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How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
For the second sets of media of the assignment, I want to make things a bit different from the first posts. Instead of making the content via the phone’s camera app, I will look to produce through a different app. In this case, I chose Foodie which is one of my favourite app to take photos because of its quality filters. Originally, the app aids culinary content, but I have found for a number of years now that it works perfectly with any scenario. You just need to pick a filter that suits the scene and on you go with taking photos. However, I have not taken a black and white theme photo via the app before so I’m not entire sure how the filter would look. I also have never used the video taking feature so this part of the experience would be all new.
To truly taking in how Foodie would work with black and white filter, I chose Food as the theme for the second photo. In particular, a bowl of rice that I ordered is the focus of this photo. To go in line with the whole social distancing circumstances that I am trying to align all these pieces of media together, I have been relying heavily of delivered goods to get on since locking down began. This bowl of rice is a typical example. For the work, I simply chose a black and white filter and took the photo. There is actually only a single black and white filter, so I did not have to pick between any. I did not quite like how the angle looked at first, so it took me a few attempts to get a right angle for the photo. I then adjusted the brightness on a few of them, but ultimately the one with default black and white filter fancied me the most and that is the one I decided to post in the end. The thing I like about Foodie is the camera seems to pick the focal point really well, and I did not have to use flash as the light that I set in the room at that moment really fit in with the black and white theme. Compared to how I took the photo on the camera app, I think the black and white filter of Foodie is much better than the noir one of the phone as the saturation of colour scheme seems to be more distinct but at the same time looks more balanced. In short, this filter is just better. Also, I found editing on the Foodie app simpler than on the camera app as there are less features. And this works in a good way.
How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
As mentioned, it took me a few attempts of taking and editing before I came up with the ultimate photo. When posting to the account, I applied the location of Melbourne and a number of hashtags: #foody, #food, #foodporn, #blackandwhite, #bnw, #photography, #rice and #ricebowl. Compared to the first photo, with this one, I put more focus on the hashtags and I found that #foody, #food and #foodporn are the more popular hashtags with millions of posts. I did not really think about this aspect with the first post, although I included a lot of tags. Including these specific tags would be a must in attracting and reaching more potential users with my post. The post is again public, and the caption is “A happy bowl of noir”. I thought this is a simple caption, yet sounds quite interesting and more users might double-tap with this caption.
How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?
I again shared them to Twitter and Tumblr. The new accounts did not have any follower base, and I did not follow any account. Hence, I think the posts would not reach anyone. The post on Instagram, however, has more likes compared to the first post in a much shorter period of time. I think focusing on the reaching ability of the hashtags worked really well for this post as it helps more viewers to see my post.
