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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: sanjiv on April 15, 2021, 08:21

Title: 500px
Post by: sanjiv on April 15, 2021, 08:21

Hello to all
peers and dears, has anyone any experience, thoughts, advise to submit images on 500px?
Thank you in advance!

Kind Regards,
S.K.

Title: Re: 500px
Post by: dirkr on April 15, 2021, 08:47

500px -> Getty -> $0,04 royalties -> deleted my portfolio.

nothing more to say...

Title: Re: 500px
Post by: Roscoe on April 15, 2021, 10:17

As mentioned, another Getty gateway.
I made some money from a small, dormant portfolio dating back from 2012, when bigger sales still occurred.
Only two sales worth mentioning last year, both VCG, both 6 dollar. This year: 0.

I don't upload there. You need premium membership to have unlimited uploads, so without it will take you quite some time to build a decent portfolio.

Would advice against it, not worth the time and effort.

Title: Re: 500px
Post by: Ukko on April 15, 2021, 13:07

Not a good place to sell photos in my opinion. No watermarks in the pictures and everyone can see them almost full size. And it's so easy nowadays to enlarge images with Photoshop, Gigapixel AI etc. I certainly wouldn't  upload any of my photos there, at least not any good ones.

Title: Re: 500px
Post by: Copidosoma on April 17, 2021, 22:27

500px is a great place to follow some extremely talented photographers and see their work (and share your own).

I've never seen it as a place to sell microstock images. Frankly, the overall quality used to be a lot better before they went with the "sell your images" angle.