Post your Flickr Explored images!

All of the images I see on Explore have double digit favorites which is something none of my images have.

AnnieMacD wrote in post #17805722
I've got two on today and I think they were just added at about lunch time.

Gallery photo:
posted by AnnieMacD originally in forum: Lens Sample Photo Archive

Gallery photo:
posted by AnnieMacD originally in forum: Lens Sample Photo Archive

Awesome Annie!

DGStinner wrote in post #17805769
All of the images I see on Explore have double digit favorites which is something none of my images have.

Well, you do have to be relatively active on Flickr - follow people whose photos you like and 'like' some photos. After that, who knows?

mystik610 wrote in post #17805791
Awesome Annie!

Thanks!

DGStinner wrote in post #17805769
All of the images I see on Explore have double digit favorites which is something none of my images have.

Not necessarily. I have one photo that's still in Explore (Top 500 interestingness) for the day it was uploaded, and it only has 13 total favs on it. I've also had a photo make it in to Explore with only 3 favorites, though it has subsequently dropped out of the top 500.

You need to follow people, have people follow you, share your photos in groups (but not too many!), and be wordy in your title, description and tags. If you look through Explore on any given day, you'll see that taking excellent pictures isn't necessarily a requirement, though it sure doesn't hurt.

DGStinner wrote in post #17805769
All of the images I see on Explore have double digit favorites which is something none of my images have.

From my web data mining (and my own experience), to get to Explore all it takes is to get ~5 faves, a few comments, and ~50 views in the first 12 hours from uploading your photo to Flickr. This assuming that your photo joined only one - two groups (make sure that it is not a group which officially forces people to fave/comment other photos in the pool - Explore bans them). Choose a very active and fairly small (a few thousand members at most) group, submit a worthy photo, and you might get a surprise.

I always heard the 'opinion' that sharing to groups lessened your chances.

Then got one explored after it had been shared with at least 7 groups. Go figure.

Congratulations, Annie!

DGStinner, I can give you a simple solution to your problem. Follow plenty of people (lets say at least one thousand), and I can bet your images will get easily lots of comments, faves and views. In my opinion, as long as an algorithm decides if your image will be explored or not, it doesn't make you a better photographer.

Ursyn wrote in post #17806166
Congratulations, Annie!

DGStinner, I can give you a simple solution to your problem. Follow plenty of people (lets say at least one thousand), and I can bet your images will get easily lots of comments, faves and views. In my opinion, as long as an algorithm decides if your image will be explored or not, it doesn't make you a better photographer.

Thanks, and so true.

Ursyn wrote in post #17806166
Follow plenty of people (lets say at least one thousand), and I can bet your images will get easily lots of comments, faves and views.

Are you suggesting I follow that many people in the assumption ~1% will follow back, view and fave some of my images?

Here are 2 of my latest that have been explored. Would be great to have some new followers, I'll usually follow straight back.
https://www.flickr.com​/photos/jaykirk/

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Done. Nice work Jay.

DGStinner wrote in post #17806306
Are you suggesting I follow that many people in the assumption ~1% will follow back, view and fave some of my images?

Exactly.

If you decide to make such an experiment, let us know later about results.

I don't follow many people 124 to be exact but have 1.2k followers so who knows.

Anyway a few of mine

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/AeSh​f7

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/xz8v​1h

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/vCFQ​5h

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/zHEU​jg

Some great images here. I've long given up on being "Explored".