STEEM PHOTO JOURNAL #5 (Announcing The Monthly Winner)

Welcome to the fifth 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.

Besides the contest, which will be always present, sections of the journal may vary depending on the authors involved in the issues and will respond to the readers’ feedback!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Captivating
Photographer's Story
Travel
Stats
Contest
Participants

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

by @denisroschlau

by @ileana56

by @evergreen365

PHOTOGRAPHER'S STORY (featuring @bluefinstudios)

"For as long as I can remember, I have been a very visual person. As a young boy, I was always fascinated by light, and colour. Art, Movies. ...and Images. I remember the excitement I felt, the day my dad gave me a camera. It was an old Brownie! You loaded the film, held the camera at your belt and looked down through the top optics, to make an image.

As an early teen, I played with film and did a series of stop-motion 8mm and 16mm films. But my camera always brought me back. Later, in High School, I got involved in Theater. I was a backstage guy. I loved creating the scene. I loved making that still scene and wasn’t fussy what the actors did with it. For me, it was the scene, the lighting and the look. I continued on, in college in theater.

Fast forward to me, in the working world, and I am still in Corporate Events. I set scenes. I take raw spaces and create a scene … and I do the same thing with my camera, today.

I find scenes I want to capture and create an image. I love setting the scene in camera and making the image. I’m a Nikon guy. I love landscapes, scenic shots and wildlife. I shoot long exposure waterfalls, chase after images of birds, and just about anything in nature. Lately, I have been travelling, looking for local Lighthouses, too… as they seem to hold a certain place in my heart.

My other love: The Sea, well, name me one person with a boat who doesn’t love lighthouses! I love to spend time on the beach, with my camera. I look for the light, chasing it through the day, and love to make the image, with the perfect light.''

TRAVEL
Showcasing visually entertaining travel post.

The Magic Of The Mountains
by @jessicaoutside

STATS

TOP 20 Effective curators in Photography category

¹	Account	Votes	Authors	VAS(%)	Contr. (SBD)	Share %	Eff.
1	@sweetsssj	28	8	96	1357,24	8,33	5,7
2	@esteemapp	121	70	3	115,72	0,71	4,25
3	@hendrikdegrote	44	33	6	176,46	1,08	3,06
4	@isteemd	48	19	10	300,86	1,85	3
5	@slowwalker	57	35	13	124,63	0,77	2,29
6	@good-karma	121	70	3	52,01	0,32	1,91
7	@newhope	46	27	17	89,89	0,55	1,27
8	@alexis555	46	22	16	77,76	0,48	0,9
9	@grandpawhale	146	63	3	24,19	0,15	0,8
10	@jawnz	56	8	100	153,83	0,94	0,65
11	@ripperone	47	21	16	54,03	0,33	0,6
12	@daveks	63	18	63	62,62	0,38	0,59
13	@redpalestino	29	20	32	49,18	0,3	0,52
14	@esteem.app	121	70	3	14,09	0,09	0,52
15	@candyboy	16	6	79	160,63	0,99	0,51
16	@donkeypong	32	10	15	93,69	0,58	0,49
17	@redes	38	20	16	44,25	0,27	0,46
18	@oldtimer	27	15	43	53,93	0,33	0,42
19	@steepshot	190	87	10	8,9	0,05	0,41
20	@steem-ua	51	26	6	29,84	0,18	0,41

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

¹	Category	Authors	Posts	Reward (SBD)	Share %
1	photography	1904	5627	16211,9300000002	5,175
2	travel	577	1253	7234,77100000001	2,31
3	photo	228	598	2725,377	0,87
4	colorchallenge	219	480	1387,306	0,443
5	photofeed	75	183	990,349999999999	0,316
6	travelfeed	44	75	413,655	0,132
7	monomad	81	230	401,574	0,128
8	animalphotography	158	213	305,71	0,098
9	macrophotography	93	176	286,991	0,092
10	landscapephotography	130	206	260,301	0,083
11	photosoftheday	1	17	209,347	0,067

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.

CONTEST

We have a winner for August. It is @marekwojciakcom with an impressive score of 36 points. CONGRATULATIONS!

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New month is here though and we are starting all over again! Who is it gonna be in August?

The SPJ’s contest is a monthly photography challenge, constituted by four parts (one a week) with different themes. The four recurrent themes are: portrait, street photography, landscape and black and white.

The way the winner is selected is the following: every week the ten best submissions will be selected by our judges and receive 1 to 10 points, based on their ranking. At the end of the month the points received in each of the four weeks will be added together, resulting in a monthly winner.

The photographer of the month will win 5 Steem! In addition, every week, the three best submissions will be rewarded with 0.5 Steem each.

Photographer: @axeman

This week’s theme is PORTRAIT!

How it works:

• Post only your own original content adhering to the weekly theme.

• Create a post entitled ‘SPJ contest submission by username’, using #spj as your first hashtag.

• Copy paste a link to this post in the comments section below (deadline: Monday 12pm CET).

• Upvoting and resteeming this article is not mandatory, but highly desirable, as it will contribute to the success of this contest.

• The winners will be published in the following issue of the SPJ.

• You can join the contest at any point!

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Winners of the previous round with the theme B&W:

All winners are getting 0.5 Steem.

SPJ contest submission by @marekwojciakcom

SPJ contest submission by @twodorks

SPJ contest submission by @zhitkov

PARTICIPANTS

COVER: Model: @publicumaurora Photographer: @axeman
Captivating by @fotogruppemunich and @photofriend
Photographer's Story by @claudiaz
Travel by @photofriend
Stats by @boddhisattva
Contest by @photofriend | judged by @axeman

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Previous issues: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4

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