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Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by mikeleeorg »

calinet6 wrote: post #70

Interesting, but a slight critique. There's some lens chromatic aberration in the bokeh/blur... a better lens that performs with little chroma wide open would solve it, or failing that stopping down just a couple notches down from wide open. Yet another reasons people pay for hi-resolution high-quality photographs, or take their own. Photographs cost money because they provide value, and some random photos taken by a…

I love this advice. While most commenters are addressing potential legal issues, you addressed a technical issue - the art of taking the photographs themselves. That's awesome of you. I hope to see more of this kind of advice on HN.

Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by tav »

mikaelcho wrote: post #39
usea wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also CC0 which puts the work into the public domain http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/

Awesome. Thanks. Added this text "do whatever you want" and linked to that license: http://cl.ly/image/3J0C3L1R301B

Thanks for putting the works into the public domain Mikael! You should link to the actual license though: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Thank you again and good luck with the effort!

Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by b0z0 »

All of the comments here hating on the "only 10 photos on Apple" seem pretty ridiculous to me. Clearly, the author chose a theme for today and will add more non-Apple photos later.

Then again, the OP did release it right at the start, before it'll be useful to anyone, so I'm surprised it's hit the #1 spot.

Even if you do keep this pace, you'll have a grand total of 365 pictures after a year, covering something like 36 topics. Not exactly ground-breaking. It would be great if you could crowd-source and curate the best pictures.

Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by archangel_one »

MartinCron wrote: post #81
jlarocco wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the value of stock images is to use them somewhere else. Lets say I write an article negatively portraying the electronics manufacturing industry and use these images along with the article. I'm pretty sure Apple wouldn't like it if they found out...

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.

Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by austengary »

What I surprise; HN crapping all over a show submission. Not even in a constructive form, hate for the sake of hate. Love it. Though to be fair, I'm glad you all seem to see no value in this. I'll use these and won't in turn have to replace them as they take on the ubiquity of Bootstrap

Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by jameswyse »

Why all the hate? You guys are always telling people to launch early and at the end of the day the OP is sharing something that he created to help out his peers, for free and with the promise of more to come.. I certainly appreciate it!

edit: I see a lot of you took issue with the original title:

> "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this"

Granted, it wasn't a great title but I kind of get where he's coming from - I used to spend hours trawling through istockphoto and shutterstock for decent photographs and a lot of it matched that description.

Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by austengary »

rgbrenner wrote: post #75
corresation wrote: post #18

So you took a couple of pictures (that appear to be Apple ads more than anything, as an aside)? I'm sorry if this sounds negative, but I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation. When you pay for a stock image, as an aside, a part of the value of paying is economic scarcity: That the images that you choose aren't blanketing every Wordpress…

" I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation." Isn't this a bit much? There's hardly any text on the site at all, much less enough to 'denigrate an entire industry'. This is just a web page with 10 photos on it with a cc license. Don't know where you're getting the rest of that.

Isn't this a bit much?

Apparently you're new here.

Re: Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

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Post by bdcravens »

footoverhand wrote: post #8

Why do all of the photo's have Apple products in them? I would recommend displaying the license in which these high resolution photos can be used, because "free" isn't a license.

I presume that each batch of photos will have a specific theme or a use case in mind. If I were looking for sharp photos for my web design consulting website, and I think Apple products are the standard for the industry, I might use these images. Conversely, if I were doing a basketball design, I might incorporate urban images (asphalt, chain link fence, generic graffiti) to invoke a particular mindset or attitude.
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