On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/23/13 2:20 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> A number of factors influence this. In any scene that you gaze at, >> objects that are brighter, more contrasty, or warmer coloured, all >> attract your attention over parts of the image that are darker, are in >> cooler colours, or have less contrast. Taken to the limit you get the >> classic HDR look. >> >> Then sites like 500px reward images that get the quick Likes by upping >> their chances of being shown -- it's very circular. >> >> I challenge you to spend more than an hour or two viewing images on >> 500px. Because of the voting system's bias you'll soon see that images >> look much alike there. It's like restaurant's tendency to over-salt >> and over-sweeten. It's fun for the first little while, but pretty soon >> you'll say Yuck! and quit going there. > > > I have a 500px account, though there, like everywhere else, my work is not > terribly popular. It's a bit like flickr or G+ or any other photo-sharing > place in that it takes a little work to get past the popular stuff to the > good stuff, and like any other place, the good stuff is worth the effort.
I've had an account there for nearly two years now. A year ago I upgraded to a Pro account when they had a sale that brought it down to Flickr's standard Pro price. I really wanted to like 500px, but in the long run I find it's too hard to find interesting stuff there. Their navigation is broken and way too much trouble. Tag searches are inconsistent. There is no notion of collections or groups where like-minded folks can curate galleries of images. You have to organize your work into the meager categories they provide, but they are missing some really obvious ones like Portraiture! My work barely makes a ripple when I upload it. I uploaded a faux-HDR leaf last fall and got the most attention I'd ever had. ;-) 500px reminds me of the early days of Flickr, but in the two years I've been there I've seen little improvement to any of the basic issues. I let my Pro level lapse back to Free. So I'm still there, but minimally. Flickr has its own problems, but it still suits my purposes better than the others I've tried. I'm sticking with it. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
