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500px.comis a photo sharing website that has exploded in popularity recently. The website isn’t that new – in fact it has been around in various forms since 2003 – but its most recent incarnation seems to have hit upon a magic formula.
On visiting the site, the first thing you’ll notice is the impressively high standard of photography on display. This isn’t just a result of 500px tempting many of the web’s finest photographers to move across from other photo sharing sites, but also a testament to the effectiveness of its popularity engine.
It is free to sign up for a standard account, which will allow you to share up to 20 photos per week. Your photos are beautifully displayed with large thumbnail previews and a clean, uncluttered interface.
The site isn’t bloated with features but it has all the basics such as commenting, favoriting and following. I have been impressed by the responsiveness and diligence of the site’s staff; they seem to be working tirelessly to improve and expand the website and I have noticed a number of incremental improvements over the last month or so. If you contact them for any reason you will usually receive a rapid response.
You can either “Like” or “Dislike” each photograph on 500px and these votes are used to calculate a score. If the score is high enough, the image will appear on the popular photos page and this results in a ton of exposure for you and your work. Over time, the algorithm gradually decreases each photo’s score so the popular page always remains fresh. With every vote, you can watch in real-time as a picture’s score goes up or down. This allows you to track your images as they climb the popularity rankings, which can be quite addictive! I like this system because it is much more transparent than other sites, for example Flickr’s explore rankings, which remain a mystery to me! One of the biggest achievements of the ranking engine is that a user’s prominence in the community has a limited impact on the popularity of their photos.
This means brand new users often upload just one or two photos and (if they are good pictures) they can make it straight onto the front page of popular photos.
As a result I have noted that it is much easier to get noticed than it is on other photo sharing sites such as Flickr. For me, one of the biggest draws of 500px is the potential for exposure and the ability to get my work in front of new eyeballs. I have been pleasantly surprised by how much traffic 500px is generating. I already have more followers after six weeks on 500px than I have after several years on flickr and each new photo I upload to 500px generally receives many more views than the same picture on other photo sharing sites. Purely from a marketing point of view, this makes 500px a worthwhile time investment for me.
Here are a few tips to help you get started on 500px:
Portfolios are a nice feature of 500px. They allow you to create a basic standalone website with the photos you have uploaded to 500px. You can pick a theme from a selection of slick designs, include your contact details and add information to your biography page. You can checkout our portfolio here: http://wildlife.500px.com
Upgrading to an “Awesome” account costs $50 and gives you a number of benefits. For starters you can upload an unlimited number of photos per week. You also get a number of additional portfolio features such as exclusive designs, custom logos, website analytics and the ability to use your own domain name.
The generous people over at 500px have kindly given me 5 Awesome accounts, worth $50 each, to giveaway to DPS readers! All you have to do to become eligible for this draw is complete two simple steps:
After the deadline I will go through my list of new followers and select 5 accounts at random to receive a free 1-year Awesome account worth $50! The deadline is 10 days from today [2nd August].
I will announce the winners of the giveaway on my 500px blog. If you can’t wait and want to purchase an Awesome account, you can get 20% off using the promo code “friends“. I look forward to seeing your photos on 500px. Make sure you leave a link to you profile in the comments below so everyone can find you!
So much talent and great work on here. Thanks for sharing, here is my page hope you check it out :-)
Also recently joined 500px. http://500px.com/JJLynxPhotography It is great! Still I wonder how to get more followers -)...well maybe I'm not good enough yet :)
Also, how do you thank those people who liked and faved your photograph, or visiting and maybe liking their work is sufficient enough&
New to 500px – Love it!!!
http://500px.com/david6
Shooting with cameras because laws prevent me from shooting with guns...
http://500px.com/MoHamedElBarkani
http://500px.com/JoshYellon
I have been using 500px since the begining of the year and have been happy with the site. I like the simplicity of it verses Flickr and the ability to share and learn by looking at other photographer's work.
http://500px.com/Okasha
Does anyone use the site to sell their work?
follow me on 500px
I always try to make my photos creative. Do have a look :)
http://500px.com/vasuagarwal
I'm late, but this was a great opportunity. I just got started with this site.
https://500px.com/sparksfly
I have been using 500px for a few weeks now, so far I really like it except for a few things could be drastically improved.
The worst thing is regularly an overabundance of Nudes that are not properly tagged so they do not get filtered out. Most of the time when you report them it takes them days to do anything about it. By then the photo will have gotten old and disappeared anyway.
This is very annoying to me and should not be tolerated. It makes it unsafe to use around anyone especially family or at work. A person always has to be looking over there shoulder to see who is around before going to the site. Apparently the people at 500 do not seem to care to much about this since it has been going on for quite a while.
I would suggest anyone that uses the site to email them and complain. If 500 is not going to do anything about it they could at least automate the user reporting, like it two people report it as "should be nude" then the server just auto switches its tag or something... and then have consequences for users that continue to misstag there pictures on purpose like freezing there accounts for a period of time for multiple offenses.
Sorry about the semi rant, all the other sites I have used have been fairly well regulated on this matter. I am not sure what is up with 500 but they won't be getting any of my money for an "awesome" account until this is fixed. I feel like I can't even tell most of my family about the site because of this. :)
If they get some of these things fixed it has the potential to be the best site for sharing your best pictures.
I just discovered 500px and was impressed by the huge thumbnails.
http://500px.com/ronots
Badass place to post photos!
http://500px.com/MidnightRook
I love 500px, I literally spend hours voting for stuff. http://500px.com/landscape
Great Post! 500px is awesome and I signed up the moment I saw it...
Visit my gallery @
http://500px.com/Raghunath
I found 500px because Zack Arias started using it and tweeting about it. It's great! Anyone know how to add watermarks to the previews only? I see Will has some on his.
Find mine at http://500px.com/casesensitive
By chance I happen to come across Will Burrard-Lucas twice in one day. I joined Google+ yesterday and he was one of the first additions to a circle. I was reading this review and after joining 500px realised it was the same person. Unfortunately I am too late and missed the deadline.
http://500px.com/malfotographi?cs
Mine can be accessed from http://500px.com/sangeethvs
Hope it's end of day today, the time just slipped by! Created by account (http://500px.com/hollysisson) and am following you.
I hope it works.
I love being able to see all the different photos from DPS readers.
Your pictures are "Awesome"! I am failry new to photography but truly enjoy all of the great information and guidance.
I know I will have fun roaming around 500px!
http://www.500px.com/YourJourneyPhotography
@Madison
Thanks. Will try out your suggestion.
Hello,
I've been thinking about joining 500px for some while and this review helped me finally decide to make an account!
please take a look at my photos: http://500px.com/katewangfoto
Thanks!
I truly feel like 500px.com has changed the way we look at photographs online. I absolutely love it and am very addicted to it. It also really encourages one to improve their photography skills, in order to post excellent pictures. Perfect! :^)
Thanks Will ! This looks like a great site and i love the feature that we can sell our pics too!!!
My account : http://500px.com/Dragon2573
Thank you sooo much.. I was wondering how to get my pictures on line to sell and so on.. You've solved my problem.. I like the small limit so you have to be very selective.. It means your portfolia is the best of the best.. And it's made me focus.. Thanks a million :) By the way, I'd love a pro account so I can link one of my URL's to it ;)
Oh.. Here's me.. http://www.500px.com/swissjon
I really love this photo sharing website, it's very encouraging and photographers out there are highly talented
www.500px.com/NadimHajjar
@ Lynn,
it was slow for me the first ten I uploaded but then it started working faster. Maybe it's because I had the photos on the computer and not the memory card and I restarted the computer. Try restarting your computer. 500px is awesome
I checked out 500px after reading the review, liked the look of it, joined it and tried to upload some of my pics ..... and it was unbelievably slow. Maybe it's because they dont have an asia server (where i am). I gave up after one picture and think i'm going to un-join it and stick to flicker, which is a pity 'cos i really liked the look of 500px.
Hi Will,
I found 500px a couple of months ago and couldn't agree more with your summary. Great quality and truly inspiring work from so many amazing photographers.
http://500px.com/WesternLightsStudio
Thanks for sharing your insights on 500px. You have an awesome gallery, by the way! Here's my profile: http://500px.com/monlitratista
Hey Will,
Thanks for the heads up on 500px. It is really really nice.
My brand new gallery on 500px:
http://500px.com/thelearningcurve
Great article. Just signed up with 500px.
http://500px.com/knittybaker
Well, now I've found a better alternative to Flickr, it seems! What a great site - just getting started there now.
http://500px.com/delrae
I've been on here a week now, and have seen many DPS readers. It took me a while to pick and shoot my favorite 20 photos.
LOVE THE SITE! it's my first ever photo sharing website (never been on a social network like facebook or myspace, but I am on a band website...) anyways It's a great site!
http://500px.com/MadisonRaine
Check out my blog on 500px
http://500px.com/85mm
I've just recently started trickling images into my 500px account:
http://500px.com/DonMcKee
I haven't received much "Affection" yet, but then I haven't given much, either. ;-) I'll likely continue to use Flickr for my daily 365 posts, then "promote" my favorites to display on 500px. As mentioned many times, 500px presents your work very nicely, and the overall quality of work displayed is very high (so far, anyway).
Beatiful website! Love it already and I can't wait to get started!
Love the blog too!
http://500px.com/scharlesphotos
Thanks for the post!
Steph
Love your newsletter! I just loaded my first pics on 500px and really like the interface.
http://500px.com/Abruce
I already have an account and I love it. Still some things need to get worked like editing in lots. Doing one by one is tired and I don't find it as user friendly as I expected but I hope they are working on it
Here's my account
http://500px.com/haphotographer
I opened an account: http://500px.com/RubyT
And I am following you. ?
Post more pictures later. I love the clean crisp format!
I love 500px. The photos on it are amazing. I've been a long time Flickr user, and thought it was great. But 500px somehow seems to have gone one better. Here's my portfolio http://500px.com/brotherofapesod
Comments and criticism very much welcomed.
This would be totally awesome to have for someone like me.
I am dedicated to my photography and plan on doing it for the rest of my life.
I am 21 years old and headed to Durham College in the fall, for a two year program: Digital Photography & Video Production.
http://cfrog62.500px.com/
Here is my profile: http://500px.com/andreisiran Still a beginner, but I simply love photography!
I'm really impressed with the layout and overall program of 500px. I'm glad to see DPS doing a review.
http://500px.com/StevenFines
http://500px.com/scottsmith I'll be uploading a few images later.
Looks like a very interesting altenative to flickr. I've another 12months to run on my flickr account but being able to have a blog and my own domain name could help me condense the services I use.
Year 12 Photography student, kinda new to it all, but people seem to like my stuff..
http://500px.com/matthewralph - is the adress
I really like 500px. The quality of photos is so good. I'm just getting started with photo-social networking, so this review and the comments above are very helpful. Thanks!
http://500px.com/just-in-musing
Good information on 500px. I really like your Komodo Dragon shot. I enjoy imaging the much littler lizards I have around here. Someday, I hope to go after the larger ones. Now to check out some more photographers.
500px.com/LaurenSobkoviak
I see comments from a few of the people I already follow on 500px. I'm off to check out the rest of your sites. :-)
http://500px.com/MistyDawnS
I hope to get this giveaway.
Just signup and start following you
http://500px.com/ervinter
http://500px.com/PushkarGujar
Hi you guys. A nice article on 500px. I've started taking a look at it a few weeks ago and like it more than flickr. (even though I've just bought a pro account on flickr a few weeks back).
Here's my account anyways.
http://500px.com/christophheinrich
Best regards,
Chris
Hey nice article, i just created an account, and uploaded a few pics. It's really nice. Looks much better than my old flickr portfolio.
http://500px.com/stth
thanks for the great review.....I've been using 500px for a couple weeks now and like it a lot better than flickr.
Come by and take a look:
http://500px.com/ruefy
Just added another photo sharing account to my list :)
Awesome photos though!
http://500px.com/sleepingiant
I created an account on 500px today morning, and I am loving it already! I think the clean, large interface is its best selling point. My account is at: http://500px.com/kunalbhatia
thanks for the great review. Been looking for a flickr alternative. http://500px.com/zaurik (although there's nothing in it as yet =P)
i was wondering though, is it possible to keep a picture private so as no one sees it?
Thanks for this useful review!
http://500px.com/beppino
I created account and I added first photo - look at http://500px.com/skrzypol
http://500px.com/descrystudios
Thanks for the tip on this community. Its such a fun place. I can't wait to post more work.
Finally decided to get on 500px
http://500px.com/brockus
The quality of the images on there is great indeed!
http://500px.com/waveparticlepixel
Great post.
I started an free account and enjoying it very much! I will deffinitely upload my photo's here!
And I like your work, very inspiring I think! So I keep folowing you ever after the prise is givven away ;-).
My account is: http://500px.com/AvdBoom
Kind regards,
Alexander
Awesome thx! http://500px.com/jmont
http://500px.com/luismacedo
Been using 500px since Scott Kelby blogged about it a few weeks ago. I have had the same experience of getting more exposure on 500px in a few weeks than I have on Flickr or Facebook in years.
http://500px.com/michaeljlawson
Been thinking about trying out 500px for a while but this post has finally persuaded me !
Would be great if some of you guys could take a look at my profile, I have only uploaded a few of my favorite pictures at the moment :)
http://500px.com/chasingtheshot
Thanks
I joined in April. Its my First of its kind site to joined in. I am not on flicker but after this i even not want to join that now. :P :)
You can check me on www.500px.com/rahuljain
my portfolio
rahuljain.500px.com
Done ;) thanks a lot for a review.
Here is my account : http://500px.com/quicksil7er
Joined 500px a while ago (http://500px.com/sergios); really looking forward to checking out how much it can offer - hosting your blog and building your own website sound appealing.
Also, quite interesting to see how the community will react i.e. will photographers promote their work through 500px, Flickr or both.
Thanks for sharing!
http://500px.com/NatalieBecker
I love it! Just signed up for my own account! Thanks for the article, I may not have found it otherwise!
http://500px.com/mklem
got my account, I just hope I can get good pics to share there
http://500px.com/CarlosPando
I just set up an account...I've been with Photoshelter for a while now, but I think I'll make the switch. I'll start getting some photos up soon on my 500px account. http://500px.com/djkregerphotography
Love your work, Will and Matt!
Interesting site, I have signed up and put a few pictures up. This seems like a great starting point to get some contacts for the site as well, I am going to keep track of the people who comment here to watch some of the people who are on DPS regularly.
http://500px.com/stochasticmotions
Barry
I just signed up on 500px yesterday and I like the clean photo centric interface of both the site and the portfolios.
http://500px.com/mikeschelhorn
Signed up a couple of days ago before reading this, only been dabbling with photography this year so far
My profile is http://rustla.500px.com
Thanks for great review, here's my link http://500px.com/erfin3000
ever since I signed up with 500px.com, I been hooked on how it is. thanks for the 500px tips! :)
http://500px.com/arjayboy
http://joemillerphotography.500px.com/#/0
Seems like a great site so far! Here's my link: http://500px.com/jamieleigh
Here's my link too...
http://slantlab.500px.com/#/0
I wish I had found 500px before I went with SmugMug. I really like 500px's system a lot better. It's simple and easy to understand where as Mug's is overly complex and a bit annoying. Glad you guys reviewed it. I signed up and already received some affection.
Great review!
I am on it! Had already just joined 500px too!
Thanks for the review ! I was actually looking for such a website for some time now, and dunno how I could miss 500px ! Very good alternative to Flickr even if I feel a bit out of my league ...
Here's my profile link, I'll post my first photos this weekend
http://500px.com/istratov
I'm crossing my fingers!
Wow by the sounds of this review this sounds like a great site to be on and to motivate me to do more regular work. I like the sound of they way they determine the popular photos feature. Must sign up today
WOO HOO, I finished uploading and adding logos. YAY, took forever, Now everyone please look and give me feed back, I'll appreciate it alot!
Hoping the quality stays high and it doesn't go the way of flickr - i.e. if you're a cute girl your photos magically seem to rank higher.... http://500px.com/colourandlight
I just opened an account this past Wednesday, and have found that it is the easiest thing to work with since sliced bread! One of the best photo sites ever!
http://500px.com/kateaustinphotography
I don't have anything uploaded at all yet, i just NOW got the account!!!
But I would be super happy if in 2 days or so someone, ANYONE would view it.
Thanks
And once I have photos on it, I would be happy to get ANY opinions on them.
500px.com/MadisonRaine
it's amazing http://500px.com/VaibhavBhosale
Swing by and say hi!
www.500px.com/Hansenhenrik
Ok I set up my portfolio and started to follow you guys :) All in all it may have taken me an hour to come up with that one here: http://alexfotografiert.500px.com/
:)
I'm following! This is me, by the way robertbrkljaca.500px.com
your photography is incredible, and I hope I can win! I love the site, and it's been a great alternative to flickr.
I signed up about 2 weeks ago. loving it so far. check my photos here http://500px.com/astormwithinastormwithout
Great idea - thanks! http://500px.com/dabour
http://500px.com/filipe-oliveira
stunning work
My 500px is 500px.com/DamienCox
A friend of mine told me recently that he switched to 500px (http://500px.com/ChristopherStephenson). But I really guess that this review here sold that page to me now :) The puristic uncluttered design and everything is just cool. Guess I will use that now instead of flickr. Or maybe both? Ah there are too many sites.
Holy Crap! It's like facebook meets flickr WITH A DISLIKE BUTTON!
I signed up for 500px a few weeks ago. Now I'm scouring my photos for the good ones to upload. This process is teaching me to be even more critical than in the past, which is a good thing. Here are a few that I've uploaded to test out the site: http://500px.com/alechosterman
I was going to get an awesome account to host my portfolio but some things about the site made me change my mind.
1) The site is really really slow here. This might be because they don't have an asia server but since my client base is in asia that was a deal breaker.
2) For a week after I made my profile, the site was broken for mobile devices, the background would load but none of the pictures would.
3) The site went down on me a couple of times a week. That's a definite no-no.
4) The templates were broken for a few days. When the site would load, all the images would load full size instead of thumbnails.
So, despite absolutely loving the interface and UI, I couldn't afford to direct my clients to a site that would not be guaranteed to work without fuss most of the time. Therefore, I'm now using wordpress to host my site. It's a real shame...
http://www.500px.com/daveflynn
Amazing site, I just joined last week
http;//www.500px.com/daveflynn
Loving 500px! My link is 500px.com/JWaggoner
I'm on this site for a whle, here is my 5500px: http://500px.com/bibousiq
I just joined 500px. Such a better alternative to Flickr... Very easy on the eyes.
http://500px.com/jozboyd
Totally agree about the quality and style of 500px. Only been using it for a week and love it.
http://500px.com/peterwestcarey
I love the popular algorithm - i cant get enough- Spending hours in front of my note/netbook :D
Here am I: http://500px.com/philipp
Being new to photography, I don't have any experience with any other photo sharing sight except Facebook, but I do quite like 500px. I heard about them from the TWiP podcast, and draw so much inspiration from the photography that I see there, I can't be bothered to worry about the ratings on my photographs. As a student, it almost doesn't matter so much that my stuff gets seen, but that I have the joy of browsing through so many great frames without having to dig deep or search for them.
FWIW, my profile is http://500px.com/DonSaavedra
@Premal (and anyone else who is interested) - I don't want to take away from the awesomeness of DPS, but I have also been following ScottBourne as long as I have DPS, and he wrote a post about the copyright itself which can be found here: http://photofocus.com/2011/07/12/500px-mini-review/. Sorry if anyone is offended by my posting something from another blog here.
I'm not sure if I want to renew my Flickr pro account so I wanted to check this service out. Thanks for the reminder!
Here is my account: http://500px.com/RichardPastenes
Giving this a go!
http://500px.com/akathryna
Alright, I've just signed up and followed you. Here is my 500px:
http://500px.com/amophotography
I am a new photographer, though I've had a camera for a while, I wouldn't consider myself of any great skill. Any constructive comments would be wonderful.
@Fuzzypiggy: I have a DA as well, but the website is often full of malware - I don't get on it anymore. :(
The site looks good and I created an account for me at http://500px.com/ursukata - only time will tell if I choose this over the aminus3.
The site does a much better job of displaying your best work vs. Facebook or Flickr. It stands out.
http://500px.com/zelus
Been on flickr for a long time. Just discovered 500px a couple of weeks back & signed up. Loving the clean interface. I'm at:
http://500px.com/alrihlaimages
I LOVE 500px!! Having a free awesome account would be, well...
AWESOME!!!!
http://500px.com/GT_Dezines
Really interesting read. I have just joined the site a few backs and think it's awesome, it's what Flickr should have been.
http://500px.com/StevieBeats
Hi guys,
very nice shoots !
http://500px.com/gianazzi
Quite a plethora of site springing up with high quality photo sharing. I personally use DeviantArt. I am not a great photographer so I like the mixture of photographers, traditional artists, sculpters, jewellry and model makers that hang about on DA. You get to communicate with all sorts of artists, not just photographers and with 13 million members, there's plenty of people to talk to!
Thanks so much for this review and the contest. I have already joined this site and like it so far. The great advice will be very helpful. this inspires me to really up my game.
I am located here http://500px.com/gailwileydesigns please feel free to check it out.
Great advice. I'm liking the simplistic {no nonsense} interface approach of the site!
I just got addicted to it, a few weeks ago!
http://500px.com/ruinpsilva
Wow, your photos are absolutely stunning!
Hi,
Love 500 px and really enjoy your work. My link is http://500px.com/shrecksimages
This site reminds me that only my best will do.
I guess I'll jump on the bandwagon and post my link: http://500px.com/sollie
I'll try to follow some other people too.
http://500px.com/lindsaycolley
Been on 500px for a good while now... My profile is at http://500px.com/LouAllenWheeler
Sacramento, CA portrait and music photographer
I signed up: http://500px.com/rbrong
Will post pics when I get home from work.
If this site is decent, I might even migrate from picasa.
Thanks for the great review!!
Just got my 500px account:
http://500px.com/YvetteVanTeeffelen
This is a cool site! I decided not to spoil it less interesting photo and gave myself a limit of 18 photos. To add a new, I remove the less interesting. :)
Maybe I should post my link here...duh... http://500px.com/StephanieShier
Done! I made an account a few days ago....but I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO outta my league!!!
@ David Cleland,
I saw your photos. on your website and your 500 account, very talented, I like them a lot.
@ Lara,
you said awesome copy right terms and conditions, how awesome are they? Because I would really like to know. :) You say your an amateur, but your photos are very nice, I like your animal pictures a lot. A lot of your photos really bring out colors.
Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas, I have been following your work for long time. Really lice. I learn a lot from your pictures.
I would appreciate a free account on 500px.
http://500px.com/Premal_Dhruv_Photography
Thank you in advance.
-Premal
I signed up not long ago but kinda forget about it - hectic schedule and all that! Will have to start playing some more because you're right, it is a gorgeous site.
http://500px.com/CannonballJones
Here is my 500px acount. I got it shortly after reading about how awesome the copyright terms and conditions are on the site. I am still an amateur and all, but really liked the sound of the site and have been loving it so far despite my few followers. I think I made the fatal error of adding too many pics too fast. Oh well. Hopefully I will be discovered at some point or other.
http://500px.com/evanescent
I've been thinking about being on a photo sharing but I'm scared of people stealing my photos. Does this website have ant sort of copy right thing or a way so that people can't steal my photos? Because I'm interested into this site.
Please anyone answer me. Thanks.
Loving 500px the layout is brilliant, a breeze to use and some of the work up there is stunning. I am http://500px.com/flixelpix on there. I have followed you.