I've been messing around with Flickr since the summer. I really like it. It's especially brilliant for getting photos off my phone.
I've been trying to post pictures from Flickr to here, seamlessly. But
I can only get the pictures to be 500 pixels wide and all pictures on
Noisy Decent Graphics are strictly 400 pixels wide. Anyone know how I
can change the Flickr settings?
I'm really interested in photography and I consider myself pretty good at it (who said blogging was narcissistic?). I love the Magnum photographers and like Mrs Colman I'm a huge Martin Parr fan. He's a genius.
When I was much younger I had to go with my Mum to Cardiff, she had a
meeting or something, and left to wander round the city on my own I
found an exhibition by Sebastian Salgado, the infamous images from Serra Pelada, Brazil. I'd never been so moved by an exhibition before. The images are beautiful.
Rankin is still good, this picture of the Queen is a refreshing take on familiar face. I'm also a big fan of Elaine Constantine. We tried to use her for a project recently but it didn't work out. Shame.
In case you hadn't guessed, these photos are all by me. Photographers seem a little wary of posting images online and I'm a little wary of posting images by Rankin and Magnum.
I can't help you, but from personal experience I can tell you flickr support is brilliant. Everything I've asked them they've been able to help me with. I suggest you start there.
Posted by: simon | Nov 27, 2006 at 11:20
Ben, if you like Martin Parr, take a look at these guys www.shawandshaw.co.uk they've just done a great book called 'Where Are You? A Postman's Diary'
Posted by: claire | Nov 27, 2006 at 16:06
Claire, we have this book in our new library.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unseen-UK-Photographs-People-Royal/dp/094616553X
Is that similar?
Posted by: Ben | Nov 27, 2006 at 16:20
not at all. This has dry, wry observations from a former postman turned performer. Its very northern and very funny.
Posted by: claire | Nov 27, 2006 at 16:33
i love flickr. sometimes i spend a half hour just looking at food people have taken pictures of.
Posted by: jon | Nov 27, 2006 at 18:54
Simon, I've asked.
Posted by: Ben | Nov 27, 2006 at 20:00
I think you'd have to size the photos to 400 pixels wide before uploading them. That would then be both the "large" and "medium" sizes.
Alternatively, you could leave the photos sized as is but explicitly define the width and height in the HTML you use to place them--e.g., width="400" height="300". The image will take just as long to load, but at least it won't break your template (assuming that's your concern).
Posted by: India | Nov 28, 2006 at 14:40
Simon - no reply for Flickr yet.
India - Flickr doesn't let you alter the size in their html.
I think I'm going to change the width of all the pictures to 500. I rather like the nice big images.
Posted by: Ben | Nov 29, 2006 at 10:53
No, not in their HTML, but when you post the Flickr-hosted photo on your own blog, e.g., here, you can code the img element however you want, no?
Posted by: India | Nov 29, 2006 at 13:05
Yes, but I can do that already. I want to blog the photos direct from Flickr.
No bother.
Posted by: Ben | Nov 29, 2006 at 13:09
Lovely evocative photography. Sweet.
Posted by: Charles Frith | Dec 02, 2006 at 09:35