Hello All Dear Steemit Friends
My Name is Josef from Deutschland !
When I was 17 years old and in high school, all my friends were in bands. I could never sing or play any instruments, so instead I became the photographer. I would help them build press kits and band profiles for their websites, experimenting along the way and learning everything I could about the technical side of photography.
Those early images slowly built a portfolio of portraits, and to make a long story short: this slowly translated into the entertainment and advertising style work I do now. Nowadays, I don’t really photograph many bands anymore, but you can certainly see the influence of that early work.
Around that same time when I began pursuing photography professionally, I was earning money for the first time in my life. Before that . So, I used any extra money to go on trips to different countries, and that’s how the personal side of my portfolio developed.
My thirst for travel comes from not being able to travel anywhere outside of deutschland when I was younger. I was always mesmerized and attracted to all the foreign and cultural places I read about in books or saw online, but never could go. Then all of a sudden, I was able to go, and I’ve been drawn to remote corners of the world ever since. My personal photo series’ have always been very important to me, and part of why people are drawn to my work in the first place.
I’ve been to many countries around the world, but I value in-depth repeat trips more than just skimming across a continent and only seeing the surface of many different places. I prefer to focus on one specific area or group of people within a country.
My tip for anyone starting out: Think about what you want to get out of the photo before you take it. Otherwise you end up as a happy snapper with a lot of average photos but none never achieving the "wow" factor.
You can Start to see my work from today in Steemit.com , and I’ll do my best to give my 100% to this wonderful community .
So friends please support me and follow me too if you like my work then .
Thank You so much everyone