Comments on: Does Instagram make people better photographers?

By: ShopFISH

ShopFISH — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:22:39 +0000

Haha, nice. I could like it when it stays with Instagram but in my opinion it’s quite annoying to see 10-20 instagram photo’s a day on your Facebook newsfeed.. Everybody uploads everything because it looks quite interesting. I do want to see what people have to say but don’t care for all the instagram posts. I’d like it better if things like Instagram pictures stay on Instagram and not every network is linked with each other.. And well, about the fact if Instagram makes you a better photographer: If you spend more time taking pictures and adding effects etc because of Instagram, then yes, practice makes perfect.

By: K Brown

K Brown — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:30:14 +0000

1: Start Instagram
2: Take a picture of something.
3: Pat yourself on the back.
4: Upload
5: Wait for fame.

Repeat 1-4.

Dream about 5.

By: J. Peterson

J. Peterson — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:50:07 +0000

An important part of photography in the digital age is editing and selection. Perhaps the feedback loop helps people focus on the good stuff and let the others go.

By: Stephen Shankland

Stephen Shankland — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:57:40 +0000

I’m not sure if Instagram makes good photographers better, but I think it does make ordinary people better photographers, on average. I suspect lots of people don’t improve, but I doubt they get worse, and I’ve seen plenty of Instagrammers get better.

Overall, I think it leads people to think about documenting life visually, and even Instagram’s limited options gives people an easy opportunity to think about the aesthetics of photography, not just blah snapshots of their friends.

Maybe it’s like Microsoft Word: it’s a crappy tool for laying out magazines or creating posters, but just letting people pick fonts and font sizes for the birthday party invitation injects an element of design into ordinary lives (Vignetting:Instagram::Comic Sans:Microsoft Windows). Maybe that’s overoptimistic, I dunno, but I’ve seen my son fooling around with formatting and fonts enough to know that he thinks about presentation differently than I did at his age.

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:44:07 +0000

If practice makes you better than Instagram makes you a better photographer because it provides a platform where you can get almost instant feedback. This allows you took keep refining your craft therefore making it better. Of course you need to be willing to make your craft better.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:42:26 +0000

Maybe it makes us better photo editors? Even iconic photos we’re all familiar with were pulled from a series of shots, just as I do when I picking what to share in Instagram.