i do not like the armenian startup ‘picsart’, the pride of many, because of different, mostly technical reasons, but i really like that it’s the first successful company, which promotes remixing, and encourages you to upload a photo under a license which provides opportunity to remix. they even have a hash tag, #freetoremix, if i am not mistaken. #picsart #instagram #photography #mobile_photography
i feel a bit guilty that i don’t share texts with you recently. i write in the armenian stream but not here.
so let me tell you something which i did not write there because i have been written there the same in the other context.
i want to tell you why i feel reluctant to use instagram. years ago i wrote here (and if diaspora navigation would be better, here would be the link to that post) that i have many questions, in particular, is it ethical to post to instagram photos made with dslr or on film?
now i see that well that’s a standard behavior of many photographers. though there is an irony - photographers come to instagram because there is market - a lot of people, and a lot of people they know in person. on the other hand if i would be on instagram, i would follow the photographers, not the people i know. and if the stream would get bigger, i would not be able to follow everyone. i don’t even talk that i try to avoid saass, that’s okay, i would use it, it’s not the only saass i use after all.
but there’s another reason. the maintenance of instagram stream is too much of overhead for me. i find myself trying to avoid unnecessary overheads. to me updating funtoo is not an overhead. it’s a pleasure. as well as driving. if i would be rich i would not have a driver.
but putting photo to a phone ir order to upload to instagram, because instagram only allows to upload from it’s own software (i even don’t mention it’s proprietary, you see?), just the absence of the api to do so is a hustle. and i find myself saving movements. i feel humiliated by obeying those rules. every time i would do that i would feel humiliated.
i am trying to have less ovehread. i have jolla, so often when i have downloaded new track or an album, copying it to the phone takes seconds before getting out of home. i do scp that to the phone, and then while i take the backpack and get out, it’s already there.
but somehow instagram feels like unnecessary overhead i am just trying to keep me away from. #instagram #jolla #hosting
don’t crowdsource your self-esteem. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-cz_Unwpc
#photography #instagram
I know this is not exactly a good place to raise such questions, bun anyway.
Some people share photos on Instagram, that have been taken with phone. some people share pictures that have been taken with digital or film SLR cameras.
Now, how Instagram is defined? Is it a community of people who shoot with phones? Then, how ethical to post there photos made by other, more flexible and powerful devices?
And how much powerful? If I get a phone with a good camera, does it count? How bad should the quality of the image be in order to be okay to post it on Instagram?
Then, if I happen to have a bad scan of a film frame, or just a low quality shot, because I have messed up settings - is it bad enough to post there?
May be then it’s not a phone pictures sharing space, but instant photos sharing space? Then, is it ethical if I share a photo made by my Canon 6D which has WiFi and allows instantly transfer photo to phone?
Or is it just another photo sharing service, which is popular among those who makes photos with phones, and I don’t have to make bad quality shots in order to put there?
Or shell I necessarily apply Instagram filter? Or can I shoot the photo with another camera? This questions also relate to VSCO service. Should I only apply VSCO proprietary filters in order to publish photo on that photo service? And on the other hand, does it make any sense to publish there something which was not created with the help of their software? Then, they have special software for Windows and Mac. Does that count?
Eventually, what if I just want to be connected with local community, people I know in person, and show off my photos to them, because they have no idea what am I doing? Or it is offensive behaviour?
If we were talking about photography sharing space, I would not have this question. Good photo remains a good photo independently of how it was made. Same is true for bad photo. But this place is called Instagram. Does it assume one has to show off only how can he shoot with weak gear?
#instagram #photography #question #cameras #mobile #instant
gimp instagram effects http://registry.gimp.org/node/28613
#gimp #instagram #reverse_engineering #flter #graphics #image
when Instagram was bought by Facebook back in 2012, I wrote a piece for the BBC News website decrying how the filter-laden sharing app had made everyone’s pictures look the same
from here
#instagram #photography
what do you think about usage of instagram like effects in mobile photography? or about lomo like effects?
I am asking because I also do photos with mobile, and I wonder, shell we use effects, or try to achieve something beautiful by the frame itself, by knowing limited capabilities, and allowing ourselves just a little, may be, color/light correction?
#photography #photo #instagram #mobile_photography #mobile-photography #mobile #question
mobile device manufacturers are trying to advertise their products as means of creativity. not only means of consumption. which is also good, because it’s about us. we want to be creative, not only consume.
i would like to say, let’s not forget, that we have amazing tool for creative work, right under ours very nose, but it becomes more and more neglected.
it is banal desktop personal computer.
it has terrific operating systems, well developed, toolkits and frameworks for writing software, diverse tools for creative work - photoshop and gimp, inkscape and illustrator, maya and blender, different cad systems for architects and engineers, cool software to create movies and animations.
btw, it’s symptomatic, that gtk toolkit was created in order to write gimp. (: because if you have such cool programs it means you have cool tools to write them.
on the contrary on mobile we have tools like instagram and picsart (btw, latter is developed in armenia, some of my friends work there, it’s founded by my former chief), and those tools are more like toys, too primitive.
and when you have only mobile device you have much more limited possibilities to learn, to go deeper, if you are curious. if you use windows, you can discover cmd, regedit, download real visual studio, use real professional tools like adobe illustrator, even when pirated. on mobile you cannot have such tools. you cannot make creative work which demands more tools, more efforts, and more knowledge, more personal development. that’s why i liked my n810 with maemo, it was basically hildon over debian, and when you have debian, it means whole gnu/linux world in your hands, you have tools, you can go deeper, do and learn a lot.
so this all beauty - development frameworks, toolkits, creative and professional tools, it’s all now neglected by the society which is amazed with mobile so called apps.
#mobile #desktop #photoshop #gimp #illustrator #inkscape #blender #instagram #picsart #console #tools #programming #gtk #debian #maemo #creativity
— … virtual robotics competition.
— why virtual?
— for those who don’t know electronics, cannot deal with mechanics, cannot do low lever programming…
— then it is like instagram: for those who cannot make good photos.
#instagram #robotics #talk #electronics #mechanics #photography
russian instagram 2015
#fun #putin #russia #instagram #buckwheat
ամէնալաւ սելֆիներից մէկը (one of the best selfies ever)
աղբիւր
#սելֆի #ինստագրամ #լուսանկար #հեռախօս #դիւրակիր #ինքնանկար #selfie #instagram #photo #phone #mobile
found on #instagram http://instagram.com/p/VKupxFu9dS/
looked much better before the capital built those faceless buildings
#լուսանկարներ #Երեւան #Հայաստան #քաղաք #Արարատ #photo #Yerevan #Armenia #city #Ararat #landscape ####################
found on #instagram http://instagram.com/p/VLisroO9dV/
#լուսանկարներ #հայք #սարեր #հայաստան #photo #mountains #armenia
so if you want to add your #twitter or #instagram contacts to the #rss reader such as #liferea or #thunderbird, do the following: for twitter:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=twitter_username
and for instagram:
http://widget.stagram.com/rss/n/instagram_username/
#reader #feed #subscribe #internet
