How did you author the photo you recorded for upload to Instagram?
I took this photo using my IPhone 7. It was incredibly foreign to have taken this photo through the Instagram app itself, as I’m used to taking all photos/videos on my Iphone camera, putting it through a heavy editing process before plugging it through on my Instagram profile. To get the picture, I utilized the rear facing camera and physically angled myself to ensure that the door was the main focal point in the image. The natural daylight allowed for a really high resolution shot, so I did not adjust any of the brightness or saturation on the image itself. The only editing that took place would be slapping a ‘Gingham’ filter on and adjusting the tilt, because a definitive constraint that stuck out to me would be there are no inbuilt grid lines to allow users to position their shot to ensure it’s aligned and straight.
How did you publish the photo you recorded for upload to Instagram?
This was the third image I had to take in order to ensure that no one was in the shot. My overall theme for this assignment is to photograph and video doors that are in incredibly public spaces. I have displayed a sense of consistency through curating a text caption that will be similar across all posts. I will include a location stamp, week in which it was taken for, the amount of attempts I had to take in order to ensure the shot was clear and a comment.
How did you distribute the photo you published on Instagram to other social media services?
I shared the photo onto my Facebook profile. Due to the affordances of Instagram, the text caption and hashtags utilised automatically transferred onto Facebook when I shared the image on the platform. This assignment allows for us to solely focus on the affordances of Instagram and the editing options it provides. “Instead of being concerned with hundreds of different cameras and pieces of professional equipment and endless possible editing operations available in Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom, we only need to consider one native app that have limited number of controls and filters and one type of camera” (Manovich, 2016)
References
Manovich, Lev. Instagram and the Contemporary Image. University of San Diego, 2016. http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/instagram-and-contemporary-image