![]() For all of a week in November, 2017 I decided I’d join the legion of identical looking but oh-so-satisfying Instagrammers who takes the time to use a third-party app and give each of my photos over the aforementioned white borders. I yearned for both of those things.Īnd so I tried to change. ![]() ![]() I also imagine there’s a delicious smugness that comes from having such a feed, too. Seeing all the images zoomed out you realize the grid matters as much, if not more, than every individual post. There’s a satisfying calm that washes over me whenever I land on an Instagram profile from somebody who has taken the time and put in the effort to make it look nice as a whole. I never use the same filter settings to ensure the photos are all muted and faded in the same way. There are too many back to back photos with particular friends. Some are cropped into the ubiquitous Instagram square shape, while others are wide portraits. The color scheme is all over the place a photo of me in a pool on the last, good day of summer is seated next to a #TBT of my friends and I dressed in crazy costumes working college orientation which is perched atop a black and white shot from a Taylor Swift concert. I don’t post at the most ideal time for likes. There’s no unifying theme behind my posts. This doesn't make me better than you - it's just how it is.What does your Instagram grid look like? In my experience, there are only two options: A unified aesthetic experience - an endless sea of perfectly curated photos in homogenous colors that all seem to blur together as though they were all shot on the exact same date and time in the same place, each of those photos given a thick white border that runs together, so when you look at them all together the photos appears as though they’ve been collaged atop a clean page - and, well, a mess. I have more chance of getting discovered for posting selfies on Instagram. You should get discovered as the great artist you are, but it won't happen. It's like saying you have the most incredible large format print - it's the best picture ever made, & you're going to display it in a dark cave that nobody goes to. There might be other places on the internet to display photographs, but that's no good if nobody is leaving the thing that works. If instagram is the platform that most people use (500m per month?) & you're in the business of getting photography in front of people, then it's probably good enough quality for photography or at least for the way that photography is viewed in 2017. It's allegorical - Something along the lines of: If you won't show a photograph to people because of a perceived lack of quality, then people won't get to see your photograph. It's not meant to be a real 'only two options', silly! The algorithmic feed has been a boon for the company, but it set the community into a panic and even smaller changes like the ability to block comments automatically or by keyword are usually met with at least some skepticism.īut for those photographers who have built their Instagram 'brand' in part by making creative use of the 3-across grid on their profile, this change would represent a swift kick to the mosaic. Of course, by now Instagram is used to these kinds of reactions-it seems like every change they make is met by a deluge of fear, anxiety and threats of abandonment. Hey people have spent years perfecting their feeds. Thoughts and prayers to the people who curated their instagram based on the three column grid. ![]() Listen to your users this might be the beginning of your end Literally no one wants the 4 grid instagram change. Instagram starts 4-pic grid? RETHINK!!! Too many beautifully curated feeds will be ruined. □□ #bloggerproblemsĪnyone else's Instagram showing a 4 in a row grid? This is going to ruin everything □ #gridview #instagram #aesthetics /XmCLyv5lx1 I'm going to be fuming when Instagram changes to a 4 grid!! My theme will be ruined. INSTAGRAM MIGHT UPDATE ITS FEATURE FROM A 3-ACROSS TO A 4-ACROSS PHOTO GRID AND IVE NEVER BEEN THIS DEVASTATED IN MY LIFE. And those people are not reacting well to news of the test: Not a huge deal, you might think, but many photographers and casual users alike use that 3-across grid to create interesting mosaics that help their profile stand out. According to some users, Instagram is already rolling out a new 4-across profile grid to replace the current 3-across setup that people know and (apparently) love. Facebook-owned image sharing behemoth Instagram (heard of 'em?) is testing a new change to its app, and the internet is collectively freaking out about it. ![]()
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