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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 1 year 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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[–] Ricestation@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you hoping to become big and an influencer or if its work related. go do what everyone else thats successful is doing, you can literally use a succesful channel as a template and mirror what they are posting. Not telling you to post the same image. but follow there approach to creativity, to quality, and methods.

If you take photos for yourself, then.... it shouldnt matter? As long as you liek teh photo and you feel good about it. why the fixation on likes?

if you are trying to get opinions to get better, go look for private groups on discord or reddit, anywhere that feels like most people in teh group are better then you.

not attacking you, but your 5 very nice photos, is....quite frankly just ur opinion. with out seeing these we dont know if they are actualyl good and ur stuck in a crappy situation. or if you are just being silly....

[–] Sigh_Another_Rando@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think you read the question and I don’t think you are aware of what professsional photography actually is.