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Someone else in this thread mentioned having a low follow count for 'hipster reasons'. One thing I have noticed is that with having a low follow count (currently at 20) when I try to go look up certain photography tags I tend to actually find more people who are doing work we really like in our space. Where compared to another account that is following 100+ accounts I tend to see the same kind of work repeatedly. So there is a definite 'feed influences display' bit there. With the account I'm spending more energy on right now if I see a photo I really like I will go give them a genuine comment on something I like about the photo. And if a good chunk of what they have in their feed reflects that I'll give them a follow. I have noticed that has gotten a really good engagement measurement with that method. Of course it does get us some bot/tag follow only accounts but I have seen a pretty good chunk of engagement come from actual people. As for linking IG accounts here... if you're into fine art portraiture and concert photography you should check us out. Which is the (partially) bullshit pitch I give to most people. If you're a nerd it's cosplay and nerd music photography. https://www.instagram.com/makethemawesome
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I just powered through all 7ish pages and followed way too many of you, so here I am: pseudorandom - pseudomark - This is my lovely personal account, mostly cell phone macros of bugs, pictures of dogs, and whatever other random poo poo I feel like posting.  way to upload pictures from my camera.
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instagram.com/hellospaceman This is the only outlet I have for my hobby photography because I consider everything I touch to be garbage. Maybe some community critique will get me to lay off the saturation slider and go back to posting sooc jpgs. 
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Added you guys. I'm still trying to figure it all out but check https://www.instagram.com/macaronipenguinmedia for a mix of pics including cats!
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tensac posted:Added you guys. I'm still trying to figure it all out but check https://www.instagram.com/macaronipenguinmedia for a mix of pics including cats! You made me feel pretty good when I logged on and saw 37 new likes. Thought one of my photos blew up. Haha Also went through and caught up following many of you. My account is now private because I kept getting a ton of spam follows. But request away and I’ll approve. Been trying to post more quality photos and less “look how cute my kid is” photos. He is pretty cute though
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Oh nice, I was hoping there was a thread like this. I follow plenty of Darkroomers on flickr but I just started an Instragram account, the idea being it's for my film stuff while flickr is more of a platform for sharing. I don't have too much posted yet but I'm trying to make it a regular thing: https://www.instagram.com/bk.6x6/ When I get some free time I'll comb through this thread and add you fine folks to my follow list!
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Just followed a bunch of people in this thread! My account is @parking.lots. I'm trying to become a decent nature/landscape photographer while camping at every Texas state park (there's 90+ so it's gonna take me a while.)
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I followed a bunch of people in the thread a while back but didn’t actually post my instagram. https://www.instagram.com/cptn_dr/ It’s mostly just me learning to take photos what are good, mainly through the medium of birds.
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ansel autisms posted:post photos that are interesting and people will follow you. its easy Trying this
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Here is my stab at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/matthewfrancisphoto/
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https://www.instagram.com/sleepytime812/ A mix of phone shots and stuff that may or may not end up on here. I'm making my way through the thread and starting to follow everybody.
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I just went back in this thread and saw my post from October where I mention I had 940 followers, and a few months later I've barely picked up another 40 despite putting a decent effort in to trying to grow that number. I know follower numbers are meaningless and all that, but given how my side-hustle is selling my photos those followers kind of aren't meaningless for me in reality. I would truly appreciate some advice if I can change anything about my instagram posting to increase followers (aside from "post better photos" since that's the obvious one). https://www.instagram.com/greyghostnaturephotography/
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I have a photography account now too. I'm not a heavy user on either account but I'm going to try to post more of the wildlife/nature on the photo account and use my personal account for everything else. Or something... https://www.instagram.com/alan_krakauer_photo/
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InternetJunky posted:I just went back in this thread and saw my post from October where I mention I had 940 followers, and a few months later I've barely picked up another 40 despite putting a decent effort in to trying to grow that number. I know follower numbers are meaningless and all that, but given how my side-hustle is selling my photos those followers kind of aren't meaningless for me in reality. I would truly appreciate some advice if I can change anything about my instagram posting to increase followers (aside from "post better photos" since that's the obvious one). Are the hashtags you are using ones for pages that are likely to share your kind of work if they see it or just random search phrases? You could also try tagging some pages and see if it gets you any more attention. You have good pictures up there but getting followers on Instagram is hard these days with how most people already follow enough niche things to get their fill.
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Thom12255 posted:Are the hashtags you are using ones for pages that are likely to share your kind of work if they see it or just random search phrases? You could also try tagging some pages and see if it gets you any more attention. You have good pictures up there but getting followers on Instagram is hard these days with how most people already follow enough niche things to get their fill.
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Posting photos and tagging them isn't enough to drag in followers. You gotta engage with the community, man.
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InternetJunky posted:I just went back in this thread and saw my post from October where I mention I had 940 followers, and a few months later I've barely picked up another 40 despite putting a decent effort in to trying to grow that number. I know follower numbers are meaningless and all that, but given how my side-hustle is selling my photos those followers kind of aren't meaningless for me in reality. I would truly appreciate some advice if I can change anything about my instagram posting to increase followers (aside from "post better photos" since that's the obvious one). I’ve followed you for a while and love what you’re doing. However, the “post better photos” thing, despite what people say, doesn’t mean much since there are complete garbage accounts with a slew of followers and then people like you who deserve more but pick them up very slowly. I think it’s because it is just social media - people want followers and to be paid attention to, not to look at photos and those that seem to get a lot of followers either also follow a lot and are essentially reading follows for follows, or they did that but then waited a few days to delete those follows hoping the other person didn’t delete them. I am constantly getting follows but have broken even around 530 for years now. I got most of those when instagram wasn’t as huge and seemed to be more about small communities of people who actually cared what they were looking at. Nowadays though I don’t feel like playing the social media game and don’t really anticipate to ever pick up a significant amount more because I’m not willing to do the follow for follow bullshit. I’m sure there are obviously still people who do want to look at photos on the platform btw. Just the vast majority are using it as another form of social media to stroke their fragile digital egos and probably couldn’t care less about photography in any meaningful way.
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elgarbo posted:Posting photos and tagging them isn't enough to drag in followers. You gotta engage with the community, man. rio posted:I’ve followed you for a while and love what you’re doing. However, the “post better photos” thing, despite what people say, doesn’t mean much since there are complete garbage accounts with a slew of followers and then people like you who deserve more but pick them up very slowly. I think it’s because it is just social media - people want followers and to be paid attention to, not to look at photos and those that seem to get a lot of followers either also follow a lot and are essentially reading follows for follows, or they did that but then waited a few days to delete those follows hoping the other person didn’t delete them. I am constantly getting follows but have broken even around 530 for years now. I got most of those when instagram wasn’t as huge and seemed to be more about small communities of people who actually cared what they were looking at. Nowadays though I don’t feel like playing the social media game and don’t really anticipate to ever pick up a significant amount more because I’m not willing to do the follow for follow bullshit.
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InternetJunky posted:Yeah, this is kind of what I thought as well, but I was just curious if I was missing something fundamental about the platform. I just try to post a few photos a week, post some interesting info with the photos, and keep promotional stuff to a minimum. I had hoped this would bring in followers who just wanted some nice wildlife stuff in their feed but I guess there's not as many of those users out there as I thought. The problem isn't that there aren't that many users that would be interested, it's that there are just so many people that offer the same thing and once you follow one or two of those you don't feel the need to follow anyone else that is doing something similar. Don't let it get you down or think you aren't taking good photos because you are, we're all just in a supersaturated social media space now and it's hard to get traction through normal, slow discovery methods. It's why so many of the big Instagrammers got there with bots that follow/unfollow or comment on tons of peoples posts to get attention. I'm pretty sure most of the comments I receive are bots as they have no context towards the photo in question. A lot of big people also get together to abuse the algorithm by flooding each other's pictures with likes and comments so it'll instantly get boosted to the top of the explore so tons of people will see it. Most of Instagram is super fake so don't worry too much about it, 900 followers is pretty nice if they are engaging with you.
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InternetJunky posted:By this you mean commenting on other people's photos, because I don't know of any other way of engaging on Instagram but I still don't see how this can bring in more than a handful of people. At the risk of sounding old, I just don't really understand how a typical instagram user actually uses the app. I'm almost certainly not a typical instagram user. I'm an age where I should know how to use social media, but instead I'm on the Something Awful forums. That said, I use instagram for two main things, which I figure are cover two big uses for the app: following friends, and pretty pictures. A lot of instagram is basically just a microblog through pictures. For me, this is just following my IRL friends and looking at pictures of what they've done today. For the actual photography use, I rarely seek out new people to follow. As others have said here, there's such a huge quantity of content that it's pointless for me to try to find it (unless I'm looking for something super specific). Like, I'm not going to try to find people to follow for "macro" shots, because there's probably millions of accounts and there's little reason for me to randomly pick one decent looking account to follow. So, in the case of instagram accounts that are complete strangers to me, I'll usually only look at their account if they follow me or if they comment/like one of my pictures. In these cases, I might glance over their feed and if it seems interesting I might follow them. Note, the comment/like case only works because I'm not popular enough or posting enough to be flooded by notifications. For the sake of completeness, I also follow "brand" accounts like stores, bands, entertainers, etc, but obviously that's not relevant in this context.
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I also don't really 'get' or like Instagram much. I resisted creating an account until a few months ago despite badgering from my partner/friends for years ("I thought your hobby was photography, how do you not have an Instagram?"). I'd like to get back into doing paid stuff for side income so I didn't think I'd be able to not have one. At this point I don't really even care about followers (it'll be at least 3-6 months at least before I try to launch the business, and I'm still figuring out my niche) but I find just the experience of using the app to be irritating. The algorithm feed is an intentional arsehole design choice to keep you scrolling longer, and so much of the imagery is samey - oh look, another tiny figure in beautiful nature, and all the lifestyle porn. There's just so much content I do not care about, and it seems to flood the results when I'm trying to find stuff that I do care about. The democratic nature of hashtags in theory makes it easier for new people to find you, but without a groups/pools function like Flickr there seems to be little sense of community. A lot of the bigger accounts I follow (sonyimages, a few others) post some good images but there's seldom much description or discussion, just a pretty thing presented with minimal context and then lots of people taking a few seconds out of scrolling to coo over it. I was doing some research on it to see if I'm taking crazy pills since you'd think a photo-based social media site would be great for photographers, and stumbled across Ello (remember that flash in the pan?). It seems they've kinda re-specialised into a social network for creatives and looks like it is probably a lot better for photographers. It's definitely a lot less active and probably not as useful for finding potential clients though.
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InternetJunky I'll be honest here, the stuff I see on your ig is just boring. Maybe that's why you're not getting the points or likes or faves or whatever? I don't find anything interesting in those shots, it feels like I've seen them all before. I don't want to sound like an rear end in a top hat, but there is no other way of putting it and also why sugar coat anything this isn't kindergarten.
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bobmarleysghost posted:InternetJunky I'll be honest here, the stuff I see on your ig is just boring. Maybe that's why you're not getting the points or likes or faves or whatever? I wouldn't say it's boring, it's just real life. But when you're up against a few people on Instagram who can make reality look like a different world in their shots you are going to have a hard time. Magazines and stuff love those kind of shots but they don't WOW in the way that Instagram caters too. https://www.instagram.com/settysphotography/ I follow this dude who is semi-big and all his pictures feel rich in color and depth in a really cool way to see pop up on your feed. I think it might help that his niche within wildlife, for the most part, is Deer pictures which gives a specific reason to follow him.
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bobmarleysghost posted:InternetJunky I'll be honest here, the stuff I see on your ig is just boring. Maybe that's why you're not getting the points or likes or faves or whatever? Thom12255 posted:I wouldn't say it's boring, it's just real life. But when you're up against a few people on Instagram who can make reality look like a different world in their shots you are going to have a hard time. Magazines and stuff love those kind of shots but they don't WOW in the way that Instagram caters too.
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Thom12255 posted:I wouldn't say it's boring, it's just real life. But when you're up against a few people on Instagram who can make reality look like a different world in their shots you are going to have a hard time. Magazines and stuff love those kind of shots but they don't WOW in the way that Instagram caters too. The best way to win at nature photography on Instagram is to over-process this poo poo out of your photos until they don't look natural at all anymore. One of the big aggregate IG accounts I follow is macrogrammers and the vast majority of the photos there are hyper-saturated, tons of effects, and there are even a few that I'm suspicious might be 100% digital renderings. But, they get likes/comments/followers because they grab the attention of people quickly scrolling through their feed. For additional examples, look for nature photos emailed to you from your parents or relatives with "FW: FW: FW: FW: Gorgeous nature pics!" subject lines.
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InternetJunky posted:How that guy is posting one of those photos every two days is a mystery. I haven't seen his stuff before but that level of quality and consistency is certainly something to aspire to. They're all variations on the same boring photo
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ansel autisms posted:They're all variations on the same boring photo
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InternetJunky posted:It's not like he's photographed the same deer a thousand times on one outing and then is releasing a slightly different photo of it each time. Unless he's a deer farmer or he's taking all his photos at a zoo he's got some admirable skills to get so many consistently good shots of what are presumably wild animals. They are all tagged to a public zoo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushy_Park
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my turn in the barrel posted:They are all tagged to a public zoo Compliment retracted.
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InternetJunky posted:Oh. They are still decent shots, mostly shot wide open to hide the background or possibly the fences in front of the animals. Most have well lit subjects whether that's by design or photoshop I don't know. Most of the animals have interesting expressions and are in razor sharp focus. The animals are also facing the camera. Even in zoos pulling all that off is hard. Either the guy hangs out there quite a bit or maybe he works as a keeper or photographer at the park. The time invested still has to be huge to get that many good shots.
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Yeah I don't know why it's a bad thing to live nearby to a great location to do your photography instead of having to trek hours away to get anything.
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I was (mostly) joking. The photos look fantastic and I'm not trying to take anything away from his ability to produce nice-looking shots, but posting zoo/farm shots as a wildlife photographer is prying open a can of worms that is probably outside the scope of this thread to get into. Most of my admiration of his work came from the belief he was getting those results photographing wild animals. It takes some serious effort and skill to do something like that (check out Morten Hilmer's youtube videos if you want to see what's involved).
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This is my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantehooray/ - Cell phone pictures, usually from different states in America. I travel constantly for work, so I end up seeing some nifty sights and I wanted a way to share them. I'm just starting to figure out how to take good / interesting photos, and I hope to improve over the next few years. I plan to get a nice camera at some point, but for now the cell phone to Instragram pipeline is very time efficient.
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I will straight gently caress your feed by posting 10 photos in a 3 hours. Enjoy. https://www.instagram.com/themeatfiles/
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I almost like Instagram, but still not figured out much. Mine is https://www.instagram.com/lee.royle/ if you like water and some hills.
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wolfs - chuchukian I do 35mm pictures sometimes (I have 12 rolls sitting in my fridge), and I have a few digital compacts in rotation - I like to think of photography as a hobby? Candids and landscapes where I can. I'll go through this thread later and follow folks wolfs fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jun 11, 2019 |
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I like to post from film sets and random stuff i see while walking around seattle Brightbear_bokeh
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I post random poo poo: pets, food, family, outdoors, museums. I don't post often though. Annath918
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Tried to delete all the people I followed so I could start with a clean slate - accidentally deleted all my followers. Yay. Going back through this thread so I figured I'd share mine again. http://instagram.com/esafoto huhu fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 3, 2020 |
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I post a lot of documentary stuff, lately I've been getting good shots of the protests: https://www.instagram.com/jksonnenberg/
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