{"id":17997,"date":"2013-02-13T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T16:56:05","slug":"does-instagram-make-people-better-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/does-instagram-make-people-better-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Instagram make people better photographers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This subject came up at lunch as we chatted about whether tools can &amp; should aspire to help people be better illustrators, storytellers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My initial reaction was that no, Instagram doesn&#8217;t make you better, but it makes a great many people <em>feel<\/em> better (giving photos some flair, paving over flaws like crappy lighting). Making people feel cooler than they are is nothing to sneeze at, but one could argue that a shortcut to &#8220;interestingness&#8221; detracts from doing harder work around composition, lighting, etc.<\/p>\n<p>On second thought, though, I think Instagram\u00a0<em>does<\/em> make me a better photographer\u2014or at least it makes me work harder to make interesting images. People love to put on fancy conferences about gamification &amp; incentives, but the game here&#8217;s simple: When my photos draw likes (especially from, say, photographers I respect or some cute girl I knew 20 years ago), I feel good; when they don&#8217;t, I feel bad. (Hey, I&#8217;m human.) Thus I&#8217;m highly motivated to share only my most interesting work.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This subject came up at lunch as we chatted about whether tools can &amp; should aspire to help people be better illustrators, storytellers, etc. My initial reaction was that no, Instagram doesn&#8217;t make you better, but it makes a great many people feel better (giving photos some flair, paving over flaws like crappy lighting). Making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}