I'm sometimes irked that I can't add images from my desktop
are you on a Mac bethe ?
you can do something from a desk/laptop by going in safari and preference>advanced click show develop menu in menu bar.
then there is a pull down menu under "develop" >>user agent > the IOS you want to use...
If you are using Safari on a Mac, you can go to the "Develop" menu item and under "User Agent" select "Safari--IOS 13.1.1--iPhone" and you can upload photos to Instagram from your Mac computer.My brief flirtation with Instagram ended when I lost the ability to upload from a computer. It must be possible because people add film photographs, but something changed on the platform because the home page no longer has a + button on the desktop, only the phone. Beats me.
Flickr doesn't seem to have anything like the traction it once had, sadly. Some genuinely talented - as in award winning - photographers I used to follow rarely or never post on Flickr now. Highly curated groups still have good work, but the platform is mostly a dumping ground unmoderated by absent group starters.
Windows, unfortunately.If you are using Safari on a Mac, you can go to the "Develop" menu item and under "User Agent" select "Safari--IOS 13.1.1--iPhone" and you can upload photos to Instagram from your Mac computer.
Windows, unfortunately.
Thanks, I may give Firefox a go. I'm currently wondering whether to go back to Mac after 20+ years because everyone else in the family uses them!Firefox has many IG plugins that make IG think you are on mobile. (when in mobile mode you can upload photos from a computer)
You can also transfer the photo to you mobile phone and post it from camera roll. Atleast on OS X it is pretty easy through Airdrop.
Like any platform, digital or otherwise, you get out of it what you put into it. I've seen some amazing, beautiful work come through Instagram, and I've also seen some tres trite crap. It really depends on who, and which hashtags, you follow.Is there a link to it? From what I have read it is like 'freecycle' for digital photography. A platform that makes it easy to give away images. I suspect there won't be any images of value on there.
.... It really depends on who, and which hashtags, you follow.
It's pretty simple. You go to the search function, select "tags", type in a tag you want to follow, and then when it resolves the tag you've entered, it gives you a button to Follow that tag.one can follow hashtags ?
This is somewhat interesting. Can you elaborate ? (EDIT: or is it as simple as it sounds?)
I confess, I am loath to sign up and try it...like the Hotel California, "you can check out \ but you can never leave".
It's pretty simple. You go to the search function, select "tags", type in a tag you want to follow, and then when it resolves the tag you've entered, it gives you a button to Follow that tag.
Instagram is a conversation constructed from photos: a newsletter to the world. It streams by at real life pace.
Flickr is an archive: more of a portfolio, one which isn’t as fleeting and ephemeral as Instagram. Flickr is a serious promotional tool (if you want it to be), but Instagram streams by, to be seen briefly, and then you move on.
And not true at all. If you see one really, truely good photo or image, your first inclination is to go to the accounts page and look at all the photos.Beautifully put.
And not true at all. If you see one really, truest good photo or image, your first inclination is to go to the accounts page and look at all the photos.
Beautifully put.
I had never heard of "soft blocking" before .. but I do get IM's and comments from people who want to have me buy "likes". the whole thing is kind of funny to be honest, buying likes, buying friends, blocking images because you use the same hashtag over and over again ... personally none of it really matters much, if someone wants to find someone's images I am there are ways to just look someone up .. there's a search bar.That's true. But it's not likely anyone is going to sit and study any particular photo for longer than 1/16th of a second. However long it takes to press the little heart icon is about as much investment well over 99% of photos receive on Instagram. If you're lucky, someone comments.
My Instagram account is what's known as soft-blocked. Apparently, if you keep using the same hashtags for your photos, which I was doing, Instagram stops feeding your images through hashtags. So, other than for my meagre number of "followers", my images are roughly not visible. You can check by posting an image and then using someone else's account to check the hashtag.
if someone wants to find someone's images
love that!Ironically, just as I posted my previous comment, Ilford's Instagram reposted one of my photos...
love that!
congrats on the repost
Never heard of that before. They have an intractable algorithm yes, but blocking because you use the same hashtag too much?That's true. But it's not likely anyone is going to sit and study any particular photo for longer than 1/16th of a second. However long it takes to press the little heart icon is about as much investment well over 99% of photos receive on Instagram. If you're lucky, someone comments.
My Instagram account is what's known as soft-blocked. Apparently, if you keep using the same hashtags for your photos, which I was doing, Instagram stops feeding your images through hashtags. So, other than for my meagre number of "followers", my images are roughly not visible. You can check by posting an image and then using someone else's account to check the hashtag.
I agree too. Who uses flickr these days, anyways? IG is the best platform to be "alive" and to interact. I think IG can and is being used as portfolio by many. I wish there was some other platform than IG ..
Isn’t it just a case of sour grapes?
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