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10 Top Creative Photography Instagram Profiles you Should Follow

08 Jan

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Want to add a little more inspiration to your Instagram feed? We’ve compiled the 10 top creative photography Instagram profiles you should follow that will make scrolling much more inspiring!

Listed in no particular order, these profiles can inspire creativity and imagination as they photograph the world around them, either real or created. Check it out!

1. Paul Nicklen

First, in the top creative photography Instagram profiles you should follow is Paul Nicklen. Paul is a wildlife photographer whose work has been featured in National Geographic as well as many other exhibitions throughout the world. Most known for his exploration and documentation of polar bears and arctic wildlife, Paul is a suburb fine art photographer and one to follow on Instagram!

 

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2. Laura Zalenga

A creative photographer that combines reality with imagination and great storytelling, Laura Zalenga is one to follow along through her creative journey. She is also an Adobe Creative Resident giving followers an insight into what it means to have a residency at Adobe.

 

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3. Humans of NY

Part documentary, part humanitarian, Humans of NY is an account that inspires us to tell stories about the most unlikely of people. The photographer also travels and tells stories of people from all over the world. Sharing lots of different perspectives of ordinary people who sometimes don’t show their faces and whose stories connect with many followers.

 

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“My husband hasn’t been home in 153 days. There’s a legal case right now, so I can’t say exactly what happened. But he suffered a catastrophic brain injury in July. And so many of his memories are gone. Some days I’ll go visit him and it just won’t stick. He still remembers my name, but his memories about me are all wrong. Or the details are mixed up. But he’s one hundred percent convinced they’re true. He can’t be corrected. He’s steadfast in his memories. Right now I feel like we’re on two different tracks. I’m just trying to find the places where they merge. He recognized our wedding ring yesterday, even though it was around my neck—that was big for me. It was a moment when our realities came together. Our 45th anniversary is this Saturday. I’m just hoping it will be as normal as possible. I’m going to cook him dinner. Hopefully he’ll eat. And maybe we can share some of the same memories. I’m not sure if that’s enough for me, but it has to be. It has to be enough. Because he’s not going anywhere. And neither am I. We’re in this together.”

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“I vividly remember watching cartoons as a kid and seeing Bugs Bunny standing on a lily pad, playing ‘Hello My Darling,’ with a banjo in his hand and a drum on his back. I’ve always wanted to play music myself. But it’s so hard to make a living at it. For awhile I was playing the banjo in restaurants. But I couldn’t make it work. So I thought I’d try the Bugs Bunny thing.”

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4. Minh T (thismintymoment)

Minh T is a superb photographer combining geometric architecture with a clean portrait creating a style all of his own. Minimalistic in nature but drawing the eye to the focal point using negative space and clean lines. This is a profile on Instagram worth following.

 

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A new set of images inspired by the bold diagonal lines of the most provocative letters of the alphabet, the letter X, which happens to be the namesake of this seductive scent from the house of @clivechristianperfume. Spicy and woody, it leaves a strong impression — full of strength and sensuality . #CliveChristianPerfume #DiscoverClive #CliveChristianX #sponsored #architecture #icons

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5. Tropicophoto

This duo brings color, creative imagination, and narratives that tell stories to a whole different level. Their entire feed is an explosion of color.

 

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6. Eva Kosmas Flores

Eva is a food stylist, cook, and photographer that brings moodiness and a bit of warmth to her photography. She also gives workshops on how to better your food photography even if you’re not a photographer. Her presets also set her photos apart giving them that dark and inviting feel.

 

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7. Peter Hurley

Peter Hurley is a renown headshot photographer giving workshops all over the world to photographers helping them master headshot portraiture. He is down to earth and fun to follow along in Insta Stories for behind the scenes of his shoots, travels, and life.

 

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8. Stormy Solis

Stormy is a portrait photographer who has carved her own style creating beautiful images of connection, love, and intimacy among families and couples. Truly captivating her imagery inspires her followers to take a more intimate approach to portrait photography.

 

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9. Reuben Wu (itsreuben)

Reuben Wu is the creator of the Aerogliph. Using the light from drones and slow shutter speed, he light-paints in mid-air creating the most interesting and thought-provoking images.

 

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10. Donatella Nicolini (donatellanicolinistudio)

And finally, in the top creative photography Instagram profiles you should follow is Donatella Nicolini. Donatella is an Italian portrait photographer focused mainly on fine art maternity. Her images are paint-like and breathtakingly timeless!

 

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In conclusion

Instagram is a great source of inspiration and there are some great photographers making incredible photographs! Add these Instagram profiles you should follow to your list of inspiring photographers on Instagram!

Do you have others to add to ‘Instagram Profiles You Should follow’? If so, please share in the comments!

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Best cameras for Instagram in 2019

20 Dec

Although smartphones are the default choice, a lot of the most attractive lifestyle photographs on platforms such as Instagram are shot using ‘traditional’ cameras.

We’ve chosen a selection of models that make it easier to shoot high-quality, compelling lifestyle images, whatever you intend to use them for. We’ve considered the need to offer a pleasant degree of background blur, the availability of wide-angle lenses and the ease with which they’ll focus on people.

The experienced photographer: Fujifilm X-T3

The X-T3 makes an excellent camera for attractive lifestyle photography. Fujifilm offers an array of relatively affordable prime lenses that let you shoot high-quality lifestyle photos. The X-T3’s ‘Film Simulation’ color modes then make it easy to make these shots look as engaging as possible without requiring a ton of editing. The camera’s face and eye detection isn’t the best, but it’s sufficiently good that you can concentrate on your composition and conveying the almost-too-good-to-be-true life moment, rather than worrying about focus.

For the beginner: Canon EOS M50

The EOS M50 can’t match the Fujifilm for lens choice but both Canon and Sigma offer a couple of keenly priced prime lenses that can give that slight background blur that helps your subject stand out. Its main advantage is a simple, primarily touchscreen-based interface that lets you get great shots without having to play with lots of dials.

We considered the cameras below when picking our winner, and even though we think the Fujifilm X-T3 and Canon EOS M50 are the best choices, the other cameras on our shortlist are also worthy contenders.

  • Our pick: Fujifilm X-T3
  • Our pick: Canon EOS M50

Also consider:

  • Canon EOS RP
  • Canon PowerShot G5 X II
  • Fujifilm X100F
  • Nikon Z6
  • Panasonic Lumix DC-LX100 II
  • Sony a7 III

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Instagram expands fact-checking program with misinformation warnings on images

19 Dec

In a blog post on Monday, Instagram announced that it is expanding its fact-checking system globally. With this expansion, third-party fact-checkers will review potential information published by Instagram users around the world. In order to reduce the spread of this misinformation, Instagram is using warning labels on flagged images.

Easily acquired photo-editing software like Photoshop has made it possible to fabricate images and use them as ‘proof’ for fake stories. These images can be found across all social media platforms; they may include subtle edits like an airplane added to the image of a skyline or more obvious edits like a shark in a swimming pool.

Rather than removing flagged images, which may raise concerns over censorship, Instagram is using warning labels to alert users who view the images. The initial warning label reads, ‘False information,’ followed by, ‘Reviewed by independent fact-checkers.’ Users have the option of tapping a link that will provide an explanation about why the image was flagged as false or tapping through to view the post.

When viewing the post, users will still see a bright red warning label that reads, ‘See why fact-checkers say this is false.’ Tapping the link takes the user to assessments made by the fact-checkers, as well as their conclusions about the image. Users still have the option of sharing flagged posts.

Accounts that repeatedly post flagged content will be removed from the hashtag and Explore pages in order to reduce their reach on the platform. Users retain the ability to manually report posts as ‘false information’ using the feedback option Instagram introduced earlier this year.

The expansion arrives amid growing concerns over the role Instagram may have in the spreading of disinformation during the 2020 election. The company says it will now automatically label identical content as misinformation if it was first rated as partly false or false on Facebook, a platform heavily criticized over its facilitation of fake news.

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Instagram expands anti-bullying system, starts issuing alerts over offensive captions

17 Dec

Instagram has announced that its platform will start warning users when it detects that they’re about to post a potentially offensive caption on a photo or video. This new feature marks the expansion of the anti-bullying system Instagram introduced earlier this year.

In July, Instagram rolled out an AI-powered system that warns users when they attempt to publish a ‘harmful’ comment. This same technology is now being used to monitor for potentially offensive content captions, as well, Instagram announced on Monday.

The system works by identifying captions that are similar to ones previously reported by users. When the system is triggered, a prompt will appear within the Instagram app that reads, ‘This caption looks similar to others that have been reported.’ Users have the option of either sharing the caption regardless or editing it before publishing.

The feature is rolling out to ‘select’ countries at this time, but will be available globally in ‘coming months.’

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Former Facebook employees claim Instagram hid ‘likes’ to increase post frequency

12 Dec

A new report claims on behalf of three former Facebook employees that Instagram is hiding ‘likes’ as an experiment to determine whether doing so will get users to post more content. The theory, according to CNBC, is that users who receive few likes on their content may not post as often out of a sense of embarrassment. By hiding likes, Instagram may remove the psychological barrier preventing many users from frequently posting.

Over the course of its test this year, Instagram repeatedly presented its decision to hide likes as an effort to ‘depressurize’ the platform, reduce cyberbullying, and help users focus on the subjects and people who interest them. By hiding likes, the company has said, Instagram will feel less like a popularity contest.

The anonymous sources speaking to CNBC claim that it was parent company Facebook’s research that spurred the hidden likes test. The social media company allegedly found that removing public like counts resulted in Instagram users posting more often.

One source claims that Facebook’s research showed users were deleting or hiding posts that didn’t receive many likes, among other things. Whereas the lack of publicly visible likes helps users feel less self-conscious when their content doesn’t get much attention, the delivery of like and comment notifications to these same users may provide an incentive for them to post more often.

Instagram is allegedly aware of the fact that hidden ‘likes’ may have a negative impact on influencers by reducing the amount of engagement on their posts, but the sources claim that Facebook isn’t terribly concerned due to the lack of adequate competing services these influencers have available to them. This may not matter for the company in the long run if enough users start posting often enough to noticeably boost ad revenue, potentially making up for any negative effects on influencers.

The question remains over whether the ‘depressurized’ nature of a publicly like-free Instagram will lead to the more habitual use of the platform among some users, potentially paving the way for an uptick in ‘Instagram addiction’ cases. If a sense of peer pressure is causing many users to inherently moderate their use of the platform, removing that psychological barrier may have some unwanted consequences.

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This Chrome extension makes Instagram ‘likes’ visible again

06 Dec

Over the past several months, Instagram has steadily removed publicly visible ‘likes’ from content posted on its platform, a decision that has polarized users. As the company explained earlier this year, hiding ‘likes’ removes the competitive feel from the platform, encouraging users to focus on the content, not how many people are engaging with it. A new Web browser extension changes that.

Called ‘The Return of Likes,’ this new Chrome extension enables users to view like and comment counts on images when browsing Instagram using a Web browser. ‘Instagram has stopped displaying the number of likes and comments in some areas,’ developer Socialinsider explains, ‘[and] that makes the life of a Social Media person very complicated so we thought about lending a hand.’

‘The Return of Likes’ extension is available in the Chrome Web Store now; it doesn’t appear to be available for any other Web browsers at this time.

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Facebook explains how its AI helps Instagram users discover new images

27 Nov

In a new technical post on its Artificial Intelligence blog, Facebook details the technology that determines which images Instagram users see in the platform’s Explore tab. According to the company, it had to develop ‘novel engineering solutions’ in order to select a relatively minuscule number of recommended images, videos, and Stories out of the billions of options each time the Explore tab is opened.

Instagram’s Explore tab is found by tapping the magnifying glass icon within the service’s mobile app. The content presented within this tab is a small selection chosen from the billions of images and videos uploaded by users. Instagram uses machine learning (ML) to determine which content is most relevant to the user, helping them discover the types of images and videos they’re most likely to care about.

Facebook explains in its new post that Instagram’s Explore tab is powered by a three-part ‘ranking funnel’ system that is capable of making 90 million model predictions in a single second. Engineers developed multiple systems to ensure that Instagram’s Explore recommendations are ‘both high quality and fresh,’ among other things.

Facebook explains:

After creating the key building blocks necessary to experiment easily, identify people’s interests effectively, and produce efficient and relevant predictions, we had to combine these systems together in production.

The overall recommendation system first engages in what Facebook calls Candidate Generation, which determines the accounts (‘seed accounts’) an Instagram user may be interested in based on the accounts they already follow. Using these seed accounts, the AI then uses embedding techniques to find other accounts similar to the first batch it found.

Using this entire batch of accounts, Instagram’s system then determines which images and videos those users engaged with (likes, shares, etc.), as well as the content they posted. Thousands of candidate posts are identified for each average person using the platform, according to Facebook.

Once the candidates are identified, the system takes 500 of them and ranks them using a three-part ranking infrastructure. The first pass in this ranking system uses a distillation model to select 150 of the highest-quality posts from the 500 candidates.

The second pass utilizes a lightweight neural network to pick 50 of the highest-quality posts from the batch of 150. Finally, the third and final pass uses a deep neural network to pick 25 candidates that are both most relevant to the user and of the highest quality. Those 25 candidates appear on the first page of the Instagram Explore tab.

The selection process isn’t quite as simple as it sounds. Facebook explains that its system predicts which individual actions users will take on any given post, such as whether they’ll ‘like’ or share it — or, alternatively, whether they’ll have a negative response, which is something like choosing to ‘see fewer posts’ like the one they were recommended. The system can be designed to give more weight to certain predicted actions than others.

Instagram’s Explore tab factors in the intention of showing users posts related to new interests in addition to their existing interests, according to Facebook, which explains:

We add a simple heuristic rule into value model to boost the diversity of content. We downrank posts from the same author or same seed account by adding a penalty factor, so you don’t see multiple posts from the same person or the same seed account in Explore.

The ultimate goal of Instagram’s Explore tab is helping users find new, relevant, and interesting content from other users. Facebook says that its engineers are ‘continuously evolving’ the discovery tab.

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Instagram hidden-likes trial goes global after months of regional testing

16 Nov

After testing it across several regions earlier in the year, Instagram started hiding ‘likes’ for accounts based in the United States last week. Now, the Facebook-owned company has announced on Twitter it’s rolling the test out on a global scale.

The trial is part of an initiative aimed at making users focus on the quality of the content they are posting rather than on how many likes their posts are receiving. Those users included in the trial won’t see a like-count on other people’s images and videos, but can still see the numbers for their own posts.

Instagram says feedback on the trial so far has been positive but the company is aware that removing like counts constitutes a fundamental change to its platform and therefore is expanding the test to ‘learn more from our global community.’

It is also aware of the importance of like counts for some of its users, such as influencers who use followers and likes as a currency in sponsorship negotiations, and says it is ‘actively thinking through ways for creators to communicate value to their partners.’, without specifying yet what these ways could be.

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Instagram CEO says it will start testing hidden ‘likes’ in the US starting this week

10 Nov

After testing it in numerous other regions, including Brazil, Japan, Canada and Australia, Instagram has confirmed it will start hiding ‘likes’ for accounts based in the United States this coming week.

The confirmation comes from Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri during the below interview at WIRED25. In it, he says certain users in the United States will have ‘private likes’ as soon as this week. Based on how Mosseri addresses the crowd, it appears as though the rollout will be random.

While elaborating on why Instagram is looking to test this, Mosseri said:

‘It’s about young people. The idea is to try and depressurize Instagram [to] make it less of a competition [and] giving people more space to focus on connecting with people that they love [and] the things that inspire them.’

It very much seems as though this is a work in progress, far from being set in stone, so initial feedback will likely play a major role in whether or not this feature — or mores the lack of a feature — sticks around.

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Instagram is rolling out new privacy features for third-party app authorizations

17 Oct

A number of third-party services allow users to link their Instagram accounts in order to access certain features, such as photo printing services that enable customers to directly order prints of their Instagram images. Going forward, Instagram is offering its users more control over these authorizations, including which services are connected and when they were authorized.

Instagram detailed the new control on its press blog this week, explaining that users can now pull up a list of third-party services that are actively authorized on one’s Instagram account by tapping Settings > Security > Apps and Websites.

The menu now displays ‘Active’ authorizations given to third-party services, including the name of the app, the date the link was authorized, direct links to the privacy policies for these linked services, and the ability to terminate the authorization by tapping a ‘Remove’ button.

Beyond that, Instagram has also launched a new authorization screen that appears in the Instagram app when third-party services request info from the user’s account. This screen shows the name of the third-party service, which profile information it is requesting, and what kind of data it wants access to. Instagram users will need to manually authorize or cancel the request.

According to Instagram, users will see these new features rolling out ‘gradually’ over the next six months.

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