I've finally added an Instagram account. I don't use Instagram. I don't know know how to Instagram. But, I will be Instagramming nonetheless. Here's the address for the forthcoming Istagramming. And, one more Instagram for good measure.
https://www.instagram.com/madbeanpedals/ (https://www.instagram.com/madbeanpedals/)
Quote from: madbean on August 19, 2018, 05:40:13 PM
I've finally added an Instagram account. I don't use Instagram. I don't know know how to Instagram. But, I will be Instagramming nonetheless. Here's the address for the forthcoming Istagramming. And, one more Instagram for good measure.
https://www.instagram.com/madbeanpedals/ (https://www.instagram.com/madbeanpedals/)
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I'll take "Anus Tart" for $100 , Alex!
First Reddit, now Insta... what's next for the MBP social media empire?
Quote from: madbean on August 19, 2018, 09:27:09 PM
I'll take "Anus Tart" for $100 , Alex!
Make that two....
This thread has way too much intellectual depth to deal with Instagram.
Everybody knows you need to be on it.
Nobody knows what for.
Or why. Why!
Where did the last half hour go? What did I just look at?
Quote from: sjaustin on August 19, 2018, 10:25:52 PM
First Reddit, now Insta... what's next for the MBP social media empire?
Grindr!
Quote from: madbean on August 19, 2018, 09:27:09 PM
I'll take "Anus Tart" for $100 , Alex!
[Sean Connery]I'll take Anal Bum Cover for $7000.[/Sean Connery]
Quote from: madbean on August 19, 2018, 11:10:51 PM
Quote from: sjaustin on August 19, 2018, 10:25:52 PM
First Reddit, now Insta... what's next for the MBP social media empire?
Grindr!
It's starting to feel all giddy like a 13 year old girl up in here.
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Bort...also IG grud fur Seoul
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Quote from: madbean on August 19, 2018, 11:10:51 PM
Quote from: sjaustin on August 19, 2018, 10:25:52 PM
First Reddit, now Insta... what's next for the MBP social media empire?
Grindr!
LOL also Tinder for the softer side.
Smash that like button ,sub and click that bell !!
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How to get more people to follow you on Instagram?
Nip slips from what I can gather...
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Quote from: nicholascam on August 13, 2021, 07:18:00 PM
How to get more people to follow you on Instagram?
Nip slips from what I can gather...
I like your theory. If I had social media, I would follow that....
So can we expect some racy PCB pics in the near future?? But, please, no excessive photoshoping because we'll be able to tell and that just ruins the fantasy...
where's the onlyfans?
I didn't think that I would ever live to see the creation of an Instagram from madbeanpedals itself. But I will subscribe; it will be fun.
What is this internet that you all speak of?
Sorry, no social media here. I prefer to get my information thru rumors and mis-information. Wait...isn't that social media?
Quote from: gordo on January 26, 2022, 12:00:48 AM
What is this internet that you all speak of?
Sorry, no social media here. I prefer to get my information thru rumors and mis-information. Wait...isn't that social media?
Me too, and Reddit. My biggest source is misinformation.
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I'm actually enjoying the mbp Instagram quite a bit. It's a pretty easy way for me to show small updates, what I'm working on in a given day, etc. But, that's about as far as I'll ever take it. I kinda can't stand when I see posts with 50 different hashtags to hit every conceivable market possible. I think I usually do 1 or 2, haha.
I do need to start following more people though.
To quote a great admiral "it's a trap!!"
Have only ever use Instagram and on it follow lots of local makers of all description, painters, sculptors, potters, printmakers, woodworkers, luthiers, pickup winders, chefs & cooks, growers/gardeners/farmers, a few tomato breeders from across NA who's tomatoes i grow, local restaurants, vinyl stores and other local businesses i shop, galleries and clubs, local bands. Only place i'll find all my interests in one spot and able to get in touch with people if need be. Even post stuff on it.
I use it frequently, it's a great place to keep in contact easily with many of the people I've met in the hobby. I follow lots of small builders and see what they are doing and pick their brain, or get parts from time to time. Using it as a way to showcase my builds, I've had a number of people reach out to me for custom work, which has given me the opportunity to meet some cool people and network. In taking custom work it gives me the opportunity to set my own price and weed out the idiots. I use profits from my sales to self fund the hobby.
I also use instagram, not as much as in the beginning.
By only posting photos of pedals and guitars I could filter out some content.
Since the advertising every three posts started I tried to train my instagram to only show me guitar related stuff, but every now and then there is some weird shit, like local stuff I am not interested in. Good times when there was no ads on the internet...
When I started I used it a lot to check what was everyone doing and using it as a way of help me having new ideas concerning builds, design and graphics. And surely lots of beautiful guitars to feed the GAS.
Now posting in the "new" rhythm that instagram imposes to make you been seen by more than a couple hundred people is not for this hobby IMHO. I cannot build and finish something new every 5 hours, and I don't like to flood the timeline of other people with a different angle of the same pedal. At my work they call it salami slicing, when you try to make out more content from the same piece.
On instagram I like to play a game called: guess the pedal.
I look at the guts and chips and try to identify which pedal it is. Last of Brian's post had the board with the visible spot for two BBD chips, so I checked for other clues like number of stages and position of the pots. Surely 90% of the posts are fuzz faces, but every now and then there is something unique and interesting, which catches my attention.
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Quote from: izzygianino on June 16, 2022, 04:53:03 PM
It looks like you are doing not bad nowadays. More than 2k followers are nice for an author who does not pay too much attention to the account.
Just wait until I post the n00ds.
THAT'S my problem.. all this time I've been posting roods...
Quote from: madbean on June 16, 2022, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: izzygianino on June 16, 2022, 04:53:03 PM
It looks like you are doing not bad nowadays. More than 2k followers are nice for an author who does not pay too much attention to the account.
Just wait until I post the n00ds.
Bwahahahaha
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I just now followed. I came for the circuits but stayed for teh n00ds.
If you want to kickstart your presence, you can even explore options and buy Insta accounts (https://accsmaster.com/buy-instagram-accounts) to save some time and effort. Happy posting and reconnecting with your Insta community!
Just saw this, followed your account the other day with my other hobby account.
If you want to make that thing explode without putting in too much effort or pay for promotion or have an associated OF account linked to it, let me know.... ....i'd say i have a decent understanding of how to work the algorithm to your advantage.
But overall, that platform is now much more favorable to short reels based content, picture content is downed by the algorithm but you can still work around it. I average 500 new followers a months for the past 18 months and been quite smooth about it.
If going the picture route which is what i do mostly, contrast, impact and field of depth is what you want... them IG whores like to have their eyes pulled out their socket! I could take pictures of pcbs and what not i have and send them your way so you see what i mean, let me know!
Quote from: GrindCustoms on December 02, 2023, 01:51:12 AM
Just saw this, followed your account the other day with my other hobby account.
If you want to make that thing explode without putting in too much effort or pay for promotion or have an associated OF account linked to it, let me know.... ....i'd say i have a decent understanding of how to work the algorithm to your advantage.
But overall, that platform is now much more favorable to short reels based content, picture content is downed by the algorithm but you can still work around it. I average 500 new followers a months for the past 18 months and been quite smooth about it.
If going the picture route which is what i do mostly, contrast, impact and field of depth is what you want... them IG whores like to have their eyes pulled out their socket! I could take pictures of pcbs and what not i have and send them your way so you see what i mean, let me know!
You are a prince, Rej. I will definitely take you up on this soon. Esp. considering what I have planned for at the beginning of 2024. Thuper theecret.
Quote from: madbean on December 02, 2023, 01:53:40 AM
Quote from: GrindCustoms on December 02, 2023, 01:51:12 AM
Just saw this, followed your account the other day with my other hobby account.
If you want to make that thing explode without putting in too much effort or pay for promotion or have an associated OF account linked to it, let me know.... ....i'd say i have a decent understanding of how to work the algorithm to your advantage.
But overall, that platform is now much more favorable to short reels based content, picture content is downed by the algorithm but you can still work around it. I average 500 new followers a months for the past 18 months and been quite smooth about it.
If going the picture route which is what i do mostly, contrast, impact and field of depth is what you want... them IG whores like to have their eyes pulled out their socket! I could take pictures of pcbs and what not i have and send them your way so you see what i mean, let me know!
You are a prince, Rej. I will definitely take you up on this soon. Esp. considering what I have planned for at the beginning of 2024. Thuper theecret.
Roger Roger
Quote from: GrindCustoms on December 02, 2023, 01:51:12 AM
If going the picture route which is what i do mostly, contrast, impact and field of depth is what you want... them IG whores like to have their eyes pulled out their socket! I could take pictures of pcbs and what not i have and send them your way so you see what i mean, let me know!
Can you explain this a bit more?
Quote from: jjjimi84 on December 02, 2023, 11:28:45 PM
Quote from: GrindCustoms on December 02, 2023, 01:51:12 AM
If going the picture route which is what i do mostly, contrast, impact and field of depth is what you want... them IG whores like to have their eyes pulled out their socket! I could take pictures of pcbs and what not i have and send them your way so you see what i mean, let me know!
Can you explain this a bit more?
Will do, i just need to get at taking pictures and i'll post them in this thread.
This is one style of photography that i use a lot and have great response with, trying to get some depth out of something that actually doesn't have much. If i was to make a complete post with this picture as the "opener", my next picture would focus on the details that i want to show most but keeping the same approach of having individual portions in focus, the rest blurry... ...it kinda force the user to engage in the post and scroll through all the pics and will likely bring them to push that like button.
Also, most of the "posting guides" you find on IG or other social media resources will tell to only use 5 or 10 hashtags, that's BS. The 5 to 10 first hashtags in your post are those that will generate the immediate response and follow up for the next 24 hours, so you should focus on the strongest for those first. The following ones are as important but you should be more vague about the targeted audience so you get a broader range and that will help to keep your post relevant and pop up in the search and explore page.
Beside that, about the photography itself, i'm no photograph at all, i just enjoy it. For the small stuff like this, i use a 30$ Amazon light box, it's what i've been using forever now. I'm using an off grid Pixel 3 phone with all the auto focus, filters, recognition, etc disabled. The only edit i do on my pictures is cropping them to a square so i get the full screen without border cut from IG. Reason why i don't use filters or any other edit is that as you layer filters on your source image, once it's treated by IG compression it ends up making it more "grainy" and you lose contrast and pop. So i'll just position the matter to be picture where i want it, place my phone and let it be exposed at least 5 seconds before taking the picture.
So yeah... ...that's my way to do things on IG, might sound like a lot with the novel i just wrote down but it's actually a no brainer, no real technique needed, straight to the point approach!
I'll try to make another exemple soon, with a complete pedal, gut shots and what not as if i was to do the promo of a new product and lay it down here.
Cheers!
Can you manually set the aperture on that thing? That's what sets the depth of field. I'f you can set it to a small number like 16 or higher (2.8 is a higher number than 16, in this application.), you can manually focus on the center of the subject, making the close up and far away in focus.
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Quote from: jimilee on December 10, 2023, 03:44:27 AM
Can you manually set the aperture on that thing? That's what sets the depth of field. I'f you can set it to a small number like 16 or higher (2.8 is a higher number than 16, in this application.), you can manually focus on the center of the subject, making the close up and far away in focus.
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I manually set where i want the focus, the idea is to have the image to not be completely clear, i explain in the write up.
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Quote from: jimilee on December 10, 2023, 03:44:27 AM
Can you manually set the aperture on that thing? That's what sets the depth of field. I'f you can set it to a small number like 16 or higher (2.8 is a higher number than 16, in this application.), you can manually focus on the center of the subject, making the close up and far away in focus.
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I manually set where i want the focus, the idea is to have the image to not be completely clear, i explain in the write up.
Ohhh, you would do the opposite of what I wrote. I was a freelance photographer for a long time. It's like being in a band. You starve until you break through or quit and get a real job.
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I think that what IG scrollers are after is not what a professional photographer would think is needed, you're dealing with sweepers that have 1 second at most of attention span, you have to instantly get their attention without giving it all at once, otherwise they will just swipe to the next. By keeping a bit on the back end, you force that attention to stop on the matter at hand and swipe through your post. Now that you've satisfied the curiosity, you get a like and if you're able to get them to stop that way at each of your postings, you'll get a new followers.
Quote from: GrindCustoms on December 10, 2023, 03:54:48 AM
I think that what IG scrollers are after is not what a professional photographer would think is needed, you're dealing with sweepers that have 1 second at most of attention span, you have to instantly get their attention without giving it all at once, otherwise they will just swipe to the next. By keeping a bit on the back end, you force that attention to stop on the matter at hand and swipe through your post. Now that you've satisfied the curiosity, you get a like and if you're able to get them to stop that way at each of your postings, you'll get a new followers.
I agree. If you can run it through a filter, like maybe the enhance in photoshop, you can enhance the reds making them a little more vivid. I like shiny and colorful things. But then again, I am a bass player. [emoji1787]
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Quote from: jimilee on December 10, 2023, 04:30:21 AM
Quote from: GrindCustoms on December 10, 2023, 03:54:48 AM
I think that what IG scrollers are after is not what a professional photographer would think is needed, you're dealing with sweepers that have 1 second at most of attention span, you have to instantly get their attention without giving it all at once, otherwise they will just swipe to the next. By keeping a bit on the back end, you force that attention to stop on the matter at hand and swipe through your post. Now that you've satisfied the curiosity, you get a like and if you're able to get them to stop that way at each of your postings, you'll get a new followers.
I agree. If you can run it through a filter, like maybe the enhance in photoshop, you can enhance the reds making them a little more vivid. I like shiny and colorful things. But then again, I am a bass player. [emoji1787]
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Thank you for the advice mate but... ...i posted this picture as an example of how i tackle my Instagram account posting with other details pertinent as to keep the posts pertinent and relevant in the algorithm on the long term run. If you look at posts by other members prior to me posting that reply, i was asked to expand on how i manage those thing so that's what i did.
Also, going through photoshop, filters and whatever, it's diminutive results for the time and actual gain obtained, keeping it simple is what works. Unless you actually have an account on which the content produced is highly focused on photography and that you've build up a niche audience for that particular type of content. But the goal here is more about getting new followers in by using the visual impact to then lead them to the media you're promoting.