Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
In this video I'm going to talk about 500px, the
gallery website. I was curious about it. It's been around for quite a while now,
but I was really just focused on all my videos. And I want to try to put out my
work more and more. So I did make the Instagram account. I took all the photos
up to that point, I'm around 2010... I was starting chronologically from when I
started photography and just basically re-editing. In the case of Instagram, I was
doing 1:1 ratio, but with the 500px I'm doing either standard original
ratio, or 16:9 usually. But the point is I like trying to put my work
out there. And see how it does just out of curiosity, and this is it. This has
been about five days of re-editing photos and uploading to this website. And
we can see 5507 views, 2728 likes. Now, we can
look at actually the... see who is liking. Now, it looks a little questionable.
You can see people like a huge number of photos. I'm not really sure if this is
actual people really doing that, or they're using some type of automated
software. Which is happening a lot on Instagram as well. But in this case it
seems even more extreme with how people like photos. And then a few comments here
and there, but they're very generic usually. So I don't know if it's actual
real true interactions for the most part. Which is, I guess, part of this culture
these days is... When you interact you can tell if it's a real person usually. Or if
it's just someone trying to get their own people to come and look at their own
photos. Which I've looked at a few of the people that have liked things, and
they're very nice photos of course. But I'm just not really sure if it is actually
people doing things... unless they're... or they're using software of some type to
automate interactions. Which is... I don't understand why someone would do that, but
I guess that's that's a thing these days. But I do have five photos that
managed to get in the licensing program. It's basically... you can sell photos if
people, companies, or individuals want to license that photo. Now, I did submit a lot
of them to that system. And I noticed some of them said available, but they
still haven't shown up on here. I'm not really sure how that works.
But at the moment there are five different photos. See, around 2010
actually all those turned out. So I must have hit some type of mark or point
with my photography or gear. That they managed to get a little better, which is
good. So I have few more days, I don't think I'll be getting the pro version of this.
But it is interesting to try out. So 183 photos...
Basically the Instagram, you can see I crop these at 1:1 ratio in that case.
It is fun to try out different ratios and try to improve the composition from
what I had originally attempted. As you can see, this photo right here that's...
I think it's definitely better as the original in that case, but I try to stay
consistent once I decide to do something. So here we've got new followers, 17, but
you can see there was only seven... still following. We've got new views.
I guess that's based on some day number. Profile views, 21. So that, I think that
might be actual real people, because it's a lower number. And then average pulse I'm
not really sure what that signifies. Gonna look at the top countries... Russia
Germany, and Italy. It might be the time of day that I was uploading photos. Because I
usually do things late at night in that case. But so far it's kind of
interesting. Different engagement numbers...
There could be some real people. I don't really know. It's it's hard to
tell with websites like this. Let's see, this is a source number. Photo views... So that's
the place that the view came from apparently. We have 2700 discovery page
views. Home feed profile. This could be actual real people with a profile view.
But let's look at these tabs here. Top-ranked... So this one I had actually
taken on a cruise. The only cruise I've been on. That was 2010. And not a terrible
photo with the Pentax K-7 and a 50-200 mm lens. Like an actual kit lens.
All right, so top-ranked photos. There's one from a
plane. This one that was licensed. So it's kind of funny that a flower photo was
approved for licensing. Because you would think there'd be a lot of flower photos out there.
Another cruise photo. This one was from Japan. That says one comment, but I looked at a
lot of the comments... Actually, with this website it's hard to find the comments
after the fact. Because I really didn't look at them while they were showing up.
Because there's so many likes, and it's hard to pull those out. So most liked
photos. This one says 37 likes. I dono, I really didn't expect much with this, but
it is fun to try out. That's pretty much it.
Most commented... and it's actually one comment for each one. So that's funny.
So we can go to this one for example. The guy says "Wow".
in the comment. Go over one, same person, "nice work".
So we could potentially imagine that.. he could.. he could be a real person doing
something. Or it could be a bot, you never know. And go back to stat page. See top
camera. So at the time I was using Pentax mostly. I (did) have Canon Powershot G9.
This was my original decent camera. The Powershot, err, it's not a powershot. It was
like a "Digital Elph". Actually still have it. S200, 2 megapixels.
I made video on that in the past. But a nice little camera. I did have
actually a digital camera before that, but it was so garbage. And that's
basically... I consider that one my original decent camera. There's a Pentax
645D. I had use that for one single day for maybe a half hour or so. And a
Fujifilm S5100. It's basically a super zoom camera. At the time it wasn't really
super zoom. It was just a decent focal length range. But anyways, I'm curious if
you use this website, how it's been going for you. All of that. If you want to post
a comment feel, free to do that. I'm...
definitely going to read those. But fun
little exercise to see how it turns out. I'll still try to upload to this website
and the Instagram account as they go through my photos. Throughout the years I
still have eight years before I can post new photos with all that. Still fun to
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