Friday, January 31, 2014

The Instagram


For the past couple weeks I stopped posting work to my Christy Hunter Photography Facebook Fan Page.  I found it became quite pointless when Facebook limits how many fans can actually see my photos.  There are about 1,000 wonderful fans on there and Facebook seems to pick favorites without my choosing.  My website is always open 24/7 at www.christyhunterphotography.com.

I have had an Instragram account for a while.  What I have found that Instagram does not limit my followers to what they can see.  I have around 200 followers and most photos generate 20 or more likes.  With Facebook I would be lucky to get 5 likes from almost 1000 followers.  Also both Instagram and Facebook allow tagging, but tagging on Facebook doesn't display everything in a group like it does on Instagram and Facebook doesn't allow tagged posts to appear if they aren't recent posts.  The only negative I see of Instagram is the format.  Pictures are small and have to be square unless you put a border around them.  There are limits, but I have found Instgram to be a better way to share my work.

You can follow me at:
 http://instagram.com/christyhunterphotography

Thursday, January 16, 2014

What is it?


I found this piece of equipment near an old barn and abandoned house I was photographing.  What is it?  Looks like it could be something to hold milk.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

What to do?

I'm in the midst of restructuring things.  I've acquired a new dot com, http://adventureroadphotography.com.  It just goes back to my website, the usual http://www.christyhunterphotography.com.  I wanted to have an identity that is associated with rural West Tennessee and the adventures I come across.  This may be scenes of old barns, an abandoned house, rusty cars and sometimes a new car or two.  In the past I've taken a lot of photos with people as the subject and my goal is to do less of that so I can focus more on the adventures I may find driving around in my car with a cup of coffee.

My postings have been limited on my usual Facebook Fan Page, but I have a new one that I have been posting to, http://www.facebook.com/AdventureRoadPhotography.  This Fan Page is going to focus on rural scenes and not many portrait type images.  I can't guarantee that a really cool portrait or some interesting scene with a person wont appear, but I want the majority of what I post to be rural scenes without people.

Instagram people!  Use it.  http://instagram.com/christyhunterphotography  Follow me and have a nice day!