Presenting PhotoFeed - Making Photography on Steemit Great Again!

in photofeed •  7 years ago  (edited)

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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:

  1. Launching the #photofeed hashtag
  2. Having a powerful curation trail that is profitable for everyone
  3. Weekly round-up post to increase the exposure and share the rewards with great artists
  4. Getting ready for communities as well as a possible app down the line

How to Participate

  1. Join our curation trail at steemauto.com
  2. Post your high quality photography using the #photofeed hashtag
  3. 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!!

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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this is a little much dude.

yeah, that's almost "get a room" material

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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

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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..

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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

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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

good news for me photographer .. this is very support us let us excited in making quality post

Also, any stipulations on image quality for the #photofeed tag? Min resolution etc?

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

And there it is, great initiative and posted my first photofeed. Thank you:
https://steemit.com/photofeed/@rival/just-a-picture-cryptoctopus-photofeed-proud-dad

Great! I really like your posts! Please don't stop posting. I want to join

great initiative ! i am totally ini am sure the photography tag will revive back. for now #photofeed

Do I have to join the curation trail to use the tag? I really appreciate this initiative either way! My blog is photography heavy... and some of my best work has gone into the abyss of a feed! I will look more into it all and check out steemauto.com as well! =)

IMHO all hashtags eventually end up being used indiscriminately by everybody as soon as it soars in the tags list.

It’s already happening. But I think that commenting on those posts that are not using it properly may help I don’t know about flagging I have never flagged, but I know some are talking about doing it 😢

Great initiative......... i believe this will work

Let's support this initiative, I've only been in Steemit for a couple of days and I've noticed the indiscriminate use of #photography

Thanks for letting us know. That tag can be used if we post only 1 pic? Or is it allowed to put several pics in the post?

Thanks for muting the ideas, I pray that God will give you the expected push you needed to actualize the steemit photographic project. I follow and upvote you.

this post hot baby hot :) xx

amazing photography....! i appreciate your post

@cryptoctopus Such a great article & nice photography
##Upvote/Resteem###

Nice initiative

Quick question

Do you have people manually curating for that tag or its an automatic stuff

There is a lot of cleaning up to do all around steemit. A lot of tag abuse happens all the time, although I don't know if I would mark it as abuse, just rather that the posts aren't very good quality. I would love to see in the next hard fork, steemit move towards something similar to reddit, where the upvote doesn't just reward the post with earnings but also visibility. I think more needs to be done with our reputation score and not just our bankroll

It is a good news...I like it

@cryptoctopus,
Today I joined that channel but I didn't hear from anyone! I will join again and I am very interesting about this concept! I need to know about the quality of the photography and etc! And you were very quicker than I thought! This is amazing!

Cheers~

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

what a great idea, I love to cook foods , I would love to post my foods pictures here, thank you @cry , em your fan now :) following you definitely

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What exactly is the problem? Even if there's a stew of mediocrity, doesn't the good stuff rise out of that through votes and trending? If not, why?

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

brilliant work for this tag and sure i will find the best and valuable photos in photofeed,,, also the photography tag was really broken and no one was care to make unsuitable post on that tag,, i see only a person @czechglobalhosts which really used the photography tag and share a unique stuff otherwise many person was burn photography tag,,,
hope @photofeed will be in brilliant hands and also we will find the world best photographs here

Nice photography like new camera......
Carry on and Stay with it.......

Am I the only one having trouble getting their username to work when authorizing SteemAuto?

Waooooo! That will be a Great ideas. Please intensify your efforts on this, and help further enhance steemit activities. I upvote you.

What a wonderful idea. what did you think of my idea what I submitted.. I will make a post now with the photofeed as I want to be an early adapter for all positive changes on Steemit.

nice one, and btw exactly what I suggested to you in my comment below your last post on that topic ;-)

This is very good information for me. Because I always make posts in the form of photography and macro lenses. I learned more about how to use it. I am very happy to join you @cryptoctopus.

good to see great post i want to start some photography.

wall this is so amazing i mean you are doing the best work loving it keep it up take it to the next lavel picture are damn good quality

Sounds as a great solution to low quality photo abusers, the only problem I see is that when they will find out about this new hastag they will switch from photography tag to photofeed tag , let's hope curation will help.

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well it is good to incude this tag we needed a different and proper useable tag.... its a beautifull and brilliant gift for your fans and also all photographers ,,that to see thier exellnt collection and then apprciate all them
bcz many photographers are confuse to use photogrpahy tag when they see the everyone use this tag with low quality photos and now there is no difference between unique and bad quality

I'm gonna get a MPSGA hat.

@cryptoctopus - Sir I just click that tag & see a lot of outstanding photography already listed there... What a wonderful idea Sir... The mechanism of it also fantastic... A nice thought Sir... I wish to participate this photofeed contest too Sir...

+W+

looking for improvements for photography in steemit the tag #photofeed is a great start for good quality enhancement work, showing the best of this art, investigating found quality works in the publications @aweber and I will follow them day to day to support this great initiative @cryptoctopus

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Thanks alot for this. I'm still new to time and have been searching ways to better curate my photography. I look forward to contributing. Thanks @Cryptoctopus

Nice innovation @cryptoctopus. Photographers will love this and quality will be restored. Thia project will be a success.

I remain your most loyal fan.


@hornblende

I remember seeing the post before crowdsourcing ideas for this, I wasn’t too sure what to think, we tried adding smartphonephotography as a tag, but it didn’t really catch on. Cool to see the initiative that you helped start, and I hope to see some more about it in the future.

Now I just have to save up for that canon rebel I want to get 😊.

You are bringing the kind of initiatives we need to Steemit! Thank you, @cryptoctopus!

That's a great initiative to encourage good quality photos from our talented Steemians. Will join the discord channel. Do something for them who just spoil this tag and post bad quality pictures. Thanks

Great news!!!!! Do we need to any have requirements to join this?
-cheers-

YAY! I want to in!

What type of photography does photofeed accepts? Are we looking at DSLR-taken photos or we include mirrorless as well?

This is a great initiative, makes me want to hone up my skills. Hmmm, is food photography considered?

What a great initiative @photofeed! Looking forward the ease of finding great contents from talented photographers :)

a very brilliant idea of ​​a friend @cryptoctopus. hope @phofofeed tag to be a solution to answer the profession of professional photographers forward.
Regards @doktormuslem

Really thanks for it cryptoctupus!!
I also joined your fan base and I'm gonna be a dedicated fan.I wish this project good luck for more publicity

Thanks @cryptoctopus

Wow man, honestly this is SUPER exciting!! Been waiting for/trying to do something like this on Steemit for ages. Very stoked you are making this effort :)

you planned a nice hashtag & build the concept super fast. impressive thinking & hd quality photography can be found there. exceptional idea & hope it help us to watch stunning collection of photography. @cryptoctopus

@resteemia
reteemed & upvoted & commented & followed

Nice! I am not sure I can participate, but I can watch. My question would be, what qualifies as high quality? Is that subjective, or are there perimeters? I currently use my smartphone, and I think that they are decent shots. Just wondering. Thank you.

very good idea!

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Nice initiative to the photography tag, what about if users were to come across a somewhat beautiful photo and they are not yet aware of this new initiative.

can we quote those works with #photofeed and expect them to be seen.

And this post is worth resteeming, lets get the word out

Thanks for starting such a lovely project and yes, I got excited last night and posted my first photo that I took from my iPhone on December 23, 2017. Got excited again when I saw your upvote on my post!
Let me buy a lens for my iPhone 7 now :D

The truth be told, #photography tag has been abuse, I know the solution has come and greater rewards for good photographers. With the new discord channel we can all interact and share ideas

Your efforts to sanitize the steemit community is worth it.

It is probably a silly question, but...
I've registered on steemauto.com. Now how to join your curration trail? I'd like to participate

I like the idea because some of us just want to casually share our phone pics, but the really serious photography guys will probably want to distinguish themselves from us. You're not going to see any of my pics with the photofeed tag anytime soon though.

I just discovered this photofeed tag, although I have not been upvoted yet, but I like the concept, a fresh air from other tags. Nice 👍. Pls @cryptoctopus I just Followed you, kindly follow back. Tnx