The Blank Canvas Awaits
It appears that everyone who responded would like a group photo pool on Flickr so here it is. Go to A Little News Flickr pool and post away. Make sure you read and understand the group rules. Also, when you post a photo please write a caption in the description field and add tags like news, portrait, sports, feature or whatever your photo falls into. We may use the tags later and it will help define your images for now.
This is very important. Only post images you hold the copyright to or images which you have permission from the copyright holder to publish. What I did in starting this blog was to go to our publisher and explain what I wanted to do. He gave me approval so now I make sure he gets a copyright notice with every post. You can waterwark the image itself or you can put a copyright tag line in the description field. Just make sure the copyright is visible.
To post to the Flickr pool you will need a Flickr account. They are free and can be set up in a very few minutes. You can set up your account here in just a few moments and begin uploading. When you have images uploaded, go to the A Little News site on Flickr and join our group. Then you can post to the group directly from your account.
Lets all remember that the site is set up to help us get better. I strongly encourage everyone to participate in giving feed back to other members that will help them get better. Please don’t get nasty. I have had that happen with editors before and it is not pleasant or very constructive. Use your comments to make suggestions or build up the shooter. Don’t use comments to drag the other guy down.
Finally, and this should already be obvious since we are a photojournalism site, but nudity is not acceptable unless in those rare cases where it is part of the story like some poor, starving person in Africa trying to breast feed a baby. I think you are all big boys and girls and understand what I mean. Other than that have a great time and you can start using the pool right away. Who will be the first to post?
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