https://www.instagram.com/p/BpBYOu5nePY/?taken-by=the_door_enthusiast

How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

Once again this image was captured on my iphone 6s. To ensure the best possible photo quality was produced, I used the rear facing camera. This provides optimal quality and is more effective for capturing scenery landscape photography.

Like in my previous #Week 10- Instagram Video post this content idea was generated randomly with no plan or intention of coming across potential content to upload to my Instagram account. However, while going for a quick walk around my block, I ventured into a difference street, discovered this brick wall with a painting and then in the middle featured this door, which I had never come across before. This captured my attention immediately with the use of the vibrant colours popping out at me and the images painted on it which were very unique and creative.

I began the authoring process by positioning myself centrally to the door, so I could frame the image nicely. Allowing it to fit the Instagram square format as well as remaining balanced/ symmetrical. To do this I stood roughly about 2 metres back. Ensuring I wasn’t too far away, as I didn’t want to have to use the zooming in tool, as this tends to decrease the quality causing it to become slightly pixelated. On my walk home I uploaded this almost immediately, after experimenting with a few filters I came to the conclusion that a lot of them took away the authenticity of the unique painting featuring on the door and making the bright colours look overly edited. Therefore, I just utilised the individual editing functions by slightly increasing the brightness, contrast and warmth. This made the beautiful colours pop that little bit more, while still keep it looking original and as professional as possible.

2. How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

When publishing this weeks photo content, I added a caption associating to the image. I chose to go with “Doors that tell stories” because on the door depicts a little picture story with an old fashioned car and greenery. I then added some hashtags as well to gain some further exposure from other interested users. I wanted to create some unique and quirky hashtags.

3. How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?

To distribute my image beyond Instagram, the affordances of the program allow an automatic upload to my other social media platforms such as my twitter and Tumblr accounts. I didn’t need to make any modifications to the images for the various platforms.

When viewing the exact same content on my Tumblr account the photo seemed to fit and adapt quite well to this platform, providing the same effect. Alike Instagram, Tumblr is also predominantly a very visual service, therefore the image size and everything remained the same. Twitter on the other hand was different as the visual content disappears, and only keeps the captions and hash tags along with the post link. Twitter being heavily reliant on hashtags, means that my future uploads will need to incorporate even more interesting captions and increase the use of them, in order to generate more interest in this process.