We’re all witnessing the times when it’s become more important to capture a perfect Instagram photo from your vacation than actually enjoying the travel. Off The Grid is a project that wants to change this trend. They’ll take you on a fun trip, and you can choose attractive locations all over the world. But there’s a catch: you’ll have to stay offline and hand over your precious smartphone.
Instagram model bitten by shark while posing for photos
Shark Week is just around the corner, but it seems one lady decided to get into the spirit of things a little early. The BBC reports that “Instagram model” Katarina Zarutskie was on vacation in the Bahamas with her boyfriend and his family. Naturally, she wanted to make the most of the beautiful environment for her feed, so photos were taken.
After spotting people snorkelling and interacting with a pack of nearby nurse sharks, she decided that this would be a great opportunity for photographs. She says she saw it as an opportunity to “connect with nature”. Well, one opportunistic shark decided to connect with Katarina and then proceeded to drag her under the water.
Social media’s facade of the perfect life has made us lose our empathy
Last week it was reported that 3 Canadian YouTube vloggers had died whilst swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in Squamish, British Columbia. The trio were part of content creation channel High On Life, which has a current following of 560,000 subscribers, and a further 1.1 million followers on Instagram. As the tragic news broke, so did the influx of comments across news sites and social media.
What should have been an opportunity for public unity and a shared value of life, soon became a shocking and inexcusable insight into how certain people view social media influencers.
How to grow an organic following on Instagram as a landscape photographer
If you are a landscape photographer trying to get his work out there, you have surely heard about that one big imaging platform called Instagram.
So you made yourself a profile and started dropping all your gorgeous work that you worked hard for and suddenly you wonder: Why is nobody liking my images and why do I have 50 followers while others have thousands and just keep growing?
Their reason for it isn´t one- it´s actually many and I´ll try to cover some of them here in this article, giving some tips along the way that have worked for me in the past.
I´ll also cover why this isn´t exactly working super effectively for myself anymore at the end of the article.
The idea for this article came to my mind after receiving many direct messages about the topic on my Instagram account, so I thought my answers might be interesting for others as well.
You can now make group video calls on Instagram
Instagram announced last month that they would launch video chat within the app. And now it’s here: you can now make video calls with your Instagram contacts. Other than calling one friend, you can also make group calls and add up to four friends to the conversation.
How to create and upload video for Instagram’s new IGTV
The online world seems to have been buzzing about Instagram’s new IGTV since it was officially announced yesterday. The Internet is divided – or at least, my social media timelines are. A huge proportion are in the “WOO! YAY!” camp, although there are plenty of people moaning about vertical video syndrome.
If you’re of the latter opinion, sorry, can’t help. But if you’re one of those who wants to jump on the new vertical video service that lets you upload videos up to an hour in length, read on. In this video, filmmaker Jason Boone goes through the whole process in Premiere Pro of creating and uploading your vertical video content.
Instagram announces IGTV, a dedicated app for longer, vertical videos
You may remember a recent report saying that Instagram will allow users to post hour-long vertical videos. Well, Instagram has just announced IGTV, a standalone app created solely for this purpose. It’s aimed particularly at users who watch videos on their phones, so all videos are in the vertical format and the company believes that “this is the future of video.”
Stop Instagram from ruining your videos with this easy technique
Instagram is notorious for destroying the quality of videos posted to your feed. You spend all this time editing a video in Premiere Pro, Resolve or whatever only to have it destroyed by recompression algorithms. It actually puts many people off posting videos to the platform at all. But all is not lost.
Filmmaker and YouTuber Daniel Schiffer believes he’s cracked the problem. And looking at his Instagram, it seems that he may have done just that. He doesn’t look to be having quality issues at all. In this video, Daniel walks us through his process from the rendering on the desktop to pushing it out on Instagram.
Instagram will no longer notify you when someone screenshots your story
Earlier this year, Instagram started testing out screenshot alerts for Stories (yeah, just like the feature on Snapchat). The test phase lasted for a couple of months, and now Instagram has decided not to roll it out after all. So, if you have been getting screenshot alerts so far – you no longer will.
Instagram will allow users to post hour-long vertical videos, report says
Instagram may be starting to change as we know it. Going from the platform of quick posts and instant gratification and branching out into long-form video content. At least, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yes, hour-long vertical videos. It’s a strange prospect, but as Engadget suggests, it’s not outside the bounds of reason.
Facebook has been putting a big focus on video content recently, and as they own Instagram, it’s a natural potential progression. And it’s a lot more advertising revenue for Facebook (which they need, given the number of people ditching Facebook-owned platforms lately).
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