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Massive photo site; Life Magazine's latest incarnation as Life.com
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The new Life.com
After decades of being a print magazine, Life has relaunched itself as Life.com, with more than 7 million photos from the Life and Getty Images photo collections. Unless I'm mistaken, this makes it the largest online photography site. As a curated site, photos from these collections include rarely seen and iconic photos from the mid-1800s right through today.
Furthermore, moree than 3,000 new photos from Getty Images award-winning photographers will be added to the site every day. In a truly immersive Web 2.0 experience, users of the site will be able to rate, email, share, purchase, license photos, all while exploring the world through some of the world’s greatest images.
Additional features on Life.com include:
- Photo Galleries about news, celebrities, sports, travel, and animals
- Based on ratings, a gallery of the day’s top photos
- Editors will create photo galleries in categories that relate to current events and other themes
- Similar to iTunes Celebrity Playlists, Celebrity-curated galleries will feature their favorite photos by subject or topic
This is shaping up to be a fantastic resource for inspiration and analysis. Studying photos like these, wondering "how did they get that shot?" or "what kind of settings did they use?", can take your photography to new levels and in new directions. I wonder if they'll be able to include metadata like shutterspeeds and apertures, etc., in the future.
