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Table of Content
1. Abstract 2. Statement of Interest 3. Mind Map 4.Competitors 5. Inspirations 6. Personas 7. SNiFFs 8. Competitve Analysis [[Cate's Wiki#walkthrough|9. Wireframe Walkthrough

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=Abstract=

This project will be an e-learning photography sharing website for photo enthusiasts that also incorporates the use of Flickr.


 * A personalized community designed for photographers and photo enthusiasts to share their knowledge in photography, based on providing information on their favourite own-produced photographs.
 * Incorporated with Flickr, Tumblr, most major photo-sharing websites. Users will be able to import their resources which are already available on those sites into the application instead of uploading photographs again to the site.
 * Ultimate goal is, to become part of Flickr.
 * This project offers a basic photography curriculum for beginners and then allows users to expand by providing additional information ( technical/ artistic approach/ special effects/ film types ) which focus on their own photographs/ or anything that they found to be helpful during the process in making that particular photograph.
 * Small community building. Photographers have their options to team up with photo-enthusiasts, this way, it offers photographers venues to teach and photo enthusiasts to learn in person. Or, photographers could team up and create projects off site and upload to share with beginners.
 * It will be categorized into different geographical locations: London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai. In a long run, the project will build associates ( 50% discount ) with local labs to encourage photo-enthusiasts to produce their own photographs.
 * Film privileges - if the photographers shoot film, the project will offer them a different and better customized interface, free prints monthly etc.


 * Flickr + Photo Blogs = Cate's Project**

=Statement of Interest=

Since Flickr emerged into the Web 2.0 scene, it has become my favourite platform to explore most contemporary photographers' work. It is always fascinating to me how photographers are able to produce powerful images. However, for photography beginners, searching through the massive amounts of information available online often results in confusion and frustration. If there is a way to create an instructional learning system based on the available data of each photograph on Flickr, or on any other photo sharing service, then it will be much easier for photography amateurs to learn by example. As a beginner in learning photography myself, I feel the strong need in creating such an application.

This project will encourage the use of film as film is the origin of photography. Learning film photography gives the user a better understanding of the subject and also helps them lay a stronger foundation. Beginners should focus on the fundamentals of photography rather than catching the new trends. Film photography is as much a science as it is an artistic pursuit. Beginners will be more actively engaged in working with film since they will have to produce the actual product, rather than just a digital image on the screen. I believe creating an application that offers this experience will be beneficial for myself and all the beginners out there. In doing so, I also hope to gain a very deep understanding of photography thoughout the making of this project.

= = =Mind Map=



=Competitors=

Photojojo
Photojojo publishes an insanely great newsletter on photography. More specifically, they scour the internets, rip pages out of magazines, ransack our friends' closets, and go through dumpsters to find the very best Photo tips, DIY projects, and Gear. Subscribe by email or RSS and they'll send it all to you for free.

Digital Photography School
Digital Photography School is dedicated to giving photography tips and tutorials to photographers of all levels.

Good articles on equipment and techniques. Articles useful at any skill level. Forum and user comments. A good starting point for a situation or equipment question.

=Inspirations=

Lomography.com
Originator and propagator of the lomo philosophy. A massive community of lomographers everywhere who together comprise a lomographic portrait of our world.

Burn Magazine
Burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. Burn is curated by magnum photographer David Alan Harvey.

Fotologue
Fotologue is a Japan based photo sharing site created by Yugo Nakamura. The site offers similar features as Flickr with a Flash interface.

=Personas=

Silas graduated from college last year and he has been working as a freelance photographer ever since. Based in London, where so many students from all over the country attending the local university, he's found so many other students and startup photographers who are passionate about the subject. But since everyone has very busy schedules, he feels they could never have the free time to get everyone together to share and talk about photoraphy.
 * Silas Dominey**

Sonny has been a photo enthusiast and an active Flickr user for more than 4 years. During this time, he's inspired by so many other great photographers and has had the chances to communicate through Flickr's built-in email and commenting system with them. Exploring the world of photographs online has already becomes part of his everyday routine. He's always open for new options as long as it garantees him the access to inspiring photographs and the opportunities to have conversations with other photo enthusiasts.
 * Sonny Semansco**

Oliver is creative director based in New York, who is now taking sometime off travelling in China. He spent his undergraduate years in School of Visual Arts majoring Photography, but ever since he started working as a creative director, he hardly had any extra time dedicated for his passion - photography. He sees this travelling time in China as a good opportunity to pick up his cameras again. He's got so many images already piled up to upload onto Flickr after spending sometime in Beijing, and he's wondering if there's a way to also include his travelling notes on each image and share his new discovered photography tips.
 * Oliver Rockwell**

=SNiFFs=

Big SNiFFs

 * Steakholder**: the established
 * Situaton:** professional photographers would love to share their knowledge and show off their new captured photographs
 * Needs:** he need to find a way to import his images from other sources or just simply upload it and add crazy notes and more information to his master pieces, then share with others.
 * Features/Solutions:** be able to import any image from Flickr and other photo-sharing sites and flexable intuitive interface for professional photographers to add their own thoughts/ data

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 * Steakholder**: the novice
 * Situaton:** had enough with exploring Flickr, yes, there are so many great images and wondering how those photogaphers captured the moments
 * Needs:** he needs to know the related techinical and artistic skills used on the image he favours
 * Features/Solutions:** be able to pull all the associated information, contributed from the author and others, and display in a clear strcucture

Little SNiFFs

 * Steakholder**: a beginner wants to learn how to use a particular camera and see other photos taken by the same camera
 * Situaton:** she wants to explore the polaroid world
 * Needs:** the polaroid sx-70 appears to be popular among photographers, she's like to know more about it
 * Features/Solutions:** enable search and intelligent suggestions, provide categories/aspects within polaroid sx-70 and a tag cloud including all the key words relates to this camera so she will be able to expand her topic, provide 'view samples' feature to pull out images taken by sx-70 and showing authors notes and others comments on the image


 * Steakholder**: a photographer
 * Situaton:** he'd like to share some thoughts on chemical temperatures when processing film
 * Needs:** he needs to import that photo he processed and then explain how chemical temperature affected it
 * Features/Solutions:** a feature provides all types of chemicals and let him select the partuicular type and add notes to that chemical, enable him to search for other images that have the same problem


 * Steakholder**: a beginner
 * Situaton:** she's like to see what exactly this site can teach her
 * Needs:** she needs to see a outline of the teaching content oh this site
 * Features/Solutions:** enable site structure/ site map


 * Steakholder**: an explorer
 * Situaton:** wondering how this site is different from Flickr
 * Needs:** See different photographs and find the ones he likes a lot
 * Features/Solutions:** when selected, provide an infoGraphics of all infomation associated

= = =Competitve Analysis=


 * =  ||= Discussions ||= Well Organized ||= Newsletters ||= Image Galleries ||= Blog Features ||= Notes ||= Tag Clouds ||= InfoGraphical Navigations ||= Set Curriculum ||= Videos ||= Stores ||= Popular Entries ||||= Today's Pick ||
 * = Digital Photography School ||= yes ||= yes ||= no ||= yes ||= yes ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= yes ||= yes ||
 * = Photojojo.com ||= no ||= no ||= yes ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= yes ||= no ||= no ||
 * = Photo.net ||= yes ||= no ||= no ||= yes ||= yes ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= yes ||= yes ||
 * = Flickr Discussin Groups ||= yes ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||= no ||
 * = Cate's Project ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||= yes ||

= = =Wireframe Walkthrough= = =





=10. Moodboard=