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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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People who primarily use Instagram to post your professional photography and currently have 1k+ followers, how did you start getting the most views/likes to you page? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Reila01@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I just made a new Instagram account so I could pursue my astrophotography (and other random photos) hobby. I already posted 5 very nice photos within the first hour of seeing up my new account.

That was yesterday and I've noticed that despite the photos and the hashtags I've only gotten 2 likes on 2 of the 5 images I posted and I've had no profile views so far.

If I had posted on tiktok I would gotten alot of views and likes within minutes of posting. But to have nearly no likes and no views at all after hours later.

It gets really discouraging. Is there something I'm not doing? I try to use hashtags that are really active and use as many a I can but I find that no matter how many hashtags I use it won't make a difference.

Any one have advice how I can increase my chances of actually getting decent views/likes quickly and start growing my following?

serious responses only please

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[–] dropthemagic@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Stills and insta are dead. The only thing people watch are shit videos taken on a dji gimble and don’t stop watching idiotic vertical video. Sorry for the rant. But these fucking assholes ruined proper photo and video. If it wasn’t for the software they wouldn’t even know how to frame a shot

[–] YidArmy76er@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Amen man! The whole point of the platform used to be for photos and now still photography is dead. I’m looking for somewhere else to post, not found anything yet. Genuinely quite gutted about it because I might not have a lot of followers but I felt like it was a consistent “community” of likes and interactions etc. constantly seeing the same names and profiles on my photos and other mutual followers and now it’s harder to even see their posts in my feed. Really frustrating!

[–] dropthemagic@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Same. I make more money shooting for Only fans people that actual real art, portraits etc. I mean everyone says you start by shooting porn. But I’ve been at this for years and tik tok and the other vertical bullshit media companies killed us. The viewers don’t even care about quality etc. they just watch lazy ass apartment sellers try to be all cute on tik tok. Or dogs. Or whatever else you find there ha. I will have to tilt soon. I figured since I’ve been literally accused of one of my painting being ai that I just time lapsed the whole thing. And if they want it in vertical cool. Personally I makes me want to throw up more than Christopher Nolan

[–] msdesignfoto@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I feel your pain. I'm a photographer and I'm always on the lookout for young models who want to try some photoshoots. I've met some interesting models in the past this way, but IG these days is just shit everywhere. Influencers, Digital Content Creators, Instagrammers, for me they can all go into the same trash can. Shitloads of followers only drolling for her bodies, this is actually competing with OnlyFans...

I used to post some photography, and I had some belly dance videography projects with the collaboration of many belly dancers (some international known names), and yet, my Instagram is somewhat dead.

Márcio Silva (@msdesignfoto) • fotos e vídeos do Instagram

[–] SkoomaDentist@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whoever came up with the idea of vertical video (particularly with large crop bars) was an idiot. Humans have two eyes side by side horizontally, not vertically.

[–] postmodern_spatula@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Vertical video surpassed horizontal in hours watched back in like 2016.

By 2019 only a fraction of mobile users were still rotating their phones.

Square and unconventional aspect ratios have been used in cinema for years now as well.

Vertical video wasn’t created by an idiot, it was inevitable.