That’s not to say the photographic content is suffering as there are some incredible photos uploaded to Blip, you just have to look a bit harder to find them.Īnother side effect, I’ve found, of this photo a day business is that it really does get you out taking pictures. Looking at it’s front page of most recent uploads there’s less beautiful landscapes or creative images than there are quick snaps of peoples kids, cats, toilets or indeed anything that will let them post a pic with the minimum of effort. It’s very nature of a photo a day leads people to photograph anything just to keep up their perfect tally of a photo every day. With so many uploads to Flickr of course it has it’s fair share of dross but cut through it and you will find a whole host of very talented individuals posting regularly and a lot of these are happy to share the settings, filters, techniques etc used to get the shots.īlipfoto on the other hand suffers badly from the photograph anything brigade. If your looking however to the more technical side of photography and a strive for the best images you can take then Flickr is the place for you.
It’s a more genuine, friendlier atmosphere on Blipfoto. Of course the give to receive thing does happen, you see some very average pics with stacks of comments but it’s not the norm, at least in my experience. People comment because they like your photo, not because you drop by every day and leave a one word comment on theirs. This though, in my opinion, leads to sycophantic commenting by some who are just desperate to collect as many comments as possible on their work, genuine or not.īlipfoto on the other hand is a very giving community. Comment regularly on others work on Flickr and in turn you’ll get a load of comments back yourself. Where the big difference lies though is that Flickr is very much a give to receive mentality. You have the ability to follow certain peoples uploads on both, add comments and favourites. Like I’ve already said, both sites could be termed as social networks. Both sites are heavily focused on the social networking theme but the main difference between the 2 is that you can only upload one single image a day to Blipfoto, and only on the day you take it making it more of a photo journal than Flickr. To date I’m approaching 2000 uploads to Flickr and nearly 600 in Blipfoto. The almighty Yahoo monster that is Flickr and the smaller Edinburgh based Blipfoto. For over 2 years now I’ve regularly used 2 photo sharing websites.
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