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RE: Open letter to a future Steemian
ok so i look at some of these posts that people post "photography " some of the most horrific photos get like 300.00 .......then if you look at mine i have some substantial work real photos not some one sitting down to eat with a group of friends ..........i repeat REAL photography ....not a big story line but about the photos i take and every one no one seen them ....so my question is why bother or...how can you claim what you say is true no joke go look at my photos then go look at the ones getting like 150.00 200.00 even 350.00 i kinda agree with the guy up top
You can consider Steemit a pretty decent reflection of reality in this sense. As a professional musician I constantly see shite get to fame and glory, take jobs they don't deserve and end with massive paychecks I could never dream of. Why? Because the old mantra: 'it's who you know, not what you know'.
Exact same thing applies here. Suck up to the right people and you get what you desire. Be an honest, hardworking blue collar and nothing else, and you rarely get anywhere (unless some twitter video goes viral and somebody boots up a kickstarter to support you)
Some of the greatest work in the world is locked away in museums where almost nobody goes - especially not for a price - to see them. The people are not searching for, nor rewarding, things based on objective quality standards, unfortunately. This is actually not so much a Steem problem as a human problem, imo
you have to post quality content like this
!popcorn
Every art abd discipline should have an audience I on the contrary stop by fine photography and art and music and less on crypto related or philosophy, we are all different and thatvis why we must be consistent building our feeds, but curating high quality speaks good of the pkatform as it soeaks badly rewarding low quality, though subjective we all can make thevñ difference of a shit post. Itbis true that networking builds up your possible rewards but high rep should not make you lazy knowing you get the cake anyway, up the ladder to help down the ladder, but it is not that way, usually
It is amazing that people expect different rules to apply here to reality. Income distributions on steemit are not fair; but neither is life. Steem is a reflection of the financial inequality which is already present in its user base, nothing more, nothing less. At least with an inflationary system there is a chance over time to reward hard work with upward mobility; which is a lot more than can be said with stratified financial systems which lock the lower classes out of the economy completely.
Try @steepshot, @xlcaptainblacklx they have a better interface than @steemit and will probably upvote most of your posts.
We earn anywhere from $0.05 to $0.20 per post on @zaclucasrice's account. It isn't a huge amount of money but it's a start!
Just an FYI, I looked at your photography, and if you'd like more upvotes or engagement you should be using the photography tags that are active and supportive like #photofeed #photomag #photocircle etc..
I wish I read this before posting my comment lol !
With respect to photography you need to engage in the communities that value it such as @photofeed , @photocircle, @photomag etc if you want to get noticed. The values in trending are irrelevant as they are paid upvotes. It is like complaining that your photos are not up on the billboards as you drive down the highway. It is not the best photos in those advertisements, it is the people who paid to put them up there who can choose what they are.
@xlcaptainblacklx agreed, you can't look at trending to get an idea of the kinds of profits photographers are making on Steem. Most of the trending payouts as @intrepidphotos said are from purchased votes. I think I have found relative success here on Steem, but it is not to the tune of a $300 payout per post. That's unrealistic. However, by engaging in the active photography communities on Steem, a good number of my recent posts have multiple dollar payouts pending and my latest has $25. All except one recent post were from organic and community upvoting without paid votes.
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Fair enough but who sees these photos. What kind of following have you built up that will appreciate the work that you put up. Those people earning large amounts have people following them who will give them votes maybe not entirely down to the quality of the post but due to the relationship built over time.
If you were on Instagram and had a thousand nobody's following you do you think that you would be earning money and gaining sponsorship deals? I doubt it. If you had 10 million followers and multiple celebrities on your account you would have companies pushing to give you money.
Content is only one of the factors in earning money. You also have time, hard work, investment and connections. Any of these can help you but all of them means success.
Do you just post photos and expect people to give you votes and money for them? Not trying to sound harsh but photography doesn't interest me so on my feed I would just skip past most of it. What you need is to find people that have an interest in it and willing to support good work. There are plenty of them out there but you will need to catch there attention first.
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Very good points. Again it comes to expectations. On IG no one would be expected to be rewarded so they happily give away their content for others to monetize.
Re not liking photography perhaps you have just not found the right type of photography to interest you ;-)
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