[PIC_THREAD] Nature, Flora and Fauna

[Steve M]

Spring Daisy by Steve Millward, on Flickr

 

[Phal]

Like that one very nice

 

[Steve M]

Thanks Shot with my new 50mm MF lens.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Few recent ones

Orchid by Jon°, on Flickr

Orchid by Jon°, on Flickr

 

[{SAS}TB]

A few more

Gardening by Jon°, on Flickr

Blossom by Jon°, on Flickr

 

[{SAS}TB]

Blossom by Jon°, on Flickr

Orchid by Jon°, on Flickr

Flower ? by Jon°, on Flickr

 

[scamartist]

Playing with new camera on holiday in Sicily.

Sicily 2015 by scamart1st, on Flickr

 

[Kei]

snip

Like the orchid. I always seem to have trouble getting enough DOF to keep the whole thing sharp although ours at home are quite big which doesn't help. Do you use a tripod when shooting these?

Some of my non macro nature shots. These two were taken with an old nikon 80-200 f2.8 ED.
Peacock Butterfly by --Kei--, on Flickr

Hoverfly by --Kei--, on Flickr

These were taken with a mamiya-sekor 150mm f2.8 A. (wide open) It's got the creamiest bokeh I've ever seen, certainly a good rival for my zeiss 85 f1.4.
Blossom by --Kei--, on Flickr

Tulips by --Kei--, on Flickr

Tulips by --Kei--, on Flickr

 

[Steve M]

Gate Blur by Steve Millward, on Flickr

 

[Steve M]

I uploaded the above photo to flickr late last night, about 10:30pm.

Had a look this morning and it made the Explore page. First time i've had a photo on there. It had received over a thousand views and 20 odd faves overnight, which is very unusual for one of mine in such a short space of time..

I assume it was only on there for a bit, until the flickr clock ticked over to Monday morning as i can't see it on the Explore page now?

EDIT: having said that, the views are still racking up, 300 in the last hour?

 

[{SAS}TB]

First of all congrats on the Explore

It will still be in explore - goto the group page:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/2389839@N23/

On the left hand side it should say "Top Contributors" and at the end of the two lines it should say "YOU!"



You can also track all your Explored pics using a number of third party websites - I use

http://bighugelabs.com/scout.php

 

[Steve M]

Awesome, many thanks

 

[{SAS}TB]

No probs, you're welcome

Forgot to say, you can obviously click on "You!" on the explore page to pull your explored images up

 

[Steve M]

So the Explore page is basically all the invited photos in that group? The ones at the top the most recently added?

 

[{SAS}TB]

As far as I know, yep - not sure of the mechanics of getting invited, but that's how I understand it, yes

 

[Steve M]

From having a quick read about it, I think its faves, likes and comments in a short space of time but the photo can't be in more than 5 groups. Nothing to do with the quality of the pic, hence why you see some questionable ones in there sometimes. Think it also has to have a certain number of tags attached to it.

It's people with 1000's of followers that get their pics liked/faved as soon as they upload them that usually end up in Explore. I only have 400 odd followers.

In my case i received 3 faves and 20 odd views within a few minutes after putting my pic in 5 'bokeh' groups which is what i assume triggered the criteria to get invited into the Explore group.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Seems about right, but not sure about the less than 5 groups, pretty sure mine have all been in more than 5 when explored

 

[Steve M]

Hmmm that's interesting then. How many groups? A few more or loads?

 

[{SAS}TB]

Prolly 10 or so and then some more after the Explore (usually get a few invites or spot groups others are in / using)

 

[Steve M]

Yellow by Steve Millward, on Flickr

Peace by Steve Millward, on Flickr