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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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[–] zade-heights@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This might get lost but as someone with over 10k followers and a stupid reel with over 1m views…

Instagram doesn’t make sense and the algorithm is stupid at the moment.

Still, I try to post a reel daily and stills content 2/3 times a week.

You need to think about the following when producing continent for social media:

Engagement: Does your content encourage the viewer to like, comment, share or head to your page? Does your video encourage the viewer to watch all the way though?

Value: Is the viewer getting some value for their time? Are you entertaining them? Or are you educating them?

Audio: are you using trending or original audio. If you’re using original audio your sound design needs to be half decent and have depth.

I’m terms of stills posts you can provide value by uploading 10+ images in a carousel format, there’s a few tutorials of how to do this in photoshop but I’m also working on my own as I don’t feel that they’re great.

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