8 Photography Platforms Worth Sharing On

April 8th, 2026

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Finding the right place to post your work online is harder than it sounds, and the wrong platform can mean your images get almost no attention or end up in murky terms-of-service territory. With so many options, it helps to have someone who's actually used them tell you what's worth your time.

Coming to you from Christian Möhrle - The Phlog Photography, this practical video walks through eight platforms where you can share your photography, from well-known classics to a few you've probably overlooked. Möhrle's personal favorite is Reddit, and for good reason. Subreddits like r/photocritique and r/postprocessing give you real, unfiltered feedback, while larger communities can push your images to hundreds of thousands of views. He's had posts hit the front page and still only sold a handful of prints, but he's landed actual freelance clients through Reddit, which is a more realistic outcome than expecting direct sales. Behance also gets a mention, and unlike most photo-sharing platforms, it lets you build something closer to a mini portfolio site with text, layout, and design elements alongside your images.

Möhrle also covers Flickr, which has been around since 2004 and feels like it's quietly making a comeback. One feature sets it apart from everything else on the list: a browsable map that shows geotagged photos by location, making it genuinely useful for scouting new places to shoot. He's honest about Instagram too, acknowledging that image compression and Meta's ownership make it a frustrating platform, but also that it's where he gets contacted most often about work. For competitive types, he brings up ViewBug, a contest-based platform where you can win gear, though he flags that the site has a reputation for bot activity and worth reading the terms carefully before uploading anything, since they can use your images for marketing.

The video also covers Fstoppers and 500px. Möhrle has been uploading to Fstoppers for years, drawn in by the photographer-of-the-month competition and the fact that staff pick and feature images daily, sometimes pushing them to their Instagram account as well. Check out the video above for the full breakdown from Möhrle, including his take on 500px and why it's no longer what it used to be.

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Ed Kunzelman April 8, 2026 - 1:18 pm

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For what purpose do we share pictures online, or join a social media site? The answer might determine the best place to do that. I'm glad he mentioned Fstoppers, since I joined this site because of its community involvement... at least for what it used to be, rather than what I feel it is now. Out of all the articles on the first page in my browser, 18 of them have no comments at all. Is it just my imagination, or have comments dropped considerably in the last year or so? If you follow this video over to his YouTube channel, there have been 38 comments posted there since it was uploaded approximately 24 hours ago; zero here until this one gets posted. Interestingly, his previous video was titled "YouTube is Killing This Channel" which drew 649 comments. The point he made in that video was that his quantity of views has dropped significantly in the last year, forcing him to question the amount of time in making them, as well as their type of content. Maybe there's a correlation somehow with Fstoppers and the quantity (and possibly quality) of comments? I think about that when spending time writing a comment such as this. Is it really worth the time and effort? After all, I wonder why so many of the Fstoppers "regulars" of years past (those people who had much to say in the comments section) are gone. And why there are seemingly more articles posted every day, but such little response except for those videos, which from the titles by themselves, draw some criticism. I mean, how could "Why Monochrome Became the Ultimate Escape from Responsibility" not draw a lot of fire? The majority of Fstoppers members don't even share a portfolio, so the main purpose for joining must be more than showing our work, say like a Flickr or 500px site. Maybe Fstoppers for a lot people is more like just pretty wallpaper... something to decorate your home with but not to actually engage with, unless you're a two-year old with crayons and haven't learned yet that walls are not an outlet for your creativity. On the other hand, the voting feature here in both the articles and contests reminds me of a two-year old with crayons. No, I take that back... the child expresses something more mature.

Some of the old standbys in Christian's video that he mentions, sites such as Instagram, have fallen out of favor with photographers for having evolved in supposedly detrimental ways. His thoughts on YouTube follow that pattern. Is Fstoppers headed in that direction? Why did Fstoppers change its platform design a couple months ago? I have yet to hear anyone from management express what was hoping to be a positive impact. Instead, after two months, I still can't sort my portfolio, the names of people who up or down vote my comments are grayed out, and notifications are only linked to a previous article, rather than when clicking on the notification having it to take you to the comment itself. In one of the few "articles" that predictably draws a lot of comments, try finding the comment from your notifications in a stream of 76 comments in the "Print Worthy" contest. The reason that contests trigger so many comments is that the same issue arises every month: the voting criteria is flawed. Yet the owners persist in doing it the same way for years. If photography sites are so eager to upgrade, for who knows what reasons, it would be nice to hear what they believe are the benefits. But like YouTube and Instagram, it just happens, and users are left to deal with it. In other words, take it or leave it. Which brings me back to the underlying point of the video: Is any of this stuff worth it?