A former Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS) trainee has received 3D Photography Prize held by Photographic Society of America.
Faramarz Ghahremanifar confirmed the story on Saturday as his 3rd and ‘most valuable medal’ in 2016; “the 56th 3D Photography Contest gold medal was the 3rd prize; in 2000, I won a prize also for 3D photography, from Stereoscopic Society of America,” he told reporters.
Source: Photographer awarded PSA 3D Photography Prize – Mehr News Agency
A week ago, I noticed odd things about 500px that I found disturbing.
I noticed quite a few (in fact most) of the people showing tens of thousands of followers that I checked, appear to have mostly fake followers. I was perplexed how it was that someone with a mere 70 to 100 nice but not great photos could have 30,000 followers. When I click on their followers list, almost all of their followers have zero followers of their own, and they have zero photos posted. These appear to be fake user accounts.
I saw this across many 500px users with huge followings. Something is not right.
I created a fake 500px account and posted the photo shown in the thumbnail image below. It’s a stupid photo, with over saturated colors, intentionally making it stupid. I titled the photo “Fake waterfall and pond”. This stupid photo quickly made the “Popular” list!
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