Instagram is my favorite social network and I’m very happy to have over 13100 lovely (and real!) people following my feed. The content I share primarily consists in beauty products that I use and love, outfit details, nice places that I’ve stumbled upon and in moments that I didn’t want to forget, so Instagram is more than just social media to me. It’s my diary. And since my feed has been complimented lately by friends and fellow bloggers, I thought that I should write a post on my blog and share some Instagram tips. I’m not an Instagram guru and my feed is far from perfect, but I think that the suggestions from below may help some people step up their Instagram game.
- Download the following editing apps: VSCO Cam, FaceTune, Faded, Snapseed, Polarr, Afterlight and Whitagram.
- Before applying any filter to your photos, make sure exposure, contrast and saturation are on point – use VSCO Cam for these touches.
- Sharpen your pictures a tiny bit and obviously make sure your picture is focused.
- Forget about Instagram’s filters and use VSCO’s instead.
- If you’re not pleased with your picture’s exposure, try a black & white filter.
- Don’t publish pictures taken in poor lighting. It messes up your Instagram feed and it could make you lose followers.
- Do you usually use the on-camera flash when you’re taking captions? What are you doing, mate? Just stop it…
- Don’t share unappealing content.
- Take creative/inspirational captions.
- Find one filter that suits you best and try sticking to it.
- Don’t take selfies with your phone’s secondary camera unless it has 8+ megapixels
- Speaking of selfies, keep them to a minimum.
- If you’re at lunch and want to take a caption of your food, do it by standing up. It’s awkward the first time, but your photo will look way better if you shoot it from high above.
- Consider investing in some backgrounds and props. A white table or white A3 paper, white real marble or marble sticker, colorful A3 paper, vintage parquetry, flowers, antiques, decorative pillows, etc.
- Last but not least, only share your own content. Instagram is not Pinterest.