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/r/photography is a place to politely discuss the tools, technique, art and culture of photography and to post topics that would be of interest to other photographers. Founded 2008 · 5.7M members

5.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.1K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.7Mmembers
17.1Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
553posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Text 54% Question 30% Link 10% Video 5% Image 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Technique 125 Business 105 Art 71 Gear 69 Post Processing 42 Community 33 News 9 Questions Thread 8 Tutorial 6 Humor 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

130 year old panorama camera was neat to see in action!

↑ 17.1K 💬 189 video 2024

The upcoming FCC vote on net neutrality affects photographers just as much as it affects any other person who uses the internet; more so for professi…

↑ 9K 💬 125 link 2017

Today I was guilted for having nice gear by a professional photographer.

↑ 8.5K 💬 1.4K text 2025

“NO PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY“

↑ 8K 💬 1K text 2025

Have you ever tried Blacklight Prints?

↑ 7.5K 💬 121 video 2020

A film Vending Machine in Seoul

↑ 6.4K 💬 211 video 2020

Lightsaber Photography on a New Zealand beach [OC]

↑ 6.2K 💬 105 video 2018

Different zooms and how they affect the landscape in the background- interesting to keep in mind!

↑ 5.6K 💬 138 video 2019

This is really cool

↑ 5.3K 💬 97 video 2019

Ex-Stanford professor puts his entire digital photography course online FOR FREE

↑ 5.3K 💬 67 link 2017

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/photography, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/photography?
r/photography describes itself this way: /r/photography is a place to politely discuss the tools, technique, art and culture of photography and to post topics that would be of interest to other photographers. It was founded in 2008 and has 5.7M members.
How many members does r/photography have?
r/photography has about 5.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 553 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.1K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/photography?
"130 year old panorama camera was neat to see in action!" reached 17.1K upvotes and 189 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/photography.
What subreddits are similar to r/photography?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit.
What kind of posts do best on r/photography?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are text posts and 30% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/photography?
Across 553 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 12:00 UTC (2.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/photography?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/photography has 3.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 90 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/photography, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.