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What is your favorite photo sharing platform?

What is your favorite photo sharing platform?

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Dear Fujians

Many of us want to share images with other photographers, get inspiration, and receive some kind of feedback - likes, emojis, simple comments, professional comments. Or sell images.

I think everyone has just one voice, so I am interested in your favorite platform.

The following list hopefully contains most relevant platforms. It's quite a long list. Of course I don't know them all. I did some web search and used a Wikipedia list to collect the platforms.

Let me know if a platform is missing or if a service I listed should not belong to this list. And of course I am happy about an open discussion, because the "why" is of course also interesting.
 
Funny that flickr scores so high (I'm using it) under photographers. Some groups have been stale for years, but i just refuse to feed the pockets of Facebook/Instagram.
 
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Rightsaidfred said:
Dear Fujians

Many of us want to share images with other photographers, get inspiration, and receive some kind of feedback - likes, emojis, simple comments, professional comments. Or sell images.

I think everyone has just one voice, so I am interested in your favorite platform.

The following list hopefully contains most relevant platforms. It's quite a long list. Of course I don't know them all. I did some web search and used a Wikipedia list to collect the platforms.

Let me know if a platform is missing or if a service I listed should not belong to this list. And of course I am happy about an open discussion, because the "why" is of course also interesting.
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After being an extensive user of Flickr, 500px, Instagram, and a brief user of 1x and others, I feel that none of them really suits my needs towards inspiration and personal growth. I'm interested in others opinions here
 
I have been enjoying the change of pace with https://glass.photo

Limited to an app but a web version is meant to be coming soon.
 
I use google photos a fair bit. Great for sharing images (albums / sets) with friends and family.
 
El Vuelo del Escorpion said:
After being an extensive user of Flickr, 500px, Instagram, and a brief user of 1x and others, I feel that none of them really suits my needs towards inspiration and personal growth. I'm interested in others opinions here
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Hi Óscar

It may help to tell a bit more.

You are a gorgeous photographer, probably a professional (AFAIK). I will never forget your thread on "X-H1 flying", one of the most enchanting photo stories I've ever seen, https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64638922
  • Do you make a living from your photography?
  • What do you seek in a platform? What is the purpose for you? Customers, feedback, followers, likes, else?
I found this statement from you below one of your photos on 500px : "I don't want to be a slave of how many followers or pulse I get by picture."

Regards,

Martin

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https://500px.com/bachrocks
https://100asa.com/photographer/martin
https://www.instagram.com/martin.lang.photography
 
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I use, and have used, Smugmug for many years. Easy to use, easy to up load, easy to adjust layout and colour scheme, easy for non photographers to browse, in other words family, which is important for me, and easy to protect galleries and images and all at a reasonable cost/year.

Examples in link below.
 
sir_c said:
Funny that flickr scores so high (I'm using it) under photographers. Some groups have been stale for years, but i just refuse to feed the pockets of Facebook/Instagram.
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I used to use Flickr, but (for me, anyway) it lost a lot of momentum and, like with a lot of sites of its kind, any chance of interacting gets drowned in the onslaught of images.

For personal images, I incorporate some photos into my casual Instagram photos.

Although it won't deliver much interaction with the audience, I have considered hosting a few images on a website, mostly for a more deliberate viewing experience. But I have yet to go through the process of selecting images and assessing if it's a sufficient depth to put it out there.
 
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Of course it is not scientific or representative. But I find this little survey very interesting. We have 65 votes (I also considered free text comments).

Thank y'all for voting. Keep going! Let's go for 100 votes :) Let me share another snapshot. Flickr is clearly in the lead, followed by Insta and SmugMug.
  • 31 % prefer Flickr (20 votes)
  • 20 % prefer Instagram (13 votes)
  • 11 % prefer SmugMug (7 votes)
  • 6 % do not share their images with a community/the public (4 votes)
  • 6 % host an independent own website (4 votes)
  • 6 % prefer 500px (4 votes)
  • 6 % prefer Facebook (4 votes)
  • 1.5 % prefer Ello (1 vote) - Ello was not part of my list - many thanks to raevyn
  • 1.5 % prefer prefer Exposure (1 vote) - Exposure was not voted but it was commented by Fuji_FTW
  • 1.5 % prefer Fotomerchant (1 vote)
  • 1.5 % prefer glass.photo (1 vote) - glass.photo was not part of my list - many thanks to tbrasington
  • 1.5 % prefer Google Photos (1 vote) - Google Photos was not part of my list, of course I knew about it but I thought it is not a social platform but more a personal storage space with the option to share - but why not include it. Many thanks to Raymond L
  • 1.5 % prefer Pixpa (1 vote)
  • 1.5 % prefer Tumblr (1 vote)
  • 1.5 % prefer Youp'c (1 vote) - I am not allowed to spell it correctly, it seems not accepted
  • 1.5 % prefer Zenfolio (1 vote)
Regards,

Martin

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https://500px.com/bachrocks
https://100asa.com/photographer/martin
https://www.instagram.com/martin.lang.photography
 
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sir_c said:
Funny that flickr scores so high (I'm using it) under photographers. Some groups have been stale for years,
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So far, you're right. Flickr is still clearly leading in this little survey. See the intermediate result #2.
sir_c said:
but i just refuse to feed the pockets of Facebook/Instagram.
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That's material for discussion. We all know the dictum, "If the service is free, you are the product."
  • Insta and Facebook (and WhatsApp) belong to Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc.
  • Flickr is a subsidiary of SmugMug (until 2018, Flickr did belong to Yahoo).
Regards,

Martin

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https://500px.com/bachrocks
https://100asa.com/photographer/martin
https://www.instagram.com/martin.lang.photography
 
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jhorse said:
I use, and have used, Smugmug for many years. Easy to use, easy to up load, easy to adjust layout and colour scheme, easy for non photographers to browse, in other words family, which is important for me, and easy to protect galleries and images and all at a reasonable cost/year.

Examples in link below.
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Thank you for sharing. Impressive photos from various genres. I see you also have a password protected folder.

Question 1: the folders on SmugMug are intended to cluster one's own photos? This is great.

This is something I do not like about 500px, you cannot sort your own ones, and you cannot have folders. The images appear just chronologically. I use the galleries but they actually it's a 'misuse' since their actual purpose is to exhibit others' photos one's own profile.

Question 2: I don't see any 'likes' on SmugMug. So, only comments but no 'likes'?

Regards,

Martin

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https://500px.com/bachrocks
https://100asa.com/photographer/martin
https://www.instagram.com/martin.lang.photography
 
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Adobe is missing. I find their Lightroom sharing feature, Spark apps and Portfolio far better than many, if not most, of the listed. I also find Flickr's position amazing, far better than it deserves.
 
uniball said:
Adobe is missing. I find their Lightroom sharing feature, Spark apps and Portfolio far better than many, if not most, of the listed. I also find Flickr's position amazing, far better than it deserves.
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Thank you. Sorry about it, I was not aware of the sharing features. darktable user speaking :)

Will include it in the final statement.

Behance is from Adobe, but that's obviously not what you mean.

Martin
 
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