On 1/23/13 2:20 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
A number of factors influence this. In any scene that you gaze at,
objects that are brighter, more contrasty, or warmer coloured, all
attract your attention over parts of the image that are darker, are in
cooler colours, or have less contrast. Taken to the limit you get the
classic HDR look.
Then sites like 500px reward images that get the quick Likes by upping
their chances of being shown -- it's very circular.
I challenge you to spend more than an hour or two viewing images on
500px. Because of the voting system's bias you'll soon see that images
look much alike there. It's like restaurant's tendency to over-salt
and over-sweeten. It's fun for the first little while, but pretty soon
you'll say Yuck! and quit going there.
I have a 500px account, though there, like everywhere else, my work is
not terribly popular. It's a bit like flickr or G+ or any other
photo-sharing place in that it takes a little work to get past the
popular stuff to the good stuff, and like any other place, the good
stuff is worth the effort.
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