5 Online Photography Communities

• Flickr.

The photography revolution for sharing, storing, and organizing your photos that provides easy photo management and collaboration in one of the largest worldwide photo communities. - has two main goals: 1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. 2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.The photography revolution for sharing, storing, and organizing your photos that provides easy photo management and collaboration in one of the largest worldwide photo communities.

• DeviantArt

deviantART was created to entertain, inspire, and empower the artist in all of us. Founded in August 2000, deviantART is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts with over 28 million registered members, attracting 65 million unique visitors per month.

As a community destination, deviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. The site's vibrant social network environment receives over 160,000 daily uploads of original art works ranging from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to digital art, pixel art, films and anime.

• 500px

500px is a photo community powered by creative people worldwide that lets you discover, share, buy and sell inspiring photographs.
The first version of 500px came to light in the early days of digital photography. At that time, everything was slightly different — the Internet was slower, 3.2 megapixel cameras were the latest buzz, digital photographers were just getting acquainted with their tools, and 500 pixels was a good size for photos displayed on CRT monitors. Over the years, the 500px platform went through a number of revisions and changes, growing together with technology and photographers, and keeping focus on the highest quality photos.

• 1x

Here goes another popular place for photography enthusiasts. 1x is actually an online photo gallery and social network that offers high standard and vast exposure. In there you can upload the photos to your portfolio, get expert feedback on your work from senior critics, discuss photography in active forum, use like chat, messaging and a wall. The most important is that you will learn from talented photographers.

• MyShutterspace

MyShutterspace is a social network for digital photography enthusiasts. This is your place to connect with other digital photographers (both amateur and pro), share photos, videos & stories, get critiques on photos, and discuss photography techniques and gears.

Join now and get your own profile page, blog and unlimited storage for your photos!