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Devil's advocate: Instagram is not a "serious" photo app. It's strictly for fun. if you want to shoot serious pictures, you use a purpose built app, or heck, e
by Karunamon 9y ago
Devil's advocate:
Instagram is not a "serious" photo app. It's strictly for fun. if you want to shoot serious pictures, you use a purpose built app, or heck, even the built-in app on your phone. Making the UI a hide-and-seek game, or at least abandoning traditional UI design for something that puts form over function makes sense in that context.
There's an actual game on Steam called "Please, don't touch anything" where this kind of random discovery is the whole point.
Not sure I'd prejudicially dismiss it as "millennial smugness" though.
- simonh 9y ago> There's an actual game on Steam called "Please, don't touch anything" The original was a web game way back in the day called "Don't shoot the puppy". When I realised what was going on I nearly died laughing. My flat mates thought I was having a seizure.
- askafriend 9y agoInstagram is not just a camera app anymore. It’s strong point is distribution and discovery. There is a huge pro photography community on there. They all shoot with serious DSLR/Mirrorless setups, edit shots in Adobe Lightroom and then post the resulting photos on Instagram for their following to see and engage with. Do not dismiss the pro use case for Instagram because it is massive.
- komali2 9y agoYup, this is exactly what I do, though as a hobbyist. My instagram "feed" has very few pictures not taken on a DSLR and edited in lightroom. My stories, on the other hand...
- htormey 9y agoYep, this is me. 90% of my photos are shot with a sony a7 and zeiss lenses, then posted to Instagram for fun.
- klodolph 9y agoInstagram is a serious photo app in the same sense that the Holga is a serious camera.
- rhizome 9y agoWould you agree that the Kodak Instamatic was a serious camera? That is, technology isn't serious, it's the use that it's put to that determines.
- ansible 9y agoLink for the lazy: http://store.steampowered.com/app/354240/Please_Dont_Touch_Anything/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/354240/Please_Dont_Touch_A... It is a funny sort of opposite of games the "The Room" where you are indeed supposed to touch everything.