Last week I spent some time in Kauai with my wife and some friends. It was a ton of fun and I was stoked to have my camera back in working order. I’ll reiterate here that I’m no real photographer, but I enjoy it. I enjoy even more helping photographers market their photography.

So, here’s a quick tip on how to use Flickr to post slideshows on your blog (just like I did here).

Slideshows are a great way to show off your work because they don’t make people scroll down long pages of images. Also, they can be viewed in fullscreen mode (you definitely want your potential clients looking at your images at a higher resolution than your typical 400 x 300 blog image).

Try it out by clicking the button in the slideshow above.

Here’s how you create your own:

So, the step #1 is to create a Flickr account if you don’t already have one. Yes, Flickr can be a great tool for professional photographers.

Step #2 is to edit your settings to ensure you retain all rights on your images and people can’t use them without your permission. Just click on your username once you’re logged in. Then go to Privacy and Permissions.

Step #3 Click on Organize & Create in the main menu, then click on Sets. Sets are basically albums, groups of pictures that go together. Create a set for your first group of images.

Step #4 Upload your images into the set you created. You can upload them on the Flickr site – they have a great web-based upload tool. Or, you can use any of the many desktop applications that upload to Flickr.

Step #5 Enter a title, description, and tags for each picture. You can do this as a batch if you’d like. This is important for Flickr searches. You WANT people to find your images.

Step #6 Click on your photostream. Then click on the set you created (it should be listed on the right hand side). Once your set is loaded, click on the slideshow link in the upper right hand side of the screen. That will take you to the slideshow.

Step #7 Click on the Share link and it will give you a direct link to your slideshow as well as code you can embed into your site. Copy the code.

Step #8 Paste the code right into a blog post or page on your site.

That’s it.  Don’t shy away from Flickr.  It can be a great way to get found as a photographer.

P.S. After looking through my pictures again I realized I’ve got some work to do to get my horizon lines straight.

P.P.S. I’m not the only one who thinks Flickr is great for pro photograhers: Check out what LightStalking has to say.

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