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Alright everyone! 👋 I've created a new space on Tumblr to share my photography: viewfrommylens. If you're keen on seeing the world from different angles, give us a follow! 👇
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Der Limburger Dom hat mit sieben Türme, mehr als alle anderen Kirchen in Deutschland.
Der Gesamteindruck lässt sich in den rheinischen Übergangsstil zuordnen
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So, this is awkward but I want to be known for my photos a bit more and by contributing to the community more than saying "look at this cool thing I did."
If you're new #photography & want some advice on how to do anything (#portfolio advice, #editing, shooting certain events) reach out. I'm a full time photographer who has been highlighted 3x by National Geographic. Published by: CNN, BBC, New York Times, ESPN, Forbes, & more. #PhotoCommunity #TeachThursday #Photographer #PhotographyCommunity
I'm finding Mastodon to be a very different community, there doesn't seem to be as much commenting on posts, less discussion about images.
Anybody else seeing the same?
I want to love this place now that Twitter has gone down the pan, at the moment though it's very much, likes and reposts.
Seat with a view.
#winter #sunset at the Felsengärten in #Besigheim
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Selfportrait.
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Jüdisches Museum . Berlin . Daniel Libeskind . 1999
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100ASA Photo-Sharing App Wants to Be a Real Instagram Alternative
100ASA, an online community with over 10,000 photographers globally, has launched an app that it says is designed to be a direct competitor to Instagram.
This year marked a big shift for Instagram and its users after the social media giant announced it no longer intends to focus on photo-sharing and instead wants to move towards entertainment, videos, and shopping as part of its parent company Facebook's goal of becoming a metaverse company.
Some photographers have seen Instagram's choices as a signal to find alternatives. Apps like Glass, which released its beta in August, have shown there are different ways to go about social media interaction for photographers that don't necessarily mean competing directly against Instagram.
But unlike Glass, 100ASA has made challenging and replacing Instagram a clear mission goal.
100ASA aims to fill that missing gap in the photography industry, according to a report from Martech Series. The goal of the platform is to equip both beginner and professional photographers with tools to showcase their work online with the addition of feedback, community-based curation, and opportunities to be featured.
Massimiliano Peluso, founder and Enterprise Solution Architect of 100ASA, explains that the company "is going to compete with Instagram because this social media platform has lost its identity." 100ASA aims to provide both the community for those who are passionate about photography -- and want to escape advertisement, reels, videos, and other distracting features -- and also a more meticulous publication process.
"Many of our members mentioned having joined for being tired of platforms that prefer mass over quality. On 100ASA, only the best images are included in our galleries," says Peluso.
This concept is put into practice through a curation process where the photography community participates by voting, liking, and commenting. The curator team consists of what the company describes as passionate community members with different skill sets, backgrounds, and a variety of experience levels which furthers the goal of giving everyone a shot at having their best work curated and featured.
Registered users use tokens to participate in activities on the platform. For example, it costs 20 tokens to upload a photo for curation, while tokens can be earned through curating and commenting. Users can also upload their photos into albums to showcase their portfolio, sell prints, or use the galleries to collect favorite images taken by other users.
Speaking of print sales, 100ASA doesn't intend to keep its services entirely online. The company offers pop-up exhibitions that give users a chance to sell their photos to a new audience and pays different commissions for sales depending on membership tier.
According to 100ASA, the company also uses a unique AI-based algorithm to calculate the popularity of photos, instead of relying on a linear approach.
The overall goal of the platform is to encourage an active photography community that is interested in learning and inspiring others. Before starting 100ASA, the company’s founders tried to find something similar on the market but were met with what felt like closed-off communities that only provided cold, disinterested welcomes to new members. Other communities were plagued with fake profiles or poor to nonexistent curation processes.
There are three tiers of membership available with 100ASA: free, a $50 annual Pro level, and Pro Plus, which ups the cost to $80 a year. The benefit of the paid tiers gives users access to analytics that show how many people have seen a photo and when along with viewers' locations and most-visited days. Paid users also get access to more Albums, pop-up galleries, priority listing, and higher print sale commissions. A full breakdown of what each tier offers can be found on 100ASA's website.
The app is currently only available for Android phones on the Google Play Store, but the company says that an iOS release is coming soon.
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Glass is a Subscription-Based Photo Sharing App for Photographers
In the light of Instagram's recent statement that it is no longer a photo-sharing app, a new photography-focused, subscription-based community app has launched to support the art of photography through a distraction-free experience.
Fresh out of its private beta, Glass is live in the App Store, but is currently only available to iOS users. The company's decision to start off as an invite-only app is to ensure a quality experience, with interested users acquiring an invite either from a waiting list or from other Glass members who have invite codes to share.
The comparison to Instagram is inevitable, but the founders don't see themselves or Glass as a replacement for Instagram thanks to how differently the two companies operate and with their divergent goals.
The photographer-focused community and photosharing service primarily focuses on photos and on the art of photography. Glass welcomes both amateur and professional photographers, whether the user takes their photos with an iPhone or with expensive top-of-the-range equipment. The company hopes to build a community that is eager to learn, grow, and "generally nerd out about photography."
And we're live! Our first batch of invites have been sent out and we’ll be rolling out more invites all the time. Here are the details. https://t.co/Rt1MLDPy2Q
— Glass (@tryglass) August 10, 2021
Founded by Tom Watson and Stefan Borsje, the company is independent and has not taken venture capital or outside funding. Because of this, Glass charges its users for its product: $5 a month or $50 a year or, at launch, $30 a year with a free 14-day trial available to new users.
Watson has been designing digital products for over 20 years now and was an early Product Designer both at Facebook and Pinterest.
"I saw the tradeoffs firsthand around having to design for engagement versus people using the product," Watson tells Om during an interview. "That experience made me want to build something different."
Having enjoyed the Flickr community in the late 2000s, Watson watched it die out and fracture and similarly, after Facebook's acquisition of Instagram in 2012, saw it shift away from its early photographer community roots.
"Even though we knew it was coming, it still hurt when it happened," he says.
He started early designs for Glass in 2013, but the project only began to materialize in 2019 when Watson and Borsje decided to build it together. The duo wants to focus on photographers and build a community and products specifically for them. This means avoiding advertising, engagement algorithms, video, and other directions that they both feel would compromise the product and the community.
Similarly, the app doesn't feature likes, in contrast to Instagram, and if a "like" feature is to be launched, it will be private, says Watson.
"We’ve intentionally avoided any public counts. We don’t want Glass ever to become a popularity contest. We’re not home for influencers. We are a home for photographers."
As it is now, the infrastructure of the app is kept simple to balance new users joining and scaling out as the app grows its userbase, using Borsje's prior experience building the backend that supports the prototype app Framer and working at Amazon Web Services.
Another way in which Glass differentiates itself from visual content popularity apps is that the photos in Glass are viewed in full-screen and are not confined to a particular orientation or ratio, the app has color profile support, minimal compression, and shows EXIF data for those who are interested to see the image details.
The app is still in its early days and currently hasn't released any information about plans to introduce it to Android users, however, it gives photographers another alternative app to consider for sharing their work and engaging with the photography community.
The full interview with both founders can be found at Om and Glass can currently be downloaded from the App Store, but is currently closed to invite-only.
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