Instagram is toxic. That's really all I need to say, and that it's a terrible platform for photography and photographers. It's more designed for you to stay on their platform and for them to sell advertising to you.

Can you get gigs from it? Sure. But you can also get gigs from having a robust website. Anyone that is looking to spend money on your creative services will do a fuller exploration of the type of work that you do beyond just Instagram. I've got two Instagram accounts, the Phoblographer's and my own. Dan Ginn runs most of the operations for the site's Instagram account, and my personal account underwent changes over the past year. For example, I cut down the number of people I was following down to under 100 people purposely. It helped me focus on specific people when it comes to stories and the fuller feed. I'd get notifications that I was at the end of the feed, and that meant that I could get off. I then took the choice to move on to something else. But the urge to stay in the app and check out other things was real. But I fought it. And now I'm taking that even further. . thephoblographer.com

2020-7-6 07:00