Ten tips for a great Instagram travel profile

Have you been posting lot of Instagram photos and not getting noticed? Did you always want comments and shares but didn’t get them.

Follow these tips to make your Instagram profile vibrant and interesting.

1. Use your stock camera apps

Unlike the Instagram camera app, your inbuilt phone camera application can help you click images in the most optimum setting possible on your smartphone.

Nowadays, most of the phones come with inbuilt features like portrait mode, HDR and manual camera, the Instagram camera can never provide these features.

2. Think Instagram frame

While most of our pictures are landscape and portrait, the Instagram square frame might get you pretty tricky in this setup because of the placement of the subject matters in this setup.

The rule of thirds is a very familiar way to have the right placement of subjects in a photo.

3. Find your best tripod around

A perfectly stable picture requires a lot of stability and patience, find your own tripod around in the environment, i.e a tree, a table, a chair, a pole nearby, two rocks or even a car. Anything which will make a stress free picture.

A gorilla pod is the best wrap for a tree to get your best click out.

4. Tap CHECK

Setting the right lighting and adjusting the brightness, colour and clarity in the picture is the most important aspect.

Make sure you tap on your phone screen to lock the subject and the light balance in the picture.

5. Get the right angle

There are no rules to this, but naturally, your eyes will see what makes the best picture and you will be automatically improvising the picture.

Play around possible background, lighting and use grid to judge the symmetry.

When you look at the picture frame, your brain will focus on certain elements and it will help you figure the right element to focus over.

6. Enhance your picture by editing them

Editing gets the best out of the pictures by editing and cropping. Editing also helps the picture become rich in colours because of the variation in brightness.

7. Wipe your camera lens

This might sound trivial but your lens needs to be clean.

It’s not something most people think about, but phones get quite dirty and not wiping your camera lens could be the reason why your photos are looking fuzzy or out of focus.

8. Include more human elements

The more the number of people in the picture the better the social currency with the picture. A few research reports also suggest photos with more faces have high engagement and comments.

9. Get a phone photography kit

Phone photography has picked up a lot in today’s world especially awards (like Mobile Photography Awards and Sony World Mobile Phone Photography Awards) specifically for phone-taken photos.

Macro, wide-angle and fisheye are the few lenses to have.