What is Aminus3?
Aminus3 is the world in images. We are a photoblog hosting service and photography community. We provide photographers with a fully hosted, ‘image a day’ photography blog website. Our clean design and intuitive interface make it simple to maintain a daily photo journal giving you more time to focus on your photography.
Aminus3 embodies a strong sense of community. Each day, photographers from over 100 countries come together to share their own unique vision of the world around them. Members form friendships and connections online and off. We are proud to host some of the highest rated photoblogs on the web1. Many of these talented and experienced photographers take the time to share their thoughts, critiques and ideas with all members of the community.
The Aminus3 photoblog service is open to anyone with a passion for photography and is provided completely free. We also offer a premium A+ membership plan that delivers features such as advanced statistics, uncompressed image processing and custom watermarks.
Take the tour and find out more about what we have to offer.
Where does the term ‘Aminus3’ come from?
Last night I dreamed about ‘A minus 3’, like what does A - 3 equal?
First it was an abstract concept and then it was like a religious movement and I was watching a TV program where a drill sergeant was screaming at a cadet, “SON, I CAN NOT TELL YOU WHAT A MINUS THREE IS – BUT I CAN TELL YOU WHAT A MINUS THREE IS NOT!”
I was asking for examples to understand [Aminus3] better and the photography concept of bracketing came to mind. When you are shooting B&W, you take 3 pictures – 1 at the metered exposure, 1 slightly under exposed and 1 slightly over exposed so that you have a better chance of getting the correct lighting.
In between dreaming and waking I was thinking about registering aminus3.com, which is available...
Who's behind Aminus3?
Aminus3 is brought to you by a small, dedicated group of individuals who work hard to keep things flowing as smoothly as possible. We are all photographers (by hobby) with photoblogs on Aminus3 and as such, we listen to and understand the requirements of our members from the inside.
Of course, recognition must also go out to our wonderful community of photobloggers who make Aminus3 shine.
Aaron Schmidt
Aaron is the principle designer/developer of Aminus3. Optimizing SQL queries, tweaking code, and building funky new features are a few of Aaron's day to day evening-to-evening tasks.
When not programming, Aaron can be found entertaining his daughter, exploring the neighbourhood - camera in hand, or reading a good book.
Canadian by heart, Aaron now resides in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife, Aurélie, and their daughter, Solen.
Jason Kravitz
Jason is responsible for community relations, business development and hatching creative marketing schemes for Aminus3.
He enjoys exploring the fuzzy realms of his so-called reality through a variety of mediums including music, photography and writing. Jason is an active dreamer, game developer and seeker of creative truth and expression.
Hailing from the great state of Pennsylvania, Jason now lives in Brussels, Belgium with his partner, Leslie.
Shuva Brata Deb
Shuva is in charge of the health and well-being of Aminus3 hardware/software, ensuring that our servers and code remain invulnerable to harm.
Apart from free software, he also loves good food and wine, likes to cook at times too. His dreams include visiting the Serengeti and Antarctica once in his life time.
Shuva lives in Hyderabad, India with his wife, Lipika, and their daughter, Tisha.
What's inside Aminus3?
Aminus3 comes alive on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP with a sprinkling of Pear and JQuery. Server hosting on the Temple with extra storage in the Jungle.
Footnotes
1 The following data was collected on April 30th, 2009:
Aminus3 photobloggers: 5 out of the top 50 Hall of Fame (by photoblogs.org)
Aminus3 photobloggers: 11 out of 100 Hot Photoblogs (by photoblogs.org)
Aminus3 photobloggers: 3 out of 20 VFXY Top Photoblogs (by photos.vfxy.com)
Aminus3 photobloggers: 19 out of 93 Weekly Pic-ks (by photos.vfxy.com)
