NFT Photography? Everything I WISH I knew Before Starting in NFTs!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- A video about my journey into NFTs, everything from which platform to use to writing descriptions for my NFT photography pieces as well as putting together an Opensea collection roadmap.
I'm sharing this creative process with you in hopes that it will help you on your journey into the metaverse ^^.
This video is the BTS of how and why I've decided on which photographs to mint, how to piece together my collection (Theme, Name, Description, File size). Which platform is best for showcasing my work and how to price it.
If you are reading this WAGMI :)
Ways to support me "Colours I See" Collection: opensea.io/collection/colours...
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00:00 - Community
01:00 - Housekeeping
01:50 - Old vs New
02:36 - Sets vs 1/1
04:20 - Which Platform?
05:59 - Take Your Time
07:18 - About Collectors
10:01 - Price
11:04 - The Environment
12:34 - WAGMI
New to NFTs (just released, literally hours ago, my first collection) I can really relate! I've watched tons of NFTs videos in the last few days to get the lay of the land, and this is by far one of the best ones. Keep up the good work!
Congrats on the release on your first collection, wishing you the best of luck with that! TY for your kind words it really means a lot to me!
@@blockchainpolly8536 Thanks to you for sharing your experience & knowledge! BTW, for those who don't understand the appeal of a "Jpeg file" (NTF), think about it this way: in the "old days" one of the visually striking, (IMHO) best, and high end ways of showing your work was to use a giant transparency mounted on a light box. It was cumbersome and really expensive. Now you can get almost the same result with a 4k or higher display and as much NTFs as you want... Good luck to you as well for your adventure in NTF-land!
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"If I want to shoot from the same corner for 3 hours in a row, then that's what up!" Love it!
litterally the best video about NFT in photography !!!!! Thanks a lot !!!
Great vide Polly. Really informative. That last part had me. Love the emotion you showed - you see the passion you have for your work. Best of luck going forward.
You can't even imagine how happy it makes me to read this comment. I'm glad you found some information useful, if you do have any Qs feel free to reach out on twitter, I'll be happy to chat. Re the last part- yeahs selling my own vision, my art is something I'm not used to and when someone actually connect's with it - is beyond amazing!
Wow, thank you so much for this video! It was nice to see other kind of (very useful) information that I haven’t found in other videos. It gave me chills when you said you would like other people to know how it feels to see someone is connecting with your work and buys it, cause that’s exactly that I would like to feel. I’m just starting on the NFTs world so I would love to see future videos from you!
Thank you so much for your kind words! It was such an emotional moment for me when that sell happened & honestly wish everyone could experience it!
Thank you for sharing!
Love your passion and your collection is amazing, great work!
Cheers Wilmer, ty for your kind words!
The end break my heart in a good way, because as a photographer i feelt the hapines of you. nice art ^^
It's a truly emotional moment, thank you Freddy!
Exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks Polly you rock! Best of success in 2022
Thank you very much and best of everything to you too^^
Thank you so much for sharing your journey! All the feelings and emotions you described is exactly how I'm feeling with trying to go about starting my own NFT project. This video has brought me the inspiration I've needed to put my doubts aside and just go for it. Congrats on such a beautiful collection 💖
I'm so glad it was helpful Olivia and thank you so much for your kind words. NFT space moves quickly and can feel overwhelming, before jumping on minting work I would suggest joining spaces and spedning some time on twitter to see whether it is your come of tea. If you need any advice or what community builder to follow/join, feel free to DM me ;)
@@blockchainpolly8536 Thank you so much! I will keep you in mind if/when I make the jump :) I use Twitter only really for photography which is how I discovered NFTs and I agree that the community there is so loving and welcoming. I'm slowly growing followers there and once I feel I've gained a decent amount I think that's when I'll start exploring NFT's properly
Thank you for your sharing Polly, awesome photos 👍 wish you a great success along every beautiful path and journey in life ,stay blessed ❤️
Way to go Polly!! I've been absorbing all the NFT info I can get my hands on and loved this video you made. I love how much you appreciate your collector's purchase at the end. It's a very real and justified emotion as so many people have no idea how hard it is to gain acceptance and support for this work. I'm in the process of moving and redoing my photography website. NFTs have ignited the fuel in me to get this done and start minting and posting some of my work. Already looking into Twitter more which actually comes at a good time because FB/Instagram has become dry and lame in comparison. I've been shooting seriously since 2005, traveling FT to shoot since 2016, I have a solid track record of persistence but have yet to find the patronage to only shoot fulltime. I keep having to fall back into the "work at something else for food" routine which kills my momentum and creative flow. I don't need a lot to live so I'm hoping that NFTs may help me get back to creating, shooting and traveling, rinse and repeat. You video gave me hope. Thank you for sharing.
I second all you said here! Having someone connect with your work/artistic vision is an insanely fulfilling emotion. I found a very loving photography community in the nft space and hearing everyones stories of hurdle & hustle makes me feel that I’m not alone. Abs for alone I’m very grateful. Pop on Twitter and check out some spaces and see if you like the flow. Let me know if you want me to share any community builders there to follow to ease you in. X
Such an encouraging NFT journey. I loved listening to your story. ❤
I really enjoyed this video. I found alot of value in your knowledge and your journey. Also, your videos are really high production quailty, and your photography is mint. You were clearly ment to have a camera in your hands.
Hi Polly, Thanks for sharing and vary informative..
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Thank you so much
You are amazing! So are your pictures. Beautiful soul, stay blessed.
Thank you very much Sarthak, appreciate your kind words!
Awesome post! Adorable and from the heart! SUBBED.
This was very helpful. Thank you
Glad it helped Jon ;)
great video!
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love your title slides! :)
Haha, thank you girl! I’m a big fan of Kill Bill so that might have influenced this code a bit 😅
Thinking about getting into turning a few pics of mine into nfts, one main question I have is, what about property releases, model releases etc etc. For example I have a few wildlife pics I took in Kruger South Africa. Do we need those for wildlife and landscape photography?
beautiful, do your thing girl!!!
Appreciate you Tony!
Thank you for sharing 🙏
Thanks for watching;)
I love this video, I just followed you on twitter.
Minting my collection soon, wish me luck.
Cheers Toba, good luck with your collection!
You are awesome!
You take beautiful photos! Thanks for your insights. Your voice and accent are very charming. Congratulations on your success!
Appreciate your kind swords Les! Thank you!
@@blockchainpolly8536 swords?
Great information Polly...more power to you...
Appreciate you and your support!!! To the bloody moon!
I do click directly from the ground and not kind of in any studio will it be worth in nft.
Wow the last part of your video I can understand your feelings and literally looking at your crying I cried and your emotions touched me a lot. I may to cry when my piece will get buyer it's different feeling together even while typing this i am imagining I will cry. But yes you did fab job by this video. Very helpful.
Thank you Praful, it was quite an emotional moment and I honestly wish that everyone get to experience that!
I do click photos of flowers from My mobile and I want to know if I can put it in nft World.
Thank you Polly for the awesome info!! Good luck to those who go on foundation! I joined Foundation, but I'm finding out now you have to be invited to create on there.
Cheers for watching Larry, yeah with FND you need an invite. On twitter photographers usually give out invites every now and again! DM on twitter so I can let you know if I come across any invites!
@@blockchainpolly8536 very kind of you, I will just in case but don’t feel obligated. This video was already very helpful.
Unique content ...best wishes
Cheers me dears!
Congratulations. I am interested in creating a few NFT using live and still photos. Thank you :)
This is exactly what I came for. Giving me a first glimpse of what it means to become an NFT artist. I am just now entering the whole space. At first I was just putting it aside as I did with crypto in 2017/2018 (which obviously turned out to be a mistake) :D But I will dig deeper into the NFT space and sure will release a small batch. See y'all on Twitter, fam.
Congratulations again on your first sale.
Appreciate that, thank you!
@@blockchainpolly8536 Any suggestions about marketing "animations" as NFT artworks? I am transforming live video-recordings into short animations. Thanks in advance.
Very cool video Polly! informative, fun and honest. Great photography btw. I checked out your Opensea Collection and hearted a few. I especially liked #6 Ready All. Keep making great videos like this!
Tysm for stopping by and for watching this video BUT also for checking my collection - I'm just speechless wit the support and beyond thankful for having such a wonderful community!
@@blockchainpolly8536 ah its my pleasure!
I getting into NFTs but I know nothing about twitter. How does it work? Is it like facebook that I can join an NFT photographer group on it? or I have to just randomly follow other nft photographers? Im really much a facebook guy so this is super new to me, and way more confusing that open sea. BTW very informative video!
Hey, there aren't any rules on how to use Twitter tbh. There aren't any NFT photography groups per se but there are NFT builders that you can start following and take it from there. Majority of the collectors are also on Twitter, once you join and start spending more time in this space you will start getting a hang of it. I agree it is a pretty turbulent and fast moving space. I would recommend spending some time on twitter to see whether you like it before minting anything. Reach out to me on twitter and I can drop you some names to kick you off!
Awesome video Polly, thank you (: Guys, do you know any group for nft photographers?
Thanks Valeria. If you are looking to follow some community builders in nft photography on twitter drop me a DM on twitter I'll forward you names!
If I want to create and sell a unique original picture, I take my 11x14 inch large format camera and do a direct positive paper or a wet- or dry-plate image. To me this is just something real and tangible, not just some bits and bytes and Zeros and Ones I cannot see at all without any technical gear and electricity. I'm rather into producing and selling things than ephemeral and invisible information, stored somewhere in an imaginary cloud. Just my two cents.
I worked two decades in IT security and I've learned to not trust that data will ever have a lifetime as things do have. I won't invest time and money in that.
But if you happy with it and it in fact turns out to be worth your time and effort, good for you!
I would add something to your comment... What is really original? When you convert a photo into an NFT, who validates who is the creator of the work. Where is the copyright? NFT is at the end a file, so if I upload the same photo as jpg and another as png, I have two originals? Some concepts are good but others are bad.
Cheers mate, im incursioning that path now just got my collection out and share the feelings tho 😅🤙🏼
Yay a congratulations on the drop! How are you finding the nft space so far?
@@blockchainpolly8536 Seems very versatile ground for all ideas, the people is very friendly and supportive. Only thing I find challenging is to make some activity in the trading for profile documentation, I think time will play it's move there 🙆♂️
Hello, love your vid.
I'm looking to start selling on OpenSea and wondering,
is the fee for initializing your account literally the only fee I'll pay? What about approval fees? I'm only looking to sell for fixed price, thanks!
Thanks Maros. Yes you will only pay once on Open Sea and you will have an option to set a fixed price when you put your work for sale. Remember when you list your pieces on open sea you don’t mint your work on blockchain yet, it only happens when another person buys your piece.
@@blockchainpolly8536 Thanks. I'd like to ask additionally, how do you achieve your photos in a given collection to be in order? I mean, they're all mixed up even though I uploaded them in order and named them with numbers in order.
How to get that first sale???
Oh isn't that a one million dollar question.
just cried a little :) congrats
Oh gosh, thanks Reinaldo! These were the happy tears ;)
Do you get a percentage when it is resold?
Hey Lam, my work only recently been posted on secondary and it hasn’t been sold yet so can’t comment on that!
@@blockchainpolly8536 cool I followed you on Twitter thanks for the video
i feel you
TY Kerstin 🙏
Do you watermark the work your selling ?
Nope, never was a big fan of this practise.
Do you know if there is a discord server for nft photography?
Hey Kensio, there are two groups that I follow - one is nftphotography.xyz and The Photoverse. Hit me up on DMs I'll send you invites!
@@blockchainpolly8536 I would love to join those discord groups as well
@@LaKeishaMosley Hey Key, drop me a DM on twitter I'll send you invites ;)
I’m still trying to get my head around NFT’s with photography. Still undecided whether this is the future or just a passing fad.
After 6 months of being in this space I can't really tell myself what will the future hold, time will show I guess!
Before committing yourself financially and minting work I would recommend to spend two weeks on twitter, join spaces and the conversation and see whether it is your cup of tea.
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How much was the OpenSea account?
Hey Carrie, Opensea account is free and you pay gas for minting your work. So for example I paid about 80-90$ for the whole collection to be uploaded on OS and ready to be sold.
@@blockchainpolly8536 not bad, thank you.
Hi ma my name is Grace I see your video and I like it pls can you teach me am a mother of three but no money for good food i want to be making Not and be selling it pls pls help me pls thank you
Can someone help me get a Foundation invite?
Pop into Twitter there are some photographers currently giving out invites!