For my first photo, I wanted to take it back to the old-school days of Instagram. I remember when I first began using the app and people would upload square images which were of everyday objects, people or places. Although very basic, they were covered in filters which were often over saturated and detracted from image quality. This post is in homage to the old Instagram, mixed with elements of the new. The “single platform medium” quality of Instagram as described by Manovich (p. 11, 2016) means that the app is designed to be a ‘one-stop shop’ for photography and visual means. Taking an image and uploading it without using external editing apps or being able to choose between a selection of images with slight differences presented a challenge. I only slightly tweaked the angle and cropped the image to fit the frame dimensions more appropriately.
References:
Manovich, L 2016. Instagram and the Contemporary Image, ‘Introduction: ‘Instagram Platform as a Medium’, pp. 9-18, University of San Diego.