An easy way to tell people that you have a smartphone is by having an Instagram account.
In the old days, which were only a few years back, before it was bought by Facebook, and even longer before it enabled video posting, Instagram was an app exclusive to iPhone. And since iPhone itself was for the richer among us, Instagram was really an online gallery (or boutique) of expensive, deluxe, and sometimes rare items. Because the stuff they take pictures of are already nice-looking, these rich brats rarely get their Insta photos wrong. Plus, when you have the top-notch Apple camera to snap photos, unless you think that comical fonts and colorful frames are cool, then your Instagram photos would always look nice.
Then, Instagram was made available for Android, and because Android phones range from the cheap generic China brands to the flagship Galaxies, Instagram started to look more like some mall. Now cheap fake phones with shabby and low quality cameras can be used to take photos for Instagram, as long as they run Android.
To fit the previous analogy, the shiny stuff are still there, but there are also department store goods that sit in smudgy glass racks or cabinets, that if given proper care, may look as good as the high-end products. I'm talking about filters here and why some people think excessive use of them, or lack of em, makes your pictures look any less ugly which only the #visitmyig spammers would like, apart from their friends.
I use a Windows Phone. It's a cheap Lumia 720. The camera is lousy, no matter what the reviews say. The colours are not true, not as easy to use as iPhone or Android, and the colour temperature is awry. It only has Instagram since some time back, and the app is not even in full version. It's still stuck in beta which means no instavideos, no direct access to camera, and no tilt adjust.
And although it has camera360, the WinPhone Store hasn't had VSCOcam yet. Which makes Instagramming photos a kind of ordeal to me.
When I take a nice photo and want to share it via Instagram, I have to edit it first because the camera will 99% of the time get the colours wrong, like having a yellow patina on your skin or bluish green leaves of a tree. And because VSCOcam is absent on WinPhone, I have to email the photos to my iPad, on mobile data, because unifi WiFi has issues with WinPhone. It's free basic internet by the way, the package that I'm using. Not stingy but simply poor to subscribe to plans, which is why I use a Lumia in the first place.
After tinkering with the photo, then only can I post it to Instagram, only to attract several likes and comments. And some must be of the #visitmyig kind. One helluva job. That's why I am not really an active user, with little following and few followers.
Bottom line, Instagram?
Not my cup of tea.
In the old days, which were only a few years back, before it was bought by Facebook, and even longer before it enabled video posting, Instagram was an app exclusive to iPhone. And since iPhone itself was for the richer among us, Instagram was really an online gallery (or boutique) of expensive, deluxe, and sometimes rare items. Because the stuff they take pictures of are already nice-looking, these rich brats rarely get their Insta photos wrong. Plus, when you have the top-notch Apple camera to snap photos, unless you think that comical fonts and colorful frames are cool, then your Instagram photos would always look nice.
Then, Instagram was made available for Android, and because Android phones range from the cheap generic China brands to the flagship Galaxies, Instagram started to look more like some mall. Now cheap fake phones with shabby and low quality cameras can be used to take photos for Instagram, as long as they run Android.
To fit the previous analogy, the shiny stuff are still there, but there are also department store goods that sit in smudgy glass racks or cabinets, that if given proper care, may look as good as the high-end products. I'm talking about filters here and why some people think excessive use of them, or lack of em, makes your pictures look any less ugly which only the #visitmyig spammers would like, apart from their friends.
I use a Windows Phone. It's a cheap Lumia 720. The camera is lousy, no matter what the reviews say. The colours are not true, not as easy to use as iPhone or Android, and the colour temperature is awry. It only has Instagram since some time back, and the app is not even in full version. It's still stuck in beta which means no instavideos, no direct access to camera, and no tilt adjust.
And although it has camera360, the WinPhone Store hasn't had VSCOcam yet. Which makes Instagramming photos a kind of ordeal to me.
When I take a nice photo and want to share it via Instagram, I have to edit it first because the camera will 99% of the time get the colours wrong, like having a yellow patina on your skin or bluish green leaves of a tree. And because VSCOcam is absent on WinPhone, I have to email the photos to my iPad, on mobile data, because unifi WiFi has issues with WinPhone. It's free basic internet by the way, the package that I'm using. Not stingy but simply poor to subscribe to plans, which is why I use a Lumia in the first place.
After tinkering with the photo, then only can I post it to Instagram, only to attract several likes and comments. And some must be of the #visitmyig kind. One helluva job. That's why I am not really an active user, with little following and few followers.
Bottom line, Instagram?
Not my cup of tea.
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