Ever wondered how you can build your presence on ViewBug? How to participate on contests, start your own challenge, award images and connect with creative photographers? Look no further! Here are 8 tips that can help you get the most out of your ViewBug experience.
1. Give More Peer Awards
The more images you experience, the stronger your eye becomes, the more ideas you get. Plus, giving peer awards saves your favorite images for later and gives your fellow photographers a nice boost! Finally, giving peer awards exposes those photographers to you, and can often result in that photographer viewing your work and giving a reciprocal award. Browse amazing photos!
2. Share More
Make a point of uploading at least 1 image per week. This pushes you to shoot, edit, and share. Sharing your images is also a great way to get feedback and comments from your peers - which can help take your photography to the next level. On top of that, sharing more images gives your followers more images to respond to, comment on, and award. Upload now!
3. Join More Photo Contests
There’s nothing like a little competition to sharpen your skills. It exposes you to the creativity of others, and it exposes your photography to the community. Read this guest blog post from the legendary Skip Cohen on the value of participating in contests.
4. Follow More Photographers
This ensures that you receive a steady diet of inspiring images from photographers you respect. Like giving peer awards, following photographers also puts you on their radar, which can lead to them following you! Discover inspiring photographers!
5. Get Social
Inspiration is a really important part of your development as a photographer. One great way to expose yourself to daily, bite-sized morsels of inspiration is to connect with ViewBug on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest. Through these channels we regularly share our favorite images and photographers, as well as contest winners and photographer interviews. It’s a great way to stay up to date, and give yourself a steady drip of inspiration!
6. Launch Your Own Peer Photo Challenge
This is a great way to meet other photographers with similar interests, and increase your presence within the community. Oh yeah - it’s also lots of fun to light a creative spark within the ViewBug community. Get started!
7. Tag Your Images
Tagging your images makes them much more findable, and allows fellow ViewBug members who care about those tags to find your work!
8. Keep Pushing Yourself
Sharpening your skills will yield amazing results. It will result in more peer awards, better contest finishes, more followers, etc. So, keep pushing yourself to learn and improve. The Behind The Lens features on our blog are a great place to learn tips and tricks used by some of the most talented ViewBug members. View recent posts!
