Street Photography and Instagram 

Brian, as an on camera journalist I have to say I know my onions when it comes to presenting and you are great. Unlike the Americans you are 'focussed' with clear no bullshit delivery and extremely informative. Thank you .

When has a photographer ever put an emoji on their image? 😂 These are some great tips. I always disagree when youtubers say to only stick to one genre on your feed as a part of being consistent in style. Doing this you force yourself into a box which limits your creative exploration. From a perspective of someone who specialises in the psychology of creativity, boxing yourself in is a key contributor to creative burnout. Many photographers have followed this rule of sticking just to cars or just to trees and I know a lot who said they just didn't enjoy photography anymore. Style and genre should be seen as independent of each other. The way I maintain consistency and try to develop creatively at the same time is to alternate subjects and post with purpose. Say every 5th post is wildlife for example. I post slower doing this but there is consistency without being boxed in and burnt out.

Brian, I'm in the USA and by sheer coincidence i told a mate of mine in London about how much I enjoyed your videos yesterday. It turns out that he took a workshop with you in London this week! I'm considering joining Instagram and this video today just about convinced me I need to join. It's a small world! Many thanks for your excellent videos and today you have gained another fan!

Recently discovered your channel and absolutely appreciate your work, your videos and exceptional content. I am retired in Cuenca,Ecuador and fairly new to photography. Since moving to Cuenca from coastal Florida my photography has shifted from mostly a genre of bird photography and sunrise/sunsets to more of a street photography “style”. I am a novice but passionate. I enjoy your channel because even though I cannot relate to your professionalism I do appreciate it. However, I can relate to your passion and find it magnetic. My fixed income will probably prevent me from traveling to the UK to take one of your workshops but if we ever plan a visit there I will try to include it as a highlight of the trip. Thank you for you time and content. It is greatly appreciated.

Over the past two days I have tuned in to your very interesting video's re street photography. I am a retired wedding and portrait photographer dedicated to the Fuji X system and I have to say your video's have been really inspirational. I had been shooting quite a lot of stuff when in London over the past two years, however covid-19 has prevented me getting across as often as I like, which is around 6 tiems a year. The passion for this has been magnified again watching your very frank postings.

Interesting info...and app! This has reignited my passion for street photography once more, not that it ever really vanished, just the opportunities to practice diminished due to other work commitments! I'd definately like to attend one of your workshops in the future.

Very comprehensive and informative. If you're just getting started with Instagram, this information is invaluable. Thanks, Brian!

Thanks for the video Brian. Sound advice. Looking forward to a video when you talk about what's on your bookshelf - keep seeing those books and can't help being curious! Just ordered your Project book on Amazon, so that will be on my book case soon!

Thanks for very helpful advices! ❤️🙏🏼

Some great tips and useful info on Instagram. I'm certainly going to give some of them a go. Thanks for sharing. 👍

Thanks this is a really helpful video - all the tips make good sense and reassure me i am on the right track with my efforts so far. A few new things to try too so thank you.

Great job love your lesson🥰🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👏

Really helpful advice and clearly delivered. Subscribed as a result. Great book by the way (mastering street photography). 👌

Thank you very much! You provided loads of very useful and valuable information.

Thanks for sharing. Love your channel!

Another helpful video Brian! Thank you 👍🏼

Great tips, thanks .... new follower on IG and YT.

Hi Brian, very interesting and useful video, as someone who's only in the past couple of month's started doing street photography I seem to find I get too hung up about whether my shots are liked or not, or am I doing something wrong when I lose a follower or two, feeling pressure to post a picture every day (I only get to London twice a week for a couple of hours after work). I've since stopped worrying about it so much and just enjoy the actual process of being out and about..

Great video as usual, Thank you for the tips

Really loving the videos

I’ve been looking for an app to create a border for instagram so thank you for suggesting whitagram, it’s just what I needed. Excellent tips and a very good and informative video. Thank you!

Nice show, nice information, thank you, Mr. Duckett :-))

Thanks, Brian! Being organized and focusing on goals are ideas I try to adhere to, but don't always achieve 100%. Your ideas are great building blocks for positive results. Your advice is always highly appreciated.

great advice and info, thank you.

Very helpful and honest advice

Hello, first of all, I congratulate you on the channel and your Street Photography videos. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and unfortunately we cannot go out to enjoy a photo session, with the risk of being robbed, at least. Something similar happens in your place that can serve as advice (security) for who we live in thes lands?

Thank you for your tips! Very useful

Brilliant video 👍👍

Great tips😉

I’m not on instagram and have never been on it. Next week I’m doing a street photography workshop in NYC. The leader is requiring that I open an account. I am of the Vivian Maier school. I look at my images at the end of the day and that is it. They either are downloaded onto a laptop or they stay on the memory card to be erased later so I can make other images. On my best day I am average. I don’t care if other people see my images. I’ve shown my images at work to coworkers to polite responses. My intention is to get out of the house. My intention is to get some exercise. I enjoy taking some snap with a camera. When I don’t have a camera on me I take a snap with my mind. It’s fun. I have no illusions about the quality of my work. I have seen great street work. I’ve seen good street work. My images don’t fall into either of those categories. I think I know what good is. I can’t seem to create it. That is OK. I enjoy maybe 2-5% of my images. The rest not so much. I would cry if I was using film. My images could improve. That is part of the intention of taking the workshop. The main reason is the comradery of like minded people doing the same thing, more or less. I’m not a Luddite. I am 70 years old and picking up technological know how is hard for me. As a result I shoot jpeg and don’t post process. My montra is shoot it right so the image doesn’t need to be manipulated using post processing. I suspect after the workshop I will take down the instagram account. Every day a billion images are created. Other than me nobody else appreciates my images. Fair enough. I create my images for myself and my enjoyment. I don’t really care what others think of my work. As I’ve written, I destroy most of my work. When I die the stored images will be deleted from the hard drives they live on of the laptops will be thrown out because they are so old. Carpe diem. Take some pictures. Drink some tea. What else is there? Mask On Nurse Marty

I love your channel name, I'm getting started and just bought a Sony A7iii

Great tips, thank you very much

Great video Sir thank you so much for this may Allah bless you.

I've just got back into using Instagram after not using it for a long time. I've noticed that some people just randomly like a block of my photo's, say 5 at a time. They leave no comments, don't follow. Even liking videos I've posted but the view number doesn't even increase on the video. So I think they must just search for a keyword and then randomly like loads of photo's to draw attention to themselves. If I like someones work I'll generally make a comment on it about why I like it and then follow them if I actually like their work. I don't want to get into the whole likes game. I hope to find people's profiles that I find inspiring.

I get what your saying about the street photography. It's the same when you # black and white photography when there are loads of colour ones,which have loads of likes?

Hi Brian, firstly thank you for an excellent and informative video, I have learned so much from you, so you have my appreciation. A quick question, and it just might be that my hearing is on the blink but at 13:10, when talking about Lightroom CC you seem to say that "all my images are in Light Line TV" I was just wondering what exactly that is or whether I need to clean my lug holes out :-D Cheers

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing❤️👍🇸🇽

You have a good point ✌️✌️✌️

In social media, the quality of the images also matters a lot.

I put everything on a single account, from my personal life to random pictures of different things. Maybe someday if I have some really quality pictures I will make a "photography" profile, but right now I would be too pretentious doing this.

Hi Brian, most informative as usual, thank you. Is the app you refer to whitagram or whitogram?

thanks very much. I am confused about the use of Lightroom, because I use a Fujifilm Camera. Also Lightroom CC confuses me. 🤣

Hi Brian! I found you on RU-vid and I bought your book 52 assignments street photography, its so cool cant wait to get stated. Thank you 😊😊

Hi Brain, first of all I'd like to say I'm finding your videos very informative, I found this one especially interesting. I've been thinking about using Instagram for a while now, the thing is I've got images I produced a while back I mean some of them over 4 or 5 years, what are yours and anyone's thoughts on uploading those images to Instagram or do you believe it should only be images taken in the recent past say a year or so ago?

Not difficult to transfer directly from PC to Instagram without an app - though editing may be limited

The hashtag #streetphotography, has been abuse a lot. I'm a Street Photographer in Mexico City, Mexico, that made my art in Black and White. I have seen that people just use the Instagram's hashtags, just because the tag is popular and not because they do what the hashtag is related for. I've seen a lot of hashtags wrongly used and it freaked me out. I wish Instagram can curate those hashtags, just with the real pictures, that belong to them and I wish that AI (Artificial Intelligence) can ban you, if you are using a hashtag that is not related to your business. But this is something that won't happen. Greetings from Mexico City, Mexico

Instagram has become less and less relevant for me as a platform as has all social media. In fact I ONLY have Instagram left as a digital platform. The hashtags have been so abused and the images associated with them exemplifies the very thing you speak about that I'm no longer really posting. As photojournalist David Burnett said in an interview, "You have dump trucks backing up dumping bad to mediocre images and you have to try and navigate them to find the really good ones." I couldn't agree more. I've had to prune whom I follow down by over a third and I'm still pruning. Call me grumpy, but I remember once upon a time when there was this thing called integrity in what one created and in ones general actions. Seems that's dying an ugly death for the sake of instant gratification (IG) Now that's there's some semblance of normalcy returning to our lives, I'm returning to the roots of my 30+ years as a photojournalist, documentary & street photographic career to old school physical printed pieces sent via post, email marketing and phone calls.

Does anyone know a Whitagram equivalent app for Android users?

Hi Brian, Thank you for that-really interesting. One of my bugbears is adding captions though. Shouldn’t art be about the reader interpreting the image? As soon as you add a caption you’ve kind of made their mind up for them, i.e led the jury. I just say the place it’s taken. That’s my take on it anyhow.

Watching your videos they are very informative thank you, who would you recommend following on Instagram to gain inspiration from.

Do you keep track of the images that you post on Instagram so that a month, a year from now you will not post the same image? What is you practice of keep track?

I hate instagram the reason is this app is focusing on algoritms not photos You can put amazing stuff but if u use bad hashtags too smmall or too big and to less or too much Yor photo just gone Its hard to be consytency if you know that everything care abut algoritms not about your photo

A very high risk in South Africa with its high crime rate

I'm a horrible, bad, terrible photographer. Not sure that I should add to the noise...

Thanks for the tips. Some useful. Keep up the good work @knederskovpetersen

whats wrong with the volume? can barely hear you!

B&W Street Photography, Good or Bad?

Good advice. Personally though, I bore of Instagram or Flickr accounts that just post the same type of photo's continually. I like variety and range, as long as the images are pleasing. I post different things myself and don't care about numbers. If I wish to see loads of the same thing I search a hashtag. I was hoping to delve into street photography more this year, but Covid-19 stopped that. I'm instead making notes on my phone of ideas for shots, and now have an exciting list.. Best wishes. Hopefully we can all be stalking the streets again before long. 👍 Instagram - onioki69

Who owns Instagram?

Instagram is pretty toxic IMO. You shouldn’t feel the need to post daily because you’re losing followers if you don’t. That isn’t photography

I appreciate your opinion here but I think you have it a little wrong. Instagram is not a portfolio. It’s a mixture of BTS and work. People buy from people and if it doesn’t feel authentic and personal, it won’t be as effective. Also I found only posting your best work ultimately paralysed my creativity as it ‘didn’t fit my feed’.

Instagram is a joke.