I’ll be updating this post or writing a new one to address what I believe are the implications of the Chinese website for 500px users soon. They are not the only one’s guilty of this but in different ways, so I have closed accounts all over the net. I have noticed the “click and move on” mentality of 500px users, the feedback I’ve got on my photos has been during the first 24 hours after uploading, then silence.

I have many nice photos, mostly of landscapes and flowers, and I was hoping I could bring in a little cash from my hobby. I had left a handful of images in my profile on 500px until today where I deleted them all. I’ve done tests to see what kinds of images capture attention. Your needs may be different than mine though, and I don’t really have experience with other sites so I can’t really recommend anything else.

Does the photographer place them back in the nest? I didn’t sign up to sell any stock images. Given the nature of social media’s “like” psychological hooks, it’s hard to not get caught up in the game of how many people have seen and responded to your images and to compare your imagery to others. A recent development there is that they automatically have new accounts, or accounts that have logged back in after a period away, follow a select group of favored accounts.
I understand they are trying to stay in business, but not sure if this the most appropriate and ethic way for supporting the hole industry of photography. Not long after getting home I unpacked my tablet and checked out a few pages, one of which was my 500 px page. I’m not really surprised their policies are as such and would urge others to do as you have done given their tactics if this is truly the case. I was not interested in opting into the print store (500px Art) due to the sizes and pricing offered, and 500px wouldn’t communicate where these prints were being produced. I currently use Photoshelter (which I highly recommend) as the service behind my Image Library where people can view the photos, or buy them directly. By far the biggest issues for me are the Chinese expansion implications, photographs that appear to be on sale, and the issues around voting, favouriting and the quest for popularity. This line is used in particular circumstances. I use Photoshelter along with web host Dreamhost (40% off) for this photography site. I’m wondering if 500px is more stringent on the saleability of photos than other sites. Good luck! You'll meet inspirational photographers, and discover how they capture the images that blow your mind every day. I’ll have to find another site to post my snapshots! A delicious dessert prepared in the kitchen. This may be close to industry standard rates but I reserve the right to be disappointed by it. What places online do you share your photography and is it a community that celebrates a variety of styles and methods? The good critique I received was seldom as harsh as what I’d come up with on my own so I soon decided that this wasn’t going to be a useful avenue to pursue, at least in an untargeted, online way. It has less action than 500px, but all the work there doesn’t look the same, which is something IG suffers from as well. I pursue all commercial copyright infringement that I can find, though that might be more difficult depending on the wording in 500px’s TOS for those images uploaded there. On with the list! At first, I thought I was hacked or it had something to do with technical difficulties until I learned something about hot linking on this post. So these are some of the reasons that I no longer supporting the 500px website. Free, easy, and effective are not often things that intersect. According to U.S. tax law, 500px must withhold a percentage of payments to citizens and entities in other countries depending on the tax treaties, and remit these withholdings to the government. There are many. Thank you for the post, I was just wondering about the best site for sharing photos to start as a very beginner in photography. How does decreasing the reward for use on the Bing homepage to $0 work as a first step towards exposure to eventually make money? As for licensing – the low low pricing doesn’t seem at all sustainable to me, and I don’t really know why photographers seem willing to offer their work for pennies. My account was terminated by them for violations in their term agreement, (I stupidly posted my new domain name which pointed to their marketplace). https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/500px-creates-500px-me-hosts-in-china/, Photo Consumption, Conformity, and Copying in Landscape Photography, https://500px.com/settings/store/settings, https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/finding-copyright-infringements-web/, Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) And My First Astrophotography, Walking Through Steveston and Imperial Landing, Birds at the Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area, Barred Owl (Strix varia) Fledglings in Campbell Valley Park, Devon Falls at Bassani Park in Abbotsford British Columbia. . I understand the frustration if it not being a level playing field in terms of exposure. These 180+ accounts get a lot more action/views as they are pushed to users unlike the “regular” users on the rest of the site.

Makes no sense at all. I realize that it is asking for too much I suppose.

I can’t disagree. Thanks for publishing your thoughts Michael.

And for what! Not sure just who is doing the recommending but, IMHO, more than half of the recommended images are simply not of adequate quality — technically or photographically — to even qualify as family snapshots! Digging into this a little more deeply I have found that many of the people identified in my list below have loads of fake followers – these followers themselves have 0 followers. They promote images from the 500px site on Twitter (and likely other social media as well) many times per day. Witholding RateMaking a valid treaty claim can reduce a Contributor’s withholding rate to 0%, Contributors can reference the Tax Treaty Breakdown by Country document for the exact rate to enter in this field. Put everything into it for a couple of years and got insanely popular. I make a concerted effort to comment anyone’s photo’s, what I like, what it says to me, ideas etc. Contributors can reference the Tax Treaty Breakdown by Country document for more information. Contributors) is below. Dark background. They also seem to be saying that they’ll negotiate the highest price possible – not just the flat $250 rate for full rights in perpetuity.

While it may be a bit of overkill for someone just starting out – it also gives room to grow into. And i’m not talking about selling an image once an year .Did anyone here ever sold an image there ? Building a whole site (and getting a domain name (I use Namecheap) and web hosting(Dreamhost)) is feasible, but I’ve found managing image galleries with WordPress and other CMS products to be cumbersome. Paypal said there was nothing they could do because I originally accepted an automatic renewal. There have been a lot of popular photographs on 500px showing wild, unfledged baby birds out of their nests and being fed by parents.
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The appearance of pricing my work for me was something I just couldn’t get past though. Hopefully hear from you soon ,Norbert. Apparently, copyrights and royalties don’t mean all that much!? All Rights Reserved. I joined 500px to share and explore. Everything I could possibly do has already been done 100 times, and 100 times better, by others!” By such photographers as yourself, for example!!