Calling All Steemit Photographers!

in photography •  8 years ago  (edited)

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I believe I have it back under my control.. I am removing spam posts and trying to reconstruct the original post.

Please don't remove upvotes :)

Would you be interested in a Steemit Photo Challenge?
Let's say that we choose a list of photograph challenges to showcase our original photography skillzz, any format and any medium — iphone, ipad, film, digital, potato. Actually, let's not post potato quality images.

For example, I'll post the challenge on a Friday, you then have until Sunday night to post your images using the #SteemitPhotoChallenge tag. As many images that relate to the challenge as you want, in the same post. I'll most likely choose either my favourite or my top three to highlight in a post.

Examples of challenges could be: Black & White, or Portrait, or Colour Abstract, or Sunset, or Long Shutter Speed, or Must Contain A Box Of Cheerios

Only original photographs, please.
You can take them from your previous photos, but it would be pretty sweet if this was a completely new photo done just for the challenge.

Of course, we won't know for sure that they are all original but let's just try to have fun without trying to game the system. If your post history is a bunch of spam, I'll be suspicious, just saying.

The point is to generate more content for the #photography tag and interaction on the posts.

Critiques of photos should be welcome
Let's get better together.

So what do you think?
#SteemitPhotoChallenge starting this Friday?

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I will donate 100 STEEM to the winner of this challenge and 50 STEEM to the runner up of this challenge, plus any SBD earned by this comment.

People like @berniesanders are what make the Steemit community amazing! I tip my fedora to you good sir. And as a gesture in return:

I will donate 25 STEEM to the third place runner up

tip fedora
edited due to @moose 's generosity

Count me in..

I will donate 10 STEEM to 4th place. Hey it's small but heck why not!

How are you rating the photographs?

I've rewarded the winners from my account, you can send it to me later. [check my recent transfers]

wow completely forgot about this.. So you gave 4th place 10 Steem?

If so I'll go ahead and send you what I promised

I gave fourth place 25 steem in the end but you donated 10 to the fourth place winner, thanks! You can check my transfers for the proof that I sent it.

Sent! :)

How I feel about my chances of winning.

There you go, a .09c upvote to buy you a bottle-cap's worth of beer for the show =P

Thank you! My blogs make less than that :D
I'll put that in my collection jar and maybe i'll be the first to buy a Steem-beer one day.

Lets up-vote Bernie so the cheese wont have to come out of his wallet :)

Save yours. He can afford it. :)

:)

The challenge is on Steemies - thanks @berniesanders

Iphone photography can join @berniesanders ?


MAKE IT RAIN!

I think this post will fly, waay high

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That's very generous! And I like ideas like these springing into life! I will add any amount of SD this reply makes and on top of that all SD I make if I would be one of the winners this weekend.
And another 10 SD of my own shared between number 4th -13th! Rankings depend on votes they get.

Watch out, the Finnish sunsets are insaaaane ;)

Very generous of all these fellow Steemers to get behind this upcoming contest with their SD $$$. I will definitively be submitting a photo (or more if there is no limit).

Hi berniesanders, by the way, i love your name :) please check my latest post out. I wrote it to you and the other whales. Maybe you agree :)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitpolitics/6rqxnc-to-the-whales-get-your-head-out-of-your-ass-and-vote-good-content-up-you-are-harming-steemit

I'll add my 10 cents to this! Much appreciated. Sure hope you're participating too....*correction, for some reason I was a strong $1.54 lol

@berniesanders is an unselfish gem!

Bernie your the man.

@berniesanders I want to make A PIZZA CONTEST.
Are you in?

You da man @berniesanders

Way to go, I will keep posting, upvoting and commenting, until I become such a great platform user

The man himself has spoken. :)

Thanks @berniesanders for your help to promote and encourage this challenge!! Good luck to all who submit and entry!!

Thats great of you :)

Nice donation! I am sure it will be a great competition! :)

challenge accepted @jamtaylor

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It's gonna be Legend...

Wait for it...

Touche, definitely a how i met your mother fan ;) @tiffjane

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Perfect idea.
I'd like to edit one of your last lines though: "The point is to generate more 'ORIGINAL 'content for the #photography tag and interaction on the posts."
I'm seeing so much stolen content in this tag lol...
So.. WHEN ARE WE STARTING? :)

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I would suggest everyone who participates also posts the images to instagram with the same hashtag #SteemitPhotoChallenge so we not only get the word out but also maybe who knows, we could get some really cool photographers onboard :)

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Don't forget to credit me ;)

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Wonderful idea! I have bought a new camera last winter and since then, I am shooting as much as I can trying to learn how to do it right. I am planning to post some of my pictures from various locations soon. A contest like this is a surplus motivation to grab my camera on saturday and go hunting for some nice pics. I am so in :D
Edit: typos

Totally doing this great idea!

Sounds like fun!

Why did you remove the prize listings? =(

1st - 100 STEEM courtesy of @berniesanders

2nd - 50 STEEM courtesy of @berniesanders

3rd - 25 STEEM courtesy of yours truly

4th - 10 STEEM courtesy of @moose

The post was hijacked by somebody and replaced with memes, I tried to recreate the post that was there as quickly as possible.. Please see the new post with the theme announcement here

The rewards have been increased! :)

A great idea. I guess you've started an avalanche of photography challenges :)

Congrats! I will join it, of course.

By the way, I did a post about your post. Check it out here.

I do hope that tomatoes will be a theme for a future challenge :)

Excellent idea! You have thought it through well. When I post photography I am going to provide some kind of proof. Today I took some photos and one of them has my piece of paper with the date and the Steem logo.

Great idea. Is post processing acceptable?

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Wow! This is fantastic! Looking forward to it!

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it looks like there will be a lot of master photographers who will reveal himself in steemit the next few days .... social media is sure to be filled with lots of amazing photos ... sorry if my English is bad hehehehe

I'm not a photographer myself, but I love looking at awesome photos! I'd love to check out the best of Steemit's photography.

Finally putting the steem dollars to work :) I shoot with a Medium format Pentax 67II but im sure that anyone with a gopro can achieve great quality work.

This week I talked to a friend that's a Photographer and I'm trying to make him join steemit, maybe this will help.

Steemit is such a terrible platform for photographers. All these copyright issues, lack of an organized way to show work, etc... Hope your idea picks up.

Licensing is huge because I'd be pretty pissed if someone took my photo and made money off of it on Steemit. Is it the honor system for this contest or do we link to our verified accounts somewhere?

I'm not sure how it will work yet. There will be rules in place and I will try my best to avoid rewarding a stolen image, and I'm sure the community will be keeping their eyes open for signs of plagiarism as well.

I'll join this contest ............ :D

i'm not photographer, but i love about photography.
am i late? this is interesting. i follow this challange.
this is one of the my picture taking shoot with camera.

for more picture, visit my post here : https://steemit.com/travel/@moh-rokib/my-last-weekend-traveling-to-teluk-love-payangan-beach-indonesia
hope you like it..
#SteemitPhotoChallenge #photography

This will be very interesting...
Let me clean up my camera and charge the batery... hehehe

What an AWESOME idea! Count me in ;-)

Nice idea. I` m in.

I want )))

I'm down! Awesome idea! This is why Steemit is so awesome! :)

Great idea! I'm in!

Nice post and great idea! Check my new post too where i explain who can benefit from using Steemit today - https://steemit.com/steemit/@scrachit/what-can-steemit-bring-to-content-creators-writers-journalists-artists-photographers-and-all-of-us

Start your cameras, get your pictures ready.... GO!

sounds cool. hope to join in the fun/fund.

Very sorry to here

Would definitely be up for a photography challenge! :) love the idea and to see the community grow!

great idea, was thinking of doing something similar myself.
i will definitely enter
https://steemit.com/@pcste

Wow, thank you for creating incentive in the community!

Great idea! Love your creativeness! Count me in! Is it this Friday it begins?

I am inn for the challenge :)

Yes this is an awesome idea! I'm in!

This should be awesome!

Awesome!! Great idea. Can't wait!

And good on everybody getting behind this with prizes!!

I am in.. but I will be using my drone =)

#droneabove

time to dust of my nikon...

challenge accepted

This is a great idea, looking forward to it @jamtaylor

This is such a great idea and I plan on participating. I hope you don't mind, but I took your idea and brought the challenge forth to the artist (illustrators, painters, etc.) community. https://steemit.com/art/@brianblackman/calling-all-steemit-artists

Great idea, I'm with you

that's a good idea!

Wow, what a great idea! Way to bring the Steemit photography community together! Really looking forward to participating and seeing what others post as well!

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This is a very good idea. However Users of Steemit live in Europe too.
I think it is necessary to specify the time format AMT and GMT. ⏰
AMT to GMT Converter - https://savvytime.com/converter/amt-to-gmt
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This is an awesome way to begin developing Steemit's version of a photo archive for use in design and other media. Once photo uploads are streamlined it'll be even more powerful!

let's do this!

Sounds great, I'm in :)

how can this challenge be any fair, photos of people that do not have enough voting power will have troubles to make their content visible to others, how do you fix that??

The Challenge moderator @jamtaylor will be checking for all entries once they are correctly tagged into the challenge. They won't need to be highly voted to be visible once they are tagged correctly

make sure everyone participates in the first steemit lottery

https://steemit.com/money/@nabilov/the-first-steem-lottery-hosted-by-member-nabilov#comments

I got myself in a trending situation mrs @jamtaylor and I am in a position to contribute.
thing is I am going all in with steam power so I will only have steem dollars from that payment is it possible to contribute with that?
some steem dollars for the rest top 10?

going to sleep was a buzy day.will come back tomorrow to check the post.

if you think it is possible then add up whatever amount of steem dollars you think it is apropriate for the rest 5-10th positions.
my post pays out at about apx 15 hours so I will be able to transfer steem dollars by tomorrow.
spread the love.

here is the post that make it possible for me to contribute to the contest.if anyone is interested
https://steemit.com/steemit/@skapaneas/steemit-analytics-comparing-david-and-goliaths

Understood Thanks for the reply...

I am tuned in to see the outcome.I bet it will be at least original!
and that is why I signed up for.

wtf i going on here

My account was briefly compromised but it appears that I've regained control, and I am getting rid of all the spammy posts that were made during that time.

my account was compromised the same way but i dont get any upvotes ;/ :P

Ah, I added that to the top of the post when I re-posted it after I gained back my account. The person changed the post to a bunch of memes, so I removed them and I added that to the top to let people who saw what happened know that something happened and asking them not to remove their upboats because I had it back under control. The upvotes were already there because of the post.

Okay, lets do this.
I'm try to win :)

This would be fantastic!

It's great idea. I'd ready to joining. :)

I'm in!

Can't wait to bring out my inner hipster/photography side

Super Idea

@jamtaylor, Is there a limit to the number of entries per user?

I don't think I'll place a limit, but look out for the rules on Friday in the theme announcement post.

Count me in, although you're going to make me google AST time now aren't ya :) Great idea.

Like the sound of this, let's do it!!

I have a question about the pictures we are allowed to upload! Can my friend submit a photo through my account? He runs his own photography business out of Vancouver and this would be a great way to help them get exposure as well! Check out some of their work here http://www.tnorthstudios.com/.

Thank you!!

Great idea, well done! I've been thinking along similar lines, check out my posts @sotura.

Count me in, awesome idea!

Good idea. Unfortunately I'm not a photographer (

This is awesome!!!!

Here's my entry: Lena posing in the dark

Interesting idea! I am in.