I do like to start these blog posts (as infrequent as they are ) with a daft title, but hopefully my yarn will spin true.
When I return from a days spotting, I’m always hyped to see the fruits of my labor. Generally I am content with my haul of shots and as I rack the numbers up, I seem to be getting more hits and keepers.
In turn this naturally brings me to editing the shots and posting them.
Generally I might post a shot or montage of shots from the day on various Facebook groups and then post individual shots onto my instagram page, which hopefully you follow ……..?
Chatting with fellow Avgeeks-assemble member Ant Fogarty, it has become quite clear lately that the upload quality of the subjects we post isn’t actually in keeping with the shot we have taken.
Allow me to explain, best I can
We go to a base or museum, photoshoot whatever. We take pictures to the best of our abilities and like most adhere to the exposure triangle, keeping iso low, relevant shutter speed, and fstop..
We get home, edit using whatever software we use and congratulate ourselves on producing a fine picture.
Then we upload to social media……………………shock, horror
Im not sure of the ins and outs, the why’s and therefore’s, but the pictures I process and edit, are at times, far removed from what appears on the social media pages I use.
Compression, screen resolution, whatever your theory or bug bear, rarely will the photo you have spent the time to take, process and edit look as good as what it does before you upload to social media.
But this is the thing, to get our shots out to friends, followers and anyone remotely interested in what we do, we need to upload to social media now. Its almost a necessary evil if you like.
So what is the solution, this remains a mystery sadly. I posted a shot a few days ago to instagram and normally it will hit triple figures in likes within a timeframe. Yes, I know, it’s not about the likes …. The shot I posted, I was actually proud of, rather than just posting for the sake of posting- I had repositioned myself with the shot in mind, adjusted my camera settings accordingly, waited for the moment and pressed the shutter
I was pretty happy with this shot, Instagram seemed to disagree, but I also noticed the resolution and quality was far removed from what I had on the screen in front of me when I had edited it..skullduggery
I didn’t really pay it much mind, it is what it is, however I then realised many other user of “the gram” struggled to upload images to the quality they had been taken.
Im not really sure I qualify to be able to offer a solution.. there must be one, maybe you know a solution???
I will continue to upload smudgy, pixelated and rough images to the various social media outlets in a vain attempt at world domination or merely just a way to show what I have been up to.
Off to Wales in a week or so for a week of low level photography ( and I don’t mean photographic quality, though some may suggest that’s true) in Wales at the MachLoop with the Avgeeks-assemble crew so next post might well be a run down of the shenanigans we got upto.
Look after yourselves and catch you at the fence