Can a Photo Service Be Used as Your Actual Photography Website?
Question: should you use your Flickr, 500px, Instagram or other photo sharing services as your dedicated website?
View ArticleLetters to the Editor: What’s the Best Photography Community?
What's the best photography community? A reader asks a simple question with a very complicated answer today.
View Article500px Is Making It Easier For Businesses To Hire You
The popular online image sharing platform 500px is continuing their expansion into marketing the work of their vast photographer user base to businesses. It started with their stock photo offerings,...
View Article500px Announces New Directory & Partnership With Adobe Stock
500px has been one of the biggest players in the photo sharing and photographer community spaces for many years now. The company has branched out adding its own stock offering and today has announced...
View ArticleWhy I’m Returning to Flickr Despite the Company Not Doing So Great
In January 2017, this sounds like the absolute craziest thing that any photographer could possibly do even despite my own research that shows lots of people use it as a dumping ground: but I'm...
View Article500PX Announces New Wide Color Gamut and Google WebP Format For Images
500px is today modernizing the platform for displays that have been taking major steps forward in the past few years. In a blog post, the company announced that they're going to be supporting Google's...
View ArticleSeriously, Is 500px Still Even Relevant to the Photography Community?
Photo sharing platform and photography community 500px has recently announced some major changes, the biggest of which involve shutting down its stock photo subsidiary 500px Marketplace and removing...
View ArticleThese 7 Communities Are Bound to Inspire the Bored Photographer
Photographers, like all creatives, constantly search for inspiration even in the unlikeliest places. Some of us find it most effective to take a walk around town or go on a trip somewhere far from...
View Article500px and EyeEm Among Websites With Stolen Account Details
We're still pretty much fresh into 2019 but there's already a major reason to stay vigilant over your online accounts. Some 620 million accounts from 16 websites have been compromised in a recent data...
View ArticleHow and Where to Look for Photography Inspiration Beyond Instagram
"To gain new perspectives, you have to be willing to change your surroundings." Back when I was working in higher education, that's what I used to tell my students whenever they were confronted with...
View ArticleDear Photography Trolls: Please Stop
Photography Trolls have done nothing else but caused hurt in the community and spread toxic thoughts to others.
View ArticleShoot and Share: The New Street Photographer
The new street photographer is one that needs to use immediate sharing of mobile communities to their best advantage.
View ArticleEight Photo Communities That Every Photographer Should Be On
Looking for a new spot to show off your photography? Check out some of our favorite Photo Communities.
View ArticleChris Schmid On Preparing to Photograph Iceland
Photographer Chris Schmid tells us that he found photogenic locations in Iceland by using Google Maps and 500px.
View ArticleCreating the Photograph: Dina Belenko’s “Balancing Donuts”
Photographer Dina Belenko created this awesome conceptual image of unstable donuts and coffee. Here's how.
View ArticleThe Phoblographer Explains: Image Resolution to Upload to My Website
What Image Resolution should you use to upload to your website? Hint: it isn't full.
View Article
