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Northern Lifestyle Social Media Influencer: Photographer Spotlight Q&A With Daniel Ernst

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Next in our ongoing Photographer Spotlight series we have Daniel Ernst.

Daniel is a self taught freelance photographer from Frankfurt, Germany. His photography is inspired by nature, focusing on the outdoors, adventure and northern lifestyles.

With 602k Instagram followers, Daniel falls into the category of “social media incluencer”. Daniel’s work is absolutely amazing and it’s easy to see why he’s so popular on Instagram – but what is really interesting is his final advice for photographers who would like do something similar.

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5 steps to land influencer collaborations on Instagram and other social media

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In this article, I’m going to be breaking down very tactical and easy steps to help you land more collaborations with influencers. If you follow this guide, using the framework and template that I’ve provided, you will find success.

Editor’s Note: These tips aren’t just for Instagram, either. The same principles apply to collaborations on YouTube and other social media platforms, too.

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How to never approach a photograper if you’re an influencer or media personality

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I really dislike it when photographers aren’t treated with respect for their time and talent. It happens way too often sadly.

Justin Rosenberg recently fell into this situation. He was recently approached by a media personality that wanted to take advantage of her position. The funny part is that she had less online engagement than he did so there was legitimately no value to the over-inflated claims produced in the beginning.

The conversation below is exactly how NOT to approach a photographer when you want someone to produce content for you.

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Stop using filters, you’re not a Disney character

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I was chatting to a friend who told me a story about how her much younger cousin had escaped on holiday to somewhere tropical as an antidote to this whole pandemic thing. Sounds pretty idyllic, I said. Except apparently, the entire trip was (according to the cousin) “a disaster” because the girl’s poor boyfriend was so terrible at taking photos that she didn’t end up with a “single good photo” of herself for her social media. The photos were so bad apparently, that even a beauty filter couldn’t save them!

Like the holiday, that relationship is probably doomed, and not because of inferior photography skills. That’s apparently where we are at now as a species, with a large number of people obsessing over their looks and not wanting to post anything but perfect-looking, heavily enhanced and filtered images.

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How to earn $100,000 this year from your photography

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How do you make $100,000 as a photographer? Start with $200,000! Sorry, jokes aside, it is technically possible. I mean, there are photographers out there earning 6 figures. And I’m sure that even if I was making that sort of money from photography I’m sure I’d still be writing for DIYP! But that aside, how do you even get close to making that sort of money from your passion? It’s something that most of us just dream about. But in this video, Evan Ranft explains not only how he did it, but lays out some very sensible advice that can at least get you on the right path to profiting from your photography, even if you’re not quite getting to 6 figures yet.

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How Blaine Harrington makes a full-time living as a travel photographer

Blaine Harrington began his career in photography in the 1970s after a brief stint of racing motocross. His connections to the racing world led to assignments covering races around the country and in Europe – piquing his curiosity about travel. After studying at the now-defunct Brooks Institute of Photography, Harrington spent a few years working in fashion photography, but eventually pivoted to travel photography to sate his desire for the more authentic subject matter. His network and skill as a photographer allowed him to live a peripatetic life working for publications like National Geographic, Travel + Leisure, Delta Sky, and many more.

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I tried TikTok’s top photography tips for 7 days, and this is what happened

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I’ve been intrigued by the power of TikTok for a little while, particularly the popularity of it as a place for top tips. But how good are those tips? And do they actually work? For the sake of science and DIYPhotogaphy, I decided to find out. For 7 days I tried the top photography tips that TikTok had to offer. Here’s how it went.

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Facebook finally reveals the reason behind Monday’s six-hour global outage

As I believe all of you have noticed, Facebook was down for quite a lot of time yesterday. The outage was global, and Facebook took Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp down with it.  The company acknowledged the issue, but didn’t give us the reason behind it. Now, after everything’s back to normal, Facebook has finally revealed what caused one of the worst outages in its history.

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