What makes a photo popular?

padu

I know about photorank... my question is a bit deeper.

Looking at today's popular photos, I see some that are really stunning, but some others that are photos of people on bday party, flash illuminated, red eye and everything. Mostly they are in a sequence.

How are they there? What people do to make their photos popular?

MPerdomo

Maybe it's because people don't solely judge a photo based on technical merit (espescially non-photographers).

frankenstein

where can you see today's popular photos?

Frank

padu wrote:

I know about photorank... my question is a bit deeper.

Looking at today's popular photos, I see some that are really stunning, but some others that are photos of people on bday party, flash illuminated, red eye and everything. Mostly they are in a sequence.

How are they there? What people do to make their photos popular?

Andy

frankenstein wrote:

where can you see today's popular photos?

Frank

http://www.smugmug.com/browse/
http://www.smugmug.com/popular

Jeff Geoghan

Concerned about "popular" gallery process
Hello all, it's 1:30 am and I'm still at it...

I had a customer who ranked a few shots as popular. They are now in my "popular" gallery. I had the idea to link that gallery and put a few more in there. Now I can't seem to figure out how my customer did that! Sigh.

Do I have this ranking process disabled? Thanks in advance for your help!

Allen

Jeff Geoghan wrote:

Hello all, it's 1:30 am and I'm still at it...

I had a customer who ranked a few shots as popular. They are now in my "popular" gallery. I had the idea to link that gallery and put a few more in there. Now I can't seem to figure out how my customer did that! Sigh.

Do I have this ranking process disabled? Thanks in advance for your help!

In each gallery customization there's a photorank button you can toggle on
and off. Then on each photo the green and red thumbs should appear in the
upper right.
Is this what your looking for?
Al

Jeff Geoghan

Allen wrote:

In each gallery customization there's a photorank button you can toggle on
and off. Then on each photo the green and red thumbs should appear in the
upper right.
Is this what your looking for?
Al

Thanks Allen! It seems as if even when the gallery photorank option is turned on it doesn't work in slideshow mode, which is what I was using. Not sure if there is a way to use both slideshow view & photorank...

Andy

Jeff Geoghan wrote:

Thanks Allen! It seems as if even when the gallery photorank option is turned on it doesn't work in slideshow mode, which is what I was using. Not sure if there is a way to use both slideshow view & photorank...

Sorry, there is not, wish I had a better answer for you!

Jeff Geoghan

Andy wrote:

Sorry, there is not, wish I had a better answer for you!

No problem, Andy, I've got lots else to work on. By the way, here is a shot I took last month or so after being inspired by your "graffiti" gallery. It was in a covered bridge in a remote corner of Lancaster County:

padu

After Jeff's comment and attempt to hijack the thread , I checked Andy's grafitty gallery and they are (as usual) very nice pictures. Very modest graffity though. I found some more aggressive grafitty near home:



and a few more here:

http://padu.smugmug.com/gallery/1998614

Andy

Very nice, guys

Jeff Geoghan

Paulo, here's one you might like - of me at Willow Springs. Also, I used to live next door to the horse racetack in Solana Beach...

padu

Jeff Geoghan wrote:

Paulo, here's one you might like - of me at Willow Springs. Also, I used to live next door to the horse racetack in Solana Beach...

Very nice! Is that a dedicated track bike? gsxr600?

Jeff Geoghan

padu wrote:

Very nice! Is that a dedicated track bike? gsxr600?

Was. I sold it when we moved to Pennsylvania. (sigh) I miss the roads in Socal.