Why do "real" photographers hate instagram?

[ptl2010]

I hate it because everyone who i know who uses it takes stupid pictures with it. I bet 90% of the pics on instagram are of food. Who cares what you had for breakfast. Want to know what I care less about? How your breakfast looks with a yellow grainy filter applied to it. What annoys me is I think people take more photos than they should with it because they think adding a filter suddenly makes a subject interesting. Granted if it was used "properly" to "enhance" actual good subject matter, and the filter was properly selected for a purpose, not just because its different, then maybe it could be ok.

Also - they use wayyyy too many yellow filters. Makes everyone look like they have jaundice.

last but not least - hippies. A lot of people who use instagram (that I know) are in what I would call "hippie" state of mind. They usually have iphones / macs (which i hate), listen to crap music like the beatles, and enjoy recycling. All of the above I hate.

If someone told me the only pictures I could take from now on were on isntagram, I would give up photography right now.

When someone shows me a picture they took with instagram, my mind inadvertantly wanders off to where I'm thinking "I wonder how long it would take me to bleed to death if i punched through (insert nearest glass object) wrist first"

There are definitely 2 sides to Instagram, But I think the collective message here is that it matters who you follow. I bet if you didn't follow any casual friends and only followed people who took amazing photos, Instagram would be great. Who knows, maybe if you gave that a try, within months you'll be sitting in Starbucks with your MacBook Air, listening to Imagine, thinking about how life would be so much better if everyone learned to to love instead of hate :heart:

imagine all the people...sharing all the woooooorld YOU HOOO OOOOH

 

[The_Traveler]

I don't give a rat's behind what others chose to do with their pictures - until they try to pass it off as their own ideas and art.

 

[bentcountershaft]

Evidently the editors at Time magazine are fans.

 

[Derrel]

I hate it because everyone who i know who uses it takes stupid pictures with it. I bet 90% of the pics on instagram are of food. Who cares what you had for breakfast. Want to know what I care less about? How your breakfast looks with a yellow grainy filter applied to it. What annoys me is I think people take more photos than they should with it because they think adding a filter suddenly makes a subject interesting. Granted if it was used "properly" to "enhance" actual good subject matter, and the filter was properly selected for a purpose, not just because its different, then maybe it could be ok.

Also - they use wayyyy too many yellow filters. Makes everyone look like they have jaundice.

last but not least - hippies. A lot of people who use instagram (that I know) are in what I would call "hippie" state of mind. They usually have iphones / macs (which i hate), listen to crap music like the beatles, and enjoy recycling. All of the above I hate.

If someone told me the only pictures I could take from now on were on isntagram, I would give up photography right now.

When someone shows me a picture they took with instagram, my mind inadvertantly wanders off to where I'm thinking "I wonder how long it would take me to bleed to death if i punched through (insert nearest glass object) wrist first"

^^^^^Typical Canon user's^^^^ attitudes. Right???

Oh look, actual photojournalism, published on-line by Time Magazine, of people covering the greatest storm of this century...using Instagram!! http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/30/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-capturing-sandys-wrath/#17

 

[ptl2010]

Oh look, actual photojournalism, published on-line by Time Magazine, of people covering the greatest storm of this century...using Instagram!! In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath - LightBox

That's pretty cool!

 

[rexbobcat]

^^^^^Typical Canon user's^^^^ attitudes. Right???

Oh look, actual photojournalism, published on-line by Time Magazine, of people covering the greatest storm of this century...using Instagram!! http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/30/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-capturing-sandys-wrath/#17

I think it's the fact that are so many, in my eyes, better alternatives....

I don't understand why they specifically had them use Instagram. Was it a "I wonder if we can do it?" sort of thing?

 

[bentcountershaft]

I've never used Instagram so I have no idea what the Terms of Service are, but I'm wondering if you give up copyright when you submit there or something. Free photos would make that a pretty enticing source for a struggling industry. I'm just guessing though as I could be very far from the mark.

 

[ptl2010]

I think it's the fact that are so many, in my eyes, better alternatives....

I don't understand why they specifically had them use Instagram. Was it a "I wonder if we can do it?" sort of thing?

IF you read the article it states they they used it because it was the quickest way to capture and share the images with there readers.

 

[ptl2010]

I've never used Instagram so I have no idea what the Terms of Service are, but I'm wondering if you give up copyright when you submit there or something. Free photos would make that a pretty enticing source for a struggling industry. I'm just guessing though as I could be very far from the mark.

Here are the two things in there Terms of use that pertain to the content posted by users.

1. Instagram does NOT claim ANY ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post on or through the Instagram Services. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the Instagram Services, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels, except Content not shared publicly ("private") will not be distributed outside the Instagram Services
2. The Instagram Services contain Content of Users and other Instagram licensors. Except as provided within this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the Instagram Services.

 

[CCericola]

Photographers hating Instagram is like Writers hating Words With Friends. It's a friggin game. It's fun. That's it.

 

[ptl2010]

Photographers hating Instagram is like Writers hating Words With Friends. It's a friggin game. It's fun. That's it.

Writers are a little more adaptive than photographers, If writers were like photographers, they would all hate word processors because they take all of the "skill" out of being a writer somehow :mrgreen:

 

[The_Traveler]

Photographers hating Instagram is like Writers hating Words With Friends. It's a friggin game. It's fun. That's it.

Writers are a little more adaptive than photographers, If writers were like photographers, they would all hate word processors because they take all of the "skill" out of being a writer somehow :mrgreen:

No, calligraphers would hate word processors, writers hate editors.

 

[rexbobcat]

IF you read the article it states they they used it because it was the quickest way to capture and share the images with there readers.

And yet they had the time to lay the photo out and send it to print? Lol

From an Internet-centric perspective I can see it as being convenient, but...

 

[NE-KID]

They want something to complain about.

 

[bentcountershaft]

They want something to complain about.

There are a lot of people like that, constantly looking for something to complain about. All they have to do is get married and they'll never waste time looking again.