My Photo Guides

Milky Way Photography Season Has Arrived! We're starting to get the Milky Way rising at reasonable evening hours in the Northern Hemisphere, so pick your subjects close to moonless new moon dates! #astrophotography   #easternsierra   #Canon   #california   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Departing Clouds in Bodie In the summer, the Eastern Sierra often has afternoon thunderstorms, driven by heat and monsoon moisture. Fortunately once the "engine" for the convection, the heat of the sun, goes away, the clouds tend to break up and/or drift eastward, leaving a stunningly clear view of starry skies. #milkyway   #nightphotography   #photographyworkshops   #500px   http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ https://500px.com/photo/152681009/departing-clouds-in-bodie-by-jeff-sullivan?utm_medium=googleplus&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px

Departing Clouds in Bodie In the summer, the Eastern Sierra often has afternoon thunderstorms, driven by heat and monsoon moisture. Fortunately once the "engine" for the convection, the heat of the sun, goes away, the clouds tend to break up and/or drift eastward, leaving a stunningly clear view of starry skies. #milkyway   #nightphotography   #photographyworkshops   #500px   http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ https://500px.com/photo/152681009/departing-clouds-in-bodie-by-jeff-sullivan?utm_medium=googleplus&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px

Free Perfect Effects 9 for 500px Members Are you interested in trying more black and white conversions with more flexibility?   If you're a 500px member, you may be eligible for a free copy of on1  Perfect Effects 9 software to give yourself more options for black and white conversion (as well as many color effects as well).  Here's my blog post today on the offer: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/03/05/500px-offers-free-onone-perfect-effects-9-to-members/ I used Perfect Effects 8 to convert this photo “Moon Rising by Half Dome” to black and white.  See it on 500px: https://500px.com/photo/100906373?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px   #blackandwhitephotography   #on1pics   #Yosemite   #500px   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com https://500px.com/photo/100906373?utm_medium=googleplus&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px

Image Buyers Are Using 500px Prime I put about 50 photos into the 500px Prime licensing service when it was released a few months ago, and I didn't give it a second thought.  I went back and checked yesterday, and I had $354 in royalties waiting for me.  The average $7 per image won't buy me a new camera, but if I had uploaded a couple of high quality photos per day, the few hundred dollars might have been a few thousand. Image buyers can get a 20% discount by using the code "jeffsullivan" when they license a photo there.  Go license mine! Photographers, pop on over and say "Hi": http://500px.com/JeffSullivan Full disclosure: I have no financial or business relationship with 500px other than those royalties I've earned.  I'll probably use the site more often now that there's clear incentive. www.JeffSullivan.com #stockphotography   #500px   #commercialphotography   https://prime.500px.com?utm_source=500px&utm_medium=gplus&utm_campaign=pr...

500px Wants Your Feedback Last week they asked for input, via a link on a Twitter post to a questionnaire you can fill out: https://twitter.com/500px_Help/status/519872030129127424 It's cool to see a site open to feedback from its community! I like that they design 500px to be a "balanced and fair system": https://500px.com/blog/1133/introducing-new-ways-to-discover-photos-new-portfolio-themes-and-bulk-uploading-on-mobile See you there...   https://500px.com/jeffsullivan #500px   #userfeedback   #customerservice   #community  500px

Shares 500px to G+ are Large, Link Back to Photo Historically, most shares to G- seemed to result in small thumbnails, which only makes the post get largely ignored on G+, so there wasn't much incentive to share off-site content here.  Lately I've been able to get photos on my Blogger site to show up large, but this 500px photos seems to be the first photo sharing site where its content actually seems welcome on G+.  Time will tell whether posts of external content gets equal treatment by the G+ filtering algorithms and What's Hot, but having large photos included in the G+ post is a nice start. Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan 500px Adds Groups! 500px announced new Groups functionality last night. It's a beta feature and only some people have access to it, so you while you can join groups and post to them, most 500px users don't have the ability to form one at the moment.  I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the new functionality if you've had a chanc...

500px Adds Groups! 500px announced new Groups functionality last night. It's a beta feature and only some people have access to it, so you while you can join groups and post to them, most 500px users don't have the ability to form one at the moment.  I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the new functionality if you've had a chance to check it out. Photo “Wind-blown Dunes” by Jeff Sullivan (@JeffSullPhoto)#500px http://500px.com/photo/81416299/wind-blown-dunes-by-jeff-sullivan?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px   #500px   #landscapephotography   #deathvalley   http://500px.com/photo/81416299/wind-blown-dunes-by-jeff-sullivan?utm_medium=googleplus&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px