Canon5Dtips Photography is more than words.
At the end of 2009, I asked you, the readers, what you wanted to see in 2010 on the blog. I know it is hard to tell but I have been working intensely on every single point you asked for and results will unfold in the next few months. It just seems like having a full time job is a major obstacle to getting things done!
Anyways, one of the topic people asked me to talk more about was photography. Video is all cool and flashy but most of us are were, at the core, photographers.
This time, I am not going to talk about gear or plugin but simply a website dedicated to sharing images. It is called 500px. It is very easy to compare it to flickr and the like since they have a lot of features in common but I think it is a step above the rest for one thing: how easy it is to browse gorgeous images.
The principle is simple: users browse and vote for images they like to make them popular. The more popular an image is, the higher its score. There are no albums, groups or the like created and managed by users. This somehow protect the site from comment spam as is so commonly seen on Flickr.
Dont get me wrong. I like Flickr, I just find the user experience as a viewer and as a photographer more pleasant on 500px. While I rarely randomly browse pics on Flick, I spend a lot of time in the popular and architecture section. Both sites were designed with different goals. Flickr is a community where everything goes while 500px is designed to showcase work of art. The best example? The size of the images they are more than twice as big on 500px!
The site is still in its growing phase and there arent millions of user yet so it is the perfect time to register (free, use the invite code: youwelcome) and grab your namespace. I cant remember the last time I could register on a site using only alain(!).
Time now for a shameless plug, if you are curious to see my work, you can see it here. As you will soon discover, having people rate your pictures can be scary and fun at the same time.
Disclaimer: I discovered 500px when Ian, its co-founder, placed an order for Fader ND filters. So yes, there is a tiny financial relationship between us but I will let you be the judge of its impact on the content of my post.
Update: added the invite code
