Photochaining (Canon)

This is the kind of photochaining that doesn’t require you to run around picking up and dropping off cheap memory cards

I ran into it on the Canon website, so obviously that’s why I’m calling it Photochaining (Canon).

It’s an interesting concept; an element (they call it a TAG) of your photo is selected to inspire a connection with someone else’s photo. An element of that photo (a different TAG) inspires yet another, and another, and another…

The way that Canon explains it, the photographer selects the tag. It seems a little more interesting to me to have the next person in line select the tag from your photo, but there are advantages either way.

I’m also a little fuzzy about who gets to decide which submitted photo ‘wins’…but whatever the case, when that happens, the photographer responsible gets to be ‘owner’ of the new chain. The tag that the photographer has added to their photo then becomes the inspiration for the following round.

On the Canon site, three kinds of chains are specified: “Hero Chains” (the main project, which apparently updates every three weeks), “public chains” (anyone can pretty much do anything they like), and “private chains” (invite-only versions).

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