https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0pJ31B6kr/

How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

For the third set of media, I want to explore producing media directly from the Instagram app. For this photo, I decided to take the photo of my ring. As I only allow one source of light in the room, the shadow of the ring looks quite interesting which intrigued me into taking some tests with it for being the media. As I was taking the photo, to my surprise, the app picked the focal point quite well, pretty much the same with taking the first photo via the camera app. As I was going for a few attempts to pick the best angle, I realised that the shadow with the ring would intertwine in together to create an abstract number 8. More significantly, if I rotate the angle horizontally, it would become the infinity sign. This would play in well with the abstract nature that I want to create for this account. I liked this discovery so much that I took it in one shot. It could be seen that the ring and the shadow are not in center of the photo, which is due to me trying not to get my own shadow into photo. The most important thing would be for the infinity sign to work, which it worked to my satisfaction.

Then, I realised I could choose the filter as always before posting. I contemplated between two black and white filters: “Moon” and “Inkwell” but ultimately went with the latter one as I liked its contrast more. Everything else is kept defaulted. One thing I don’t like about the Instagram camera, however, is I could not view the scene in full as there is a space limit to allow for the recording button. To me, it is quite a pointless constraint as the button takes too much space from the recording screen. The end product does not seem to be impacted though.

How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

I posted the photo again to the Instagram account, this time with more hashtags than ever: #infinity, #abstract, #blackandwhite, #bnw, #blackandwhitephotography, #ring, #shadow, #phonetography. Some attract millions of posts, while some only have some thousands and hundreds of thousands. Nonetheless, I decided to include all of them as they relate to my photo best. The caption is the famous quote “To infinity, and beyond”, which indicates the significance of me trying to create the infinity symbol with my ring.

How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?

I again shared them to both the Twitter and the Tumblr account but I do not expect more viewers to view the post from there with reasons already discussed from the previous media works.