Photography pages on facebook.

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Hi guys,
Just wanted to hear your thoughts on facebook pages. Do you think they work etc?

I set mine up earlier this year and have been slowly been building a following. Its great to see that people are actively engaging with what you are doing and taking an interest in your work.

You can find my facebook page for my photography Here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Edward-Fury-Photographer/299402996788658

Look forward to hearing views and opinions,

Thanks,
Edd
 
I think they could work, but ultimately don't, simply because anyone that thinks taking a pictures of their mates on their phone makes them a photographer.

If you're going to have one, fine, but have it link to a proper domained website. Use it for promotion, for advertising any offers you have (if you're commercial), and for updates on any projects, but don't rely on it in place of a proper website.
 
decigallen said:
Read this: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back

Its about the limitations of facebook since they changed their way of operating. We noticed a massive reduction in people liking our posts and blog links since this change. Pretty cynical stuff that has a lot of bloggers up in arms.
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I read that a few days ago and posted the link at a really active time and got "seen by 20" of the 300+ people who like my page. I have noticed you have to do a heck of a lot of sharing to get just one new upload noticed. Think it might be time to leave the page as it is and concentrate on a blog instead.

Edd, I think it's handy to have one as a free marketing tool however I think the boat has sailed for it being an effective free marketing tool
 
I have a website, which i find facebook is becoming handy to promote and start to drive traffic. I find that the facebook page is a good partner to a blog, your aiming at 2 different audiences in that case, people look at your blog out of choice and with facebook its put there infront of them i guess. By all means I don't find facebook a way in which to base any business on.
 
I have a Facebook page facebook.com/KatieHoweyPhoto

I mainly use it to engage a bit more with people who are interested in my work. I usually announce when a brand new shot has been uploaded to the portfolio page on my website.

Sometimes you don't get the responses you are wishing for but at least it gets seen, and it feels like a bit of a chore when you post links, new photos etc and only a couple of people notice it.

The balance between over-posting and not posting enough is a fine line and if you go over, people will get annoyed with too many posts of yours on their feed and eventually decide to unlike your page. If you don't post enough, people don't think you're really bothered! It's a bit of a challenge but still worth the effort.
 
HMansfield said:
I think they could work, but ultimately don't, simply because anyone that thinks taking a pictures of their mates on their phone makes them a photographer.
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Very technically speaking, it does make them a photographer. Just not necessarily a very good one.

I find this elitism with regards to photographic gear really rather tiresome sometimes. Believe it or not, some people actually do take good photos on their phones. Judge a photographer by their output, not their equipment.
 
KatieHoweyPhoto said:
I have a Facebook page facebook.com/KatieHoweyPhoto

I mainly use it to engage a bit more with people who are interested in my work. I usually announce when a brand new shot has been uploaded to the portfolio page on my website.
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Sometimes you don't get the responses you are wishing for but at least it gets seen, and it feels like a bit of a chore when you post links, new photos etc and only a couple of people notice it.</b>

The balance between over-posting and not posting enough is a fine line and if you go over, people will get annoyed with too many posts of yours on their feed and eventually decide to unlike your page. If you don't post enough, people don't think you're really bothered! It's a bit of a challenge but still worth the effort.
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That's the main point the blog posted above refers too, to meet your wider Facebook audience now you need to pay
 
onona said:
Very technically speaking, it does make them a photographer. Just not necessarily a very good one.

I find this elitism with regards to photographic gear really rather tiresome sometimes. Believe it or not, some people actually do take good photos on their phones. Judge a photographer by their output, not their equipment.
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To elaborate:

Facebook is full of pages for "Joe Bloggs Photography", promoting themselves as a service. If you're offering yourself as a service, you need to be able to offer something that the potential client can't do for themselves.
This isn't an attack on gear (as if I'm one to ever claim elitism. I shot an event last Friday with just a D40, a hotshoe flash and a 35mm f1.8), it's about the "pffft, that will do" attitude.
Pull a zany face. Click. Run it through a preset on Picmonkey. Pffft, that'll do. Watermark it and stick it on Facebook. I'm a professional photographer now.

The abundance of these pages is what stops the pages of dedicated professionals from standing out.
 
HMansfield said:
To elaborate:

Facebook is full of pages for "Joe Bloggs Photography", promoting themselves as a service. If you're offering yourself as a service, you need to be able to offer something that the potential client can't do for themselves.
This isn't an attack on gear (as if I'm one to ever claim elitism. I shot an event last Friday with just a D40, a hotshoe flash and a 35mm f1.8), it's about the "pffft, that will do" attitude.
Pull a zany face. Click. Run it through a preset on Picmonkey. Pffft, that'll do. Watermark it and stick it on Facebook. I'm a professional photographer now.

The abundance of these pages is what stops the pages of dedicated professionals from standing out.
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It's not just on Facebook that there's a huge signal to noise ratio though; it's found everywhere (let's face it, even on this site the bad and mediocre work outnumbers the excellent; I know that sounds quite harsh but it's true). Considering Facebook is primarily a social network, I wouldn't even consider it a serious option for photographers; in fact, I'd certainly never use it to find a professional in any field myself. I'd actually go so far as to say that individuals creating fan pages for their businesses would actually make me disinclined to take them seriously, as it all seems a bit attention whorey to me.

The other reality that you have to accept is that while there are a lot of hacks out there doing crap work with their "So-and-so Photography" sites, there are people who are nevertheless paying for their services. There's no accounting for taste.
 
You know when you show your photos to friends, colleagues and family in the hope you can generate a bit of work, and they all say, "Ooh they're good, I really like them," but never give you any work?

Multiply that by 100 million and you have facebook.

At least, that's my view.
 
HMansfield said:
I think they could work, but ultimately don't, simply because anyone that thinks taking a pictures of their mates on their phone makes them a photographer.

If you're going to have one, fine, but have it link to a proper domained website. Use it for promotion, for advertising any offers you have (if you're commercial), and for updates on any projects, but don't rely on it in place of a proper website.
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This.. a million times this.

I'm still umming and aahing over whether or not to set my page up but I would rather have a website built beforehand. 1 billion people are on facebook, it's the best advertising platform period. Utilise it, but don't rely on it.
 
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