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Regards,
Matt
Many thanks for sharing your expertise,
Irene
http://twitter.com/irenekoehler
I have been looking at various different commons sites over the past few months and have listed some of my faves here: http://delicious.com/mfubib/assets
As a person who feeds his family from photography, I have a love/hate relationship with Flickr and Creative Commons.
I think it is a great way for young aspiring photographers to get exposure and credit for their amazing talents. BUT I draw the line when Madison Ave. Agencies, or any size agency for that matter wants to scoop up someone's images for nothing and profit tremendously from it.
Personally all my images are All RIghts Reserved, but if I had a quarter for every inquiry from a GIANT ad agency that contacts me via Flickr saying "You know we really don't have a large budget for this Zillion dollar account we are doing work for" I'd be a zillionaire.
What are your thoughts on that side of things?
I will forward.
-R
twitter.com/1080group
In teaching business clients how to blog, I take them through the exact process you described. I found a great blog post on skelliewag.org that helped me understand how to source photos from Flickr for blog posts. I had been reading the Zenhabits lifestyle blog and was moved by the photos Leo included in his posts.
Many people new to blogging think they need to do everything themselves. This can apply to photography as well. One client wanted to write a blog post where he described the many different hats he wore as a consultant. A couple of weeks went by and he kept saying he couldn't write the blog post until he took a photo of himself wearing a lot of hats piled atop his head. He finally posted with no photo. I decided to take a chance by finding a photo of hats on Flickr under the Creative Commons license and updating his post. I wasn't sure how he would take it but... he LOVED it! I explained about CC licensing, why it's important to credit the photographer and how it would help to pull readers deeper into his blog posts.
It was the turning point for him in social networking (I think) and now he happily hops on Flickr to source photos for his blog posts!
You can see the result in my blog.
http://mikem33607.wordpress.com/
Try this css:
div.photoleft {float:left;border: 1px solid #999; padding:5px; text-align:center; color: #000; font:9px/.9em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
div.photoright {float:right;border: 1px solid #000; padding:5px; text-align:center; color: #000; font:9px/.9em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
and enclose the picture in this:
Photo by Ingrid Fuller
Of course, you can take the border out if you like. Let me know if this works for you.
@LadyExpat - those are good things to wish for, but then that's something with the way Creative Commons lays it out, too. There's not really an "ask first" license at current (that I'm aware of). There's a non-commercial setting in Creative Commons, so that one can be met. But the other is trickier.
Ben Strong; @amver on Twitter
Just add [ style="width:100px;" ] to the div class= and use the image size you are adding. It will automatically wrap the text under the picture.
Hope that helps.
-Rachel (@bostonmarketer)
At Flickr.com, go to:
"You" >Your Account > Extending Flickr
and you will be able to connect Flickr directly to your blog. This will save you the step of copy pasting the code AND allow you select formatting rule like if your photo will be left or right aligned to the text, where the credit show up and if you want an border around your image.
It supports Blogger, Moveable Type, Typepad, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Manila and Vox.
Here, people may say, "But it posts it live to my blog! I don't like that!". For Wordpress, someone has created a solution. I use it on all my blogs and client's blogs. Flickr blog this to draft was created by Donncha, a well know developer of Wordpress.
Using these two methods makes it easy without the need to mess with html code.
Creative Commons is confusing on Flikr, I have started using Zemanta as a blog helper and whenever I have used one of their pictures it is attributed directly under picture in the entry???? I am not sure where they get the pictures though and am a bit curious...need to do more research on that one :)
@LadyExpat asking first would be the ideal situation, but if I am trying to get a blog entry posted and I notice that the photo has a request before using, I will probably not use the image and use another one, I just don't want to take the time sometimes, have I asked for permission first - absolutely but not very often. Which means that the person's images aren't used as often as it could be, if at all.
I know that there have been times I would have preferred that someone had asked before using an image of mine, but as long as they are not making money off them and it is used in "reasonably" good taste -- no porn, overthrow the gov't, drugs, etc. I don't have too many problems with their use. But it is the owners choice on how their images are used not anyone else.
Perhaps Liz's solution is a good one if you use the image put a comment and link on that page and if the owner objects of the way you have used their IP, they can ask you to take down their image, which I would immediately do.
But thanks Chris for trying to clear some of this confusion up.
There's a plugin mod for that. I have used it under Thesis theme and others: http://www.thesistheme.org/photo-dropper-thesis/
Basically, you are writing your post and click a button above the text area. Type in a keyword in the little window that appears and search for the image you want. After finding it, you select from three image sizes and everything else is done automatically. The mods suggested by the side allow you to put a Polaroid-like frame around the pic. The results are really good!
My blog is in Brazilian Portuguese, but you can see results under "big" (Porsche) and "medium" (skies + chicks) sizes over there, if you want. It's the link on my name upthere, pronounced "gee-OH-go".
Cheers, D.
Photo credit: Flickr person
In that case, because my photos aren't all that special, I ask for Kiva vouchers. As they come in increments of $25, and help support entrepreneurs in developing countries through microloans, in many ways it makes it more likely that they'll pay. Check out Kiva.org now!
That is a great idea! I share my photos on Flickr as Creative Commons. Recently a museum contacted me about using one from election day for a democracy exhibit and asked about payment and being credited. Since I'm not a professional, I told them there would be no cost but to please credit me.
I am going to suggest Kiva next time for compensation!
Please feel free to use any of my photos, with attibution of course.....LisaNewton
My blog is for a very specific niche - hockey goaltenders. As a result, when a photographer has taken shots of a goalie I can be fairly certain that they'll be taking lots of other goalie shots and chances are, they'll be interested in seeing my blog. So building that relationship becomes even more important for me. In fact I get shots sent to me now by photographers. It's been great.
I would also add though - don't restrict yourself to shots licensed with attribution. I have asked many photographers with shots "all rights reserved" and thusfar have only been denied permission to use their shots on one occasion. Perhaps it is because I am non-commercial, perhaps because people are generous by nature I don't know, but it's been a tremendous resource.
We would ideally also want to put some kind of comment at the bottom of the photo, but we don't know whether we can (first we don't really know how, second we don't know whether the free wordpress.com platform we're using can make this possible). We don't like doing the photo credit at the end of the post as it looks kind of out of place.
Bethune
Thanks for a very useful post. My friend kept telling me to use Flickr for photos, but I went there a couple of times and just felt lost. Also had a nagging worry in the back of my mind that I would use them wrong, didn't have the right permission, etc. This clears all of that up.
You're awesome!
Thanks,
Jody
You have a few fans at the Ohio Attorney General's Office. Attorney General Richard Cordray brought in a communication team to improve our Web site and improve how we utilize technology. We are also very aware of cost, so we have implemented free services such as Twitter to communicate effectively and efficiently. We use Flickr for many of our photos, as well.
I thought you might be interested in seeing how government has begun to adopt "new" technologies. Do you have any ideas on how we can continue to improve?
What about Twitpics?
Perhaps the simplest solution is to put the photo credit at the beginning of your post (single, standalone line before you start the blog entry), in addition to the other things you're already doing (eg, linking to the original source).
@totallytea
Is that it?
Another great way of finding relevamt pics is to utilise Zemanta (a service which I first discovered through your blog). Zemanta actually suggests relevant photos from Flickr and you simply click on the photo you like and it gets posted to your blog.
Regards
Kevin
I like to add photographs or graphics to my posts. I usually use photobucket, but the clarity is not always great!
I love finding out new ways to perfect my blog!
Do you know of any similar creative commons licensing for music? I like to produce short videos, and it's nice to have 5-20 second music clips at the beginning and/or end of the video. I like the idea of giving up and coming artists some exposure, and I don't really have the budget to purchase RF music for this purpose.
Lane Reiss
Let us know here if you find anything, please. Thanks!
http://music.podshow.com
http://www.podsafeaudio.com
:)
Ed Callahan
This is me, headed over to flickr to open an account...
Thanks Chris.
George
thanks for sharing
Here is my write up on Zemanta http://blogtelling.net/2008/07/blog-me-up-checking-out-zemanta/
cheers,
Thanks
:)
Joyce
www.beawealthyentrepreneur.com
I have not used Flickr in forever, but I think I'll start using it again after reading this!
Thanks for those links. I browsed each site a little bit, but I'm not clear on the best method for attribution if I use music clips from them. If I give proper attribution, is that all I need to safely use the music from these sites?
On another note, I'd love to link my messages to a profile and pic, as many others have done here. I'm not seeing where to register my profile information, though. Any guidance will be appreciated.
Lane Reiss
and 1 of your points was to give credit for pics. It took all day for me to figure out the flickr thing & giving credit (I didn't want to mess it up). This post has clarified that I did it correctly! One of my concerns was that the photographer wouldn't want me to use the photo for my blog but according to the rest of the comments it only sometimes becomes an issue.
Thank you again from a newbie,
Charane
www.everythinggreenhome.blogspot.com
@amandare
How to do if I using Flickr to store my images and link to my blog post ? I means reader only view my images from my blog.
I am confusing of using Flickr.
Thanks Again :)
This post gave me 2 great tips:
- I love the idea of make the photo itself a link to the photographer's page
- and I have now put the link to the search page on my bookmark toolbar so I can find it fast when I'm blogging.
Thanks very much.
@VandyMassey
By the way, another great site for free photos is http://sxc.hu aka "Stock Exchange". It's not a CC license, but basically the same as the CC Attribution license.