Come and Play in the Flickr Collection on Getty Images
85612589, Kathy Wolfe/Flickr
We’ve got a few new toys in our Flickr toy box and we’re excited to share them with you.
Check out our new feature called Flickr photo clouds where you can visually group images that catch your eye. Share your clouds with your friends, view other users’ clouds, mark favorites and follow fellow users.
We’ve also created a fun Facebook application, a widget for your personal web pages and a screen saver - all of which feature Flickr photo clouds to help you tell your own visual stories. Download them from our Flickr collection home page.
The Flickr collection continues to grow daily with new images being added from all over the world so there’s always something new, inspiring, funny or just plain nuts to discover!
So don’t be the last one without a cloud – inspire yourself and the community today – www.gettyimages.com/flickr.
Tags: clouds, Facebook, Getty Images, The Flickr Collection on Getty Images
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June 12th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
[...] Cirrus, cumulus, Flickr: The fact that Flickr has democratized photography and turned many hacks into professionals is not lost on Getty Images, the legendary stock photo agency. So back in March, we debuted the Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com, allowing mere mortals to license their work for commercial use. Today, Getty has introduced “photo clouds,” a new way to navigate groups of related photos within the Collection. You can join the community and create your own cloud around topics like “winter,” “out of Africa,” “bizarre photos,” and “fishy.” (Note the spiffy massage music that soothes as you explore). But wait! There’s also a screensaver, desktop widget, and a new Facebook app that lets you create a photo cloud to reflect your status mood. Brings new meaning to cloud computing. More here. [...]
June 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Great way to fly through images ! Question : how do you share a cloud with someone else ? Any chance to have my sendee view my image selection as a cloud ? (other than exporting the cloud into a traditional lightbox on gettyimages.com, to then forward it to a contact). Thanks, Jeff.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Glad to hear you like the new experience Jeff and thanks for the feedback. We’re planning on adding some functionality in the near future to allow users to share clouds with each other directly. In the meantime there are two ways you can do this indirectly. First, by the ‘export cloud to lightbox/share lightbox’ method you already mentioned and second, by having your intended recipient ‘follow’ you. They just need to be signed in and looking at one of your clouds in the ‘cloud view’. From here they select ‘Follow this user’ and from then on whenever they go to their ‘My Clouds’ tab they’ll be able to see all the clouds you’ve made public.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:38 am
hi, I can just not make out how to access ur facebook app to showcase flickr pics.. is there something I am missing here? there’s no URL in this post which leads us to the same. i have searched your entire site and not landed with anything which leads me to that app & the fun toys u have mentioned here. pls help!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Happy to help Twilight fairy. Simply follow the link on this post to the Flickr collection front door. Past the intro page, look for the tab to the bottom left of the “cloud universe” screen called “Inspiring downloads.” Select this and choose the Facebook app option to be taken to this app’s download page on Facebook. Note you’ll be prompted to create a Facebook account if you don’t already have one or you will be asked to login to your current Facebook account.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:14 am
I think This Flickr collection is a pretty cheep way to undermine those who have made a living from supplying getty images over the years Not sure why Getty would make so much effort to market this small collection at the detriment of the more professional approach that they used to have to the stock market .
June 19th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Clouds of images …. Another Gimmick !
June 20th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@ Bob Smith…maybe because Getty get’s some pictures they don’t get from professionals ?
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hi Bob –
We’re actually very proud of the Flickr collection and we believe that, far from undermining our other collections and photographers, it serves as a great complementary collection to them. The promotions we have done and the interest in the Flickr collection also benefits everyone on the gettyimages site with increased customer awareness and traffic, as clients search not only for Flickr images but across all collections. Also note that these images from Flickr are being presented and priced at the same levels as the rest of the images on the site, so there is no erosion or undercutting of licensing rates for Flickr images to the detriment of any others. Something I have said a number of times in conversations with photographers, that seems to resonate very well with them but that might not fit in exactly here, is that professional stock photographers should actually be glad that we did what we did with Flickr in bringing Flickr images into a traditional professional stock context, at traditional RM/RF pricing levels, when someone else could very easily have set up a deal with Flickr with either micro or no pricing and traditional stock structure at all, which would have hurt traditional stock photographers even more.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:41 pm
I need to sell my photo.I love this,my camera don’t is the best, but i take many pictures and i need to present my collection (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andressarafaela/).
Thanks!
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Dear Andressa,
Thank you for your interest in submitting your Flickr collection, we will forward your collection to our Flickr editors to review.
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I think Flickr users should demand that they have a complete licensing solution that is not gated by Getty editors. Collectively, they have millions of amazing images and Getty only handpicks a few. Flickr should integrate LicenseStream, http://www.licensestream.com, so each photographer can control pricing, license models and submit whatever they want. This solution can help photographers in an extremely competitive marketplace and still allow Getty to market and license premium content as they are doing already with Flickr. Flickr could also create and market premium content on their own site to create additional revenue opportunities. I welcome a thoughtful response. Thank you.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Hi David –
Thanks for the ideas and for sharing the link. We will be sure to pass them along to our friends at Flickr.
If you haven’t already, you might want to post over on the Flickr site as well.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 am
Hello,
How do I submit photos for review for your Flickr collection?
Thanks,
Steve
July 4th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Fantastic Option! I think it gives the novice who is just browsing another experience…keep it up…but do allow then to access the wider collection of photos for sale.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Please review my collection at http://www.flickr.com/NYC_blues.
NYCphotography.org
July 6th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Hi Steve,
We have some great discussions about how images are selected for the collection in our Flickr discussion forums. Specifically here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/gettyimagesonflickr/discuss/72157616130924800/
Some tips and tricks are:
*Make sure your photos are marked Public in your photostream
*Make sure your images are tagged appropriately
*Make sure your images are at least 3 megapixels
July 7th, 2009 at 12:37 am
I don’t understand what they mean by flickr on getty images? is there an option to patent your images on flickr now using getty? wtf is going on. haha
July 7th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Hi Jose,
The folks at Flickr and Getty Images have joined forces to build a platform to create a first class collection of royalty free, and rights managed photographs.
Getty Images has an experienced team of editors who are scouring the Flickrverse for public photographs they feel would complement The Flickr Collection on Getty Images. Once the editors find photos they feel are suitable or a licensing request is made for one of the images, they will be contacting the photographer who published it via FlickrMail.
If you have further questions about the collection, don’t miss our FAQ located here: http://www.flickr.com/help/gettyimages/.
Thanks!
July 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I love those photos very much! It can help me get more image.thanks!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:24 am
As upsetting and painful as it is for professional photographers who have poured their lives into photography, to face heavy competition from amateurs, with little or no training, was inevitable that this would happen. There’s no stopping it, but pros must embrace it, and find new ways to be profitable.
Photography is now bigger than ever, and available to all, due to the advances of modern digital equipment. I know, I’m one of them, and I love taking pictures with my DSLR. Who knows, perhaps my own shots will be included here some day.
I’m happy to see more content, and more options from Getty. As a creative director, I buy from Getty often, but cost cutting has made our jobs more difficult. This tool may help.
I have great respect for pro photographers, and will always prefer to hire them first. The current economic climate and changes in technology have made it tough for us all, and I feel their pain. They must re-invent and learn new methods, or risk losing out altogether.
My 2 cents!
August 16th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
It’s a good thing you people are doing over there, I really love your creativities. To improve on your work , there is need for more beautiful images that will affect people.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:33 am
wonderful! a collection of images that arent always perfect. for too long its been about sharpness, correct levels, no blown out whites…etc but often boring ’stock images’ ! the flickr collection has emotion, humor, stories to tell and are generally fun and interesting to look at! cheers! at last! getty youve got it right !
October 19th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Really great guys. And after reading some other post regarding pro photographers they will make out fine. The bottom line is a great photo is a great photo.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:31 am
In replying to Bob Smith’s concern that Flickr is for the non-professional photographer to showcase there imagery. In fact there are many professionals like myself using Flickr to promote and share and showcase imagery. It is a good place to have millions of people judge and comment on your photography and personally I think there are many non-pro photographers on Flickr that will give most professional out there a run for their money. Many of the photographers are looser, less uptight and experimental in their outlook as a result of not sticking to rules and not having the stress of having to please clients. As Todd McVey says “a great photo is a great photo”
October 28th, 2009 at 4:47 am
hi there! How do I submit photos for review for your Flickr collection? thanks