Thanks a lot, now I have to revisit my consideration of Instagram!

“Come together” on social media … perfect! So far I’ve resisted all social media platforms except for my YT sailing channel but have always thought Insta might be interesting for my photography and this has given me some food for thought … many thanks! 📷🙂

Thanks, you are always interesting & at times magical!

That is an interesting way to see Instagram of helping you edit and critique your own photographs. And only following accounts that do photography. Going to go and try it and thanks for another great video!

This was a good overview of Instagram. I don't use it although I do follow some people. I never knew how to post anything until I followed what you did. Very helpful. I may start to engage it more. I like your take on it.

Once again Arri great content and thankyou . Sadly given the dire times we find ourselves in YT and IG are a good source of news that mainstream media overlook. To just limit myself to photography (which I'd dearly love to do) leaves me in a difficult situation because I need to know what our government is doing and offer support where I can to others. Currently ashamed to be British is all I'm going to say here. That said I seek refuge in all matters photography and get pleasure , learning and enjoyment from engaging with people like yourself.

Very vise words about instagram, the best thing about photography is the interaction between photographsers on or offline AND there's always something new to learn or draw inspiration from.

A gallery manager where I was showing suggested I try Instagram to share my work (as she does), so I thought, why not? Although it's not without compromise (the images don't that great, especially compared to prints), it's better than nothing (and free). So far, it's my only social media outlet and I use it exclusively to post photos. As you suggest, it may be helpful to expand my usage to communicate with other photographers, so i'll have to look into that. I should probably follow more photographers as well (although only shooting film doesn't necessarily mean better quality images, so I wouldn't limit myself in that regard), but thanks for the tips to refine what you see--so much clutter out there! I also downloaded an app called Vero, but have yet to really explore that. p.s., nice theme and variations on Come Together--after viewing this I went to my studio to play for a couple of hours last night.

This is a really helpful video for a luddite like me. You make Instagram more inviting.

Very accurate analysis. It is not only on Instagram that we ' photographers ' loose out to ' Russian Super Models ' but it is also true of Y.T. Some of the channels involving ' photography ' with high viewing figures, likes and subscribers are channels that lets say have very little photographic content of merit but are full of attractive scantily dressed young ladies being photographed, and when the photographer itself is a young attractive scantily dressed one, then the figures go through the roof. Sadly my landscape, or meloncholy cityscape photography stands no chance. Thank you.

"Grainery" is pretty good. Film photography only. No ads, but a very small subscription fee.

Interesting video, Ari. I like your approach.. I am not on Instagram or Facebook. Instead I joint Grainery. Which is like Instagram for film photographers.

Totally on the same page. As a 'not for profit' B+W film photographer I only post my good images and I try to collate the gallery in threes so with every three postings there is a balance with the images. I don't post similar images together and interesting posting better images less often seems to be better for me. Yes IG does stimulate me to create. Cheers!

This reminds me, do you have the option on your Threads acount to share to the fediverse yet? There's a decent analogue photography community brewing over there. From what I know it's just one setting on your side, then those of us over there can follow you (and interact with your posts I think).

I like your interpretation of “Come Together”.

You confirm my intuition. But I separated my use of social media a bit: Instagram is only for photography, previously there was Flickr, but it set an economic barrier for me. I use Facebook in general, i.e. to maintain contact with friends, including photography, sailing and shipbuilding groups, but I have not avoided politics, especially over the last 8 years, when populists were in power in Poland. And my KZfaq is for sailing and photography. Regards 😀

Spot on! Yes, Insta is a useful tool if chasing likes is not your sole purpose of being on the platform!

very nice point of view, I heard that Insta doesn't like it when you cut and paste the same hashtags as you did in the video, any comments regarding that?

What was the camera you had in hand?

Nice video! But I think you miss one thing: Also having active KZfaq channel help instagram a lot. Its hard to ger exposed by only using instagram casually. Anyway, I like your positive approach:)

Hey Yuri, sorry if this is off-topic for your video. With Photoshop’s new AI image generator set to outshine digital cameras, I think we’re heading towards a world where photos fall into two camps: real and digital. Film, with its tangible proof, is like the hipster of photography. Personally, I’m all about analog because a photo’s worth isn’t just in the now but in decades after. Plus, when Martians eventually crash our party on Earth, film will be the ultimate “we were here” postcard they can hold with their 2x3 fingers.

My photographs aren’t intended to be seen in an instant. The very name Instagram puts me off !

I also filter the posts on my Instagram just to other photographers and I agree that it becomes like an "art gallery" for me. However, I dislike Instagram's restrictions on aspect ratio and image size. Getting used to a few picture formats and 1080p might be detrimental for our true appreciation of photography. Nothing replaces a big, rich and detailed image on a 34" screen or on paper. Just my two cents... Cheers!

Come Together was brilliant ❤❤

I tried Vero, didnt really like it. And IG it's mainly a notepad for me

So maybe I should be taking photographs of Russian Supermodels with cats? 😎 Fun to hear your thoughts on Insta; I like it to be honest but I do need to become more consistent in posting images.

I tried to like IG…twice…but couldn’t get there so I deleted my account. My issues?1) That it is smartphone centric. I don’t use my iPhone for the socials, I use my iPad. Upsized iPhone apps don’t cut it on an iPad. 2) The way photos are displayed…can’t stand it. The forced 4:5 crop on portrait orientation photos. The tiny view of landscape orientation photos. The lack of an easy to use zoom functionality.

Never understood the follower desire or they just can't enjoy Instagram thing. Instagram is a wonderful journal of my day, my week, and my weekends. It is a random mess of photography 😂. The followers who choose to follow me and like my random photos are just a plus. Despite that mess it has still gotten me a few portrait side jobs without even trying or caring.

It's 'cause you're so square Ari 😊

If you are trying to sell stuff via IG, there are professionals uploading several hundred posts every day. So it's already a lost game as saturated it has become. Upload photos just as your catalogue to potential customers and fans, an easy access showcase book. Nothing else. Full stop. There's too much you don't have control over with this kind of SOME channel. save your energy I would say. Keep it simple.