Why do "real" photographers hate instagram?

[NE-KID]

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.

I agree. I just ignore them in general I like adding my photographs on that photo application for the iPhone alo't of people like the photos I shoot.

 

[jake337]

The key to finding great stuff on instagram is to find people who create fantastic art and check out who they are following. Keep doing this and you will find thousands of great artists out there.

Here's a couple.

mora_lubis
Luch_marino

If your looking at the popular page your looking in the wrong place.




People who think instagram is only for cell phone snaps are blind that social media like this is defined by the individuals who use it, not the ones who created it.

 

[Sw1tchFX]

I just recently started uing instagram..I only have 3 photos on there. I don't use Instagram to shoot or edit, VSCOcam is better for that. Also, I only put photos I feel are really good, and really interesting. Hence why there's only 3 on there.

Instagram is abused with food and party shots. generally, I figure why fake it when I generally carry the real thing. And right now my weapon of choice is the EOS Elan 7NE w/ the 40 pancake..

 

[Derrel]

>>SNIP>>>ight now my weapon of choice is the EOS Elan 7NE w/ the 40 pancake..

You seriously need to check out the Nikon N75 with the 35mm waffle...it's sublime...

 

[paigew]

okay so what is everyones instagram name! I just got it and need some people to follow!

 

[paigew]

The key to finding great stuff on instagram is to find people who create fantastic art and check out who they are following. Keep doing this and you will find thousands of great artists out there.

Here's a couple.

mora_lubis
Luch_marino

If your looking at the popular page your looking in the wrong place.




People who think instagram is only for cell phone snaps are blind that social media like this is defined by the individuals who use it, not the ones who created it.

Isn't it cheating if they post non cell phone pics!?!

 

[12sndsgood]

I don't much care for it just mostly because of the majority of the stuff I happen to see. im not a real photographer though. Just because I like photography doesn't mean I have to love every single aspect of it. I like to ski downhill but I never liked to ski cross-country. diffrent things for diffrent people.

 

[jake337]

The key to finding great stuff on instagram is to find people who create fantastic art and check out who they are following. Keep doing this and you will find thousands of great artists out there.

Here's a couple.

mora_lubis
Luch_marino

If your looking at the popular page your looking in the wrong place.




People who think instagram is only for cell phone snaps are blind that social media like this is defined by the individuals who use it, not the ones who created it.

Isn't it cheating if they post non cell phone pics!?!

No.

It is another medium for sharing ones work(flickr, 500px, photobucket, facebook, etc, etc etc,).

The user defines what the site is used for, not the ones who created it.

 

[jake337]

I don't much care for it just mostly because of the majority of the stuff I happen to see. im not a real photographer though. Just because I like photography doesn't mean I have to love every single aspect of it. I like to ski downhill but I never liked to ski cross-country. diffrent things for diffrent people.

Yes, at first glance but if you dive deeper and search around you can find gold and create a mobile gallery for checking out art wherever you are.

 

[fjrabon]

The key to finding great stuff on instagram is to find people who create fantastic art and check out who they are following. Keep doing this and you will find thousands of great artists out there.

Here's a couple.

mora_lubis
Luch_marino

If your looking at the popular page your looking in the wrong place.




People who think instagram is only for cell phone snaps are blind that social media like this is defined by the individuals who use it, not the ones who created it.

Isn't it cheating if they post non cell phone pics!?!

No.

It is another medium for sharing ones work(flickr, 500px, photobucket, facebook, etc, etc etc,).

The user defines what the site is used for, not the ones who created it.

Sort of agree and sort of disagree. If that was purely true, then you'd be allowed to upload to it from something other than a smartphone. As I understand it, the only way to get shots to it from something other than a cellphone now is to save those pictures to your phone. This is done specifically on purpose to maintain the 'purity of the medium' and encourage users to only use their cellphones. Plus, the community around the site highly discourages using non smartphone photos.

Sure, you can post photos taken on any camera, but the other poster asked if it was considered cheating, and by and large the community that creates the norms for instagram does consider it cheating. Whether you care what other people think is up to you entirely, obviously. But cheating is a concept that only makes sense when you consider other people in a community, thus the user his or herself can't define what cheating is, only a community can.

 

[jake337]

Isn't it cheating if they post non cell phone pics!?!

No.

It is another medium for sharing ones work(flickr, 500px, photobucket, facebook, etc, etc etc,).

The user defines what the site is used for, not the ones who created it.

Sort of agree and sort of disagree. If that was purely true, then you'd be allowed to upload to it from something other than a smartphone. As I understand it, the only way to get shots to it from something other than a cellphone now is to save those pictures to your phone. This is done specifically on purpose to maintain the 'purity of the medium' and encourage users to only use their cellphones. Plus, the community around the site highly discourages using non smartphone photos.

Sure, you can post photos taken on any camera, but the other poster asked if it was considered cheating, and by and large the community that creates the norms for instagram does consider it cheating. Whether you care what other people think is up to you entirely, obviously. But cheating is a concept that only makes sense when you consider other people in a community, thus the user his or herself can't define what cheating is, only a community can.

Cheating? I was not aware Instagram was a competition. I also could care less what others say or do. Most who post with cellphones and other cameras make note of it in their description. I'm sure that "group" that defines it as cheating is very small compared to the sum of all users. Also if they are so worried about "purity of a medium" then the are already lost as the medium which an image, or any piece of art, is created is irrelevant.

So what about all the artists who use paint, charcoal oils, etc. I wonder if they consider them cheaters because their art isn't even photographic.

 

[myvinyl333]

... It's sorta like facebook, but without as much idiocy and pictures. Sure, some are bad, but have you seen my uncle larry's political rants on facebook? I'll take an overprocessed filtered image of somebody's food over that any day.

I like it because I stay in touch with family and friends without using FB and the occasional great shot is posted.

 

[fjrabon]

No.

It is another medium for sharing ones work(flickr, 500px, photobucket, facebook, etc, etc etc,).

The user defines what the site is used for, not the ones who created it.

Sort of agree and sort of disagree. If that was purely true, then you'd be allowed to upload to it from something other than a smartphone. As I understand it, the only way to get shots to it from something other than a cellphone now is to save those pictures to your phone. This is done specifically on purpose to maintain the 'purity of the medium' and encourage users to only use their cellphones. Plus, the community around the site highly discourages using non smartphone photos.

Sure, you can post photos taken on any camera, but the other poster asked if it was considered cheating, and by and large the community that creates the norms for instagram does consider it cheating. Whether you care what other people think is up to you entirely, obviously. But cheating is a concept that only makes sense when you consider other people in a community, thus the user his or herself can't define what cheating is, only a community can.

Cheating? I was not aware Instagram was a competition. I also could care less what others say or do. Most who post with cellphones and other cameras make note of it in their description. I'm sure that "group" that defines it as cheating is very small compared to the sum of all users. Also if they are so worried about "purity of a medium" then the are already lost as the medium which an image, or any piece of art, is created is irrelevant.

So what about all the artists who use paint, charcoal oils, etc. I wonder if they consider them cheaters because their art isn't even photographic.

I guess it depends on how you count. Most of the users couldn't care either way, because they're simply posting duckfaces and food shots. The 'serious photographers' on instagram tend to view it as a medium dedicated to cell phone cameras. There are plenty of venues to post shots on a dSLR. They view instagram as a place to post pictures made on smartphones. I don't know that cheating is purely the right word, but it is certainly viewed as not what instagram is for. I don't particularly care for the strict version that people on there stick by, but I'm just saying that the most active, and creative, instagrammers view it as primarily for cell phones, and any time you post something that isn't on a cell phone, they ask that you clearly label it as such.

They view it as imagining there was a photogallery devoted to Leica cameras and coming in there and posting shots from a Nikon. Or a gallery devoted to scanned film and posting an image that was only ever digital.

 

[jake337]

Sort of agree and sort of disagree. If that was purely true, then you'd be allowed to upload to it from something other than a smartphone. As I understand it, the only way to get shots to it from something other than a cellphone now is to save those pictures to your phone. This is done specifically on purpose to maintain the 'purity of the medium' and encourage users to only use their cellphones. Plus, the community around the site highly discourages using non smartphone photos.

Sure, you can post photos taken on any camera, but the other poster asked if it was considered cheating, and by and large the community that creates the norms for instagram does consider it cheating. Whether you care what other people think is up to you entirely, obviously. But cheating is a concept that only makes sense when you consider other people in a community, thus the user his or herself can't define what cheating is, only a community can.

Cheating? I was not aware Instagram was a competition. I also could care less what others say or do. Most who post with cellphones and other cameras make note of it in their description. I'm sure that "group" that defines it as cheating is very small compared to the sum of all users. Also if they are so worried about "purity of a medium" then the are already lost as the medium which an image, or any piece of art, is created is irrelevant.

So what about all the artists who use paint, charcoal oils, etc. I wonder if they consider them cheaters because their art isn't even photographic.

I guess it depends on how you count. Most of the users couldn't care either way, because they're simply posting duckfaces and food shots. The 'serious photographers' on instagram tend to view it as a medium dedicated to cell phone cameras. There are plenty of venues to post shots on a dSLR. They view instagram as a place to post pictures made on smartphones. I don't know that cheating is purely the right word, but it is certainly viewed as not what instagram is for. I don't particularly care for the strict version that people on there stick by, but I'm just saying that the most active, and creative, instagrammers view it as primarily for cell phones, and any time you post something that isn't on a cell phone, they ask that you clearly label it as such.

They view it as imagining there was a photogallery devoted to Leica cameras and coming in there and posting shots from a Nikon. Or a gallery devoted to scanned film and posting an image that was only ever digital.

I understand what you're saying. I just don't care what they think! I like to see great art. At the end of the day the medium is irrelevant.

 

[fjrabon]

Cheating? I was not aware Instagram was a competition. I also could care less what others say or do. Most who post with cellphones and other cameras make note of it in their description. I'm sure that "group" that defines it as cheating is very small compared to the sum of all users. Also if they are so worried about "purity of a medium" then the are already lost as the medium which an image, or any piece of art, is created is irrelevant.

So what about all the artists who use paint, charcoal oils, etc. I wonder if they consider them cheaters because their art isn't even photographic.

I guess it depends on how you count. Most of the users couldn't care either way, because they're simply posting duckfaces and food shots. The 'serious photographers' on instagram tend to view it as a medium dedicated to cell phone cameras. There are plenty of venues to post shots on a dSLR. They view instagram as a place to post pictures made on smartphones. I don't know that cheating is purely the right word, but it is certainly viewed as not what instagram is for. I don't particularly care for the strict version that people on there stick by, but I'm just saying that the most active, and creative, instagrammers view it as primarily for cell phones, and any time you post something that isn't on a cell phone, they ask that you clearly label it as such.

They view it as imagining there was a photogallery devoted to Leica cameras and coming in there and posting shots from a Nikon. Or a gallery devoted to scanned film and posting an image that was only ever digital.

I understand what you're saying. I just don't care what they think! I like to see great art. At the end of the day the medium is irrelevant.

I agree. I think part of the issue is that they never really envisioned instagram getting as big as it has. It is much like when twitter blew up, there was a big debate as to whether 140 characters defined the medium or was just a needless limitation from the legacy system that twitter was built around involving text messaging.

I also sort of understand the people who view the forced limitations of instagram as a creative challenge that is the whole point of instagram, ie using a smartphone camera and square crop and seeing what you can do with that.

I don't really know which view is more right or wrong, I think both views of what instagram is or should be have their merits.