- How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
Still using the same smartphone as the previous posts, this photo required some movement one my part to achieve the correct angle. I had to get down lower to the ground in order to get this level shot. I tried multiple angels before I achieved this one above, that I thought encapsulated the idea I was going for. Since it was taken in daylight I did not have to use flash. One thing I did have to be careful of was the reflection of the car. I did not want the reflection to capture me taking the photo, as that would be distraction from the car door which is the subject of this photo. In Instagram I went for the square format as the other things in the frame if it was portrait would not add anything more to the visual, so I felt no need for it to be portrait. I edited the photo heavily with filters and adjustments. Below you can see the before and after. I altered the brightness, contrast, highlights and shadows, and added a diagonal tilt shift to draw the focus to the door itself. The tilt shift runs along a straight line from the wheel of the car to the door handle. Around that, the photo has a slight blur to draw attention to the focus of my photo.
2. How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
I took quite a few photos before I chose the final one. It was difficult because I had to chose an angle that communicated the idea I had in mind. Similar to in the week 10 photo post. I took multiple images from different angles. This time from higher up, from a more skewed angle to the subject and facing the subject front on. In the front-on angles, you could see my reflection in the car because of the finish coat on the car, which is something I honestly didn’t consider when envisioning the photo. Due to this I had to go for a more skewed angle to avoid this. The caption I added was “is it locked? or unlocked?”. Instilling a bit of mystery whether the car door is locked or unlocked. You would naturally assume a closed car door is locked if there is no driver around but this is not necessarily true and you wont know unless you try and open it. However in this case it was locked. 🙂
3. How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?
I decided against any hashtags for this image to see if it could get any traction on its own. But since the account still doesn’t have an followers it is unlikely. I guess I just want to test whether it shows up in any searches without the help of hashtags. As per my other posts, this was too shared amongst my other social media, Twitter and Tumblr as there is no reason not to.