Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing?
Kurt Tilse is a public figure on Instagram with over 245K followers. He describes himself as a Creative Director, Photographer and Videographer. On his website he says he has been producing content for over 10 years but his earliest work that can be found is on his Instagram from 2014.
What is the title of the photo you have chosen to analyse?
Instagram doesn’t have a title feature as such but a caption feature. On this post, Tilse has written, “Although I did bring my housing for the 1DX. I thought I would test out the new @goproanz hero 8 in the shore break. My honest opinion is that it’s great! The colours right out of camera are really nice, really rich blues in the water (this photo has been edited and colour graded so it’s not true Go Pro colour). The hyper smooth 2.0 is actually insane! It looks like the the camera is on a gimbal, super buttery smooth footage. The only down side to this camera is the rendering time when shooting burst mode photo. It would take so long to save the images before I was able to shoot again. Which in this situation I was missing some great photo opportunities.
Otherwise a beast of a camera! ✌️”.
With the photo you are examining when was it produced?
Posted on the 9th of December 2019, however, due to the photo being taken on a GoPro and Tilse mentioning in the caption that he has edited and colour graded the photo, it could be safe to assume that the photo had been taken earlier. When scrolling through his feed, it can be deduced that this photo was taken in Hawaii and that he arrived there on the 7th of December 2019. Therefore, the photo could have been produced anytime between the 7th and 9th of December 2019.
How was the photo authored?
As Tilse mentions in the caption and also tags @goproanz in the photo, the photo was authored with the GoPro hero 8. It’s also been edited and colour graded, although it’s not clear what he software has used to do this. He has his own Lightroom presets
however, so probable that he has used these.
How was the photo published?
This photo was published onto Tilse’s personal Instagram, @kjtilse . More than likely, he used his phone to post it. Due to the tagging of GoPro in both the photo and the caption and the manner in which the caption is written, I would say that this has been published as a promotional post that he has profited from.
How was the photo distributed?
This photo has used tagging as a means of distribution. Instagram also has a feature which allows users to send posts to one another which would also distribute the photo further however, we cannot see how many times or to who this photo has been sent to. Due to it probably being a promotional post, their is a likelihood that GoPro has distributed the photo across their social platforms as well.
References:
Kjtilse. 2020. Kjtilse. [online] Available at: <http://kjtilse.com> [Accessed 28 April 2020].
Instagram.com. 2020. Kurt Tilse (@Kjtilse) • Instagram Photos And Videos. [online] Available at: <https://www.instagram.com/kjtilse/?hl=en> [Accessed 28 April 2020].