Introduction
Many of us agree that the photography tag is broken. Many well-intentioned users use the photography tag indiscriminately, leaving the experience of browsing for actual high quality photography frustrating.
I wrote a post crowdsourcing ideas on how to fix this issue, there were a lot of interesting ideas floating around but we(@jrue, @aweber, @yumyumseth and I) decided to go with the immediate fix while building for a more long-term solution.
Enters @photofeed
@photofeed is a project that aims to make finding high-quality photography on the steem blockchain more fun.
Our solution has 4 parts:
- Launching the #photofeed hashtag
- Having a powerful curation trail that is profitable for everyone
- Weekly round-up post to increase the exposure and share the rewards with great artists
- Getting ready for communities as well as a possible app down the line
How to Participate
- Join our curation trail at steemauto.com
- Post your high quality photography using the #photofeed hashtag
- Get rewarded for your good work!
Incentives
@PhotoFeed has my backing and I'm sponsoring this initiative with my upvotes. To maximize participation and curation rewards for others, he will upvote 30 minutes after @photofeed does. If you upvote before @photofeed does (and @cryptoctopus), not only will you help people find good photography but you will also make a profit doing so!
Conclusion
Join our discord channel!. There we can answer your questions, hang out between photographers and discover about each other's work! Please follow @photofeed and consider becoming a fan and following our trail on steemauto.com!!
Photo by Trevor Brown on Unsplash
Definitely joining the @photofeed curation trail!!
This is a great initiative!!
Is it okay if i'm not a "professional" photographer? I have kind of a decent camera and I do enjoy capturing some nice snaps!! Can I use the #photofeed tag? I don't wanna misuse the tag and so I want to be sure of the exact requirements if any to make sure this tag doesn't get filled with irrelevant posts.
same question, same thoughts.. please let me know @photofeed
Well i don't think you have to be all professional in order to a member of steemit ....I feel your best should be good enough .
True. But this tag was created to filter only the great quality photography and so we should respect that and try not no post with that tag unless our posts are good enough for #photofeed.
Alright then,i understand.
high quality doesn't mean professional, i'm an amateur myself ;)
Hi @cryptoctopus, kudos for the great effort. I feel very small among all expert photographers using my mobile to take photos. I will try to make sure I submit great photos when using this tag. Have resteemed and upvoted. Have a great week ahead! 😊
Nice idea and definitely something that needed to be done, hopefully people won't just start spamming the #photofeed tag as well!
I just started browsing this hashtag and I'm totally impressed! Keep up the good work, all Steemians who submit their quality photos. Steem on!
Congtrats to @studiovers for being the first resteem!
https://steemit.com/landscapephotography/@studiovers/unexpected-photogenic-places-azerbaijan-pt-2
Check out his post and show him some love!
Great ones. If i undetstand it right. I taged my post with photofeed and now I need to wait if you select my photos. I hope this photofeed will live on. Keep the good work and I hope I will be able to show the steem world my work. All best
Great initiative!
I am very new to Steemit, but I think I have some good photographs which people may like. Should I post them with photofeed tag?
I have almost no steempower, do you think it is wise to wait and build some steempower with my initial few days earnings before I start this?
I was interested in it after I saw you reesteem it yesterday and it was beyond my words of the photography . I love photography and visiting different places and taking pictures. I’ll go posting something up today with this tag
This is finally a game changer
Great to see. You may have just inspired me to start posting my photos again. I'd pretty much given up on posting single photos on here cos they just get lost in a sea of bad quality stuff. A quality photo should be treated the same as a 500 word article or a video. Some of them take just as long to set up for and postprocess. The problem is that they are undervalued and talented photographers find it hard to both get their own stuff noticed and find other good stuff to upvote. Good luck with this initiative and i'll see what i can post on here in the future.
That's a great initiative and it's a good solution for the short term until a bigger scale back end solution is constructed.
Because of that initiative I managed to make a good friend of me who is a talented photographer to coin the steem community!
So thanks for it cryptoctupus!!
I also joined your fan base and I'm gonna be a dedicated fan 😊
The #photofeed tag is what I've been looking for in a long while after the bastardisation of the #photography tag.
Thankfully, this tag is in the right hands and right team and I'm sure to discover great photography posts from it.
I wish this project good luck for more publicity
Thanks @cryptoctopus
Happy Steeming
What a fantastic project! It was about time someone came up with a way to discover amazing high quality pictures from the Steem community. Thank you so much for this, following @photofeed now!
Wonderful!
Are there any eligibility or restrictions on participation? like Reputation score or having an active profile etc?
Its really a good initiative by you @cryptoctopus and I am really happy that someone like you took this initiative and here is my first ever submission of photography in #photofeed
https://steemit.com/photofeed/@shivohum2015/my-first-ever-submission-of-photography-in-photofeed
Good news
Finally we have a solution the the use of low quality post on the tags.
This is a great project and i believe everyone should join the trail and fan on steemauto.
Looks I'm @photofeed's 3000th follower! The very first thing when I got my Steemit account was to see if there are any properly curated QUALITY photos. Thankfully there's you folks. I'll definitely contribute and hope that my images make it to your list!
Thank you!
Woo-hoo! Welcome to Steemit!
Excellent you found the right solution, I think now there will be no problems. Thank you for taking care of us.
really great initiative @cryptoctopus .It will motivate all phographers
but sir @photofeed is only for high-quality photography which requires high mexa pixel camera but I don't have camera which can captured high resolution pictures,so I am out of race but I will support all that steemians and wish them good luck.when I have money to bought high mexa pixel camera I hope one day I will earn from steemit then I will also one day take participate in this contest.Thanks for supporting us all in steemit.Upvoted and resteemed
photography is not about high megapixel. Photography is about composition, capturing a subject, and capturing the proper amount of light. Someone who is great at taking photos, is going to take a better picture with a 16mb camera, than some one who doesn't have good skill with a 42mb camera.
Photofeed is great solution, specially for those who are frustrated whit the low quality photos on photography tag. Sometimes photo tells more than thousand words.
I was thinking the same way when I first searched photography on Steemit. Not doubt that we will see on #photofeed cat photos and other low quality photos but still, as I've seen so far the quality is far far greater than on other photography related tags.
Enjoy the vote and reward!
Thank you!
You have said that many well-established users are using the photography tag ineffectively, without the experience of browsing for the frustrating high quality photography. Thanks to you because you have solved the problems with ease. I want to join your uninterrupted channel.
This is an amazing idea. This is the best of appreciating quality photos and encouraging the photography lovers. The photography tag was so massed up and frustrating. It required being fixed and you guys made the ultimate solution.
You guys are really making photography and steemit great again. I will Definitely join the @photofeed curation trail.
Cheers.
carry on your activity....
Extraordinary to see. You may have quite recently enlivened me to begin posting my photographs once more.
I'd essentially abandoned posting single photographs on here cos they simply lose all sense of direction in an ocean of awful quality stuff.
A quality photograph ought to be dealt with the same as a 500 word article or a video. Some of them take similarly as long to set up for and postprocess.
The issue is that they are underestimated and gifted picture takers think that its hard to both get their own particular stuff saw and find other well done to upvote.
Good fortunes with this activity and i'll see what I can post on here later on.
Carry on dear.i will sit tight for your next post
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What i know is that, it is better to believe in yourself for something to be perfect. what i mean is that photographs always look good when the photographer believe in himself and what he takes first, than even others will feel him.
Hi I'm new to steem and my main interest is writing stories about photography. Is this steemauto.com thing considered "mandatory" (=should I sign up?) or is it ok to just use the #photofeed tag if I think I got something worth posting? I'm new to this and am looking for the "right" way to post and to tag my content. Thanks!
This is great news
Ho very nice to see this..its a amazing project..because of this we can find a very good quality pictures and photos in the steemit..every ine show the intrest about the making good content and quality photographs...really its a greate work thank you for your initiative to change the field and want to make a new thing bro....@cryptocyopus
this is a creative photography.thanks for your post.
i praise to you..
thanks a lot
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New to Steemit and I could already see the photography tag lacking in quality. Great to see it is already being addressed and improved upon!
i really like your post.
thanks for sharing it.
I will join for sure. thanks
Given good information, I think photography can be much better by trying some effort.Sir I've seen many photographers who can photograph very beautiful, through their expertise.
the quality of photography is getting smaller and smaller. you are trying to prevent it by emphasizing it. I hope you will succeed. I hope I can be a professional photographer one day. I look forward to sharing your curiosity @cryptoctopus
you have found a very correct the detection.this is not only the photo tag but also the other tags.this is because we misuse the tags of the users.so the solution is ours.Informing users is a starting point of solution..
Thanks for information..
amazing really great post upvoted and resteemed
Ill totally join next time I do a batch of posts! Id love to get my photos seen a bit more! :)
I see the most content about quality photography on Steemit here. Thank you @cryptoctopus
You have great work on high quality photography. I congratulate you @cryptoctopus. You're bringing a very important issue to the agenda.
thanks for sharing about photofeed nice post @cryptoctopus
Carry on your activity focus in this platform.
Well done..
Upvoted and resteemed
Man, love the entire project. The quality is already far better than on the other photo tags!
Keep up publishing and upvoting some fresh content; That keeps it all going
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Great! I really like your posts! Please don't stop posting. I want to join
Nice photography like new camera......
Carry on and Stay with it.......
If it brings innovation and creativity to Steemit, sign me up :D
Nice
Good initiative boss. I will surely participate.
Thanks for making the Steemit community an interesting one
you are one of the few people who encourages their fans and creates contests and improvements for the common good. Thank you, I will participate, I have something to show
great initiative ! i am totally ini am sure the photography tag will revive back. for now #photofeed
It is a good news...I like it
this is a great chance to prove yourself, finally there will be a normal tag in which we can see quality photos, thanks for the chance to manifest themselves