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EyeEm has 'Missions' that I sometimes use for inspiration: https://www.eyeem.com/missions/photographers

Even if I don't necessarily participate in any of them via the site, it can be fun to do just on a personal level.

Stock is good if it's generic enough to be used in many places, but it also has enough white space to lay text over when necessary. This is my most-sold image by far: no branding, colorful and eye-catching, and blur fall-off on the left side where you could put copy if you wanted.

This one seems to be #2 for my sales, but it pales in comparison to the first one in terms of sheer volume. Same deal though: generic enough so it can be used for a wide array of topics, plenty of open space to put copy if you want, colorful and eye-catching.

I haven't gotten into it much, but the company I work for uses stock pretty frequently and stuff with a human element tends to really be used a lot. Lifestyle, casual office, general carefree-ness. Of course, now you're in the realm of model releases and whatnot which is part of why I haven't gone down that path, but it's popular.

For some reason, this image sells particularly well as stock for me and I don't understand why. Composition is a mess (random shit in the frame like the car keys in the bottom-right), it's not even really sharp that sharp, and it basically boils down to being a snapshot. It's not my best-selling shot by any stretch, but it's just bizarre to me that it sells as well as it does.

For a different opinion - it's a laundry drying cord :D Bale comes from Russia and knows how to things need to be done :D

For example: laundry drying in Russia

What exactly are you using issues with? Use manual mode, set it to 8mp and use your scene settings if they're applicable(soft skin and whatnot are useless though). Specifically high ISO can be your friend in low light situations. Use a tripod for iso pics. You can also manually adjust the iso up to 3200 I believe. The high 13k iso is only available as a scene setting.

You need low light for high iso to work. Otherwise it will default down to 3200 iso. You can tell by how long the exposure goes. High iso will take 1+ seconds.

Don't always use 21mp, it doesn't make pictures better. In fact, I'd say it creates more noise in your picture. Just use 8mp unless you need the extra resolution.

What /u/giantnakedrei said, knowing your camera basics will help a lot as well. Knowing when to use settings is the big one. Take a few thousand pictures and figure em out on your own is what I would say. You definitely develop an eye for what your camera can take good pics of.

https://www.eyeem.com/u/crneu Here are examples of what i've snapped using my z3 in the last month or so. All my night pics are at 1-4 AM so the amount of light it captures is pretty great.

This article might help, as they give some examples of what does/doesn't constitute as "recognizable" for the sake of needing model releases to sell images of people on their marketplace.

> I don't know if this is the place to ask this but help me please.

you have a photography question, so this is the right place.

> I want to know how to make selfies like this photo with dark/black face, so your face can't be seen.

That would be a "silhouette".

Basically, you need to have light on the background, not on the subject. Then you need to expose for the background. You will need to be able to set your exposure manually, or otherwise override your camera's auto settings.

https://www.eyeem.com/blog/10-tips-for-taking-stunning-silhouette-photos-with-your-smartphone

https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-silhouettes/

First off, I think it looks super cute. But as a musician who's met many a melancholy musician in his time, I have some feedback. Feel free to take all or none of it, this is completely subjective and just how I would approach the scene.

• I would get rid of the coffee table. It's kind of in the way, and there are better things you could put there.
• The piano is way too clean. I would put an ashtray, a half-empty glass, and stacks and stacks of sheet music on it. Also a bunch of sheet music on the built-in music stand.
• I would also add a stand alone music stand (with even more sheet music) and a chair. This is for the private lessons our melancholy musician teaches.
• Did I mention sheet music? Even more of it, stacks of it in the corner. It seriously gets everywhere and our guy is way too sloppy to organize it.
• I would also try to add a dusty unused instrument somewhere, maybe a guitar hanging on the wall or a dented trombone.
  

Some references I might use:

https://animeguyspl0x.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/nodame-4.jpg

https://www.eyeem.com/p/128866780 (an open front on your upright would be trickier to model, especially if you wanted it to read well with a low poly style, but it would make the scene a bit more interesting)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/c0/4a/d0c04aa7ebff95bc05a9bf86357197f0.jpg

Last holiday we went on a whale watching tour on the east coast of australia. The weather was pretty rainy and there were not many whales at first, so i looked around and tried to find out what the large flock of birds were doing there. This was shot at 450mm (more nearly 700 for the D7100 crop sensor) so i didn't see the fish in the water at all:

https://www.eyeem.com/p/113131846

Anyone here on EyeEm? I made an account over a year ago, and finally decided to do something with it. Would love to find some people to follow over there. Here's mine.

Missions are like mini photo competitions we run within our app. We partner with leading brands and publishers to source images within a certain topic or theme, and our photographers win prizes. You can see our current running Missions here.

As previously mentioned, we work on image recognition technology to find the best photography not based on popularity. We hope to build this technology to be able to apply it to more than just the EyeEm platform, so within the next 3 years we hope to make progress there to continue to discover hidden talent, as well as continue to nurture and grow our community, our annual Festival + Awards and print publication. We just launched the latest issue yesterday if you want to check it out!

Face recognition is already pretty old, that's nowhere near what these algorithms can do. I expect cameras in 5-10 years to do all the technical stuff for the standard user, probably even choose DoF intelligently. That goes from focusing, intention recognition to always correct exposure and automatic intelligent RAW processing to tagging. For example there's the EyeEM startup, which is something like instagram as stock photos and they already do completely automated tagging based on a similar approach as used by most top teams in the ImageNet competition. But that's by now pretty standard. What they also do, however, is to automatically rate an image by how good it is.

Edit: The Skype Translator is based on the same technology.

Oben findet ihr einen Link zu einem meiner Instagram Profile, hier bei handelt sich um mein Profil über Fotografie, also es geht um Fotos, die ich selbst mit meiner Kamera gemacht habe, außerdem habe ich noch ein Profil auf eyeem.com, hier ist der Link dazu: https://www.eyeem.com/u/29527909

Meine Profile haben immer dasselbe Logo, wenn's um Fotografie geht, wenn das Mal nicht der Fall sein sollte, dann ist es entweder nicht meins, oder ich bin noch nicht dazu gekommen, es zu aktualisieren.

Ich bedanke mich schon Mal für's vorbei schauen.

sure, i posted around 900 till now in a photography profile. here is the link. this profile. if you wanted to see all the pictures i took , you'll have to pay a visit to my place , because i usually don't have a habit of posting online often.

This isn’t the same setup as yours but you can see the twisted strings is just how those strings are wound around. The strings looked like that before you put them on your guitar.

a split second in my mind went by that I thought my photo had been stolen. especially since i sold a license on this a few months ago. that's such a fun spot. I used to go the whole way up, and then climb on the roof of the building

Thanks for the suggestion, but they won't be more comfortable than what I'm bringing. You can test it out yourself @ Hulaween and then make a decision if you've never been on one :)

https://www.eyeem.com/p/82422755

> You'd think stock companies would help out photographers by publishing a weekly blog that highlights best sellers in categories that are lacking in number of photos available, but they don't as far as I know.

EyeEm has in the past, here's an example. That's back in November though, so I'm not sure if they still do regularly. But I get the occasional email about it, probably since there's not really any significant shifts month-to-month.

Love my Nikon 200-500 (on a D7100). It's sharp, the VR is awesome, but for the f5.6 and the higher ISO i have to use sometimes, i probably upgrade my camera. I guess that's less of a problem with a D750. Same might be true for the variable aperture of the tamron. This

150-212mm 213-427mm 428-600mm

is a snippet from the-digital-picture.com site, listing zoom lengths for the 3 f-stops between 5 and 6.3, and 6.3 kicks in at around 400mm. It might not be a dealbreaker on a full frame, but my D7100 is happy about every little bit of light ;) Here's one of my bird shots, but he was pretty close, https://www.eyeem.com/p/113132197 I think all of the birds there are shot with the 200-500, usually wide open, and that whale too of course ;)

Went to Iceland last week. Such a great place to practice landscapes. I've always shot wide landscapes without foreground subjects, so I'm hoping to get better at this. Aspiring Rocks Olympus E-M5 MarkII w/ Olympus 12-40 f2.8 @15mm F3.5 ISO 200 1/2000.

We’re all in love with photography and the many facets of it. We shoot a lot with tons of different cams - all kinds of phones, analog, fuji, Leica.

One of the questions we discuss a lot: What is actually a pro? I think the boundaries between enthusiasts and pros are more and more blurring. EyeEm itself is a good example for that. You don’t need to quit your job to be a photographer. We believe in connecting people who are passionate about photography, even if they just shoot with their phone at first, and upgrade equipment later. We run http://festival.eyeem.com/ and have loads of tutorials in the app and on https://www.eyeem.com/blog/category/tips-tricks/ to help people to become better. Eventually enthusiasts can turn into pros, there’s a photographer inside all of us.

> Flickr.com/aldwinumali

Hey...Just saw your flickr...Love your pics man. The clarity is awesome, especially like the one with boats and the statue of liberty in the distance, also your monochrome stuff is nice.Did you use 17-50 on these ? Do check out my work also at https://www.eyeem.com/u/internaleye

Here is mine - travel and documentary.

@porter_yates_photo

Anyone else using EyeEm? It seems to be a bit more focused for people interested in photography.

https://www.eyeem.com/market/pricing

*All Basic licenses are royalty-free and include commercial use across all media and 500,000 print publications

600k > 500k

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https://www.eyeem.com/market/licensing

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they need something special

Hey I noticed when you grabbed the bar in the beginning, your palms touched the bar, and your fingers wrapped around after. This is going to make the bar pinch the skin of your hands a lot and cause pain or calluses as you pull more weight.

Try having the bar touch between 2nd and 3rd row of knuckles first, hook your fingers, then close your grip. Kind of like this except your palms should touch the bar

so , happy to hear your response my friend !... https://www.eyeem.com/u/youta111111111

this is my photography profile.. if you like this.. you might like some of my other works too 😊. wish you a lucky week ahead 😇. i like to experiment a lot.. whenever i get free time..

Sorry mate the Google photos don't have a sharing option so I can't get you the link.

But I found this website from which you might be able to get this wallpaper-

https://www.eyeem.com/p/72892035

Hope this helps

>nting it on photo paper still do

I am sorry, about what drawing you are talking about ? I do not think that taking out highlights from sky, giving photo some contrast or croping image is a drawing.

For me photography must not only give you a blank image, but also emotion which is tied to that image so in most cases retouching is as much important as the camera which takes an image.

Also if you are taking photos in RAW image or JPG ? JPG gives much more contrast to colors however RAW gives much more information in picture. What to do then ? means photographer with low level camera can take better looking pictures ?

Please look at picture bellow, do you see a drawing on a picture ? Ive taken this image on 2019 august in Poland. Did slight edits with lightroom

Scenic view of landscape and mountains with | ID: 146712799 (eyeem.com)

thanks so much!

so as far as the picture i am trying to emulate it'll be something like this https://www.pinterest.com/pin/479281585341929739/ or even any of these pics

https://www.eyeem.com/blog/where-fashion-photography-meets-the-streets

anything that is crisp, capture the scene and screams fashionable and model espique vibe.

equipment i have to work with is 5d mark 3 canon eos lens- 35-105mm kit lens sturdy manfrotto tripod

photoshop adobe

Sounds like the artist's an avid photoshop user according to an interview. From speculation, he could've used a custom photoshop brush for smoke or merged two photos.

Thanks for my first gold! I took this photo yesterday with my smartphone, however I travel around Europe and Ireland of course as much as I can, taking some photos of nature along the way. You can check out my pics at https://www.eyeem.com/u/3380623

Thanks again!

For the window, you could frame it so you see the window frame, maybe try to make the outside look like a picture hanging on the wall? You could play with exposure, where you expose for outside and the frame/inside goes dark, or expose for the inside and make it look like a "burst" of light coming through the window. Try images in the early morning, or at dusk, and then at night to get a different quality of light. Here's some inspiration! Like landscape photography, it's a lot of watching and waiting for the right moment and conditions.

For self portraits, you'll need a way to set the camera up where it can stand on its own (a tripod is best, but if you don't have one, using books or other household objects can work as a temporary solution), and use the self-timer function (you can also get a shutter trigger but the self-timer works great to start). I just read that the Getty Museum in LA is challenging people on Twitter to "recreate" famous works of art at home and share the results -- that might be a fun starting project.

AWESOME! Can't wait to see new incredible wallpapers!!!

Here is another idea, Shadow logo as UFO obducting human.

Here are wallpaper examples:

https://www.eyeem.com/search/pictures/Silhouette%20Group%20Of%20People?marketScore[]=great&marketStatus=commercial&page=4&q=Silhouette%20Group%20Of%20People&replaceQuery=true&sort=relevance

https://img2.goodfon.com/wallpaper/big/0/5b/flying-saucer-ufo-abduction.jpg

Instead of UFO, Shadow logo should be there. ;)

It's shame that best photos cost a lot but there can be found a lot of high res free photos that are perfect so Shadow logo can be fitted there as planet, ufo etc...

Since you are very good at this if you have enough time make like tens of them, I would use them all when I get my own Shadow! :D

Cheers!

it says it has an Aquamarine stripe, aquamarine can be anything from light blue, to greenish blue, to blueish green. And in this case (at least to me), it has a tiny bit of green but almost only blue therefore it's an aquamarine blue.

How can you look at this and tell me it's more green than blue

I'm not certain the camera would even see any part of the shadow at all. Because the camera would be in the shadow.

Look at examples 6 and 7 here:

https://www.eyeem.com/blog/10-tips-for-taking-stunning-silhouette-photos-with-your-smartphone

Also:

https://thumbs.imagekind.com/5629152_650/Woman-Red-Sunset-Silhouette-w-Sun--Clouds_art.jpg?v=1493078293

Now imagine the figure was jumping in the air, you probably wouldn't see their shadows.

A screen shot and a reverse image search says it's:

https://www.eyeem.com/search/pictures/Back%20Home,%20TX?marketScore%5B0%5D=great&marketStatus=commercial&q=Back%20Home%2C%20TX&replaceQuery=true&sort=relevance

Thank you very much for the answers! I knew it was a compromise with this lens but I can only carry one lens with me as I'm backpacking and want to be as light as possible hence I prefered one single lens to do all the job. The camera (and the lens) is already way to heavy to carry.

> Where did you focus in the image? I used "Autofocus - Zone" setting. The mountains on the back was centered with the marker. Neither the mountains nor the foreground is as sharp as I like it to be?

> Did you shoot RAW? I don't have enough storage for RAW so I only shoot JPEG :(

> Who recommended that camera and lens to you? Fujifilm had a free street photography class for one day to show off their cameras. I took one a couple of years ago and really liked the XT2. So I thought XT3 would be even better than that. I jumped in the wagon when I could afford it.

> And what camera did you have before this one? I have used a Lumix FT-2 and Samsung NX30 for years. Here are some of my photos if you care to see: https://www.eyeem.com/u/ce85

I'm particularly disappointed in greens, they always look muddy. And whenever I try to compensate shadows/highlights with the exposure ring, I ruin it further, I have to work on that a little bit more.

When people say things like that are impossible, they usually end up being wrong. With enough money and time you could level the mountains, but all you have to do is build switchbacks for equipment. That's nothing that hasn't been done before.

It's implied they mean some variation of this - although not in a 'meditation' pose. Another variety might be this.

I feel like this article might be relevant to your interests, its about photojournalist Ben Lowy who covered the Iraq War and the war in Libya with just a pair of iPhones.

IMHO I think the idea is brilliant - the lack of obtrusive equipment makes you stand out a lot less and makes it less likely to be targeted for theft, they're super light and mobile, the camera itself has a built-in transmission and internet upload capabilities, and it's cheap AF to replace if something happens to it. Plus its easy to find waterproof/crushproof cases for things like iPhones.

The wallpaper is actually one of the stock cityscapes from the Google wallpaper app. Here is a direct link Wallpaper and here is where in the Google wallpaper app it is Cityscapes

Spent the last couple of weeks traveling. Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai in China and then came back and recouped on the Oregon coast for a few days. I shot about 2k images and ended up with around 350 images i liked. I'm slowly uploading them to Eyeem (could use some followers here btw if you're members!)

https://www.eyeem.com/u/cutlerphoto

First trip using the Peak Design Travel Line system. Loved it. I spent two weeks out and about and only needed one backpack. Was able to use it as a carry on the entire trip (though I didn't do any domestic flights in China, was by rail) Only gripe on that is the compression snaps on the bag don't really work and it's a pretty huge bag to wander the subways and such in China without bashing into everyone. Ended up opting for the 5L sling inside the bag rather than the cubes. Not a fan of the camera storage cubes as a walk-around bag.

That would be a good idea, another source for me is a site called EyeEm which has missions for their users. Even if you're not part of EyeEm you can still see the missions which might also give you a bit of inspiration.

That one looks amazing! I have an account where I only upload photos taken with my phone, and right now it still is an iPhone 5! Check it out, I've getting better with the time (at least I think so when I compare my first posts with recent ones) and learned that it's not about ultra good cameras: the key is how you use them!

Releases mean that the person (if applicable) or brand (if applicable) has given you the ok to sell their likeness for commercial purposes. If I take a photo of a hummingbird, there's no person or brand, so it can be used commercially. If I take a photo of a friend at a brewpub, I need their written permission (release) for that image to be able to be used commercially. If the brewpub's logo is in the image, say on a pint glass, then I also need to obtain a release from them as well. Also if my friend's shirt has the Nike logo, I either need to get rid of it via post production, or get a release from Nike as well to be able to use that photo commercially.

Here's what they say about it: https://www.eyeem.com/blog/do-you-need-a-legal-photo-release/

Hey everyone, I'm @wolfmanphotos on Instagram. I want to work toward doing more portraits and landscape photography, but for right now most of what I shoot is wildlife. Bird identification is a work in progress so feel free to correct me if you notice anything.

You can also find me at 500px and EyeEm under the same name.

have a look at eyeem, it's similar to ig but geared more towards photographers. They have weekly photo brief competitions to be featured and they also have the option to submit your images to stockphoto marketplaces.

https://www.eyeem.com

I have used it a little bit and some accounts are very successful, however it takes a bit of work to adjust to the ins and outs of gaming yet another platform to get the most from it.

I submitted to this competition myself and was fortunate enough to make it as a finalist in 'The Street Photographer' Category.

Here was my entry (for those interested)

Slainte /r/photography!

I'm a hobbyist that transitioned from landscapes to wildlife (mostly birds) but still posts the occasional portrait. You can follow me on Instagram, 500px, or EyeEm.

Right now I'm transitioning my focus to improve my post-processing as I'm finally starting to feel like I've got a grasp on composition and what my camera can do. Feedback is always welcome and I'll happily point out what I love in your shots.

Later than all the rest... Have been interested in patterns (and contrast) for a long time, but have, basically, only used my smartphone to take photos (posted on Eyeem).

Got a chance to go out the other night with my Canon EOS 1100D to seek some patterns, and found a few. Because it was dark, I wasn't very happy with the outcome. (Meaning - there's always room for improvement - and the need to buy a tripod)

Pattern Assignment

Edit: Just started reading the next lesson with shutter speed, and can say that the shutter speed was something that i had a problem with when I took the the photos for this assignment. I had the aperture wide open (I was using Av), to let as much light in as possible, but even then, the shutter speed was long. This meant that (without a tripod) the slightest movement screwed up the photo...)

> Too much saturation?

Maybe in one or two of them.

I think I like this one the most: https://www.eyeem.com/p/88204244

If you'd boosted the saturation on that, it didn't hurt it. OTOH it is at too low a resolution on the 'net for us to get some of effect of having the fine detail sharp.

EyeEm has a blog that includes Missions which are contests and include prizes for people who use their service. You don't need to be a user to see them though, and they can be a great source of inspiration!

EyeEm has Missions. Even if you don't use the service, you can see what missions they have on their blog, which can be good inspiration to try something new.

Try EyeEm! It's kinda like Instagram, but they partner with Getty and (if you choose to do so), you can also sell your photos as stock. I've done so and one of my photos has been pretty popular. It's not something I'm making a living off of or anything, but it's a bit of money on the side which is nice.

As a bonus for inspiration, they also have Missions. Even if you don't choose to participate in them, they're pretty great to get you thinking about photos you might not have taken before. They also announce the winners to show what other people came up with.

The EyeEm app has missions which can be fun, and you can possibly win prizes or be featured too! Even if you don't participate, it can get some creative juices going. You should be able to view them on their blog too to see if it's something you'd be interested in.

My lenses right now are the 50mm 1.2, the 100mm 2.8, and the 24-105mm 4.0.

When I go places away from home, I usually take the 24-105mm so I have versatility without carrying other lenses.

When I carry the camera around town or sometimes for portraits, I use the 50mm.

I use the 100mm for portraits if I have the space, and of course for close ups of things. Its my most rarely used lens, and works best (as far as quick auto-focus goes) in daylight or overcast. The only annoying thing is when its trying to autofocus, it will sometimes cycle the whole focal range which takes time. But other than that I love it.

Here's some of my stuff, too, and then I have a B&W instagram @shadedlight