Need Advice on my Instagram Selections

Hi Dan, Looks great to me. I wouldn't change anything. Its very cohesive as a collection with just enough variety.

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Dan - as I follow you, my only question is - what do you want to achieve with adjusting your selections on Instagram? I haven't posted a single photo in something like 7 months yet my follower count continues to rise slowly, but faster than it did when I did!
 
Dan, I'm one of your Insta followers. I like what I see there as it is. Maybe sometimes I wish there was more explanation about the picture, but really I find it consistently high quality.
 
You're kidding of course. What you need to do Dan, buy the most expensive and highest MP camera that is currently available and that will make all the difference in your pictures. Then naturally the next one that comes out bigger and better will require that you get it to keep improving your superb pictures that are posted.......... I'm kidding of course. Not about the superb pix though.
 
Dan, I will give you my opinion if you will tell me what you want your instagram photos to accomplish. Do you want people to buy your photos? Hire you? Just appreciate your work? If appreciate, is it other photographers or the general public? Since I am not an instagram person, the answer may be obvious to others but not to me.
 
Are you asking how to get more likes?
Forget BW. Forget politics and old style heads in the middle.
Get it in color and with load of slick, acid faces, bodies. Pay attention for fashion trends. Show some heavy fake gold. Russian naked bimbos are hot selling tickets as always.
It is Instagram, it is one large trash. And you are currently trying to show them Mandelshtam. They have no brains to eat it. It is world biggest flock of seagulls. Feed them with trendy trash. They like it.
 
Ko.Fe. said:
Are you asking how to get more likes?
Forget BW. Forget politics and old style heads in the middle.
Get it in color and with load of slick, acid faces, bodies. Pay attention for fashion trends. Show some heavy fake gold. Russian naked bimbos are hot selling tickets as always.
It is Instagram, it is one large trash. And you are currently trying to show them Mandelshtam. They have no brains to eat it. It is world biggest flock of seagulls. Feed them with trendy trash. They like it.
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Do you actually use Instagram, or even visit it?
 
About the only thing I would say negative is that a few of the portraits where people are obviously mugging for the camera are weak. In digital color they have a place on Instagram but in full-tone B&W, not really for me. And the self-portraits should go. I get the Vivian Mayer homages but they aren't very compelling.

I think that here are two ways to view Instagram. One is as an ongoing stream. Images bubble up and out and drop back under the water. The second way is to see it as slowly building a gallery. On the gallery approach, you should probably cull it back down. There are some weaker shots, etc. As a bubbling stream, go with it and let it all stand.

How often do you post? And do you use hashtag generators? You might keep some standard ones in all posts. Maybe 10-15 of the 'all time winner' hashtags, and then add a few for specific images. And post two or three times a week. I find if i don't post for some time, I need to rebuild momentum. Not sure how that works, but it seems to happen.

As others have said, the main issue is what you hope to achieve with it, and if it is the right place for what you want to achieve. These are things I don't know much about other than I throw stuff up and let it sink back under over time.
 
Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. I'm currently trying to catch up on my scanning backlog of about 200 negatives that I chose from about 2000. Then I have to go through everything and pick my favorites, and whittle that down to 100. I've been posting about one photo per day. Seeing which get the most likes helps me gauge what others like. None of my photos, unless noted are homages. What I like to shoot in terms of street photos are the same things I liked to shoot when I was twelve. I still have those shots :) People seem to like the self portraits. What I want to accomplish with the Instagram - hopefully it can help propel a second book to follow up on Never Seeing Nothing. If I edit super tight, it should be really good. We'll see.
 
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