My First 500px Picture
500px.com is a photo-sharing site similar to Flickr and it’s been getting a lot of press lately. Photographers seem to love the site, so I decided to sign up and give it a go. The photo below is my first submission. My first impressions of 500px is that it seems very Flickry, but with a more open ranking system for your photos. Instead of Flickr’s black-box process of choosing photos for Explore, 500px uses a scoring system based on votes, comments, and favorites. You can see the score of every photo on the site and watch your own score go down day by day. The score starts high to get interest in new photos and then drops as time passes in order to keep things fresh. The scoring system probably isn’t all that different from Flickr, but it’s more transparent.
500px offers some nice things that Flickr doesn’t, but it’s pro account is $50/year which is twice what Flickr costs. The free account seems to give quite a few features, so I’m going to give it a try for a while and see how things pan out.
Mount Rainier Sunset by Bryan Davidson
@bryan, are you still posting to 500px? What do you think of it after a few months? I like this image, by the way. I’d love to see Mt. Ranier in person.
I haven’t posted much to 500px, but I really haven’t posted much of anything anywhere for a while. I like 500px a lot, but I think the focus on voting has brought out a certain style of images that score well. Flickr tends to favor highly saturated images and HDR while 500px seems to favor a looks that seems polished just past perfection.
I’ve been in Mount Rainier National Park twice and it was fantastic both times, but I can see Mount Rainier from town any time the sun comes out and I’ve yet to get bored of looking at it.