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Nina Drk on Instagram: “How much juice do you want?”

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Similar to the coffee cinemagraph this is the one I made. It feels much different when it loops.

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How something like this (cinemagraphs) is made:

Put a camera on a tripod, make it steady so it doesn’t move

Take a video of a cup

Pour the coffee in the cup fast and then milk on it (make sure the cup isn’t moving too much)

Press record again (now you are taking a video of milk mixing with a coffee)

Wait until milk is completely mixed with coffee

Stop the recording

Transfer your videos to computer, import files into video editing programs

I use Premiere Pro or After Effects when doing this

Put a video with empty cup on timeline first, to reduce any moving click on a camera button below the ‘Program’ window

Make sure ‘Import into project’ is checked

The exported frame will appear in your project window

Delete the video from the timeline and add a frame you exported

Add a video of coffee mixing with milk on top of that (make them both same lenght)

Reduce the opacity so you see how well do two videos overlap (they have to overlap almost perfectly); if not move the above video to fit the image underneath

Click on top video, under ‘Effects control’ panel select ‘Elipse’ tool to mask the rest of the video and just keep the coffee

Make the elipse equal to the size of the cup

Now you should have an image with just a coffee inside moving

To make it even better, copy the entire files in timeline and paste them right after last one finishing

Right click on top video then click on ‘Speed/Duration’, reverse the speed

Now the coffee will move in loop

The result should look like the top gif...The completed video can be exported as a video or you can export as separate frames and then use gif maker online to make it as a gif. Hope this helps someone who wishes to try this.

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Why is tagging important?

I am not going to talk about tagging people but more of tagging a feature accounts. Each time I post a photo I tag feature accounts in the same photography genre as my photo. 

I realized that after tagging them I recieve much more views, likes and reach. If you take a photo that you really like you want everyone else to see it. Once you tag those accounts there is a slight chance for you to be featured on their instagram account. But I am not aiming at that I am aiming at all the people checking their profile and that ‘tagged’ tab. You wouldn’t believe but many people look through other profiles taggings. 

When I was travelling I took many photos of Venice, Italy, Padova etc. I would tag accounts that feature photographers that took photos in those cities. When I upload a portrait photo I tag ‘folkmagazine’...It is a magazine that features and regrams portrait photos. I tag accounts that are in some way related to the photo. If you draw tag art feature accounts, If you are into acting tag acting accounts it will increase your followers drastically.

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Instagram changed it’s algorithm

In past few weeks I’ve noticed that my posts on instagram had less likes, comments or views. I got a bit worried because even my worst photos were having more likes, more everything. I googled to see what is a problem and at first few links couldn’t find solution. After few articles that I’ve read I realized instagram changed it’s algorithm. 

In past year I’ve been sticking to one process of uploading photos. First I would download the photo from my google drive (I edit all my photos on computer). After looking at the photo I would come up with some caption or even a story how it was made, while thinking about name all sort of hashtaghs would come to my mind so I would write them down in my notes. I now have hashtags for each photography genre (I only adjust them to fit the photo). I would upload photo to instagram, add the caption, location, tag feature accounts. I would put hashtags in the comment section because I wanted my feed and my posts to look neat. Or I would put dots in each line so people have to click ‘see more’ to see the actual hashtags. And everything worked fine until 2018. First change is that you can’t put hashtags in comments, they won’t work. You have to have unique hashtags, if you use same hashtags all the time instagram will address you as a bot/spammer (and they have to be inside caption). Also, if your photo didn’t recieve enough likes in first few minutes after uploading, it won’t be shown to the rest of the followers (on their feed). It’s like instagram is filtering out the bad photos and only wants people to see your best work (which is not good in my opinion because I think likes don’t prove if a photo is high quality content). Short comments like: “Beautiful photo” etc. are marked as bots. If you want your comment to be valid it has to have more than five words. Something in the comment section also changed; the reply system...You can only reply to your comments within 60 minutes (starting from when that person commented). And knowing that stuff really made me happy because now I know what the problem was. But it also made me angry because If I didn’t notice it earlier. I hope this helps to anyone with similar problems. 

Photo from Pixabay; User:  USA-Reiseblogger