I have found another iPhone photography app that I really like, this one is called Instagram. I am a bit of a late adopter of Instagram, it turns out everyone is using it, even President Barack Obama! (If he’s doing it, I simply must get on this bandwagon!)
Instagram is similar to Camera+, an app I reviewed recently, in terms of the effects you can apply to photos. Actually Instagram may be less flexible, for example you cannot mix and match effects and borders (at least I cannot work out a way that you can). However, I think the visual effects are better in Instagram. I love this retro-chic look.
Sharing your images on Facebook (profiles and pages), Flickr and Twitter, along with other social networks, is really easy. Also there are several widgets you can download to display your Instagrams on wordpress.org blogs, although I am not sure if this is something I will be doing. Nevertheless, it is nice to have the option. One of these widgets is Instapress.
I have set up a Flickr set especially for my Instagrams, if you’d like to take a look.
One downside from a blogger’s perspective (well mine, at least) is that the images are square. I like to use lots of images in my blog posts, so I tend to stick with landscape images that take up the whole width of the blog. If I do this with a square image, then you, my reader, have quite a lot of scrolling to do as the images are long! I hope you don’t mind…
That being said, it is a lovely app. It’s very easy to locate your friends already using Instagram and follow their photostream. This is a nice touch that Camera+ lacks. As an added bonus, according to this website, the app appears to be free in the iTunes store at the moment! If you decide to give it a go, please look me up as ‘imake’ and follow my photostream.
To wrap things up i just wanted to share with you this fantastic blog post about ways to display your Instagrams in your home (A Beautiful Mess is a stunning blog, please do check it out for inspiration).
Happy snapping!
PS… even on days when you think you don’t exactly look your best… Instagram makes you look just a little better!!
