#photofeed - The best tag for photographers on Steemit

So you may or may not have heard recently that the fantastic original Steemian @cryptoctopus has launched an amazing initiative to promote photography here on Steemit called Photofeed. It is just in its infancy right now, as in about three days old, but it has already seen huge support and potential!

The goal of Photofeed is to promote beautiful photography on Steemit, and to start to differentiate between the absolute deluge of photographs that get posted under the photography tag here on steemit, and work that is truly about photography.

The problem, that has been a problem here on Steemit for quite some time, is that ANY photo is technically applicable under the photography tag. But just because someone has snapped a quick shot with their 2005 Nokia camera phone, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is the type of photography one would be looking for in the "Photography" tag. The tag is much to broad and much too vague, so @cryptoctopus is starting to define it, or at least try to.

With Communities coming to the platform some time this year, this problem is going to start to get fixed, but why not get a head start as well right?

So what do you have to do to participate?

Well, all you really have to do is to take amazing photos, and then post them to Steemit using the tag #photofeed. From what I understand @cryptoctopus, @aweber, @yumyumseth and @jrue will be the curators/moderators of the project, and they have outlined what they will doing as follows:

"Here's what you can expect to see on a regular basis from PhotoFeed:

1. Up to 5 resteems every day showing off and rewarding the top content posted to #photofeed.
2. A daily wrap up post highlighting and rewarding the 3 best photos from the previous day.
3. 1 weekly post to congratulate our favorite photo of the week.

For all of these posts we will be paying out one half of the of the earned SBD to the featured photographers. The rest of the earnings will go to increase the rewards for future votes."

You can read the full story on @photofeed's post by clicking here.

The other thing you can do to support the Photofeed project is to go sign up for SteemAuto and follow @photofeed's curation trail. That way whenever @photofeed votes for a photo, you will automatically vote for it as well. And you know that the photos that @photofeed picks are going to be great work, worthy of your support. I have signed up for SteemAuto myself and followed @photofeed's curation trail, because I think this is a project that is going to have a great impact for photographers on Steemit, and I really want to promote and encourage Steemit as a way for talented photographers to show and benefit from their hard work.

So that's it folks! Go and start posting your amazing photography and tag it with #photofeed! @cryptoctopus himself is supporting the project with his (eye wideningly, grin inducingly powerful) upvotes, and you have the chance to get your work featured on the daily roundup, as well as much support from the rapidly growing Photofeed community.

And since I want to be part of this wave as well, here's a little shot for #photofeed that I took during a wedding portrait session about two years ago in California.

This is actually a composition of 12 photographs which were each taken individually and then assembled and edited in Adobe Photoshop. The photographs were taken using a Nikon D3S camera and Nikkor 85mm f1.8G lens. Each photo was taken with the same exposure and settings, 1/1000 shutter speed @ f1.8 and 200ISO. The photos were stitched together in Photoshop and the final single photo was custom edited by myself.

Tomorrow (or maybe later today) I'll probably post a few more photos from this wedding, because they are a beautiful couple and I have always loved the photos, but also because I would like to show a comparison between a single shot using that same camera, lens and exposure combo, and the difference of doing the composited shot.

As always if you enjoyed this post feel free to drop one of those sweet, precious, juicy upvotes on me! And be sure to follow me @dexter-k on Steemit to keep up with all of our travels and see new original content every day.

You can also see our professional photography work if you want to by heading over to our website dallaskphoto.com and dallaskolotylo.com.

Thanks for reading!

Dexter