Stock Photos
The Incredible Beauty Of Sunrise And Sunset Scenes
A good photographer can only capture the memory of the sunrise next to majestic mountains and the sunset going down to rest behind the ocean’s horizon. These are the most attractive scenes of nature a camera can capture. Here we have compiled a showcase of such beautiful photographs of sunset and sunrise that would inspire you a lot for sure! In these photos, you can notice that how challenging it would be to adjust with the light to take the photograph the way you want!
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Land of the Rising Moon – Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, California
Sunset at City of Arts and Sciences
Winter Magic – Yosemite National Park, California
Point Arena Lighthouse Sunset – California Coast
Golden silence, serenity at its finest
Pfeiffer Beach – Sunset Splash
FindEXIF Lets You View Detailed EXIF Data of Any Image Online
When you take pictures through a digital camera, a lot of detailed information is attached to it. Among other things, these details include which camera the picture was taken from, what are its dimensions, its exposure time, and color space. All this attached information is called EXIF data and can be accessed by right clicking your photo on your computer and entering the details field its properties (in Windows).
The information in this properties window is not always easy to interpret. Moreover there is no method to store this information in a file unless you start typing yourself.
FindEXIF is a website that lets you view and save the EXIF data of any picture.
FindEXIF is a free to use website that extracts the EXIF data of any website and presents it to you. This can be done for any picture, not only the ones on your computer. The input is an image’s URL; for online images this becomes quite easy but if the image is store on your computer you will first need to have it hosted online through a service like ImageShack.
Once you enter your picture’s URL you can click on the “GO” button and view its detailed EXIF information.
Your information is shown under the thumbnail of your image. You get a permalink (permanent URL) for this information which you can use to access the EXIF details from anywhere. Alternatively you can copy the text on the webpage and copy it in a text editor to save on your computer.
Visit FindEXIF by clicking here.
Stunning Photos Filled With Creative Ideas And Humor
Photography can become more interesting and inspiring when it has creativity and humor at the same time. Today, we are showing you Stunning Photos Filled With Creative Ideas And Humor. I appreciate to all those talented artist who created these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these artistic wonders.
This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about these artists.
If you want to share more fantastic examples of creative photos so please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
Crossing worlds by denkyo
Transparent Screen iPad by Chengyin
Conference by C.G.
Morning coffee ABVH
Wedding Ring by Tsesler
Autumn Magic by Camiloo
Gunther Philipps by Gunther Philipp
Extreme Thirst by Phoenix-Cry
Orangeman by Martin Grohs
Waterfall With Ducks by Unknown
Sky Horse by *MTDewer
Rooster by Pixelprinz
Congratulations To The Winners Of Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos
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DepositPhotos.com is one of the best resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images. Their vast library of imagestock coupled with wide variety of flexible purchase options makes them most convenient and profitable tool for designers, artists and photographers.
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Incredibly Captured Beauty Of Reflection In Photography
Reflection Photography is a most popular way to beautify your photographs and bring life to them. All you have to do is dig deep enough into your imagination and come up with new and exciting ideas on how to make a lifeless photo look extremely incredible. You can satisfy your hunger of creativity with Reflection Photography. You just have to master your skills of photography and this post will help you in doing so. Enjoy this mind blowing post about Reflection Photography.
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Pausing for a moment of reflection
Reflections Of Amsterd@m – Jesus In A Puddle
Michaelmas daisy dewdrop refraction
Half Dome Reflections II, Yosemite
Even dogs enjoy the beautiful nature
Lotus Flower Reflections IMGP6812-refl
The Wine Glass Travels to Red Rock Canyon
Reflections Of Amsterdam – The Magnaficent View
Reflection – Sometimes We Are Clear Inside And Abhorrent Outside 
Mirror mirror who is the fairest of em’ all
Un gatto e nove vite – a cat and nine lifes
Take A Chance To Win Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos
DepositPhotos is running a contest, where winners will get 15 accounts with free credits (worth $30 each). Well, you guys know what DepositPhotos is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.
DepositPhotos.com is one of the best resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images. Their vast library of imagestock coupled with wide variety of flexible purchase options makes them most convenient and profitable tool for designers, artists and photographers.
Whether you’re a designer looking to buy images for a project or a photographer selling your stock, They make working with DepositPhotos.com as easy as possible. Their low, low pricing and flexible purchase plans make it easy to buy exactly what you need instead of just what you can afford, and their generous commission structures give their contributors enormous earning potential.
Looking for images containing food, beverages or tableware? That’s easy – just start in the “Food & Drink” category. Need an image related to an office environment, work or careers? Visit our “Business & Finance” Category. Maybe you’re looking for an image of a ring, necklace or bracelet. Then, start your search in the “Jewelry & Gems” category. With more than three dozen categories to choose from, you’ll never have trouble finding the perfect image, no matter what you’re looking for!
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45 Absolutely Stunning Examples Of Silhouette Photography
Silhouette Photography produces very stunning results and would be considered as the best option when an artist wants to convey mystery, drama, and emotion in his photographs; and most of all if he wants to make his portfolio look out of the world! So let us have a look at this collection. In this post we have gathered 45 spectacular examples of Silhouette Photography for your motivation. You can easily differentiate Silhouette Photography from the other types of photography because it looks like a dark outline against a light background.
If you want to share more fantastic examples of Silhouette Photography so please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
Tule Elk Sunset Silhouette “Point Reyes”
Silhouette bride – lost in her own world
Silhouette in the Lonely World
1,2,3….Jump!!!!!! West side Story Revisited!
India – Camel and his rider in Thar
Beautifully Captured Impressive Photographs Dedicated To Labour Day
International Workers’ Day or Labour Day is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. This is celebrated as a national holiday in most of the countries on 1st May (except USA, Canada, UK and some other countries) and that’s why its popular as a May Day too. This day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and street marches by millions of working people and their labour unions throughout most of the countries of the world. We thought to give some tribute to this day and selected few really beautiful photographs that captured their hard-work in a single shot. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing these in detail it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about Labour Day and motivate you to give them some respect as much as possible. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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Coal mine workers, minus (below sea level) 485 meter underground by Yavuz Sariyildiz
Ceramics maker by Thaib Chaidar
Workers on leary way by sparth
Fish Market by Antonio Grambone
Master Of Puppet by Ario Wibisono
Hell’s mercenaries by Sorin onisor
Sound of the craftsman by Takashi
The Glassblower by Stefan Nielsen
Sand Collector by Mitchell Kanashkevich
Stunningly Captured Moments You May Have Never Seen Before (National Geographic Special)
The National Geographic is working for creating awareness about caring natural resources and the planet, and has been very successful so far. In this post, we have gathered some stunning photographs from The National Geographic Website to pay a tribute to The National Geographic and the photographers who are working very hard and doing a great job. In this post you will notice the beauty of nature, culture and the natural resources.
Feel free to share this post with others and do let us know if we have missed out your favorite photographs that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
Polar Bears Playing by Sandra Donlon
Swan on the River Avon by Jason Wickens
Barracuda, Bismarck Sea by David Doubilet
Demsa Dancer, India by Kieron Nelson
Yellow-Billed Hornbill, South Africa by Daniel Born
Mahout Bathing an Elephant, India by Mohit Midha
Kolmanskop, Namibia by Chris Gray
Birds Fighting, Rondeau Provincial Park, Canada by Martin Lukasiewicz
Koi Feeding, Texas by Randy Heisch
Grizzly Bear Cubs by Oliver Klink
Chicago City Lights by Jim Richardson
Elephant Seal Pups, South Georgia Island by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott
Stallions Fighting, South Dakota by Melissa Farlow
Porcupine Mountains Waterfall, Michigan by Gowtham Shankara
Humpback Whales in Sunlit Water, Tahiti by Jody MacDonald
Atlantic Walrus, Canada by Paul Nicklen
Emperor Penguin Chicks, Antarctica by Frank Kazukaitis
Smith’s Green-Eyed Gecko by Anke Seidlitz
Hippo Pool, Tanzania by Andrew Kaplan
Manta Rays, Hanifaru Bay, Maldives by Thomas Peshak
Lion, South Africa by Barbara Motter
Horse’s Eye by Natalka Lindstrom
Pink Orchid by Gunhild Andersen
Saltwater Crocodile by Yeang Chng
Male Blue Morpho Butterfly by Cary Wolinsky
Polar Bear, Svalbard by Paul Nicklen
Beautiful Friendship By David Doubilet
Bathing Parrot by Cesar Badilla, My Shot
Lowland Gorillas, Bronx Zoo by Richard Conde
Red Foxes, Delaware by Sean Crane
Grazing Bison, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma by George F. Mobley
iSyndica:Upload Photos to Multiple Stock Photography Sites from One place
Stock photography and videography has become a decent profession in recent years and many talented photographers earn online by selling their work. Clicking photos and videos is fun and interesting, but to sell them is not an easy job. You must have a portfolio and a solid social media presence so that people know that you exist. They can see your work and eventually, interested visitors will turn into future prospects or clients.
Why Photographers Need Stock Photography sites and Online Agencies?
The first and simplest reason is exposure. It’s far better to use Flickr rather than a blogspot blog to showcase your work. If you portray your work at the right place, you will reap more returns and value because your work will be viewed by more visitors.
The second and most important reason is security. There are hundreds of thousands of copycats out there who will steal your work if you lay it open on Flickr or any other social media website like Facebook, Twitter etc. Consider a situation when a photographer uploads his work on Flickr and someone just downloads and sells it to any other company or at ebay. The photographer would not be able to know when his work is sold illegally. And if he happens to track that person who stoled his work, will he have any proof that the photograph originally belongs to him?
This is where stock photography sites come into play. You submit your photographs in various stock photography sites and display your work to a large number of people. Their is no issue of content theft as your photographs are watermarked with your brand and registered under your name. If someone is intrested, he may choose to buy your work or contact you directly.
About iSyndica
iSyndica is a cloud based media distribution company which helps users to promote, syndicate and track their content on multiple established channels. This includes 25 most popular stock photography sites, 7 video agencies and 10 stock illustration agencies.
Here is what the company has to say about themselves:
“iSyndica eliminates the need for you to upload your files to several sites. You upload with us, we store it, we distribute it and we provide you with statistics. All in one place!”
The service is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the virtual distribution server (VDS) is awaiting patent approval.
How it Works?
iSyndica helps you simplify the process of submitting the photographs to multiple stock photography sites, all from one place. You can create your portfolio and then distribute it on multiple photo sharing sites, without losing credits of your work. As soon as your image is uploaded, your image is sent to all the stock agencies in a couple of minutes. Next, go to these sites one by one, pick the desired categories and hit submit.
This is useful because you don’t have to open all the sites and submit your work one by one, which becomes unmanageable after some time. In addition to distributing the content, iSyndica provides you with important statistics.
Uploading Photos: The site supports only the JPEG format for uploading photos. The maximum file size is 25 MB per image and the minimum image size is 4 Megapixel.
Managing Your Catalog of Photos: The Catalog is where you get to manage your images, change the metadata information and also syndicate them to custom channels. Basically, there are two types of channels -sales and promotional.
The sales channel offers an interface to sell your items. The “Syndicate”
function allows you to mark your items accepted or rejected by the stock agencies.
Promotional channels are used mostly on social sharing platforms, where you can put your items to show them to a different public. You can use the “Promote” link from the menu bar and watermark the images before sharing them on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and the like.
Using Channels to Track performance: You can use custom channels within your iSyndica dashboard to track the performance of your work in different sites. A “channel” is simply one of the places you distribute your content to, for the purpose of sharing and/or selling it. To add or configure a channel, click “Configure Channel” icon on the Channel list. Next, supply the login details of the site where you want to submit your work. iSyndicate will validate and store the login credentials for future use and once you upload a photo, the site will use this information to submit your photos to the specified site.
Analysis: The Tracking and analysis section, looks very impressive and you can can see the performance of your work in different stock photography sites. This includes charts and bar graphs which shows your projected earnings, number of downloads, revenue etc.
In the premium plans, new data is updated up to 12 times a day. The free plan offers twice daily updates up to the end of your subscription trail date. All he sales are shown in USD which is based on daily currency rates. The charts considers some important factors like day of the week and compares it with overall trends so you get precise data.
Integrate additional services on top of the stored contents using iSyndica AP:
Using the iSyndica API, you can create great applications on top of iSyndica’s Virtual Distribution Server. The API is free to use and works on Oauth so you can use the application to promote your work and your brand on social media and sites that support Oauth authentication. The API allows you to perform a wide range of functions- from uploading photos, applying distribution rules, collecting reports, modifying product metadata etc. More information can be found here.
Affiliate Program: After registration, you are automatically enrolled in the iSyndicate affiliate program. Your affiliate link is http://vds.isyndica.com/affiliate/<username>
Supported Sites and Agencies
Currently iSyndica supports photos, videos and illustrations. Following is a list of all stock photography sites which the service supports:
Stock photo agencies:
- 123RF®
- ArcticStockImages®
- Bigstock®
- CanStockPhoto®
- Facebook®
- FeaturePics®
- Flickr®
- Fotolia®
- Shutterstock (using iSyndica’s generic connector)
- Picasa®
- Polylooks™
- TwitPic®
- Catooh®
- ClipDealer®
- Crestock®
- Cutcaster®
- Demotix®
- Dreamstime®
- Graphicleftovers®
- iStockphoto®
- MostPhotos®
- MyStock®
- Photobox®
- Pixmac®
- Rodeo®
- ScanStockPhoto®
- Shutterfly®
- SmugMug®
- Stockfuel®
- Veer®
- Vivozoom®
- YayMicro®
- YFrog®
- Zenfolio®
Supported video agencies:
- CanStockPhoto®
- Facebook®
- Flickr®
- Fotolia®
- AlwaysHD®
- BlipTV®
- Catooh®
- ClipDealer®
- Pond5®
- RevoStock®
- Stockfuel®
- Twitvid®
- Viddler®
- YFrog®
- YouTube®
- Shutterstock (using iSyndica’s generic connector)
- istockphoto (using iSyndica’s generic connector)
Supported stock illustration agencies:
- 123RF®
- Bigstock®
- CanStockPhoto®
- Facebook®
- FeaturePics®
- Flickr®
- Fotolia®
- Picasa®
- Polylooks™
- TwitPic®
- ClipDealer®
- Crestock®
- Cutcaster®
- Dreamstime®
- Graphicleftovers®
- Photobox®
- Pixmac®
- Stockfuel®
- Veer®
- Vivozoom®
- YayMicro®
- YFrog®
Supported stock audio agencies:
- AudioSparx
- AudioMicro
- Catooh
- ClipDealer
- Pond5
- RevoStock
- Stockfuel
In addition to the above sites, iSyndica supports upto 20 customized generic FTP channels. You can transfer your items to any FTP server of your choice.
Pricing and Plans
Subscription Levels and Credits:
There are different subscription levels which depends on how many uploads you do in a specified period of time. You can try the service using the free subscription option, which lets you upload 200 credits per month. 1 credit equals to 1 website where your content is submitted. So if you upload only one image and submit it to 10 different stock photography sites, it will cost you 10 credits in total.
Here are all the available plans to choose from:
The premium plan is affordable and costs only 79$ a year. You get 20 GB of storage space and customizable promotion on social media websites like Twitter, Facebook etc. If the premium plan looks too costly, try the standard plan for only 19$ a year. This includes all the features of the premium plan except the customized social media promotion and secure FTP uploads.
If you don’t want to start with a paid plan right now, you can always try the free trial for 15 days. Here are all the features which you get in the free trial period:
- 2 GB secure data storage
- secure backups and export functions
- daily sales and revenue reporting
- custom FTP settings
- 200 free credits
- social network promotion
Overall, the site looks very good and provides service of high value. If you want a simple interface to submit your work to multiple stock photography sites, iSyndica is a great option.
Try it yourself today: iSyndica Signup
