ULOG 6: Getting Set Up for 30 Days of Monomad!

If you are trying to post daily on steemit, this is an excellent way to get started. You cannot be a steemit blogger unless you blog, and entering challenges and contests is a great way to get going. Photo contests are simpler than those requiring a lot of text, and so that is why we have chosen to go with black and white.

The 30 day thirtydayblacknwhite challenge is almost done for @bxlphabet and @fitinfun, and now we are getting another 30 photos ready for the next month. Here is a post about how we posted to the thirtydayblacknwhite challenge and how to do it efficiently, but now we are done and moving on!

Generally this next set of 30 photos will only be posted into the @monochromes daily monomad contest. Here are the rules for that:

And for fitinfun only, some photos will be entered in the discord channel for the weekly mash it up contest and post. This is a fantastic project that combines a few photos into one and there are certain days for certain photos to be loaded over there as so:

Only @fitinfun is in the Discord channel, so @bxlphabet is missing out in this case. The plan is to have the right type of photo posted on the right day, so we will see how that goes. There are good prizes if you get into the mash it up, so there is always hope!

Getting ready for the next thirty days of posting

The plan is to have 30 photos ready to post for both of us. This way they will be quick posts for the next 30 days. All will be posted using busy and will be the first post of each day. Nothing else gets done each morning until these posts are published!

When these were going into the thirtydayblacknwhite challenge, one rule was there should not be any text of explanation. But now that the photos are only going into the monomad contest, they will need to have at least a paragraph or two for each one. My plan for that is to write tomorrow’s text today and have it saved as a draft in busy.

The 30 days will start with:

• Posting the post for today (which should be ready to go).
• Promoting today’s posts on Twitter, Chat, Discord and fb
• Getting the photo for tomorrow loaded into busy
• Writing one or two paragraphs of text
• Creating a title
• Choosing hashtags
• Saving as a draft for tomorrow
• Done!

To get ready, here are the steps:

• Find 30 photos with high contrast

• These are all long “pinterest” type orientation

• people can be in them now; (the old photos for the thirtydayblacknwhite challenge could not include people)

• get the photos into a folder in windows explorer

• load the photos to a canva project

• load all 30 photos into the canva project – need watermark

• set all to monochrome

• review and make changes as needed.

Some changes might be:

• change shape – to twitter shaped or presentation shape
• adjust monochrome settings to make the photo pop better
• maybe crop

Then I will download all the photos to my laptop and have them ready to post.

That’s it for now and I will update after the first week to let you know how it is going.

Here are a few of the most recent photos by @bxlphabet so you can see how this is going as we end the thirtydayblacknwhite challenge.

This cow is looking good without color

But does it look better with blue sky?

And now some horses from Ireland

They look more weathered in color

This push button from Denver got a monomad mention!

And it pops nicely in color too!

What about you? Do you think you can do this type of setup to get yourself posting regularly?