Picture
This picture was inspired by walking from one of my classes to the library, where I noticed that the two sliding doors that create an airlock of sorts between building 12 and 10 of RMIT University looked ‘cool’.
Authoring
To capture this image, I rushed through both doorways from one side to the other, and inconveniently stood in the centre of the walkway. I waited for the first door (pictured in the back) to be almost closed as the door I stood in front of (pictured at the front) started to close. I used my Samsung S9+’s rear-facing camera to capture the moment using the photo tool on Instagram, making the process seamless. From there, I did the usual, adjusted the Inkwell filter to somewhere around 60 and 80 %, giving it a desaturated look, and was almost ready to post.
Publishing
As with all my other posts to this Instagram account, I went with a minimalist and possibly ‘douchey’ title, “One Door Opens, One Door Closes”, which I meant literally, but I’m more than happy to have people read into it. Furthermore, I spaced the hashtags out with 5 periods. This is my third picture uploaded to the account, but my fifth post overall. I realised that the “Picture, Video, Picture” grid format wasn’t going to work aesthetically unless I went “Video, Picture, Video” too.
I had intended to take a picture for the Instagram account between this class and some quality study time at the library, but this was my second attempt for an image, as some similar sliding doors down the stairs didn’t end up looking as nice, and therefore, deleted the image. I tagged the image at RMIT University before I uploaded.
Distribution
I kept to a similar style of hashtagging as prior posts, #doors, #desaturated etc. In addition, this newer post has some more context-specific (and again, possibly ‘douchey’) hashtags such as #duality. This was also my first week of extending the distribution of the posts, sharing them to both my personal Twitter and Tumblr.
Both do not have massive followings, but the like ratio has drastically changed, with this current image, and at the time of writing has 11 likes, and 1 comment. However, the comment is a site trying to get me to pay them money to repost my picture, but it looks good for the rep!
From the second batch of content onwards, some of my friends found this account, and started to follow and like my content (with no influence by me).