Photrea: new photography platform

All photography platforms that exist nowadays are flooded with content. As a new photographer to these communities, it's very difficult to get noticed. The only way to get a fair amount of recognition for your work is by having a lot of followers. On these platforms, you have to focus more on promoting yourself than on taking good photos.

Last year, I came up with an idea, learned how to code and built my idea. Now I can say that Photrea is live!

Photrea only features quality content, chosen by the community. But how exactly?
Every uploaded photograph gets voted upon by 20 other uploaders. They decide if it should be featured on photrea. If 14 or more vote ‘yes’, the image will become part of the collection. The voters only see the image itself. As a result, they are not biased by the photographer’s popularity or used gear. By taking away this bias, only quality survives.

Furthermore, Photrea also introduces viewing time.
Until now, the number of views was a key metric in the online photography world. A view, however, can be 1 second or 20 seconds. You will never know. Photrea is the first platform to introduce viewing time: We track how long people look at your photos. By studying average and total viewing time, photographers will have a new way to value their creations.

I invite you all to sign up and start experimenting with it. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!

Thanks I will try it.

I enjoy looking at quality images that include commentary by the artist about how the image was created or what the artist learned. Sadly, no site has such a show and tell format. They are all show and no tell. Photographers love to post their images and wait for the compliments and the like notices to roll in, but offer nothing more.

News flash! Nobody really cares about your photos. They only want to know how you did it. Build for us a photo sharing platform that mandates author commentary, and I'll sign up. I remember when 500px started out, they had such a service, but they quickly abandoned that format. If all I wanted to do is look and admire, there is a glut of sites I can go to for that.

I have signed up. IMHO it would be a good idea to have a Lightroom app to upload images. PITA to generate new jpegs just to upload not to mention all the exif data, captions etc. already exists as I have spent many hours already doing the metadata editing on my select images.

Unfortunate that this has met it's demise. I just saw this and was going to sign up.

sjnovakovich wrote in post #18801381
Unfortunate that this has met it's demise. I just saw this and was going to sign up.

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Yeah ,it is a shame it's been killed.

The OP didn't give it a fair chance ..... not even one year and he ended it? . My goodness, what was he expecting - for the thing to really take off in just a few months?

What would he have had to lose by letting it remain for a few years? . I mean, why in the world would one create such a thing, and then get all quitty on it when it doesn't succeed immediately? . Anything worthwhile takes a few years to get going ... that's just reality.

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SportsShooter suffered the same issues. It had this idea that you had to submit a portfolio and be accepted. That worked for a while - people loved being able to earn the right to display a ShortsShooter badge on their stuff. But then the process almost became ambiguous. Some got accepted with shoddy work, and others who turned in good work rejected - because of who was reviewing at any given time. There was no hard and fast set of standards. There was no real feedback loop so that those who didn't get accepted knew what they needed to work on. Sometimes is was subject matter. If you had a bunch of shots at a pro level event - you got in regardless of the quality of the work. While others who did spectacular work on lessor recognized subjects got rejected.

I love the idea of learning through critique... as long as it is instructive.

But as I have learned here when I returned to this forum.... this is more about at-a-boys/gals... likes.... but no critique or learning. Just tell me what a great shot I've posted. I would love it if people actually told you in constructive terms what could make a shot better. But I guess that takes a tad bit tougher sin than most want. You can tell by how dead POTN's critique area is. A few brave souls... but not many. That said, I haven't posted there in ages either.... soooo...

And I get it. Sometimes you need a place where you can hang with common minded people, that will keep you going. Perhaps the idea would have worked had it had a better feedback mechanism. And well qualified people with good intentions passing out the reviews.

The OP appears to be a variation of the deficits he talked about.

Better he failed or quit now than in 3 years, possibly wasting the time of others participating.