Improve Your Instagram Feed With These 5 Simple Tips

These days, photography is both attacked and loved in almost equal proportions. We live in a time where the democratization of photography — thanks to digitization — has strongly impacted the number of images available on social networks. In this context, Instagram has become one of the most successful social networks for many photographers. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons for Instagram’s success in the photography world, beyond its role an image-based social network, is the architecture and algorithms at the back end that give photographers get a lot of exposure — fast.

Today we will offer five tips that will make your Instagram feed more interesting for viewers. Some are taken from the more traditional photography world; still, they are principles that must not be forgotten, since Instagram is indeed almost entirely about images.

1. Portfolio

First things first: if you hope to pursue a serious career as a passionate photographer, you need to keep things separate. You should have two dedicated Instagram accounts (at least) — one for your personal life (the one you use for hearting various stuff), and one for your best photographic work.

Having said that, you should treat the best-photography feed as a portfolio, and it should remain consistent and somewhat constantly updated. It is weird when viewing the Instagram accounts of many photographers worldwide and seeing a lot of images that simply don’t work with each other. Avoid the…