STEEM PHOTO JOURNAL #7

Welcome to the next issue of the Steem Photo Journal!

The SPJ is a @photofriend community project aiming to create a ‘must-read’ for every photo-enthusiast here on Steemit. The journal is intended to inform, entertain and engage the readers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Captivating
Photographer's Story
Travel
Stats
Participants

CAPTIVATING
Finding visually exceptional photo posts on the Steem blockchain. No text needed.

by @axeman

by @marjanko

by @timothyallen

PHOTOGRAPHER'S STORY (featuring @jpphotography)

Julian Peters was born in 1996 in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the age of 8, Julian found an old analogue camera in his grandmother’s house and started taking his first photos. In 2006, he got his first digital camera. Even with this point-and-shoot camera, he quickly earned the nickname “Paparazzi” by his friends as he was snapping photos all the time.

It was not until 2013, that Julian got more serious about photography. At this time, Julian was living in Australia as an exchange student. This is where he attended a photography class at the college where he learned to shoot with an analogue camera on B&W film and developed the films in the school’s darkroom. With the Sony Alpha 37 he had got before leaving for Australia, Julian projected the skills he had learned on his digital photography and learned how to use Lightroom and Photoshop. He later created a photo calendar out of his best shots from Australia.

After graduating from high school, Julian set off on a 17-month trip around South America, Mexico, Cuba, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and Southeast Asia. With amazing motives every day, Julian managed to get many great shots and when he took a short break from travelling in Australia, he realized that the photos he was taking for fun on his travels had value and could be the key to finance further travels. He set up a photography website and submitted his photos to various microstock agencies, where he quickly managed to build up a passive income from photo sales. He is also selling photo licences directly on his websites and opened a business to sell his first photo calendar this year.

Julian is now taking his photos with a Nikon D5500 (APS-C) and a Nikon 10-20mm F4,5–5,6 as well as a Nikon 18-140mm F3.5-5.6 lens. He still does most of his photography on his travels but spends a lot of time with post processing when he is not on the road.

Julian had always thought about starting a blog about travel photography and budget travelling and when he joined Steemit in November 2017, he developed a posting style which he calls photo documentary that aims to tell a story with his photographies supported by interesting facts.

Julian also runs the curation initiative @travelfeed. If you have travel posts with at least 250 words, tag them with #travelfeed for a chance to be upvoted, resteemed and featured in the daily curation!

Julian’s photography website: https://julianpetersphotography.de/

TRAVEL
Showcasing visually entertaining travel post.

A Wintery Walk around Glen Lyon, Scotland
by @vtravels

STATS

TOP 20 Effective curators in Photography category

¹	Account	Votes	Authors	VAS(%)	Contr. (SBD)	Share %	Eff.
1	@isteemd	57	24	12	331,69	2,85	4,77
2	@sweetsssj	28	8	96	971,59	8,35	4,65
3	@esteemapp	99	54	3	70,65	0,61	2,28
4	@slowwalker	56	35	11	76,03	0,65	1,59
5	@good-karma	99	54	3	31,96	0,27	1,03
6	@steem-ua	104	52	1	30,98	0,27	0,96
7	@fminerten	21	8	83	157,92	1,36	0,76
8	@hendrikdegrote	26	22	4	55,32	0,48	0,73
9	@donkeypong	33	9	26	116,29	1	0,63
10	@candyboy	19	7	82	148,12	1,27	0,62
11	@kaylinart	63	46	40	18,9	0,16	0,52
12	@redpalestino	44	15	33	56,45	0,48	0,51
13	@jawnz	52	8	100	103,95	0,89	0,5
14	@grandpawhale	88	51	4	15,51	0,13	0,47
15	@steempty	21	8	83	95,37	0,82	0,46
16	@kpine	11	6	43	111,35	0,96	0,4
17	@oldtimer	27	14	55	48,08	0,41	0,4
18	@photoman	48	3	96	202,38	1,74	0,36
19	@pharesim	12	6	96	99,21	0,85	0,36
20	@ripperone	28	22	18	26,47	0,23	0,35

TOP of photography related categories from the TOP 200 categories by rewards

¹	Category	Authors	Posts	Reward (SBD)	Share %
1	photography	1670	4945	11642,47	5,168
2	travel	496	1041	5537,385	2,458
3	photo	185	491	1325,339	0,588
4	colorchallenge	185	451	1164,693	0,517
5	monomad	84	249	456,085	0,202
6	photofeed	57	165	362,647	0,161
7	landscapephotography	119	205	331,637	0,147
8	macrophotography	81	141	224,263	0,1
9	architecturalphotography	44	54	218,688	0,097
10	animalphotography	135	189	195,748	0,087
11	travelfeed	33	53	162,715	0,072
12	streetphotography	76	105	158,427	0,07

A table explanation

Votes - Each curator distributes a certain part of the reward pool with his votes (upvote / flag).
Authors - This part of the pool he distributes between a certain number of authors.
VAS (vote average strength) - For general awareness, we can estimate the average vote strength in percents (%), with which the curator votes.
Contr. (SBD) (Contribution in SBD) - The distributed part of the pool is the contribution of the curator, it is calculated in SBD. In this case, the author's reward is taken into account. The curator's reward is not taken into account.
Share % - The percentage of the curator contribution among the contributions of all curators, we can also estimate for information purposes in %.
Eff. - The effectiveness of the curator is estimated in conventional units.

PARTICIPANTS

COVER by @jpphotography
Captivating by @fotogruppemunich and @photofriend
Photographer's Story by @claudiaz
Travel by @photofriend
Stats by @boddhisattva

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