Pixoto - Top Photos of 2012 Awards
Last year I stumbled upon this photo website called Pixoto. It’s a site where anyone can submit photos. Users, which can be other photographers or people simply visiting the site, will rank your photos. The way they do it is pretty neat – Pixoto will display just one of your photos at a time and place it side by side another randomly chosen photo that has been submitted. The user then simply clicks on the photo that they like better. Simple.
It starts off basic and as your photos are chosen (or not chosen) they will receive an “imagescore”. Your photos are then ranked next to photos with similar imagescores. This helps your photo steadily and what seems to be fairly, settle into its “proper” rank.
Like I said, I discovered this site last year and I used it pretty extensively for a short while to test it out. I’m glad I did because it helped me see which photos “perform the best” a.k.a. which photos of mine are “most popular”.
I just received notification this week that I have 3 photos that are in the top 10% of their respective categories for all of 2012! Obviously I like that for the sake of making it to the top 10%, but I also like it because it helps me see which photos of mine people tend to like the most. The categories where I made it to the top 10% are: “Landscapes”, “Animals” & “City, Street & Park.” If you click on those links you can see there are some great photos out there!
I still have a ways to go because they also give out awards for the top 5% - I didn’t make it there this year but hopefully a couple of my photos will in 2013!
