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This is going to get interesting. I know several professional photographers who use Instagram regularly (and are worth following). I suspect this will not sit
by callmeed 14y ago
This is going to get interesting.
I know several professional photographers who use Instagram regularly (and are worth following). I suspect this will not sit well with some of them. I'm especially curious if Instagram will let people leave and remove their old photos easily.
Some of them also post professional images they've imported from their computer (not just phone images).
For example, here's an image taken by Jose Villa (high-end wedding photographer) for Williams Sonoma's gift registry:
http://instagram.com/p/STxUVcrodv/ http://instagram.com/p/STxUVcrodv/
What's gonna happen when IG sells ads with those kind of images?
- mtgx 14y agoWhy is he even using Instagram? Doesn't seem like he used any filter there, did he? Seems like he's just using it to promote his own DSLR-made photos. Google+ might be a better target for that kind of community.
- slig 14y agoHis target demographic is on Instagram and not on G+, I'd guess.
- wilfra 14y agoIt's a distribution channel - one where all the cool kids currently hang out. He could also be on G+ and Facebook and Twitter and Quora and Reddit and MySpace...and...and... The technology of each is basically irrelevant if there is an attractive audience, as all of us participating on this site clearly demonstrates.
- eropple 14y agoInstagram is commonly used to upload pictures for linking on Twitter, which is a considerably wider social network than Google+. I expect that'll change pretty rapidly pretty soon.
- untog 14y agoBecause Instagram has a huge audience. Google+ might be a better place for the photos, but it doesn't have an audience.
- jonknee 14y agoGoogle+ has a significantly larger audience than Instagram. G+ is more than photos though and has a different audience.
- untog 14y agoHow do you figure that G+ has a larger audience? Larger potential audience, sure, given the number of Google users out there. But Instagram posts have engagement (likes and comments) on a level I've never seen on Google+.
- jonknee 14y agoG+ has more active users than Instagram based on the released data. They purposefully don't release too much information, but the figures that have been announced show G+ to be far larger than Instagram. Instagram claims more than 100M signups, Google claims more than 500M. I don't see MAU for Instagram, but Google+'s MAU is 135M which is more than all of Instagram's signups. Like any social network, what you see is dependent on who you are and how you use the service. Instagram is much more wide open than G+ as well, people are much more likely to share content to only a few people on G+ and thus you'll never see that content (or any replies). From what I've heard from photographers, G+ is definitely an active place to share photos.
- lotso 14y agoWhat makes a user "active" on G+ exactly?
- mtgx 14y agoI've seen hundreds of comments on DSLR-made photos from photographers on Google+. Photographers love Google+, and the engagement is very higher.
- callmeed 14y agoHe has a huge following (of both brides and other photographers) and enjoys taking pictures I'd guess. And, for the record, he still shoots film (not a DSLR) :)
- 89a 14y ago> Some of them also post professional images they've imported from their computer (not just phone images). They're the cancer that's killing Instagram