How are people seeing my photos?

[jeffrey_sipress]

I've posted a few images on my portfolio here, and am wondering how people

get to see them. One of them has gotten a lot of views in one week, but I don't

know how to view them as others do without going to my portfolio, and I doubt

folks are going there. They must be available to see somewhere, but the flow

of this site is not intuitive. Similarly, how do I see other's work? Isn't there

some page with lots of thumbnails or something like that?

[efusco]

See that big button at the top of the page that says "Gallery"? Give that a go.

 

When people want to peruse they'll click on that 'critique photos' link and up come photos (semi-randomly). If a photo gets some decent ratings it comes up on the "Top Photos" thing somewhere pretty much guaranteeing it more views.

 

Also, if you post something in the forums and we want to see what you've done we click on your name and up comes your portfolio for the world to see.

--evan

[efusco]

BTW, I just did click on your name and viewed your photos. You have some very impressive images in that portfolio. I expect you'll get a bit of attention on the Top Photos list.

[gerald_widen]

I just rated your photo. As previously stated thats one way it works. Another is to put it up for critique. You will get a lot more views usually an additional half dozen ratings and sometimes if someone likes the image will wander thru your other photos. Another way is to rate other peoples photos a percentage usually about 5% will rate one of yours in return.

[dougs]

you have been a member and recieving comments on your work for just about a year now, 10/08/2003, your only just now trying to figure out how people see your photos?

[jeffrey_sipress]

Thanks everyone. Up until now, I was only seeing the few photos shown at the

home page and randomly visiting others portfolios. I just haven't spent enough

time here to fully figure my way around. Now that I saw there were a thousand

views of one of my images, I really wondered how that can be. I had thought

that the 'critique photos' link was only to see images that people requested

critiques of, not the batch of whatever everyone was recently posting. Got it

figured out now, but feeling a bit silly, after a year.

[stephen_w.]

I still don't know how people get to see what I thought was MY portfolio. Great question.

 

BTW, I,ve been here longer than a year; longer than 6/5/02, when the Leica Forum moved to photo.net.

[jeffrey_sipress]

Yeah, Steve, I still know what you mean. I've been to the page of thumbnails

of recently posted and popular(?) images a few times this past week. I've

refreshed the page dozens of times and saw numerous images each show up

multiple times. I've never seen my most visited image once there. I only saw

my recent posts a few times just after I posted them, and never again. Where

are the views coming from? I checked out the portfolio of one of the

commenters of my photo, and saw some photos that had not gotten high

ratings, yet were viewed many thousands of times. So apparently, ratings are

not the criteria for being displayed on the 'random' page more often. I don't

really care how many views I get, but it's nice to get viewed. It's not a

popularity contest, and I have a healthy ego. I just have trouble using a site

that is difficult to navigate, and with a logic for it's image displays that is neither

intuitive or sensible. I still like this place, and it is immensly popular. Is there

anywhere on this site that explains some of these mysteries?

[jeffrey_sipress]

I guess not...

[jeffrey_sipress]

I've tried too many times to navigate around this place. What a mess. I've

submitted a photo for critique, and it never appeared on the list or showed up

anywhere. I've tried to view my photos anywhere on this site other than my

portfolio, and they never appear. How are people seeing them? I no longer

care. Refreshing the random photo page never has shown my photos, yet

some others appear multiple times, and they are not rated either. I once

found my photo right after I posted it on the new submissions area, viewed it

a couple of times, and when checking my portrfolio the next day, it shows

zero views. This place has wasted enough of my hours. This is the worst

organized and most frustrating website I have ever used, next to the US

postal service. I am an extremely experienced computer user, with many of

my sites online, and I know what I am doing. One kind reply to this original

post said my images were good and should appear on the top photo list.

Thanks for the kind comment, but it never happened. In fact, they don't

appear anywhere, except my portfolio.

 

I can't even find how to delete my membership here! Good luck, and

goodbye to all.....

[phule]

Jeff,

 

Given the number of people that use this site every day, I think the site is not the problem.