OBSERVATIONS
  • viewfinders and words
  • Who am I
  • Contact

Instagram (yvonne28_07)

23/11/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture

Took me a while to get to grips with this little piece of technology.  Even though it really just involves photos and editing the whole hashtag and sharing on the cellphone really confounded my poor aging brain... unfortunately when you have teens in the house you really start to see how getting to grips with technology slowly starts to elude you!!  

However I decided just over a year ago that it was now time to get with it.  It was time for the Scott Kelby Walk and I was determined to share photos on the day as I went... 1135 post later I haven't looked back.  It's a nifty little app that allows me to capture my day to day life.  

I use it for a variety of reasons.  It's a dual medium when on a photoshoot.  Often allowing me to have an accurate reminder of the actual colour of the sunrise - something which can so often be lost when shooting in RAW on my Nikon.  It is memory maker in my pocket.  Sometimes I want to capture a memory to store away in my 'memorybank' or 'blissbox' and it allows me to do so.  One day this will be the photo album I 'page' through.  Remember days at the beach, walks in the park, celebratory dinners.  All those things we never seem to take photos of anymore.  I may not print them but I will have a visual record of those memories. 

From time to time I undertake projects.  Currently I'm doing 30 days of just Instagram/Snapseed photos which I upload onto my Flickr account.  Amazingly one of those photos has achieved the highest views ever on my Flickr account and my highest position on Flickr Explor... just goes to show that you don't need all the fancy cameras and lenses.  Although I would never give mine up. 

When upgrading my phone I went for the Samsung S5 to give me the 16MP camera.  As I was starting to use Instagram more and more I wanted quality pictures I could print and I must say I haven't been disappointed.  I get a range of images and enjoy the flexibility my phone gives me when shooting.  Last week for the first time I used only my phone when on a city shoot.  A completely unique experience but one you see more and more of the 20-somethings doing.  And you will see a lot of Instagrammers admit to owning nothing but their phones when it comes to capturing images. 

For my creative side I love to manipulate the images using the various filters on offer. Snapseed being an additional program which gives even more control over your final edits.  While I understand this is the stuff of nightmares for professional photographers it is the way the world is going at the end of the day.  With up to 60 million photos posted daily just onto Instagram it is a market that is just exploding. 

Next step is to expand my phone with one of the lens add ons such as the Olloclip which will give me macro and fisheye capabilities on my phone and a wider angle of shooting.  I'm not complaining.  I'm exploring my talent using a variety of tools at my disposal.  For me it isn't about competing with anybody.  It is about bettering my craft any way I can.  

So if you see me busy tapping away on my phone I'm not necessarily being anti-social and chatting to friends... I could very well simply be taking photos and uploading them  ;-)


10 instagram facts!

  • Launched October 2010
  • 20 BILLION photos uploaded as at 26/03/2014
  • 60 MILLION photos posted on average PER DAY as at 26/03/2014
  • 1.2 BILLION likes per day
  • 1000 comments per SECOND
  • 200 MILLION monthly active users
  • 75 MILLION daily users
  • 41% between ages of 16-24
  • 70% of global instagram users log on at least once a day
  • David Guttenfelder was the 2013 Instagram Photographer of the year (http://www.davidguttenfelder.com/)

Source : http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/important-instagram-stats/



Interesting Instagrammers to follow :  (some are photographers, others not)

  • s_mazzei
  • dguttenfelder
  • tlmappin
  • everydaymiddleeast
  • thelawry
  • mcqueensflowers
  • pixanator
  • dane_forman
  • gaveman18
  • globemakers
  • michaelmuller7
  • lorraineloots
  • black_white_baretti
  • thephotosociety
  • thewordvirus
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    You reach a point of accepting that you made mistakes,
    they cost you dearly and that you can't change the past.
    At that point you stop raging against your history,
    accept it,
    and move forward
    ​into a calmer, less self destructive frame of mind.
    Picture
    Photographer and Writer 

    Love Always
    Picture
    Picture

    Yvonne's books

    Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
    A Year in Provence
    The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
    A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
    Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
    Man's Search for Meaning
    On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    The Pillars of the Earth
    Eat, Pray, Love
    The Other Boleyn Girl
    I Have Life: Raped, Stabbed & Left for Dead
    Atonement
    Pilgrims and Other Stories
    One Day
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    The Night Circus
    The Glass Castle
    Painted Devils and the Land of Ordinary Men


    Yvonne's favorite books »
    Instagram Feed

    Categories

    All
    2015
    2015 The End
    #4agreements
    #50days
    #accept
    #alphabetoflife
    #atozchallenge
    #atozchallenge2016
    #A Z Blog Challenge 2015
    #A ZBlogChallenge2016
    #A-ZBlogChallenge2016
    #balance
    Big Magic
    Black & White Minimalism
    Blissbox
    Body
    Boundaries
    Breathe
    #brenebrown
    Butterfly
    Camera Clubs
    Cameras
    #celebrate The Small Things
    #celebrate-the-small-things
    Children
    Conduct Disorder
    #create
    Dalai Lama
    #day1
    #day10
    #day11
    #day12
    #day13
    #day14
    #day16
    #day17
    #day18
    #day19
    #day20
    #day21
    #day22
    #day23
    #day24
    #day25
    #day26
    #day3
    #day4
    #day5
    #day6
    #day7
    #day8
    #day9
    #decide
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    Emotion
    Empathy
    #explore
    Flickr
    Flowers
    #forgive
    Fotofriday
    Friday Gratitude
    Gandi
    Genre
    Goals
    Gratitude
    Hibernate
    #hope
    #imagine
    #journey
    #know
    Life
    Life Stories
    Live & Let Live
    Logic Vs Emotion
    #love
    #marblejar
    Mindful Mondays
    Mindfulness
    #mindfulness
    Moments
    #motivate
    Music
    No
    Nourish
    #nurture
    #organise
    Parenting
    Parents
    Perception
    Perspective
    Photography
    Pillar Sisters
    #pray
    #prayforparis
    PSSA
    #question
    Ravens
    Reality
    Reflections
    Replenish
    #rest
    SA Favourites
    Self-care
    #share
    Simplicity
    Social Media
    Society
    Strange Magic
    Street Photography
    Top Ten Tuesday
    True
    #trust
    #understand
    #want
    Wisdom
    Words
    #xray
    Year
    #yield
    #zoom

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.