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Photographers: Stop using Instagram to share your edited, DSLR photos

Nate Benson
Last spring Nate Benson noticed a shift in Instagram: Professional photographers were using it to share images captured by their expensive SLRs and edited in Photoshop or Lightroom, not on-the-move photos snapped with their iPhones.
Instagram is called Instagram because the service is suppose to represent the photography you took in….wait for it….an instant. To be blunt, just because you are able to upload photos from your iOS photo library doesn’t mean you should. ... We’re not dealing with UN level diplomacy here, but I strongly believe photographers should respect the intention of these social networks and ultimately enjoy them like the rest of us do and not worry about always presenting their top work that has been delicately edited for hours on end.
Earlier: Is Instagram’s social network dumbing down photography?Photojournalists miss the point of Instagram by focusing on ethics of filters

Thanks to Melissa Lyttle for pointing this out.
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What journalists should know about Instagram, bought by Facebook

A thriving social network, an imaginative content-creation app and an innovative tech startup — any one of those ought to get a journalist’s attention these days, but especially when one company combines them all.

That company certainly made Facebook take … Read more

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Is Instagram’s social network dumbing down photography?

It took a lot of effort to find the “Decentralized Dance Party,” a crowd of a couple hundred people roving Austin on Saturday night with a low-power FM transmitter and a bunch of boom boxes.

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