Common, this is pure Apple dope... And how cliché! The neat and clean hacker standing straight in front of an espresso and his shiny Macbook lying a sweet wooden table...
Hacking is sooooooo cool and clean!
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#112Why is this the top post on HN?
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#11310 free photos, and it's all Apple fanboy photos? Thanks anyway I guess, don't look a gift horse in the mouth :)
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#114As somebody who did pro photography for a few years, these photos are a good example of why you should never shoot JPG, but RAW instead, and process everything in 16 bit per channel until you actually save the end result. Your process resulted in absolutely horrible posterization, can be clearly seen on this one (display of the laptop): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18793141/macbook-air-all...
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original title said something negative about stock photos (but I can't recall exactly what).
I'm not sure how it got changed but this was the original title, "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."
The guidelines ask submissions to use the page's title. Moderators often change them to conform. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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#116Since Dropbox is 509'ing, can someone who's downloaded the photos mirror them somewhere like imgur instead?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are extending Apple way more rights than they actually have. Trademark and copyright don't exist to keep people from saying negative things about you.
No, but libel and slander laws do exist to keep people from saying untrue negative things about you, so it still pays to be careful if that's what you intend to do.
Libelous and/or slanderous content wouldn't be made any more or less illegal by having or not having identifiable brands in stock photography.
Despite the reactionary comments in this thread, we're not in a corporatist dystopia where it's against the law to publish a photograph of a ubiquitous consumer device.
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#118There are millions (billions?) of stock photos in the world, and your plan is to replace all of them with 10 pictures of a MacBook Air? Even with more pictures it's unlikely you'll beat a Creative Commons search on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=cc&ss=0&ct=0&...
Going on 3 hours at the top of HN, soon to be the #1 stock photo site. Nothing but MacBook Air pictures.
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#119Why not one photo a day?
Because 10 photos in 10 days sounds like more? I dunno.
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#120It's amazing how much the title submission can influence comments.
Original title: "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."
Current title: "Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days"
A lot of these comments are really negative and might be confusing to people who didn't know the original title. And frankly, when you have a title like that to start, it warrants some of the criticism.
If you just take this site for what it is, and what the new title says, then it's awesome and no one should really have a problem with someone spending their time taking great quality photos and releasing them for free.