500px Vs. Flickr

[iNick]

Nice site. However they don't allow nudity to be uploaded which is what some of my photography contains.

Anyways my account is at 500px / Snap Geek but I normally use flickr

There are many nudes on 500px

 

[iNick]

just discovered you can sell your photos through 500px on a commission based system. you keeo 80% minus the price of printing the photo. you can set your own price or use the default prices. seems very useful for someone who is casually selling their work.

 

[krowland]

just discovered you can sell your photos through 500px on a commission based system. you keeo 80% minus the price of printing the photo. you can set your own price or use the default prices. seems very useful for someone who is casually selling their work.

I don't see anywhere on the 500px site where it references selling from their site? Can you point me to a link for more info?

 

[iNick]

just discovered you can sell your photos through 500px on a commission based system. you keeo 80% minus the price of printing the photo. you can set your own price or use the default prices. seems very useful for someone who is casually selling their work.

I don't see anywhere on the 500px site where it references selling from their site? Can you point me to a link for more info?

Select one of your photos and under it should be a few options like Buy print download an whatnot. Click buy print and I think from there you set up your seller account.

 

[adversus]

I just signed up for 500px and dropped the $50 for a paid account. My reason for doing so was my friends keep asking me for a website to find my pictures, and rather than having to give them a flickr sub-URL, I can now point them to chrisimagery.com. 500px is handling the actual portfolio.

The downside is they're growing really fast, so not all features are implemented yet. To turn on the Store, you have follow the instructions here: 500px / Blog / Your Personal Photo Store

 

[iNick]

I just signed up for 500px and dropped the $50 for a paid account. My reason for doing so was my friends keep asking me for a website to find my pictures, and rather than having to give them a flickr sub-URL, I can now point them to chrisimagery.com. 500px is handling the actual portfolio.

The downside is they're growing really fast, so not all features are implemented yet. To turn on the Store, you have follow the instructions here: 500px / Blog / Your Personal Photo Store

great stuff!

 

[SnapGeek]

Nice site. However they don't allow nudity to be uploaded which is what some of my photography contains.

Anyways my account is at 500px / Snap Geek but I normally use flickr

There are many nudes on 500px

I see that now after I created my pro account there.. I'm actually starting to like it a bit better than flickr minus the fact you can't make anything private if you wanted too.

 

[ausemmao]

Nice site. However they don't allow nudity to be uploaded which is what some of my photography contains.

Anyways my account is at 500px / Snap Geek but I normally use flickr

There are many nudes on 500px

I see that now after I created my pro account there.. I'm actually starting to like it a bit better than flickr minus the fact you can't make anything private if you wanted too.

Makes sense given their intention to be a site where people showcase their work rather than being a general photo sharing site.

 

[McNugget801]

any other 500px users out there??

I'm still using both but 500px is a nice change.
500px / William Church

 

[ozoni11]

I have found 500px to be both a waste of time and $40 down the drain. While I have received over two million hits on my photos on flickr and flickr has led to many licensing deals...magazines, newspapers, books and museums...all 500px has done is waste my time. You can't put your photos in multiple groups...there are no groups. You can only put your photo in one category. If people don't see your photo in the first 10 minutes it is on the site, it is lost to them. Some high quality photos on the site...but largely a waste of time for me.

 

[j-digg]

I heard Zack Arias talking about it on a video, he claimed that its more for photographers to show only their best work where as opposed to Flickr where people just quickly drop a set of any and all from a shoot or just whatever snapshots they get throughout the day. That's his take on it anyhow. Apparently he is on the verge of just deleting his Flickr account Hah.

 

[Overread]

Eh flickr is what you make of it. 500pixs is new and, at the moment is marketing and attracting through word of mouth, more of the established photographers. As a result its userbase is vastly smaller than flickr and less varied; as a result it appears to be a higher calibre of photographer. However its just (as far as I'm aware) another image host that specialises toward photographers. Like flickr, as its userbase grows so will the diversity of the photos presented and so too will the type of person and, yet again, you'll get those who are not just showing their best after years of study in photography.


I think one thing, and I can appreciate popular people like Zack not liking this, is the awards group culture on flickr; whereby big flashy logos and invites to random groups and cheap awards is a part of the commenting pattern on the site. For most people you only get one or two so its not much of a bother; but once you're popular and making your photos easy to find through the service you can quickly come back to find a whole page of flashy signs on your photos; most of which are giving you random awards or invites to random groups.

 

[Dikkie]

There are many nudes on 500px

*signs in*

 

[mishele]

Thread from 2011?