![]() Creative Inspiration – Like many amateur photographers I at times go through dry spells when it comes to my own photography.There are a number of reasons I find myself drawn to it: While there are some definite limitations with this app that I hope will be developed moving forward (either by Instagram or by others as they release their API) I’ve actually found it to be an application I’ve used numerous times per day. To do all of that you need to have the iPhone app which doesn’t make it very interactive for non iPhone users).īeing able to point people at your own Instagram account where all your photos are kept would not only help you share your photography better but would also help Instagram to grow as people would be linking to it like crazy from their blogs and social networking profiles. You also can’t use their website to view all of the other images of the photographer or add them to your network. There’s no ability for anyone to ‘like’ or ‘comment’ on an image from the web page. When you share a link you are sharing a link to an actual page on Instagram ( here’s an example of one of my recent images) – however when others visit that page they can’t do anything there. One aspect that I don’t like about Instagram (and this has been a common complaint that I see others making) is that there’s no real web interface for it. Popular images are also featured in a ‘popular’ tab in the app so you can see what everyone else is liking. Images can be ‘liked’ and commented upon by others giving you feedback on how your images are being received. You can invite and find friends and anyone who accepts your friendship will see your images in their feed. There’s also the ability for others to view your images from within the app on their iPhone. Currently you can share it to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Foursquare. Once you’ve got an image ready to share you can simply add it to your feed or have the opportunity to also share it in other social media tools. However you can always do post production work in other apps and then save them to your camera roll to upload them (I’ll touch on this later). There is no real way to control how much a filter is added to your image – it’s all or nothing. They’re mainly fair ‘retro’ kinds of filters that add borders, textures and change colors. The filters Instagram offers currently number 11. In fact it’s been critiqued by some as being too simple and there are some features I’d love to see them add (although it only launched in October so I guess their still really in the early stages of refining it). So at it’s core Instagram is very simple. The fact that it’s a free iPhone app made checking it out just that little bit more attractive! I think I’d originally seen it starting to appear in some of the facebook and Twitter streams of friends who were using it to share photos.Īt first I didn’t think much of it and threw it in the ‘just another social media photo sharing app’ basket – but after seeing more than a few people I respected using it I decided to check it out for myself. I first got onto Instagram just a couple of weeks ago. For starters not everyone has an iPhone – sorry, but at this point it’s an iPhone only app. Secondly – this post won’t be for everyone.Firstly – if you’re already an Instagram user check out my account at darrenrowse – I’d love to connect. ![]() ![]() In this post I’m going to briefly share some reasons why I’m enjoying using it and talk a little about my Instagr.am workflow. Lately I’ve been using the Instagr.am App on my iPhone and it has been a lot of fun.
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