He recently jokingly gave me a title as ‘King of Photos’ in one of the comments, it is a tough one to live up to, since there are so many ‘Emperors of Photos’ in Local Guides Community like @Herve_Andrieu@TorM@JonBekkevoll@MattGatlin@JordanSB and probably many more…
Thanks to @AdamGT for keeping track of all these achievements and the hard work behind it.
So far I have 56 photos which have reached million+ views, thanks mainly to Google AI, picking my contribution as cover/featured photos, otherwise it is impossible to achieve so many views with more than 150 Million Local Guides contributing to the map.
Well done @jayasimha78 that is indeed a very, very impressive contribution and achievement. You’re not the 6 Million Dollar Man, you are the 56 Million Dollar man lol. Have you seen this latest idea
I wanted to learn from your photos, but in the Android app and here on Desktop viewing your most viewed photos is not possible. Local Guides with more than 15-20.000 can experience this. So with 41.600 added photos, this is an issue for you too. So my question is: How do you access your list of most viewed photos? I would love to learn since I currently am a bit hesitant about uploading a lot more photos to prevent this from happening to my account also.
From the photos, you share here I could not help noticing that some of your most viewed photos had been given a lot of HDR-effect. What are your thoughts about using so much HDR and the guideline stating that our processing should be minimal?
All the best and lots of more kudos on your contributions
@MortenCopenhagen Thank You! Really appreciate your comments and in general your support to various local guides in the community.
You have some great questions.
Regarding most viewed photos, in my profile I can see the list when I sort based on views. I presume your question is related to others cannot view my most viewed photos I guess. You are right I do not know how to overcome that.
Regarding HDR, I started my photos contribution to Google product Panoramio, when that got shut down, I came to Google Maps. Initially I was fascinated with HDR, used to shoot mostly in DSLR with bracketed shot and contribute on maps. However as I grew as photographer things changed, I found better ways to process my pictures. However these days I mostly shoot with phone(both Android and iPhone) for maps contribution. I still do some level of cropping, but not HDR. HDR is a tricky thing, it kind of drives you to over process the pictures. It is part of growing process as a photographer.
I’m very happy to learn that you are able to view your list of most viewed photos without problems. Maybe the distance between us can explain why the servers time out when trying to sort a huge number of photos from an LG in a distant region/continent. I wish Google would address this issue.
I completely agree with you on the HDR processing. The artificial helo created around foreground objects is hurting my eyes . But I guess for most it just looks interesting. I myself am in constant negotiation with myself about how much brightness and saturation it is OKAY to add. I love the new HDR filter based on AI available in Google Photos to paid ONE-customers only.
Your comments on me overprocessing my shots or not on Google Maps would be highly appreciated.
@MortenCopenhagen I agree on the processing part, it should be minimal, my workflow is capture, upload to Google Photos, crop to remove unwanted information as much as possible related license plates of cars, specially when I shoot storefront photos, use the ‘Auto’ mode in Google Photos, to adjust the exposure and saturation, that’s pretty much it.
For food photograph, I may use some lens blur to get more focus on the desired object in the picture. That’s how I do it today. As you know everyday is a learning process…
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. But I guess for most it just looks interesting. I myself am in constant negotiation with myself about how much brightness and saturation it is OKAY to add. I love the new HDR filter based on AI available in Google Photos to paid ONE-customers only.