Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

Snapshot...

David Arbogast wrote in post #18568023
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No pressing reason to hurry the purchase since the lens, super-cool as it may be, is not an actual need.

Are you sure you're in the right thread???

Scatterbrained wrote in post #18568125
Are you sure you're in the right thread???

he needs to be brought back to the collective!!!

Finally got to play outside with the new gear. A9 and 100-400.

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vinmunoz wrote in post #18568068
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Hell of a snapshot. The symmetry with that subtle reflection is super cool

Thanks. we were doing a road trip to a ski resort near Reno Nevada and the hotel we stayed over have indoor pool. we let the kids had fun swimming and i just took random candid shots but that gal(daughter of our close family friend) look at me and i clicked. i did a little bit of cropping though to get to that composition.

Strange... I've just found out a few of my recent images have made Explore - not very high up I hasten to add - but, the last time I hit Explore was (I think) December 2013........

EDIT - I had 36 images in Explore in 2013, more than that in 2012 & a dozen or so in 2011. Nothing since aside from the past week......

LeeRatters wrote in post #18568402
Strange... I've just found out a few of my recent images have made Explore - not very high up I hasten to add - but, the last time I hit Explore was (I think) December 2013........

EDIT - I had 36 images in Explore in 2013, more than that in 2012 & a dozen or so in 2011. Nothing since aside from the past week......

My pattern was the same, I then found out from Travis that there’s a minimum pixel dimension (1600 I think from memory). After I upped it to 2048 long edge from my previous 1024 I started getting them again.

If you want to check your own you can use https://bighugelabs.co​m/scout.php

xpfloyd wrote in post #18568444
My pattern was the same, I then found out from Travis that there’s a minimum pixel dimension (1600 I think from memory). After I upped it to 2048 long edge from my previous 1024 I started getting them again.

If you want to check your own you can use https://bighugelabs.co​m/scout.php

I make my 2048px versions public but I think my issue is I don't get enough views on my public images. Not sure why. I add them to 5 or more groups each with several thousand images posted. I only have 500 followers on Flickr. I have about that many on Instagram and about 30 on 500px. Pitiful I know.

digital_AM wrote in post #18568459
I make my 2048px versions public but I think my issue is I don't get enough views on my public images. Not sure why. I add them to 5 or more groups each with several thousand images posted. I only have 500 followers on Flickr. I have about that many on Instagram and about 30 on 500px. Pitiful I know.

Well since 2011 I have only had 28 explores and only 7 remain (not fully understanding of the dropped option in scout?), I only have 1.3K followers on flickr and 128 on instagram so you are doing better than me! No matter what I do I cant increase my IG followers. I post images with tags, they get 50-100 likes, I get some new followers then slowly over the next few days the followers drop back down to 120-130. I was up as high as 200 one week 70 dropped back off as fast as they came on. I have gave up in that regard

digital_AM wrote in post #18568459
I make my 2048px versions public but I think my issue is I don't get enough views on my public images. Not sure why. I add them to 5 or more groups each with several thousand images posted. I only have 500 followers on Flickr. I have about that many on Instagram and about 30 on 500px. Pitiful I know.

More than 5 groups can be a deal breaker for the algorithm. I limit it to 4.

Views is one metric, but faves and comments are the other 2. My stats indicate that 40+ faves and at least 10 comments increases the odds...

But number of followers is another metric, after I hit 1k it has been more consistent...I like to think the images are better than they used to be...

xpfloyd wrote in post #18568476
Well since 2011 I have only had 28 explores and only 7 remain (not fully understanding of the dropped option in scout?), I only have 1.3K followers on flickr and 128 on instagram so you are doing better than me! No matter what I do I cant increase my IG followers. I post images with tags, they get 50-100 likes, I get some new followers then slowly over the next few days the followers drop back down to 120-130. I was up as high as 200 one week 70 dropped back off as fast as they came on. I have gave up in that regard

IG is funny that way. You have to post and engage often. IG's algorithm favors engagement. It's a lot of work to keep up. Sometimes I ask myself why bother but then I get motivated by seeing the work of those I follow and sharing my own work. I'm also growing a following within my own city which will hopefully translate into more paid work. I just try not to get caught up in the whole "tricking the algorithm" crap to get more followers and likes.

TRhoads wrote in post #18568483
More than 5 groups can be a deal breaker for the algorithm. I limit it to 4.

Views is one matrix, but faves and comments are the other 2. My stats indicate that 40+ faves and at least 10 comments increases the odds...

But number of followers is another matrix, after I hit 1k it has been more consistent...I like to think the images are better than they used to be...

I tried for a few weeks to post a few images and only limit it to 4 groups per image but didn't have much engagement at all. I must be using the wrong groups or people find my images boring. I appreciate your tips though.

digital_AM wrote in post #18568494
IG is funny that way. You have to post and engage often. IG's algorithm favors engagement. It's a lot of work to keep up. Sometimes I ask myself why bother but then I get motivated by seeing the work of those I follow and sharing my own work. I'm also growing a following within my own city which will hopefully translate into more paid work. I just try not to get caught up in the whole "tricking the algorithm" crap to get more followers and likes.

I tried for a few weeks to post a few images and only limit it to 4 groups per image but didn't have much engagement at all. I must be using the wrong groups or people find my images boring. I appreciate your tips though.

Alfredo, your work is wonderful and worthy of a much bigger following.

I looked at your Flickr and I think I’ve identified your shortcoming: you’re only following 58 people. I am following nearly 700 and Travis nearly 900.

Each day I quickly swipe through everyones uploads that I follow on Flickr and hit double-tap to favorite every single thing I enjoy viewing. It usually me less than a minute. Photography is so much about giving and sharing; those that give the most receive the most. Some might take a skeptical view and have contempt for the reciprocity of it, but I truly take pleasure in viewing other people’s images and having them do the same with mine.

Thoughts about following people. Sometimes I’ll follow people whose work I adore, but more often I simply reciprocate someone who has followed me. When I get a follower I ask myself two questions: 1. Did they also favorite my work? If not, I usually don’t return the follow. 2. Is their work interesting to me at all? It doesn’t need to be amazing, but it just needs to be interesting. If it’s repetitive/iterative I don’t follow. If it’s cell phone work I don’t typically follow.

All of this this reminds me that I need to follow more people...going to work on getting that number to 1,000.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18568541
Alfredo, your work is wonderful and worthy of a much bigger following.

I looked at your Flickr and I think I’ve identified your shortcoming: you’re only following 58 people. I am following nearly 700 and Travis nearly 900.

Each day I quickly swipe through everyones uploads that I follow on Flickr and hit double-tap to favorite every single thing I enjoy viewing. It usually me less than a minute. Photography is so much about giving and sharing; those that give the most receive the most. Some might take a skeptical view and have contempt for the reciprocity of it, but I truly take pleasure in viewing other people’s images and having them do the same with mine.

Thoughts about following people. Sometimes I’ll follow people whose work I adore, but more often I simply reciprocate someone who has followed me. When I get a follower I ask myself two questions: 1. Did they also favorite my work? If not, I usually don’t return the follow. 2. Is there work interesting to me at all? It doesn’t need to be amazing, but it just needs to be interesting. If it’s repetitive/iterative I don’t follow. If it’s cell phone work I don’t typically follow.

All of this this reminds me that I need to follow more people...going to work on getting that number to 1,000.

This...was my next post on the subject...more or less...

xpfloyd wrote in post #18568444
My pattern was the same, I then found out from Travis that there’s a minimum pixel dimension (1600 I think from memory). After I upped it to 2048 long edge from my previous 1024 I started getting them again.

If you want to check your own you can use https://bighugelabs.co​m/scout.php

Eddie, I tried using that Scout website to see what images of mine it showed that were "Explored". I discovered there are twice as many of my images there than I thought. Here they both are.

I always thought an image had to get over a 1000 views within a short period but my "Tiny Flowers" image only has 678 views total as of today.


Oh, and I have 166 Followers and 41 Following.

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