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3 votes
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Valtteri Hirvonen reveals how he turned his lens to the night sky and bent the rules of astrophotography to create beautiful, yet unique photos
3 votes -
Northern lights photographer of the year 2022 – in pictures
2 votes -
Zizipho Poswa’s new ceramics and photography explore hair as a medium for sculpture
1 vote -
Use these tips to take an amazing science photograph
5 votes -
Recent Downtown shoot
6 votes -
Some gorgeous top-roping on the North Shore of Superior
7 votes -
See the buzzworthy winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
7 votes -
I got to combine my love for photography and climbing this weekend in Big Sky MT
9 votes -
Open source recommendations for a photo/post voting site?
TLDR: I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database. Background I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members....
TLDR:
I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database.
Background
I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members. This group is designed for analog (any non-digital format) photographers to swap high quality artistic prints with each oter. The community was essentially dead and the admin wanted to throw in the towel so I took over. We've made progress, the group growth jumped by over 500% in the first month after I took over.
Right now trading prints doesn't work well. People make a post using the facebook selling format, and those who are interested comment with the image they'd like to trade for. The problem is that the posts get limited visibility due to facebook's algorithms, and stale posts hang around. All of this reduces over all activity, and the majority of posts don't end up in a trade.
My solution is to do a trade event with everyone participating at the same time. Since facebook doesn't lend itself to this I'd like to whip up a quick site for the event. My time is so limited these days I really don't have the capacity to build something from scratch, and the group certainly doesn't have any other developers to help out with it (it skews heavily on the older side).
I'd like to find an open source project that lets users sign in (sign in using facebook would be a bonus) and upload/vote on images. After the voting closes, I'll write code to pair everyone up in a way that optimizes for everyone getting to make a trade. If Alice votes for Bob's image, and Bob votes for Alice's image, they would get paired up to make the swap.
I feel okay writing the code to map out swaps, but I'm pretty terrible at web design and especially at front end design. I've looked across github, but I wanted to reach out and see if anyone could recommend something that I might of missed.
I don't expect to have 2,000 members participate, I think it may be as few as under 100, so hopefully I won't need to worry about scale.
Thanks in advance for the help!
11 votes -
Photography feedback
10 votes -
New photos of Jupiter by the JWST
22 votes -
Stop hoping for an Instagram replacement, diversify instead
21 votes -
Webb: The world is about to be new again
24 votes -
First image from the James Webb Space Telescope
@NASA: It's here-the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I pic.twitter.com/zAr7YoFZ8C
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They found two new craters on the moon and a new mystery - Searching through imagery from NASA, researchers found the discarded stage of a forgotten rocket crashed in March, but other questions remain
5 votes -
Prince Rupert's Drop exploding in epoxy resin at 456,522 fps
6 votes -
Why dark and light is complicated in photographs
5 votes -
Views of Iceland in February – Nacho Doce, a photographer with Reuters, spent the past few weeks traveling across the country
3 votes -
Shooting with a 1936's Zeiss Ikonta camera
Recently I got for free an old Zeiss Super Ikonta 531/2, it's a medium format foldable camera from 1936. It was in decent shape but the lens was very foggy. Fungi can grow on lenses but I think it...
Recently I got for free an old Zeiss Super Ikonta 531/2, it's a medium format foldable camera from 1936. It was in decent shape but the lens was very foggy. Fungi can grow on lenses but I think it was just general dirt. Opening it was a bit tricky (I had to get watching-making tools, because the screws are very tiny) but I managed to clean the lenses quite well. I shot a first roll but the focus was off, so I had to make sure the front lens element was at the right distance, using some semi-transparent tape on the back of the camera to see the image.
Then I shot a second roll and developed it myself, which was also a first (it's not super hard though), I had no idea if the images would come out good, or even at all (wasn't even sure I loaded the developing tank correctly). Seeing the images come out of the tank for the first time is quite magical, and they came out great (some of them at least...) :
Even with my crappy development & scanning I can get high-res images that compete with my expensive digital camera. The lens (Tessar 105mm, f3.8) is quite sharp wide open (statue shot) and I even took a long exposure shot at night using a release cable. The process is very slow and focusing is hard, but it's quite fun and rewarding. These kind of cameras are very cheap but the rest (film, accessories, development, repairs, ...) not so much.
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What picture did Nasa take on my birthday? How to find your Hubble Telescope photo using the APOD calendar.
8 votes -
The first standard to assure a photo’s authenticity has been created
7 votes -
Beware the copyleft trolls
9 votes -
Bliss - The story of Windows XP’s famous default wallpaper
4 votes -
Native Americans: Portraits from a century ago
11 votes -
Weird testing infrastructure in pictures
@Kane: testing facility for thyssenkrupp elevators in Zhongshan City pic.twitter.com/2L4jG2Nel6
17 votes -
Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
6 votes -
Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen - his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world
6 votes -
The sticky issue of consent in street photography
11 votes -
Witness History spoke to photographer Mark Edwards, who was given unique access to document a famously photo shy community of Christiania in Denmark
11 votes -
An uncomfortable monkey and some singing fish star in Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2021
8 votes -
Drawing with light: How photos were made a century ago
6 votes -
Texture Archaeology, Cobblestone, and the most overused texture from the 90s
5 votes -
The mystery of the "same sky" postcards
4 votes -
Documenting the last pay phones in America
12 votes -
Diorama Map - Sohei Nishino
4 votes -
Images from a changing Iceland – the landscape is undergoing constant change, and the rate of that change is being accelerated by global warming
9 votes -
1800s astronomical drawings vs. NASA images
13 votes -
Through the looking GLASS - Om Malik interview with the developers of GLASS, a subscription photo sharing app
3 votes -
From the 1910s to the 1930s, John Alinder portrayed the local people of rural Sweden, the landscape around them and their way of life
12 votes -
Photography of Lauren Tepfer
5 votes -
New Norwegian law will require advertisements where a body's shape, size, or skin has been retouched to be labeled
16 votes -
How does film actually work? (It's magic) [Photos and Development]
10 votes -
What Internet memes get wrong about Breezewood, Pennsylvania
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Cambodia condemns Vice for edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims smiling
17 votes -
Picture Book Lust - Vanishing Asia by Kevin Kelly
5 votes -
Down By The River
10 votes -
Finally got my Zorki 4k shots developed
11 votes -
“Dig Us”: 60 Years of Louis Armstrong at the Sphinx
4 votes -
Self Portrait
14 votes