I don’t understand Instagram algorithm and I have given up on understanding it. I would honestly just like to meet some new artists through it but I rarely get any suggestions unless I actively try to do that. I still share my photographs and I don’t have a lot of followers either. But I’m happy with what I have. Even if a few people genuinely love my work, it’s everything. I might create a website for myself soon and I would print some of my work. There are galleries and I might see how those work next year. For now, Instagram is all I have. I thought threads would be great for photography but my feed was full of everything else but photography.

I self host. NAS for storage and immich for showing friends and family. I have zero reliance or locked in to a single service.

Check out VERO, it’s geared towards photographers

I passed on social media a while back. Currently, I print out a few 4x6s from each outing and add them to a photo album. Its cheap if I order in bulk once i have a larger amount ready to print. I often show my friends and family when they visit or leave it on the coffee table and let them take a look if they are interested.

Unfortunately Instagram’s algorithm has changed a lot in the past few months and it’s very difficult to get exposure in there, unless you use certain tricks (certain keywords that act as hooks, certain techniques like “read more in caption” and other crap)

This is one big reason why I don’t really post too often myself.

As to “what do I do with my photography”, I just … keep what I like. The ones that I edit and export, I keep on my phone (in case I ever want to post something, or in case I want to show anything to someone), and the ones I don’t edit are in an album in Lightroom.

But then again, i`m not a professional photographer so I don’t make any money out of it. I just do it as a hobby and for myself :)

My world is littered with my photos. I love when people use them as their profile photos on social. Usually I add photos of my friends to their contact in my phone so when they call I see them in one of my photos. I use my photos for my fantasy football covers, LinkedIn banners. Like literally anything that can look better with a little bit of imagery, I try to use my images. Maybe try that and you might get more joy than posting to the Instagram ether.

That sounds like a fun abstract job, I would use A.I promoting to help you compose the subjects

I’ve been using PBASE since 2000. I have thousands of images there. You can create galleries and then send the links out to who you want to view them or make them public. Images also get ranked, you can see what other photographers are doing to get inspiration. They also have a camera section with images taken with that specific camera if you are looking to purchase a new camera. Hope this helps.

Most of them I put up on Flickr, and a few on Instagram.

Hi Sorry you feel this way. Once when i felt like that I had to ask myself why i wanted to take pictures.

Once you know why then the idea of what to do with your photos should come naturally.

Myself - I love outdoor sports, family portraits and action shots of Dogs playing. But I like Outdoor soccer more so i take action shots for my community and post weekly on social media.

I make photo books of mine. Some just for our vacations, but I will make a portfolio style book every once in awhile that I can pull out and look at or share when people visit. Just my favorite photos all glossy and pretty in a book gives me much serotonin.

If you have assembled the pictures into an audio-visual file, or have a structured talk to present, many seniors’ homes love to have someone come in and give photography shows, especially travel.

Play Gurushots

Glass is very cool. You can use it like a website. My account is https://glass.photo/shootnewyorkcity

No ads, no reels, no logarithms. no bs. good community too.

I also am not liking instagram for their algorithm and especially the inability to share multiple aspect ratios in the same post. I was starting to assemble a website but then realized the cost and likelihood that people would actually go to it might be prohibitive to me right at this moment. The website I was making reminded me too much of tumblr so I just went there instead to make an account. I haven’t been using it for that long so I’m unsure of how well this will realistically work for me but my account had interactions right away, I’m thinking if I get better at tagging popular tags I will have greater success in sharing more broadly. I also like that with tumblr I can create obscure tags that only I use to classify photos from the same shoot together just for my personal reference.