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Six word story...
damn round thing in my way
Silver Oak Tournament
Barbarians's Bash at Crystal Crags
gir backround
great for youtube backrounds bye the way! =)
check out mollyandchelseashow and see what it looks like as a backround!
Two majestic brown pelican taking off the Caribbean Sea, on a clear, blue sky and sunny day with a blurry fishing, diving boat in the backround, Tankah III, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Important keyboard shortcuts for 500px (Note: for a PC cmd=ctl)
cmd-click (to load a page in a tab in the backround)
cmd-w (to close a window)
f (to fave a photo)
L (to like a photo)
cmd-option-arrow key (to move between open tabbed windows)
My two favorite photosharing sites at present are 500px and Flickr. In this post I'll try to explain how I browse photos on 500px to find and uncover great photographs and also how to navigate the site. You can see the companion article How to Browse Flickr Like a Pro here.
500px is one of the most exciting photosharing sites on the scene today. It's a stark contrast to Flickr.
Flickr is a slow moving slow innovating behemoth owned by crappy Yahoo. 500px is a scrappy, fast moving, weekly innovating startup that just received over 500k in VC financing.
Flickr's community managers / staffers are abusive with their users and ban and censor people and ridicule their users. 500px owners are nice and pleasant and actually interact with their users on their site, Twitter, etc.
500px has a fresh new elegant photo page design. Flickr still looks like a tired old website from 2004.
500px seems to actually care about great photography. Flickr could care less (the quality on flickr declined dramatically overall when they turned it into a dumping ground by integrating Yahoo photos into it a few years ago and has gotten worse and worse).
500px is not frightened by the artistic female form. Flickr is scared to death of the female form (they censored this photo of a painting I took of a painting at the Art Institute of Chicago -- ridiculous).
It's exciting to see people that actually care about photography and photographers in charge at 500px. And it's been great watching so many of the best flickr accounts migrate over there over the past several months.
So where do I go to find great photos on 500px? All over the place.
For starters (like flickr) I go to my friends most recent uploads. Unlike Flickr (who will only show you the last 1 or 5 photos by your contacts) 500px shows you all of your contacts most recent uploads. The first thing I do here is cmd-click all of the paging icons at the bottom. This opens up the photo thumbnail pages in background tabs that I can tab to later without wasting time while they load. As they load in the background I'm cmd-clicking other photos on the page most recently loaded where I want to see larger photos. 500px gives you nice big thumbnails on this page in contrast to flickr's tired old page.
After browsing my friends most recent uploads to 500px, next I move on to my own recent activity page there. They just started paging this page this week and so now you can see all of your recent activity (like Flickr). Here, similar to flickr, I'll cmd-click the names of people who have interacted with my photos to load their photo pages in background tabs. From their I cmd-click the photos that I like on their page to open them up bigger and so that I can interact with them. If I like the photo I'll use the keyboard to quickly press "F" and "L" to both fave and like the photo.
Next I go to 500px's version of Explore (called Popular Photos). Here you will find some of the best photographs being published on the web today. I'm not kidding. 500px's Popular Photos page BLOWS flickr's Explore page out of the water. And 500px doesn't even need a secret "magic blacklisting donkey" algorithm to produce it.
Along with Popular Photos, 500px also has Fresh Photos, Upcoming Photo, and a staff curated section called Editor's Choice.
On each of these pages I'll cmd-click thumbnails to load photos to interact with in background tabs. Further, 500px allows you to filter these sections by subject, landscapes, people, nature, fine art NUDES! (did he just say nudes? don't worry folks, you have to check a NSFW tab in order to see these -- can you imagine FLICKR actually giving people an option to see the most popular nudes?)
By using the techniques described above, I can find some really amazing photos by some really amazing photographers on 500px. By relying heavily on the cmd-click function, I can more rapidly and efficiently navigate the site, allowing load time to take place in background tabs, leaving as much time as possible for me to actually spend appreciating and interacting with a photograph.
As a bonus tip, on other thing that I'm starting to do on both Flickr and 500px is curate photographs with Pinterest. I've just started doing this, but if I especially like a photograph on flickr or 500px (or anywhere on the web really) I'll pin it to a gallery on Pinterest. Here is a gallery I've started called "So This is America" which includes interesting and compelling photographs of America and here is another gallery that I've started of some of my favorite photographs by one of my greatest inspirations, American photographer William Eggleston. Pinterest is really what Flickr's own galleries should have looked like if they hadn't of done it so half-ass and with so many restrictions and limitations.
Calochorus argillosus with serpentine rock backround. Santa Lucia Mountains, San Luis Obispo County, CA.
After many, many photos involving hot reds, intense whites and black blacks, I was looking for a little calmness today. Maybe it reflects my mood, but all day I was thinking about taking a picture involving some greens -- not intense greens, but calm greens. I figured that I couldn't just take a picture of a green wall with a flash on it, so I decided to rescue the Baby's Breath from the now dead dozen red roses from Valentine's day. Tonight, Baby's Breath -- the long time backup singer -- was going to take its place front and center (well a little off center) and be the star of the show.
A single bare SB-600 on the back wall (which is a dark, ugly green, but looks nice when blown out a bit) and another SB-600 through a softbox directly above the flowers. Both on manual and fired via CLS from the pop-up.
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edited the backround from a yellow-orange-ish color to this blue color. because i thought it made us stand out better.
only thing i hate about this picture:
MY STUPID CHINS. I SHOULD ONLY HAVE 1... BUT WHENEVER I MAKE THIS FACE... I HAVE LIKE 2.
The red backround makes a comeback
This could be better and although I'm not feeling as sick as I did yesterday (thanks for all the well wishes) I'm not up to posing hundreds of times to get it the way I want. : P
Highest position: 242 on Friday, March 23, 2007
A pair of unidentified Railfreight Large Logo Class 31's pass through Streethouse and begin to accelerate with the Monk Bretton-Middleton Towers sand train,this shot was taken from the signal box which at the time was used solely for the crossing signals,of course there was more traffic in those days as Sharlston Colliery was just around the corner in the backround and the train is seen here passing through the former station. The apparent mountain in the background is actually waste coal and land which used to piled up to give the impression of a mountain range. The pit closed in the early 90's but reopened as an open cast in the 21st century for a short spell. It is now completely gone and is a field! The "Mountain" no longer exists either!
Taken by my father,Alan Walker (he now has his own flickr account named D832 Onslaught