Monochromatic moments and perspectives from traveling the Balkans.
Beautiful Eastern Europe, with a camera in my hands.
You probably know by now how much I love Black & White or sometimes referred as Monochromatic photography. I have always believed that while Color Photography shows the external part of our world, Black and White Photography shows the soul, the inner hidden side of everything. Please consider the first photo of this post as my entry today to the established #monomad daily contest by the monochromes account and community and supported by the qurator account, thank you everyone for your hard and continuous efforts to build and grow this great community!
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Here is an uncomplete list of some of my equipment I use on a regular basis:
| Cameras | Canon EOS 5D Mark III |
|---|---|
| Canon EOS M5 | |
| Canon EOS 550D | |
| Lenses | Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM |
| Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM | |
| Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM | |
| Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM | |
| Canon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM | |
| Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM | |
| Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 | |
| 7artisans 35mm f/1.2 | |
| Strobes | Dynaphos Speedster |
| Flashes | Metz |
| Tripods and Mono-pods | Manfrotto |
| Benro |
The divider I use in my posts I have created in Adobe Express.
Wow nice shot
I can't get enough of those old Soviet things. Such a different atmosphere to be around.
By the way how's your Adobe Stock portfolio doing? I find if I upload images I get a pretty high rejection rate, but videos are always fine. Seeing some sales picking up in that end too lately which is nice.
The architecture from these dark times is still there, so history remains ;)
Their approval process is highly subjective, I must say. Usually I don't get many photos rejected but then there are batches that are nightmare. I don't upload videos, not my favorite thing to shoot, sometimes I do timelapses though.
Sales are usually seasonal, I sold some Halloween stuff lately.
Thanks :)
In Armenia it was everywhere, but they don't reject that side of their history at all, and actually rather enjoy it. Armenia's mixture of its own architecture and the Soviet stuff was fascinating. They used (and still do) their own type of stone for a lot of construction.
Georgia has been different, they definitely hide that side of things more, but you can still find it if you go into the more industrial and outer parts of the city. But on the housing side it's still incredibly Soviet everywhere.
Yeah that's how it feels. I did a test and removed a previously approved image and reuploaded it, they rejected it.
If you have the time and the energy, reupload the photos that are rejected and you will be surprised they will be approved, of course, if you're lucky they are reviewed by another person ;)
I know people who do that and their photos get approved finally :)))
I have done that a few times when I know the rejection is unjust. It happens on videos where they're rejected for missing frames or shaky video despite being drone shots that have nothing wrong with them; I've even contacted support a few times over it and they end up fixing it for me.
I'm a little more cautious with Adobe though as I see a lot of stories of accounts getting closed. Wouldn't wanna keep submitting things that end up rejected and perhaps end up getting that ban hammer for some reason. Sold my first image on there today for a dollar though, which was nice. Shutterstock is definitely more relaxed in that regard, where they'll just tell you what's wrong and get you to resubmit if it's something you can fix.
I think I'll stick to videos for the most part anyway, they make significantly more money and I have a bit more fun shooting aerial stuff.
Everything in Stock is so subjective, yes.
shutterstock was one of my first agencies, I started around year 2013 but they got extremely greedy and instead of cutting their expenses they started to rob contributors. The best evidence for this is cutting the minimum payment per photo from $0.25 to $0.10. In a world with inflation and increasing prices, this is just ugly. I don't upload there anymore, not I suggest a photographer does. It is just plain robbery. Some of the colleagues deleted completely their contributor accounts at SS.