It's about the Ads

It seems now that the whole point about the Flickr pricing change is to introduce ads to the customers.

The old Pro membership cost $24.95 and the new ad-free Flickr costs $49,99, as mentioned here.

I rather keep paying the Pro membership and stay happy with unlimited uploads and no ads. I am lucky to have once been pro, since those memberships are no longer being sold. Currently you just have to choose between the three, free member, ad-free or the crazy oddball  $499,99 two terabyte plan (which comes with ads I assume).

But who knows, the ads might start to appear to the old pro accounts, there’s nothing stopping Flickr doing that I guess. If that’s going to happen, I am just going to downgrade.

Shitty thing, really.

State of Flickr App in Japan

Now that the new Flickr refresh is out, you’d wonder if Flickr is going to do anything about the Flickr iOS App availability in Japan.

Those adds to the app “Wherevr” that appear when browsing with iOS devices are so annoying since they take you nowhere, you get alert which reports that the item is not available in the Japanese store. Not quite wherevr.

Flickr got Refresh

Wow, so Flickr got refresh. It’s funny since I was just thinking about it.

I generally like the update from the visual sense; especially the default way of viewing photo streams. It just looks much better now that images are arranged into a kind of nice, beautiful layout.  The Terabyte thing doesn’t really matter to me since I don’t think I’ll ever upload that many photos and I have pro account anyway which doesn’t have the upload limit.

Overall, I’m really glad about the refresh and the cover photo is nice little touch. See my flickr here.

"Photographer"

Here is one more shots from my session with photographer Masashi Furuka.
© Masashi Furuka 2013

Evening Moment

Here’s one of the non-flash images I shot with X100. Had some big troubles with autofocus in this dim light. ISO3200 is really clean what comes to noise. In fact I added some grain to this in Lightroom to make the image look more dynamic.

I realized however that having flash is a must for this type of outdoor night photography.