Explorecams VS Openverse

u/gastritissucks1992 put your lens into "explorecams.com" and see what images one can get out of it. You might be surprised. Source: 10 months ago

Explorecams.comis a fantastic resource for seeing lots of samples of camera output if you come across something for sale but are curious about the IQ. Source: over 1 year ago

A tip would be to go to https://explorecams.com/ and search for your camera + lens and see what settings different photographers used to achieve x image. Other than that, just go outside and shoot :). Source: over 1 year ago

Feel free to share some of sample photos for this lens via https://explorecams.com , this would be a tremendous help for the community. Source: over 1 year ago

Also see https://wordpress.org/openverse/ it allows you to filter to only public domain images. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Thanks for the HN treatment. As a followup piece, a Google response of this being "a bug". Followup story, my return rate for CC licensed images of "dog" went from 3 to 13. More than that, license info is not displayed (only linked), is frequently wrong, and photo credits often given to the site, not the creator of the image. https://cogdogblog.com/2022/10/google-cc-image-search-better-sad/ Try Openverse for much... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Last time I've checked, Creative Commons had their own search for things under their licenses. But now apparently that project got transferred to WordPress and is now named Openverse: https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.org Anyways, I'd argue that's the most comprehensive database of CC-licensed works. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

> In addition, a searchable database of Creative Commons works would be a welcome addition to the Internet. Openverse is a CC search engine with 600 million items: https://wordpress.org/openverse/ And of course, Google Images supports CC search for images. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago