The New Instagram & Why You Shouldn't Be Worried

This was a spur of the moment, 11pm blog post so if there are any grammar/ spelling errors, do your best to forgive me. To be frank, I'm sure I'd have plenty of errors even if this was a planned out, 1pm type of blog post. Also, let me be clear that this is only my opinion. I just felt that this post needed to be written before we all get ahead of ourselves.

If you were on Instagram at all today (03/16/16) then I'm sure you're feed was flooded with text posts featuring that arrow pointing to the upper right hand corner of the screen. Those posts that asked everyone to turn on "post notifications". Practically every person I follow was urging their followers to turn on the post notifications. I'm certainly not calling anyone out because I think it was all well intentioned, but I don't think turning on post notifications is the answer and I'll tell you why.

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Why Use High Quality Images?

I'll start with a real life scenario involving cookies, everyone can relate to cookies! If I'm scrolling through Pinterest looking for a chocolate chip cookie recipe, you can bet I'm looking for the cookies that look the best with the best lighting, and composition. I basically ignore any photo that has been taken in poor lighting and is very low quality. The high quality images of cookies in great lighting with great composition, well those cookies speak to me. It's an automatic reaction. A person who has taken time to photograph their cookies nicely, that says professional! That says that the cookies they have to offer are good enough to spend time on. It says that those cookies are worth the extra time it takes to get a nicer photo. The cookies in the poor quality images, well that says amateur. It says that those cookies aren't worth the extra time. The cookies could be just as good, but one might never know that. And maybe I'm just digging a little deep here but that's because photography really means something to me!

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