Leaving on the side any technical subject we spoke about, he showed me his portfolio on 500px.com: I was actually pretty surprised about the fact that a non-professional photographer was saving his pictures on said website because, according to my knowledge at the time, I always looked at it as a ready-to-use web commerce platform for pictures, with obvious subscription fees to pay. He actually explained me that it is also possible to have a basic/free account that still works quite well and, for some aspects, even better than Flickr.
So, once back, I set up an account just to try it out. I simply uploaded few pics that were already on Flickr, like a dozen or so, and I was definitely surprised by the result! I have to know that 500px has a kind of algorithm that calculates the pulse of a picture or, with very simple words, how much the photo community likes your shot. The algorithm is actually a bit more complicated, taking into consideration the "age" of the picture, number of views over a certain a span of time and so on, but I just wanted to give you a hint. There are 2 kind of threshold in order to easily understand how "liked" your shot was on a scale from 0 to 100: over 70 is Upcoming and over 80 is considered Popular.
I must say that I was really pleased to see that two of my shots became popular right the way!
Here they are:
Walkers in Stockholm scored 81.5
while Blossoming in Luxembourg reached 89.7!
As they also point out on 500px, the pulse is just a formula behind the favors of the photo community visiting the website and does not mean absolutely anything concerning the quality of the shot itself. Anyway, realizing that my shots are kind of liked gave me a smile!
Btw, any idea about the lens I used for Blossoming in Luxembourg?
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