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As a Photographer, I like it because it allows you to be creative and have some fun when using a very basic camera, due to using a phone. Its now one of the best ways of images being seen, because of the number of users.
What I'm not so keen on, now that it has become so popular is the trend for people to just upload an image to their phone and use that, which was shot on something else. Or worse still, people just taking other images or posting pictures of Justin Bieber / One Direction. It annoys me because that isn't really the point of Instagram, its supposed to be about you shooting and achieving best what you can with the app.
What I'm not so keen on, now that it has become so popular is the trend for people to just upload an image to their phone and use that, which was shot on something else. Or worse still, people just taking other images or posting pictures of Justin Bieber / One Direction. It annoys me because that isn't really the point of Instagram, its supposed to be about you shooting and achieving best what you can with the app.
See I dislike it because I see it as false 'creativity'. You're not being creative, you're just applying pre-made filters to things.
The creative element comes from the photography, which should allow you creativity regardless. If you need instagram to take a 'creative' or interesting photo on your phone, you're doing it wrong IMO.
You still need to be creative in the first place before applying any filters. Even a filter isn't going to save a poor photo or uninteresting subject.
As I said before, as a Photographer I like that its something to play with when casually shooting stuff on my phone. I never said that being an Instagram user makes somebody a Photographer.
I just don't see why anyone who has even half a grasp of how to take a decent photo needs or wants it, regardless of if they're using a phone. It's just a cheap gimmick that makes everything look the same.
I feel similarly to 'photographers' that process all their photos with downloaded photoshop actions. That's not your own creativity being used for the end result, it's someone elses slapped on top of your photo.
I think you aren't seeing what I and other Photographers see in it, but you are entitled to your opinion.
For example, some of the top Photographers in the world use it. Do they use it as their medium for creating and publishing work, no, of course not. Is it a fun and interesting way of sharing a photo with other people instantly (hence Insta-gram), all using near enough the same tool... yes!
Well what 'irks' me so to speak is the way you phrased it; 'it allows you to be creative'.
My phone allows me (as a long time hobbyist photographer
) to be creative anyway by virtue of it having a camera, without feeling the need to have an app apply a horrendously overused filter to my photos.
If you feel a camera alone (be it a £2 disposable, a phone or £5000 worth of professional SLR) doesn't 'allow' you to be creative, I would suggest your notion of creativity is skewed.
My phone allows me (as a long time hobbyist photographer
) to be creative anyway by virtue of it having a camera, without feeling the need to have an app apply a horrendously overused filter to my photos.If you feel a camera alone (be it a £2 disposable, a phone or £5000 worth of professional SLR) doesn't 'allow' you to be creative, I would suggest your notion of creativity is skewed.
Well, you said you liked it because it allows you to be creative.
One would logically assume therefore that you feel that the phone alone doesn't allow you to be creative
If that's not what you meant, you probably didn't choose a particularly good way of phrasing it.
One would logically assume therefore that you feel that the phone alone doesn't allow you to be creative
If that's not what you meant, you probably didn't choose a particularly good way of phrasing it.
I don't post much on instagram, but if I did it's an easy way to take a picture, host it and share it easily. The main use I have for it is to follow some of the many other good people who use it to take and share photos, and if you follow people who don't use filters you can see some great quality images.
Creativity is in the photography itself.
There's nothing creative about taking a **** photo with your phone and adding a stupid border and some horrible filters to it.
oooh here's a picture of some starbucks coffee how creative.
There's nothing creative about taking a **** photo with your phone and adding a stupid border and some horrible filters to it.
oooh here's a picture of some starbucks coffee how creative.
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I like it, it's fun. Also easy way to share photos or for me get them "in the internets"
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