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07Oct 2012 by Peter Lang No Comments

Top 10 Instagram Hashtags

Previously, I wrote How to Use Hashtags: A Simple Guide and Top 20 Instagram Hashtags and many readers told me that both were very useful. But since these posts, there have been changes in the top used hashtags so I decided to provide an updated list. Here are the top 10 hashtags as of October 7th 2012. 1) #love // 61,405,876 photos Instagram’s top hashtag, love, has remained at the top all year. Images consist of anything IGers love (animals, celebrities, or even their own faces). 2) #instagood // 46,512,887 photos Boost your like and comment numbers by using this popular hashtag. 3) #me // 35,769,075 photos Most Instagram users have their camera phones with them all the time. So it makes sense that they would take pictures of themselves…

16Aug 2012 by Peter Lang No Comments

Sharing Our Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip

Blogging, Photography

Over three days we drove and explored California's renowned Highway 1, stopping to take photographs and recording the entire drive from San Francisco to Santa Monica. This leisurely drive turned adventurous after passing the coastal cities of Santa Cruz, Monterey and Carmel. Every part of this exhilarating drive offered interesting sites; from a 1,000-foot climb into the coastal redwood forest to the narrow shoulders and sharp drop-offs of the gripping mountainside roads. We covered our experience over on Stylishlyme.com through photo blog posst, which are linked at the bottom. The culmination of our Pacific Coast Highway road trip is our video. I hope you enjoy this video as much as we enjoyed making it for you so please let me know what you think in the comments! Promotion of our…

29Jul 2012 by Peter Lang 7 Comments

Top 20 Instagram Hashtags

Photography, Social Media

Fellow IGers, you may or may not have read my previous article How to use hashtags: A simple guide but let's assume you did because today we continue the hashtag topic focusing solely on Instagram. For those of you who have yet to partake in this powerful app and need a brief recap here you go: Instagram is a free photo sharing program that was launched in October 2010. The service allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it and then share it on a variety of social networking services, including Instagrams ownWikipedia - Instagram Also read: Facebook just bought Instagram for 1 billion dollars For those of you who are active IGers or looking to explore the community with greater savvy you cannot go wrong…

06Jul 2012 by Peter Lang No Comments

My Most Recommended iPhone Photo Editing App

Photography, Social Media

I frequently write about photography, whether it's "Inspired – Street and Fashion Photography", "The Headshot Intensive with Peter Hurley", or Why you need professional photography in a Social Media world I'm always looking for new ways to explore new opportunities in photography and continue to improve my images. Today I would like to share a secret about my most frequently used camera, the iPhone. I use a powerful photo editing app that not only improves my images but makes sharing to instagram, Twitter and Facebook extremely easy. If you're on Instagram follow me @peterlang. #1 iPhone photo editing app My #1 most recommended iPhone photo editing app is Snapseed. Since discovering this app, I used it 99% percent of the time in my post-processing workflow. Not only does it have…

04Jul 2012 by Peter Lang 5 Comments

Inspired – Street and Fashion Photography

Blogging, Photography

In recent years I've focused on developing my eye for composition and increasing my knowledge of technical skills in photography, specifically fashion and street photography. Desire This visual interest in photography was sparked as if a preexisting flame inside of me found inspiration during my time in Paris. Living in this compact, cosmopolitan and imperial city with such a strong claim to fashion and street photography helped form my desire to first understand buildings and people then how the two constructed imagery used in French magazines, books and photos. Discovery I set out to discover the relationship with street photography and with the fashion that created an aesthetics to each photograph. But I am interested, too, in street photography's evolution to blogging. From Henri Cartier-Bresson's early work with "life reportage"…

09Apr 2012 by Peter Lang No Comments

Facebook just bought Instagram for 1 billion dollars

Facebook, Photography

A very interesting announcement - Facebook just purchased Instagram for 1 billion dollars. Not long after Instagram released its android version to a frenzy of 30 million users did Facebook aggressively acquire the company for $1,000,000,000.00. Instagram isn't just for hipsters anymore. The photo-sharing app takes an image, makes that image square, puts a retro filter on the image, and then posts the image to a blog feed in the application with options for social distribution. You can follow me on instagram: http://instagram.com/peterlang To all of the Instagram users out there; are you excited or terrified about this merger? It's probably a good idea to download your photos or export them to another social network. To do this, use: http://instaport.me/ Mark Zuckerburg writes on his wall: “I’m excited to share…

26Mar 2012 by Peter Lang No Comments

The Headshot Intensive with Peter Hurley – A Great Experience!

Photography, Social Media

I've personally worked hard to branch out into other skills sets like photography. This expansion isn't solely for enjoyment, it's because I feel great photography can help all businesses and bring joy to your life. Our company believes strongly that the visuals are as important as the product's quality. Our company's graphic designer and creative officer has helped me fall in love with all things creative, including photography. In a previous article I mentioned the importance of professional photography as a strong foundation in your online world and thus have strived to gain knowledge in the field of photography. A major step in doing so was attending "The Headshot Intensive" with world renowned headshot photographer Peter Hurley. In this post I'd like to share with you that experience, some tricks…