HDR Spotting is designed to be a next-generation gallery for an emerging group of photographers. This site was started because we saw an intense desire on behalf of HDR Photographers to get their work noticed and to drive more traffic to their sites.
Our mission is to create an environment that allows HDR Photographers to share their best work and drive people to their respective websites.
People can share their HDR work on Flickr and Facebook, but, frankly, those are lacking in many ways. We are designing HDR Spotting to:
- Make it easy and beautiful to scan many HDR Photos at once
- Provide an environment that encourages readers to go visit the blogs, portfolios, etc of the photographers that contribute
- A fun community that can be focused and provide feedback via views and comments
HDR Spotting is a basic free service. The site generates income from advertising, which we want to make as unobtrusive and pertinent as possible.
Contributing is easy! Simply enter your information. You maintain the rights to everything... If your photo is good enough, people will click on it to find out more and maybe jump right over to your blog, portfolio, or wherever you wish. We have a human-team (not AI) that will look through the submissions to make sure no one is posting crass ads or pr0n or anything.
We hope you have a good time here. If there are any suggestions, please .
Flickr stopped innovating several years ago. We think that viewing, sharing, and growing the community is evolving, and we want to evolve with it.
Our goal is to make HDR Spotting better by:
1. Providing BIGGER images for gallery eye candy. Other services have preview sizes that are too small.
2. Provide immediate links to the artists' portfolios, websites, or blogs. The other sites do not encourage this.
3. Provide a high-quality user interaction experience
4. Provide a quick way to combine your photos with social media (more coming soon)
This site was started for fun by two longtime friends, Trey Ratcliff and Denis Khoo. We are both photography enthusiasts, although Trey thinks Denis needs to work a bit more on his skills. Luckily, Denis is a technical genius, so he's able to make everything work on the site the way its supposed to.