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Subject: [Leica] 1/4 million views (so what?)
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:33:42 -0700
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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
>>
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