Spreading Wings Photography
FAQ
There are a couple of questions that I get quite often in flickrmail, and I figured I'd just go ahead and make a little FAQ page so I could answer those once for everyone. :)
Q. What lens do you use?
A. For almost ever single picture in my 365 I've used my 50mm lens. It is the most amazing thing ever if you need a good, inexpensive lens. You can't take shots that are super close or really far ones because it's fixed and can't zoom, but for portraits and random shots, it's perfect. It has terrific depth of field and focus. I love it. :)
Q. How do you post photos in the comments?
A. People do it in different ways. I'm sure you've probably heard this, but if you want to put a picture in the comments that is already on flickr, you simply copy the URL (the link at the top of the page, the website, whatever you want to call it), paste it into the comments, and put brackets [ ] on either end of it.
To put a photo in the comments that is NOT already on flickr is slightly more tricky. You need to have the photos already online somewhere, like photo bucket or tumblr or something like that. I use a blog on blogspot.com which is free and easy to use. I just upload all the photos that I'll want in the comments onto my blog which is at this website: www.ssflickr.blogspot.com/ . Once they're uploaded to the blog, I click on the photo I want to use (it opens in a separate window) and grab the URL from it. Then I go back to flickr, to my main picture, and in the comments I paste one of the two formats (which can be found at the bottom of the formatting tips that you can use when writing comments). I find that the second one works for me and the first doesn't, so I guess you'll just have to mess around with that for yourself. So THEN after pasting that into your comment, you take the URL from the photo and paste it either where it says LINK TEXT if you use the first option, or URL if you use the second option, replacing the text that was previously there. And that's all there is to it!
FAQ
There are a couple of questions that I get quite often in flickrmail, and I figured I'd just go ahead and make a little FAQ page so I could answer those once for everyone. :)
Q. What lens do you use?
A. For almost ever single picture in my 365 I've used my 50mm lens. It is the most amazing thing ever if you need a good, inexpensive lens. You can't take shots that are super close or really far ones because it's fixed and can't zoom, but for portraits and random shots, it's perfect. It has terrific depth of field and focus. I love it. :)
Q. How do you post photos in the comments?
A. People do it in different ways. I'm sure you've probably heard this, but if you want to put a picture in the comments that is already on flickr, you simply copy the URL (the link at the top of the page, the website, whatever you want to call it), paste it into the comments, and put brackets [ ] on either end of it.
To put a photo in the comments that is NOT already on flickr is slightly more tricky. You need to have the photos already online somewhere, like photo bucket or tumblr or something like that. I use a blog on blogspot.com which is free and easy to use. I just upload all the photos that I'll want in the comments onto my blog which is at this website: www.ssflickr.blogspot.com/ . Once they're uploaded to the blog, I click on the photo I want to use (it opens in a separate window) and grab the URL from it. Then I go back to flickr, to my main picture, and in the comments I paste one of the two formats (which can be found at the bottom of the formatting tips that you can use when writing comments). I find that the second one works for me and the first doesn't, so I guess you'll just have to mess around with that for yourself. So THEN after pasting that into your comment, you take the URL from the photo and paste it either where it says LINK TEXT if you use the first option, or URL if you use the second option, replacing the text that was previously there. And that's all there is to it!