Friday Finds

Every Friday I post a round up of great photography and photo editing articles. I subscribe to over 100 related sites and these articles are the best of the best!

Along with the articles, I pick a new photographic theme each week and select 18 photographs to highlight through a Flickr Gallery. I display as many of these photographs into the Friday Finds post as will fit.

This Week’s Theme: Bokeh

To enter, you may submit up to five photographs to the Friday Finds pool on Flickr.

Please tag this week’s submissions as: dwcff-bokeh if you would like it to display as a thumbnail below.

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If you’d like to help promote the challenge, feel free to grab my button and link to this page!

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This button was made by Christy of Skinned Knees. The photograph used is New “Camera”!, used under the Attribution 2.0 Generic license

Qualifications

Anyone is welcome to join the group and add to the pool! However, as I will be displaying selected submissions on my website, there are a few strict rules you need to adhere to if you want to qualify for your photograph to be chosen.

  1. The photograph must be added to the Friday Finds Group Pool on Flickr. If you don’t have an account, you can sign up for free!
  2. The photograph must be public. Toward the bottom right side of the photo’s Flickr page, there are Owner Settings. If your photograph is public, an icon will show in green indicating anyone may see it. If it’s not green, click the edit link to the right and make the photograph public.
  3. The photograph must be under any Attribution Creative Commons license. This just gives me permission to display the photo on my site while crediting you. Under Owner Settings on your submission’s Flickr page you will see how your photograph is licensed. If it needs to be changed, click the edit link to the right and select the appropriate license. If you need help picking a license, try the License Generator. If you want to retain full commercial control over your photograph, you’re going to want to select Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.
  4. Your work must be eligible for galleries. I create a gallery on Flickr for every Friday Finds, therefore if your settings don’t allow others to add your work to galleries, I cannot feature your photograph. To verify this is set up, go to your privacy and permissions settings. About a third of the way down, make sure “Allow your stuff to be added to a gallery” is set to Yes.
  5. I must be able to “Share” your photograph. This makes it easy for me so I don’t have to upload your photograph to my server. To verify this is set up, go to your privacy and permissions settings. The second question is, “Who can share your photos or video?” and make sure “Any Flickr Member” is chosen. Alternatively, you can set it to Contacts only and add me as a contact.

FAQs

How can I submit an article for Friday Finds?
At this time, I don’t take suggestions for specific articles to include in Friday Finds. However, you can ensure I’m subscribed to your site by leaving me a comment somewhere on my blog. I visit everyone who takes the time to comment and if you comment often, I make sure you’re in my “Must Reads”. If you’re written an exceptional article recently, chances are I will find it and recommend it, so you don’t really have to do anything else.

I have a really great photo to submit for a past challenge!
You can still submit your photograph to the pool and tag it accordingly. It will show up in the gallery of photos at the bottom of the Friday Finds post.

When do you announce next week’s theme?
Next week’s theme is always announced on Friday, at the end of the Friday Finds post. You can visit this page or the Flickr group anytime after that post is published to see the new theme. You’ll always have a full week to submit photographs!

Previous Issues

Please visit previous issues of Friday Finds!

Please feel free to leave questions or comments either here or on the Flickr group!

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11 Responses to “Friday Finds”

  1. Michelle Nist Michelle Nist says:
    Friday July 30, 2010 at 7:40 pm

    I am excited about this Friday Finds idea! Glad I saw this. I love photography (Strictly an amateur) it tends to take a back burner to everything else. I think this will be good to challenge me to really look at what I am taking and categorize it too. Love the idea of you picking out the best stories too – that gives me hope I might be able to come here to see some good stuff! :)

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  2. melanie melanie says:
    Friday August 6, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    I totally forgot to post photos last week, so this week I’m choosing some I already have, and making sure I do it early!

    And I have heaps and heaps of sky shots!

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    • Lynda Lynda says:
      Friday August 6, 2010 at 9:19 pm

      Oh! You can still submit sky shots and tag them dwcff-sky. They’ll show up in the thumbnails for that entry.

      Thanks for the twitter link; I don’t think I’m following that ID!

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      • melanie melanie says:
        Friday August 6, 2010 at 10:25 pm

        thanks Lynda. I just tagged some. Are we only allowed to tag three, which should be the same three added to the group, and should I still add them to the group out-of-order?

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        • Lynda Lynda says:
          Friday August 6, 2010 at 10:54 pm

          I had the group set up so you could only submit 3 per week, but I just upped that to 5 if you want to add some sky shots on top of your signs. (I have a cap on 3 submissions per challenge because I don’t want to choose more than one photo per person in the gallery I create at the end of the week.)

          It’s okay to add to the group out of order. Generally, submissions should be for the current challenge, but I don’t at all mind if there’s some overlap.

          I had someone just yesterday submit camera phone shots and that was weeks ago. I just tag it properly so it’ll show up in the right post.

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        • Lynda Lynda says:
          Friday August 6, 2010 at 11:04 pm

          Oh, also – if you use the tag, it only shows up in the appropriate friday finds post if it’s in my group. I can set it up to find any matching tag on all of Flickr, but I didn’t. (I’m not sure why.)

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  3. Andree Andree says:
    Friday August 13, 2010 at 9:02 am

    Hi!

    just joined your Flickr group and added a couple of pics for “signs”!

    How early on in the week do you post what the theme is going to be for that Friday?

    Cheers!

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