Similar to Hipstamatic in end product, Instagram is another iPhone photo app that lets you apply filters to create unique images. You are offered a choice of filters after you take a photo, and you can look through them all until you find the one you want to add. With this process, taking a quick succession of photos with the app is not possible, but you can create great images that have the same retro feeling as Hipstamatic. Instagram takes more time to reach the end product after a picture is taken, but it offers you more choice and previews of every photo with different filters, which some people may like. Here are some photos that I have taken with Instagram.
What really sets Instagram apart from other mobile photography apps is the addition of profiles and friends. When you launch the app, you create a user profile and have the ability to "friend" other users, creating relationships similar to Facebook friends or Twitter followers. Then, whenever you launch the app, the first screen that comes up has a feed of all your friends' photos and descriptions or locations that they added. Doing this adds a social aspect to photography, which really sets this app apart from others. Mobile photography isn't just about taking photos to have for yourself, but it allows you to share what you're capturing with others and lets you see what your friends find interesting. Social networking and media have become essential to the lives of young Americans, and it's no coincidence that social photography has also become big.
Besides seeing your friends' photos, Instagram offers a cool feature that lets you view the most popular Instagram photos from across the world. You can search through pages and pages of amazing, beautiful photos taken with the app. When I take the moment to look through these, I am always shocked at the quality of photographs that people have taken. It really goes to show that even the iPhone, with an inferior camera, can produce images that rival professional cameras at first glance. Instagram is a great example of mobile photography that pulls in a large base of users by being free then creates its own social network of photographers who want to share what they capture.
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