the most views: >> >> 1. Cute dogs doing cute things >> 2. Not-very-good snapshots of Hispanic children at an outdoor birthday >> party with a pi?ata (these may be a fluke--I think these attracted the >> attention of a large extended family, church group or similar) >> 3. Attractive women, especially outdoors >> 4. Pictures taken in Israel, especially Jerusalem. >> 5. Young couples interacting, preferably affectionately >> 6. Veiled Muslim women >> 7. The occasional really beautiful scenic, preferably at the golden hour >> or sunset. It helps if it's an exotic location or has some really magic >> lighting. >> >> I also sorted my pictures by flickr's "interestingness" measure, which is >> the number of times people marked a picture as a "favorite," and/or >> commented. A similar pattern to the above emerges. But now a group of >> black-and-white "decisive moment" people pictures and humorous, quirky >> juxtapositions are counted among the most popular. These are among my >> favorite subjects. Of course, I belong to several groups that emphasize >> these kinds of pictures, so it's a self-selecting population. >> >> I'm not sure what any of this really tells me, but it's interesting. Any >> thoughts? >> >> --Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto