I started my Instagram account a year ago. As I explaied here, I used to be an avid Instagram user, but eventually deleted my account. Pushed that reboot button last year to expose my photography and join the old camera lovers’ community. I had no particular interest in growing my followers’ count, or even to share it with friends & family. And accordingly, not much people I know follows. Yet, my photography habits were impacted quite a bit.
I’m not sure I like to admit, but I’m definitely influenced by the question “would this be a great Instagram post” many times I click that shutter. Showing off online has its connotations, but on the plus side, this does make me a bit more quality minded: you obviously don’t want to publish bad stuff.
Probably another good thing about having an account is the ability to do a retrospect on your photographs. En route to better protogaphy I embraced the quantity over quality mindset fairly soon (more on this here and here and here) . That makes a proper retrospect not quite trivial though: I have thousands of photographs from almost every month from the past two years. And I mean the filtered, processed catalog by that number, not the sheer amount of shutter clicks. This makes looking back and reflecting daunting enough to avoid it. Rolling through an Instagram feed is a trivial endeavour. So what conclusions can I draw based on that?
- I love color. Vibrant colors.
- Nature is my thing.
- I go to plenty of places.
- I should do more photo walks.
- I do very little street photography.
- My portraiture has plateaud.
Actions to be taken are straightforward.
