What does a single day of Flickr uploads look like as real photos?

jimworm · on Nov 17, 2011

Makes one wonder what it'd look like if it was based on facebook instead.

simonb · on Nov 18, 2011

If the artist was precise (if you look at the coverage of the exhibition you will find numbers ranging from 1 to 3M, both of which are significantly too low [0]), it would take about 50 more rooms (there are about 5M new photos uploaded to Flickr/day vs. 250M to FB [1]).

[0] Rough extrapolation based on http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers... and a 20% growth rate http://www.kullin.net/2010/09/flickr-5-billion-photos/

[1] http://www.quora.com/How-many-photos-are-uploaded-to-Faceboo...

kghose · on Nov 17, 2011

But, these are not from the same person.

We do probably take many, many more photos in digital (I know I do) but I don't know if the quantity for professionals has changed.

They probably took lots and lots of shots and fliped through them to find the right expression/moment even when they used film.

The main expense for professionals has probably shifted from film stock to camera body/lens.

mfringel · on Nov 17, 2011

Q: "What's the difference between an amateur photographer and a pro photographer?"

A: "An amateur shows you every shot they took."