500px
The mobile app and website, 500px, is a photo sharing site for professional and semi-professional photographers to share their best photos. The app creates a community of photographers, and you can choose to follow certain photographers to see their latest photos. The 500px site also gives photographers the option to license and sell their photos within the 500px Marketplace. On the website, users can take photography classes from a variety of instructors with expertise in the photography field. Review: 500px is easy to navigate for anyone who has social media accounts. The design is simple and visually appealing to match the professional level of photos on the site. Although the community has less members and features than other photo sharing sites, the site is geared towards interactions between professional and amateur photographers. Despite a few bugs every once in a while, the app's support area is helpful and most issues are dealt with quickly.
- Features
- Easy sign-up with either your Facebook account or email address
- For a yearly fee, you can have access to unlimited photo uploads, your own blog, and beautiful portfolio designs
- Allows you to upload up to 10 photos at a time, with the ability to add tags, a title, and other information about the photos
- The photo page features information about the camera and settings used to take the photo, as well as the total number of likes, views and favorites
- Each photo has a "pulse" rating, which shows the popularity of the photo based on the number of likes and favorites
- Automatically makes a portfolio with photos that you have uploaded into a Collection
- Created by photographers to appeal to other professional photographers, unlike other photo sharing sites
- Photos, rather than other features and interactions, are the focus of the app, with large pictures filling the screen as you scroll
- Does not require you to sign over your photos to the site in order to upload pictures
- Photographers are able to comment on and vote on others' photos, as well as follow photographers they like
- The paid option of the app gives users the options of controlling SEO content, customizing content, and using Google Analytics tools
- The free version of the app has plenty of options and features, even though there is a paid version
- Less community members than other photo sharing sites
- No ability to create groups to share photos to a small number of users
- A few bugs during testing, but most of these have been resolved
- Simple user interface makes it harder to find certain
500px is easy to navigate for anyone who has social media accounts. The design is simple and visually appealing to match the professional level of photos on the site. Although the community has less members and features than other photo sharing sites, the site is geared towards interactions between professional and amateur photographers. Despite a few bugs every once in a while, the app's support area is helpful and most issues are dealt with quickly.