How did you author the photo you recorded for upload to Instagram?
At this point I might be repeating myself a bit here, again I used my iPhone 8 to take the photo using the rear camera. Although I did take the photo using the square setting, so that the image was already cropped to a square. I didn’t use the flash of the camera because it gave the silver a glare that wasn’t appealing, instead I paced it near a window so that it would get some nice lighting.
My editing within Instagram has become somewhat the same; using the ‘Juno’ filter at 50%, putting the contrast up a bit, decreasing the warmth of the image, adding an orange hued highlight and a navy hued shadow at 30% this time. I have learnt that you can decrease or increase the amount this ‘colour’ setting is added, in last weeks post I didn’t use it because I though it was too much and made the image look worse; but if you touch the little coloured dot again you get a sliding bar that allows you to change it. A little hidden but I appreciate the feature, but I would have liked to known about it earlier. Instagram’s editing is a bit limited with a lot of features or affordances hidden or somethings are just unnamed, like the sliding bar below, I don’t know if it reduced the hue, saturation or even transparency of the colour. Where as apps like lightroom label everything, I know what every thing I change is going to do.
How did you publish the photo you recorded for upload to Instagram?
For this image I only had one image to choose from so I used that one. The reason for this is because my phone’s storage is filling up and instead of taking a bunch of images to then choose only one, I just tried different framing options until I got one that I liked and simply took one photo. To try something new this week, I decided to add a location to the post before uploading but not wanting to add my own location I looked at the options Instagram suggested. Selecting the first and probably most relevant option “stay at home” with no actual location linked to it. Lastly, the caption this image I captioned “A simple remote for an Apple TV, what more could it do? Nothing much surely.” and no hashtags for this image.
How did you distribute the photo you published on Instagram to other social media services?
For the majority of my previous posts to distribute them to a different platform I simply used the options Instagram offered by flicking a switch. But as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this just results in simply linking back to Instagram, especially on Twitter where the image isn’t even visible it’s just a link. This time I wanted to try something different, so I saved the edited post off Instagram and decided to manually post them on different platforms myself.
On Twitter this was easy and I preferred the outcome of this method rather than allowing Instagram to do it for you. This time the image was embedded into the post so it could be seen rather than just a link.
Tumblr had a similar outcome to the twitter post, the image was embedded in the post with the caption accompanying it. Although to save time, this process could have been done through Instagram was similar results, only this time the post does not link back to the Instagram account. Which could be a negative if you are trying to get more views or followers on your Instagram.
The process to upload the image on Twitter and Tumblr was pretty similar to uploading an image to Instagram itself. Although because twitter is more text focused you are prompted to add a caption first then link in any media in this case the image. Tumblr offers more options in posting, first asking what type of content you would like to post and after selecting the photo option you are then asked if you would like to upload the image from your device or off the internet. Although Tumblr and Twitter do no offer the same ability to edit an image that Instagram offers.