The club has setup a Flickr group to allow members to post their images to share and
comment on.
Flickr is a site setup and maintained in association with Yahoo. You can register for a
free Yahoo account or use your Google or Facebook Id to setup a free Flickr account. You
can upload your images to your account and set restrictions on who can see them etc.
A free Flickr account allows you to upload 2 videos and 300 meg of photos per month
with a max of 15 meg per image. Your photostream is limited to the 200 most recent
images and the larger sizes are not available. They are saved when you upload in case
you upgrade to a pro account.
The Pro Account is $24.95 US per year and allows unlimited upload of photos, 20 meg
per image, unlimited upload of video, 90 sec max, 150meg per video, ability to show HD
video, Unlimited storage, Unlimited bandwidth and many other features.
Either account will let you participate in the club group. The group is invitation only but
is public so other people can look at the images.
To get started:
Setup or access your Flickr account.
Post some images to your Flickr account that you wish to share with the group.
Go to http://www.flickr.com/groups/cbpc/
Click on the link "Join This Group" Login and send a message to the group ( Have not
tested this part) or Email Brian Kilpatrick, Lynne Kelman or Katherine Crosbie and they
will send you an invite. Be sure to include your real name somewhere in the message as
the Flickr account names are sometimes a bit cryptic and we might not know who you
are.
Once you are a member of the group you just go to the image in your photostream and
click to open it. (you have to be logged in to your account). Just above the image you
will see Actions and Share this buttons.
Click on the Actions button and choose Add to a group, you will see a list of all the
groups you belong to and can choose the Crescent beach Photography Club from the list.
The image will then show up in the group and people in the club can then comment on it
etc.
Flickr has the ability to let you map your images to a specific spot on the earth if you
wish and it can then use that information and the Exif Data from within your image to tell
visitors more about the image. All of this information can be restricted if you wish so
that no one except yourself can see it.
An example is an image I posted to my photo stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
bkilp232/5443822564/in/photostream/#/
Flikr extracts the date of the image and the camera used from the Exif data and then
uses the map information that I added by placing the image on a map to generate a
description of the image.
This photo was taken on February 20, 2010 West End, Vancouver, BC, CA, using a Pentax K-x.
Is what it generated from the photo in the link above.
We hope you will find the Flickr group a useful addition to the club and encourage all club
members to participate. We will revise this page with more information as we test out
features of Flickr.
Here is a quick tutorial on getting images to the group site.