Instagram ???

[canuhead]

sure young shooters are buying film, but keep in mind though that the more seasoned shooters (aka older dudes and dudettes) are also a large factor and they're tending to do large bodies of work. iow, they have serious money to spend and don't think twice when buying large quantities of film.

 

[ic-racer]

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.

 

[removed account4]

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...

 

[winger]

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...

After my post earlier, I discovered this - easy peasy. Though sometimes I still just import them into my photos app so I can play with them on some iPad apps.

 

[blockend]

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.

 

[Pieter12]

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.

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.

 

[blockend]

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.

 

[radiant]

Windows, unfortunately.

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.

 

[blockend]

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.

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!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

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.

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.

 

[BradS]

.... It really depends on who, and which hashtags, you follow.

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".

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

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.

 

[BradS]

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.

Thanks...sounds about like I expected. This would be a nice feature for flickr to add...they have tags and one may search for items with a specific tag but there's no sort-of passive way to follow items tagged a particular way. Thanks.

 

[albireo]

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.

Beautifully put.

 

[Helge]

Beautifully put.

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.

 

[Don_ih]

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.

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.

 

[radiant]

Beautifully put.

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 ..

 

[Craig75]

might as well just invite zuckerburg to go through yr bins

one of the biggest threats to democracy on the planet imo

 

[removed account4]

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 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.

 

[Don_ih]

if someone wants to find someone's images

That's true - but the hashtag is about discovery. How do you search for someone you don't know about, when that includes not knowing the name?

Ironically, just as I posted my previous comment, Ilford's Instagram reposted one of my photos...

 

[removed account4]

Ironically, just as I posted my previous comment, Ilford's Instagram reposted one of my photos...

love that!
congrats on the repost

 

[Don_ih]

love that!
congrats on the repost

Thanks. It does feel like it was specifically to prove me wrong, though

 

[Helge]

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.

Never heard of that before. They have an intractable algorithm yes, but blocking because you use the same hashtag too much?
That sounds insane.
What if you are really into something?
Isn’t it just a case of sour grapes? An explanation to yourself, for the fact that people are not responding to your photos (which could be for any reason really).
Most likes are from people who couldn’t care less anyway, but who are after gratitude likes or follows.
Appreciate those few who really genuinely like your photos on there.
Around a 100 - 200 followers is what you can expect as a normal person without investing time in engineering the content and “network”.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

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 ..

IG is just a bigger dumpster without any image quality hosting provided. It is very primitive site suitable only for pictures viewed at mobile phone.
Flickr allows to see image at 1:1 and has groups, EXIF, statistics and so on. It is way more advanced for viewer who wants to see more than tiny picture and make empty yaks about it.
I have IG and use it periodically just as dumpster. If I have urge to take pictures and dump them on the net. IG is good place for it.

Where are very good photogs on IG as well, but viewing experience is just total trash. I'm not a primitive looking at images via phone. Sorry.

 

[Don_ih]

Isn’t it just a case of sour grapes?

It would be, but I've checked it using a different account. As in, I post the photo with hashtag, then use another account (i.e., get someone else) to check the hashtag. 9 out of 10 times it doesn't show up. It's well documented by people other than me, anyway.

Look at it this way: if you bother to tag your photos, you'd prefer that much effort was for some purpose. And if there are no tags, then you can't find people who are similar to you, or doing things you're interested in, unless you already know them - and they can't find you.

For the most part, I don't expect anything from anyone.