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Flickr Acknowledges That There are Pro Photographers, Mayer Apologizes

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05/22/2013
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Last Updated on 05/22/2013 by Chris Gampat

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Yesterday, Marissa Mayer opened up a giant can of worms when she stated that there really is no such thing as a professional photographer anymore–which we’re sure that someone at Flickr perhaps facepalmed very hard. And according to a report from Petapixel, she is apologizing and stating that she worded her statement all wrong. But even angrier are many former Pro users. Yesterday we compared the old Pro account to the new services offered. The Pro account is now no more and instead the user can go ad free or Doublrr–which basically doubles the current 1TB storage space to 2TB.

In a conversation that I had with Coffee Geek yesterday on Twitter, we’re still not sure that that may be enough. Many Flickr users don’t cull their images and instead just upload without adding metadata or titling. Even though this annoys me as a curator and editor, we have to accept that this is a norm amongst many people. Other Flickr users cull and carefully select only their best images to be uploaded. For those users, 1TB should be plenty fine considering the downsizing that goes into uploading images to the web and uploading at 72ppi or 125ppi for higher resolution displays.

But for the others? Well, our Nikon D7100 review images in the end turned out to be around the size of some hard drives. And for those users, this may pose to be a problem later on.

We’re curious: What option are you using right now? Will you go with 500px or stick with Flickr?

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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