Tag : Instagram

03 Jun 2015

Doug’s Rant – Image Quality ISN’T Everything On Instagram (and more)

Yes it’s that time again… time to RANT. I have 4 basic topics to cover so let’s get to it. Rosh Sillars tweeted the link to an article about Instagram this morning written by Andrew Hutchinson for Social Media Today which I thought was good. You should read it. Now while I do NOT disagree completely with the idea that image quality is everything for certain strategies on Instagram, I do disagree with this as an overall statement. So those of you who know […]

31 Jan 2015

Doug’s Rant – Why Is Social Media “So Quiet”?

Why is social media so quiet lately? It just doesn’t seem to me that there has been a lot going on. Let me explain. For a few solid years there it seemed like it was the “golden age” of major platforms – such as: Facebook Pages switched over to “likes” from fans in April 2010 a month after we set up the Frameable Faces page. Instagram launched on October 6th, 2010 and we joined it in May of 2012. Pinterest launched in April […]

07 Oct 2014

Doug’s Rant – Happy Birthday Instagram!

It’s been a while since I “ranted”. We have had a very busy summer photographing seniors and planning and celebrating our son’s bar mitzvah so all I have been really able to think about for blogging is keeping up with sharing our wonderful seniors of the class of 2015. There are plenty of seniors to come as we are just getting started with a whole new round of “fall color” seniors, and we will also be sharing some bar mitzvah […]

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13 Mar 2014

How To Make Cool Instagram Collages

If you follow us on Instagram you have noticed that we don’t post a lot of final images there. For now we prefer to show what is happening at the studio closer to real time so I usually snap photos of Ally doing her thing with my iPhone. I am not the pro photographer here – Ally is. So while the photos we post on Instagram aren’t of professional quality, that’s not quite the point of Instagram in the first […]

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30 Aug 2013

Doug’s Rant – It’s Selfie Time! – August 30, 2013

Let’s celebrate the selfie and give it its due now that it’s become an official addition to the English language! Yep, that’s right the selfie has a seat at the table and has been validated as a legitimate word as announced by the Oxford English Dictionary this week. There has been plenty of dialogue and debate about the selfie. Here is the official definition if you have been living in a cave are not sure what we are talking about… Selfie: […]

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11 Jul 2013

Doug’s Rant – To Vine Is Divine, Web Redditing and Digging – July 11, 2013

Vine and Instagram continue to fascinate me and this is the third rant in a row that I’ve focused on it. In the last couple of weeks I’ve actually become a pretty big fan of Vine and I’ve enjoyed discovering some really creative and funny Vines as well as making a few of our own. Here are a few ways we’ve used Vine so far – a little humor, focusing on our community, and a fun hello to our second […]

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21 Jun 2013

Doug’s Rant – Instagram vs. Vine and Getting Hacked – June 20, 2013

Yep – turns out I’ve got more to say…. Insta……death of Vine on Droid? I became intrigued from the time Vine was launched as a potentially awesome platform for Frameable Faces. We have used video quite a bit – mainly on YouTube. It’s an effective platform for testimonials, slide shows from sessions, various interviews and behind the scenes features. The idea of Vine is exciting because it provides what I have seen one guru refer to as “snack sized” social […]

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28 Feb 2013

Social Media Stream of Consciousness Pt. 1 – Facebook and Google+

Okay so this is a little change of pace… Usually when I blog about social media it’s the standard “5 ways to….” or “7 tips for….” or “the 6 best….” – some type of informative lesson with the perfect title designed to explode our SEO to Jupiter and make our blog the envy of every photography studio East (and West) of the Mississippi. Okay well maybe that hasn’t quite happened (yet) but one can dream…..right? This time it’s a […]

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23 Feb 2013

Our 5 Favorite Ways To Instagram!

We love Instagram! For those of you still not familiar with this (it’s okay we won’t tell anyone) Instagram is a social media platform that enables its users to take pictures (generally with their smartphone), apply digital filters to them, and share them. As with all of the different social media platforms we use such as facebook, Pinterest, twitter, YouTube (just to name a few), Instagram has its own unique purpose for us. We generally do not use it to post examples […]

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