But most aren’t. Best of all, adding photos is easyâjust upload directly from 500px. Users can advertise their photography skills and promote their work to potential clients. I joined 500px to share and explore. However, I do believe they only offer RF licenses which would certainly clash with your RM licensing on your PS site. As for the rest of the 500px service, I don’t know many who continue to use the site, and many started abandoning the place back around 2013 when I left for good and the evidence was ample that photographers were not something 500px seemed to respect. It doesn’t matter how it is bought, who buys it, or under what license, your 30% comes off the top.”. There is always Flickr. You'll meet inspirational photographers, and discover how they capture the images that blow your mind every day. Trends are constantly changing, and buyers are always looking for fresh content. Upgrade now. They still have my photos on their server (though not in my account), and they are watermarked with their website. You can search my blog posts for information or my Image Library for photographs with the search boxes below: Copyright ©2003-2020 Michael Russell Photography. I’ve listed it as #1 here instead of #9 as I feel it might be the most important on the list (the rest aren’t really in any order). Even so, I received few views to the website. If you don’t feel like building a website a service like PS (or Smugmug, though I’ve not used them) would be a good place to start. My photos all are the explanation I need to gain work locally. Then it all went social. I’ve had the same issues as Robert Mckinstry (comment above), problems logging-in and uploading to my account. One of the issues the Content Team runs into time-after-time is users forgetting to confirm their contact information and not completing their payout setup. Selling thru 500px would seem to mean a buyer could potentially use it for business or commercial purposes, forever, for any purpose - for only one payment to the photographer. 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. Royalty-free means a buyer pays a larger, one-time fee to use your photo multiple times on multiple types of media. -Digital noise. It may be the case that self-marketing is not high on your list of priorities. The scoring system for photos seems to make that a bit worse there though at times. Now, I don’t think I’ll be using 500px. In July of 2015 500px announced they had obtained $13 million in funding from China’s Visual China Group in order to expand into China. 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. Yet, I’ve never received any royalties, and my account says I’ve never had any photos licensed or sold anything. I clicked on one of the images of these people…a photo that got 99.3% from 519 likes – 170 of these likes had 0 followers. Flickr isn’t a bad start though – I’ve been on Flickr since 2004. You don’t know how large the buyer wants to blow your photo up, but you want to make sure they can go as big as the file’s resolution allows. So these are some of the reasons that I no longer supporting the 500px website. Nothing! On G+ (and Twitter/Facebook) each image I post has a link to where that photo was posted on my Blog or in my Image Library. Not long after getting home I unpacked my tablet and checked out a few pages, one of which was my 500 px page. While on my social media I would share clients wedding photos. Excellent post, Michael. It seems that 500px would not be a best place for sharing the photos in a long term, though I have an account there, but still no upload. The wait is quite long before payment can be requested. On Fb I only post links to my blog posts, and generally all my social media posts are linking to my website. Or quite likely it might just not fit into the niche of what those voting/faving there are used to. The stock photography of today depicts real and diverse moments and people, creating authentic and relatable content. I have been contemplating joining 500px for a while now. 500px support confirmed with users asking for an explanation that indeed this was a 500px website. -Include details about any people in the photo, including age, gender, ethnicity, etc. However, I am not really happy with it. 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. • 6 months ago. Method 1 500px ISO is home to the best photo stories on the web. But 500 px seems more like a competition between photographers to be on the top of the first page! Considering how many followers I had a the time, I had a good reception, and one of my photos even had an “editors choice” which gave me some early attention. If there are technical issues with your account – hotlinking is unlikely to have any part in it. So while I encourage people to use G+, I think any social media platform is best used to send visitors to ones own website, not to house that content itself. Consider the moments you encounter in your day-to-day. Do you know anything about 500pic images being tweeted without your permission? You are right with unethical wildlife photography. 500px is a photo sharing website, meant to compete with flickr. A paid membership is currently not an option for me, and I would prefer something that doesn’t require a lot of time. As for the Chinese site – I don’t think they finished transferring all the images before users discovered it earlier this week. Photographs may disappear from your account immediately, but are still held in place on the server. I have shared quite a bit of content directly there, but as I think is wise for everyone, I spend most of my time sharing content from my website now. The quality of your images is ⦠I removed all of my work at this point. You may be able to reverse the charge that way as well. Grand landscapes (for example) are favored over intimate ones. We’ve pulled together the Top 10 insights from our 500px Content Team on how to make money with photography. 707 I did take a look at their site, and in doing a quick search on it, found my images listed in the results despite my not having opted in. I am already using Shutterstock, Alamy, EyeEm, Adobe Stock and Depositphotos sites. I have read your excellent article and others concerning social media photo sharing. Your dog dies, you announce it and the only option you have is like…says it all. I’ve done tests to see what kinds of images capture attention. See what photos come up for different keywords. Edit (March 21, 2016): 500px has now cut their royalty rate from 70% to 30% for non-exclusive photographs. Personally, I open up new things in tabs all the time, and if a site blocks that I’m likely to simply leave. Every time I go to that site I end up feeling like “What’s the use? Also, make sure there are no dust spots or other technical issues, and go easy on the HDR. I’ve been told the only way to delete images removed from your profile is to contact 500px and request they be deleted entirely. 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. When you submit a photo to 500px for Licensing, make sure you’re submitting a photo that is at least 3000px on the longest side and does not have any watermarks or logos. I requested my latest payment 3 weeks ago, submitted a W9 form, etc., and received nothing in my PayPal account. All 500px membership levels ⦠This encourages photographers from countries with lower economic indexes to join 500 px with the idea they’ll make money, given that a sale for a photographer in let’s say Russia or Poland, is more valuable to the photographer. In one of the comments a 500px employee responds in part with this statement: “This is a free collaboration between 500px and Bing, and I think it is a wonderful opportunity for photographers who would like to get discovered and get more exposure.” I figure that most photographers desire exposure in order to get noticed by those who may help them make money on their photography. While 500px can be applauded for frequently responding to user and public queries on social media, questions as to why they were continuing to promote these types of images went ignored. Think about a way to replicate and adapt what you see to your photography. Learn how your comment data is processed. I've managed to sell one photo on the site as well, so the utility for me isn't what it might be for others. In the end, none of the sites available for us to share are perfect I suppose. Well that might depend on what you want to get out of a platform. I’m not a professional, so managing to get a photo on print is reward enough for me , Move from 500px to Photoshelter. I understand the frustration if it not being a level playing field in terms of exposure. Three weeks ago, however, I started having technical problems uploading and logging in to my account. Recently, I discovered one of my photos on an online, travel magazine site. That said, they clearly do make some sales, so success there is at least possible. How does decreasing the reward for use on the Bing homepage to $0 work as a first step towards exposure to eventually make money? So the constraints you suggest here more or less eliminate the chances at success. Customers may be demanding low prices and there may be many photographers willing to cater to that market – but I don’t think it’s sustainable at the prices for the broad rights available. !” mode and wasn’t often thinking deeply about the images themselves. A pittance in return for a license is usually a sign of what is to come in terms of service and respect. It's totally free to contribute your photos to 500px Licensing, and you earn 60% of net sales on images you've submitted exclusively for licensing. 11 Replies 4301 Views May 30, 2017, 06:48 by PaulieWalnuts: 500px keep selling your photos after you remove them from their site. Hi Michael, would you have any recommendations for people like me who are just starting out? Thanks for writing this and sharing it on G+ Michael. Photoshelter does have a free trial though so you can test it out before you decide, which may be helpful. Again, it does depend on what someone wants out of their photo sharing platform though. 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. Michael, can you recommend a free website for beginner photographers? I'm looking into selling photos for money. I do like the layout and manner in which 500px displays its user’s photography, and the reaction to my photography there was generally positive. It doesn’t matter. I see I needed to clarify my comment as well. Thank you for the post, I was just wondering about the best site for sharing photos to start as a very beginner in photography. The best way to contact me is through the Contact Form. 30% = Dignity? Then I finding this blog. Nice Post man, seems a lot more people are starting to share my opinion of 500px. Published by
There is also nothing 500px has done wrong if they’ve allowed or encouraged hotlinking of your images on other sites. This takes you to the login page. So many seem used to getting likes on FB (or on 500px etc) and can’t handle even well thought out “criticism” that doesn’t simply praise the work without question. We can add to this example photographs of drugged frogs holding leaf umbrellas, and insects covered in various substances or refrigerated to make them “pose” in a desired position. I made the decision for many of the same reasons as you. This was going against my own personal beliefs but my customers don’t care. Regardless of what you decide, I’d make your site the center of your online efforts. 500px has amazing images and artists which I still enjoy, but the site just seems overran with falseness. The only thing I did like is that the overall quality bar for the work shared there was a bit higher than flickr… and unlike the flickr of way back when, they didn’t seem to have an innate hatred of professional photographers and the idea of using the platform for some self-promotion – something flickr would delete your account if you got caught doing. Put a hyped, Technicolor sunset in and thousands respond — with extra points if the sun was shot with a 500mm lens and is the size of a basketball in the frame! There are a few stock agencies I would probably work with (Tandem Stock for one) but I am not yet interested in giving them exclusive rights to sell my work as I prefer to do that via my website as well. Shoot that. I find them excrutiating to deal with in regards to receiving payment for sold licensed work. As a 500px member, you can sell your photos through their stock photo marketplace. I’m an amateur, a hobbyist who’s purpose for posting images on line is to see the reception they garner and to solicit critiques and suggestions that will help me grow as a photographer. However what better alternatives are there? Decent support is an important consideration for any company like this, and they don’t seem to have enough staff to be up to the task. I have nothing good to say about 500px.com but I have a bounty of negative words tripping over themselves to get out . Hi Michael I just joined for fun , wondering how this all works , fun so far 1 week in.however I just wanted to know why I cannot upload photos that come from my goggle cloud? -Without keywords, nobody will find your work. I wrote this section a few months ago. -Chromatic aberration After reading this article it looks like 500px might not be the platform I’m interested in if all it will brings is more disconnected ‘likes’ on yet another social media platform. Like my post here might suggest, I was tired of being continually disappointed with 500px so I stopped uploading in late 2013. I deleted my last few remaining images entirely (or tried to, they’ve refused to delete them so far) about a year ago. All rights reserved. I did not realise that the best way to get noticed on 500px was to follow a thousand other photographers, post photos and then pick up photographers with fewer followers than yourself. Perhaps they are just incentive to add to their marketplace? In some cases I find these on websites based in countries where copyright is only a faint notion, and I have to pretty much pretend I didn’t see the infringement. It becomes a game. They came back to me asking why I was selling the same image on 500px, Royalty Free, for only $250. I’d rather make photographs and dabble in html/css here and there than wrangling plugins and themes! 500px Team
It really doesn’t help! Within the first couple of years becoming self-employed, digital was the only real option and your website quality and organic SERPs rankings where all you needed online. Well, after you finish mine. Do you think they care about animals? While photography is a serious hobby for me (my daytime job is in IT/software), I’d like to promote my photography a little more, and I was thinking 500px may help. It features high-quality photos in a range of different disciplines. I don’t want to give the impression with this list that I hate the people involved in producing 500px, or the users on the site. What about hobbyist photographers and budding photographers for whom making money from it is still far away. There may also be space limits. VERY good information hear just not an answer to my question. I get a lot more visits by having decent SEO on my sites, but social can certainly bring some visitors too. We had a back and forth about exactly what they required, and I gave them a quote of around $400 USD for a Rights Managed License. -Dust spots That isn’t really much of an answer, but regardless of platform what are you hoping to get out of it? It's in the upper-right corner of the web page. Not the way to go. Started by Silken Photography New Sites - General. Wonderful post Michael, I was just doing some research about 500px as it’s not something I have chosen to pursue in the past but I have seen so many more images these days popping up all over the web hosted by 500px so I decided to check it out but from reading your post and many others like it I think I can sleep more comfortably at night without getting involved! If 500px died tomorrow would you have your photos saved somewhere else? If you just want to display your photos on a network for sharing and not selling, Flickr still does a decent job at that. For added convenience, especially when traveling, you can always download a model release app like Easy Release, Model Release Pro, or Model Release X. What the hell is going on? ⦠I get a message that someone is interested. In late 2013 500px offered another opt in program to allow photographers to potentially have their images used as the background to the Bing.com homepage: https://500px.com/blog/736/500px-bing-showcasing-world-class-photography-together . 2 Hover the mouse over your profile photo. On first glance it appears your images are for sale for a $250 RF license or $50 for web and social media use, even though that is not the case. #500px has a bunch of aspects I don’t like, and you’ve hit on most of them. Landscape photos | 15 stunning landscape photos on 500px Published by Feature Shoot ⢠2 weeks ago While much of our time this year has been spent indoors, research from the University of Cumbria reveals that nature has become more important to people during the coronavirus lockdown and, for many, protecting it has become a higher priority. You can't directly download a photograph from 500px for free, but if you need to save a photo for legal use, there are some tools that will help. Seams to me that their budget is kinda low… not earning to much from people selling the images so they need to come up with something. Many of the best images on 500px are available for royalty-free licensing. I sold large and small prints through their original marketplace, but the web/print licensing has not delivered any results. I saw the same message.what they fo is, at least, inmoral, I have just erased all my photos due to reason # 7… they appeared to be on sale whiout my permission. I’m following your lead, Michael. It has less action than 500px, but all the work there doesn’t look the same, which is something IG suffers from as well. 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. Well, not really. . That is one thing for a non commercial blog but for a commercial site it isn’t acceptable IMO. All content was evergreen service details etc. What I’m very curious about is that some of my photos have a red banner at the top that says “Secure this photo. The logic here makes no sense to me anyway. Sure enough, I was able to reconnect to my account only to discover that all my images had disappeared without a trace. We will, so you might as well do it first. When I post in Facebook, Twitter or G+, I almost always leave a link to a blog post or image library page so someone can find my website. Copyright © 2020 500px. Access Stats, Priority Directory listing and more! Thanks for publishing your thoughts Michael. While they have just been acquired via Yahoo by Verizon, until we see what changes are made there I’ll still recommend Flickr over 500px. If you want to start out with little effort, a service like PS starts at about $9/month – which is cheaper than buying a domain name and web hosting. If there is a website out there like you describe I haven’t found it. This is mostly because this kind of thing took place in forums or social media where the audience was also only in the “this is great +1!! 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. Not on 500px yet? Make sure to always include the location information when submitting photos for Licensing. To their credit, 500px changed their stance on this about a month later and flipped the royalty rates to 70% for the photographer and 30% for themselves. I joined a year ago January. We are moving to Africa next year and setting up our own business and we only hope to get people to make a safari photography with us so i ( dalida) guess that social network with our pictures can drive people to our website!! I have invested a lifetime of energy on my business, missed out on family life and tarnished my love for photography. If you find any photo of yours, take a ⦠Unfortunately Norbert I have no idea, I don’t use 500px anymore nor do I use Google cloud. Put everything into it for a couple of years and got insanely popular. It would only be a valuable backup if you can access your full resolution files, and only then if you originally shot them in jpg (no RAW backup if you shoot in RAW). Ultimately I think the best place to post your photographs is on your own website, and point there from social media, but that isn’t for everyone. Relying on any online platform to sell photography in our best interest with any semblance of honesty is naive at best. Any tips and/or recommendations would be appreciated. I had heard so many great things about 500px that I was minutes away from pulling the trigger until I found this. Quite a few photographers negatively reacted to the choice to use the word dignity alongside a 30% royalty. While avoiding RF and setting my own (fair?) I put at least part of the blame on 500px itself as assigning a score to a photograph sets up that kind of competition for attention right out of the gate. Why would those photos not have that banner? I am not sure I would consider 500px a stock photography site just yet, at least not in the same vein as agencies such as Alamy, Corbis, Getty etc. The digital download gave out a large file (if not full resolution) for around $3. So I guess it depends on what someone is looking for in a platform to share their photography. Gain exposure and get paid for your work with 500px Licensing. These were usually $2.99 and provided a limited license to use the image for personal digital wallpaper. I saw one photographer with over a 1000 followers and his photos were really just holiday snaps. If you’re already taking real and diverse photos on your travels or in your everyday life with your friends or clients, make sure you keep model releases handy so that you can license those photos later on. they only have one persons answering to
[email protected], and that person will mark a ticket as ‘solved’ without even answering, at all. The photos I have sold on 500px has been in connection with such contests. I was pleased to see they were based in Toronto and I liked the notion of supporting a Canadian based photo sharing site as I had with Flickr back in 2004. I like to know What are the other websites for Photo Contributors to earn money? I’ve heard of a few that were great (before I heard of them) but have devolved into various unsavory attitudes and cliques. I am not really qualified to write a post on various sites as I don’t use them, or how they’d relate to various types of photography since I only do a few of them myself. When 500px’s licensing site 500px Prime was launched two statements were made that really angered many photographers. 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. I have had several of my popular images tweeted as being “popular” on the website but I don’t have a twitter account nor did I give the sight permission to tweet them…. I myself removed my work from sale on their site and then found them putting the licensing buttons u nder my work just as you did. This is the most recent I’ve read – most, for eg about iStock, seem to be from 2013 or before. I complained about this via twitter on a number of occasions. Today I wish I could do it all over again and continue enjoying my photography for myself. You should know what type of company you are dealing with when you cannot reach them by telephone. I have photos on 500px and some of them have a good amount of views and never sold one photo. So 500px themselves are doing the “recommending” you mention. I agree some of these points are mostly relevant to those trying to make some income from their photography. This helps buyers find the photo they are looking for and makes it clear what destination or place is in the photo. My account with 500px expires next week and with the loss of the actual print orders, there’s just no reason to stay. These initially look like cute photos showing a glimpse into the daily lives of these birds. They said I had done it multiple times and that I had received multiple warnings which is untrue. 500px is a site that only photographers go to and photographers are not going to buy other photographers work. I may not be the best in the world. I got a boost with a little extra work. I, like many of the others, have been toying with joining 500px but I don’t think it’s for me. They offer a service called 500px / prime, where you can set up different settings and options for each photograph you may want to license out. The 500px website is both a photography community and a platform from which to sell photos. You can certainly sell images by having them on Flickr, but it isn’t all that likely. A more thorough discussion of my issues with this move to China can be found in the following post: https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/500px-creates-500px-me-hosts-in-china/. I wish you luck in seeking your refund. I have signed on for two reasons and am curious what your opinion is on my decision. I ignore it. I do think the site wide right click blocking does far more to impede the normal actions of desirable users than it does image thieves. The quality of your images is important, but it is also a good idea to upload batches of photos every week, or every other week. As for the 30% royalty at 500px, you’ll notice in my section on this that they did give in to the immediate pressure they faced over that number and changed it to 70% rather quickly. Still, nothing to write home about! 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