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We are pleased to announce the annual Zeissimages.com photography contest in collaboration with our sponsor Zeiss, photography division.

As in previous years, our contests begin in the fall and run through December so that the winner can enjoy their prize during the holiday seasons.

The contest is open to members of Zeissimages.com starting on Oct 4th 2023. If you are not currently a member, you can join for free.

This year there will be no specific theme in general. However, you could say we are looking for that "Wow!" factor. Whether it be landscape, portrait, street or studio. We are looking for that image that keeps you coming back to view over and over.


The winner may have their choice of the one lens from the following list which will be provided and shipped directly from our sponsor Zeiss.

• Zeiss Batis
• Zeiss Touit
• Zeiss Milvus
• Zeiss ZM (21mm f2.8, 25mm f2.8, 28mm f2.8, 35mm f2, 35mm f2.8, 50mm f1.5 or 50mm f2)

Good luck !

Full details here https://www.zeissimages.com/messageboard/37

Today, I picked up the new 50mm f1.0 Voigtlander. What a sexy beast😏

You can provide simple links to your profile with zessimages.com in the url to make it easy to share on other sites by simply prefixing with your username.

For example

http://jt.50mil.com

will go directly to my profile page.

Do NOT put https in the link as it will not pass the security test and throw a warning. You can use http which will redirect to https for you.

If you have a dot in your name, then just remove the dot. so a user name with john.doe would just be jondoe

JT

Here is one of my favorites. I like dogs and this one is cool looking :)



Show us what you like

😎

Just submitted a photo story about Portland on Nikonimages.com

Have a look here

https://www.nikonimages.com/showstory.php?storyid=4

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So I have noticed that my images look fuzzy on the website. The reason being is because I have a 4k monitor and my display settings on the computer is set to 150% so things don't look so small.

Lightroom knows about this and handles the pixels density and ratio properly. However, the web browsers do not. Therefore, in my case, images look 150% and pretty bad.

having said that, If I export from lightroom and save as a 4000 pixel image, the its scaled down in the browser a little and it looks decent.

Here is an example of the image exported in 4000 pixel

https://www.leicaimages.com/photo/100079

compared to 2000

https://www.leicaimages.com/photo/100074

I can try and code around this but I thought this would be a temporary solution.

This is what lead to the ability to replace existing photos.

Creating a story still lets you present your a photographic story using your photos from the gallery. The process is quite simpe.

Go to your dashboard and click on Manage stories from the Manage options menu on the left. Or, use the top menu under Stories.

If you do not have any stories started yet, you will get a message. Simply click on the Add a new story button to create a story.

Give the story a title and some content in the form that you see. Then click on Submit new story.

Don't worry. Its not published yet.

Now add the photos you wish to include in your story by clicking on the Add photos link on the manage your story page. Clicking on this link brings you into the familiar edit edit photo options you have already used before. All your photos will be displayed in order to assign them to stories. However, to minimize clutter, only the Stories option is available. Your are simpl;y selecting the pictures you wish to include in your story at this time.

Just make sure to click on Apply edits under each photo to save your changes. If you want to make changes afterwards, just refresh the page.

Done adding photos to your story? Just click on Manage stories from the top menu and you will be back at the basic story management menu.

You will now see Edit photos link instead of the Add photos link.

Click on it and from, there add the content you wantto display for each photo, set the display order or remove photos from the story.

As you hover over each photo, the edit options will appear. Just make changes and click on Submit edits.

Use the Display order field to set the order in which the photos appear. 1 would be at the top, followed by 2, etc ... If you messed up and want to stick another picture between 1 and 2, give it a display order of something like 1.5.

Also you can use any number values, you can start with 10, and increment to 20 or 25 ot whatever. Just remember the display order in the story is based on the numeric value you assign.

If you check the Publish checkbox, and apply changes, your story will be published and visible to others.

To view stories, simply click on Stories from the top menu. Click on the title of a story to view the story.

Layout of the images on the story are balanced between left and right of the page. This is automatically done for you and you have no control over that.

Here is an example of a story on www.leicaimages.com .

https://www.leicaimages.com/showstory.php?storyid=1

Ever wanted to replace a photo with a better quality version of it or higher resolution without losing links, views, likes, comments etc... ? Well now you can. I added the ability to replace an image.

Simply click the edit options for the image and Follow the link under the "Replace image" option.

I am curious how you found out about 50Mil. Please share.

Just looking at these shows you why I love the 50 so much. It's the perfect lens.

https://www.50mil.com/gallerysoft/favorite-photos/100005

Big welcome to users of the best focal length lens ever made 😆

I hope you enjoy the site and look forward to seeing many pictures taken with a 50mm.

JT