Hi, Apologies in advance if this topic has been discussed already. Im a little late to the wetpixel family.
So far Ive been using instagram and over last 1 year or so I havent seen any growth in the platform. so I went and created by own website to showcase my portfolio as well as a YouTube page to upload a little bit of cinematography I've been trying out. Anyone has any suggestions on how to tackle these social media platforms from the standpoint of a photographer? and how do you get word out about your portfolio, I wish to one day sell some of my prints as fine art (though they don't look great now I hope to improve my skills)
I'm interested too. Instagram looks dead for photography unfortunately!
If you're @salty_vin I can see there isnt much photography content on your page, just some beach cleanup pics, pics of your boat, and some ungraded gopro video of snorkeling. Slice of life/personal lifestyle work tends to have limited appeal unless there is a bikini clad girl involved.
No sorry that's not me. My instagram is @itsfinmatt
In that case I can see that there isnt a strong identity to the account. The subject meanders between unlit underwater shots, dogs, cropped images of a some sharks, farway birds on powerlines, gopro footage, and okay bug macro. Its hard to build an audience with such disparate subjects. You would do well to apply the same principles of composition to your underwaterwater shots as you nail with your bug macro.
Thanks so much for the honest feedback mate. I guess you're right, I need to prioritise what my account should associate with and not simply post every picture I take.
If we're doing C&C on Instagram pages, any thoughts about mine? @bmekler
@boris you have rich and varied subjects which works great since its based around the same theme, I also see you do great populating your captions. Building up the audience for your (actually very nice) content looks to be your biggest hurdle which requires a little algorithm work. Right now the Instagram algorithm penalizes the overuse of the same hashtags from the same account (because it looks inauthentic or like bot activity) additionally people are getting great results by using less, but more specific hashtags. Instagram is currently rewarding is the use of varied content such as video, Reels, or multi picture posts. Now I don't shoot video but taking 30 minutes to learn how to edit your stills into a fun 15 second videos using apps like Capcut to create Reels (or tiktoks) can drive an audience to your main work.
17 minutes ago, Sharkhottub said:
Right now the Instagram algorithm penalizes the overuse of the same hashtags from the same account (because it looks inauthentic or like bot activity) additionally people are getting great results by using less, but more specific hashtags.
Huh. I had no idea. Thank you, I will look into that.
