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Celebrities know how to make their feeds look good. They have millions of followers looking at their feeds every single day. They have to keep their feed relevant and unique so they can start the new trends for Instagram users all over the world. Unlike your average person, celebrities have a team of photographers and social media experts to help them conquer this.
As a photographer, I wanted to show people how they need to edit their photos for these two celebrity inspired VSCO filters for your next Instagram feed. I will be using a photo of a mannequin that I took so I can show you the photo before and after I edit the photos using the celebrity inspired filters.
First off, here is the original photo
1. The Kim Kardashian West Filter
C1/Chromatic
White Balance Temperature: -2
White Balance Tint: +3
Fade: +2.5
Split Tone Highlight Tint Blue: +2
Split Tone Shadow Tint Green: +3
Exposure: +0.5
Contrast: +1
Saturation: +1
Grain: +4
Kim Kardashian West is one of the most famous people in the entire world. With over 137 million followers on Instagram, her feed is one that millions of people will try to mimic.
She is known for always doing a changeup in her feed on her Instagram page.
The picture above shows a filter that she had on her feed a few years ago. The filter was made to make photos look like a very blue/greenish Polaroid picture. You can tell that through the grain and fade.
2. The Ariana Grande Filter
M3/Mood
Exposure: -0.8
Contrast: +1.5
Tone Highlights: +7.5
White Balance Temperature: -1.4
White Balance Tint: +6
Saturation: -0.9
Split Tone Highlight Tint Magenta: +2.3
Ariana Grande is one of the most popular female singers in the music business. With over 154 million followers on Instagram, her feed is one that her fans want to try and copy for their own feeds.
She is known for having most of her pictures look exactly like Polaroid pictures just like Kim Kardashian West. The picture above shows a filter that is very similar to one that looks like her feed. You can tell this through the white balance and split tone highlight.
If you are starting to get bored with your feed or just want to start a change up in your feed, I would definitely recommend using one of these filters for your new feed. I think each filter shows a different type of Polaroid-picturesque feed that is easy to do. Your followers will be so impressed with your pictures. Maybe they might try to start mimicking your own feed.
1. Find your special niche
When setting out to elevate you Instagram it's very important, to begin with, defining who your audience is and why they follow you. This does not include friends or family, but actually, the people who enjoy your posts. These followers enjoy what you bring to the table and your story for a reason. You and everyone else bring a certain special theme or quality to all your posts, and this can be seen as a niche, which is good because people who enjoy your niche will follow you. The most popular niches include lifestyle, fashion, and beauty. While these are popular, it is better to take one broad niche and make it a little more specific to stand out and gain a following from the uniqueness of your content that can not be found anywhere else, but your specific account.
2. Inspiration eliminates boring posts
While there is nothing wrong with posting a head-on selfie every once and then, it can get boring and bland if that is all your Instagram has become. Showing variety is easy just by adding different angles, incorporation full body shots, and even a location change, but the problem is you've come used to taking the same selfie from the same angle in the same location that you're not sure what else is out there, but have no fear there are billions of photos for you to gather inspiration from on the same app, and many more like Pinterest, and Tumblr. These apps have become online databases for beautiful photos and inspiration material like photoshoots, outfits, and even recipes for food blogs. The one rule when using inspiration is, do not copy and give credit where credit is due. Many beauty gurus and influencers have been "canceled" these past months due to them copying other's makeup looks and not giving credit to the original source so take that as a warning.
3. It is all about visual aesthetics
The best way to not only stand out but to also create an aesthetic for yourself that others do not have is having a consistent and recognizable preset/filter. This is not only to make all your posts look more cohesive as if your Instagram is one big story, but it will also drive attention to your account due to the distinct, and aesthetically pleasing aesthetic. If editing photos and creating your own filter/preset is not your thing there are many sold on Etsy or your favorite Instagram influencer is already selling theirs.
As I scroll through my Instagram while writing this; I am a public Instagram profile and I scream to the Internet world what places I have visited, what things I have accomplished, what college I attend, who my crew and group of closets friends are, what my wardrobe looks like, even what my favorite drink is. My Instagram profile is my reflection, I have told myself before. But why did it take one out of at least fifty pictures to make it to this so-called reflection profile? And why am I fake smiling in most of them? If we are displayed as this satisfied with our lives, why are we constantly comparing our profiles to someone else's, who seems to be living things we aren't.
Instagram isn't the reflection of our lives, it is a shadow over it.
I have never questioned the need of telling my followers what I had for lunch, and why should I care what they ate today too. Since when are we so out of entertainment that people need to be constantly asking us questions and the need for exposing the answers to the public. When going to a concert, why are we videotaping a whole performance to be able to post it, when the only reason we attended that concert was to enjoy it in real life so we wouldn't have to watch it from a screen in the first place. Who the hell invented filters? And why are they only a curtain over our imperfections? When will I be this skinny or perhaps this thick, even the fear of missing out? What the hell is really a hashtag, and why am I staring at it with a blank facial expression when it's supposed to reflect how I really feel.
Instagram is nothing but fakeness and a distortion of reality, which we are in fact currently missing out on.
Growing up I wasn't aware of how the older generations were living, and I didn't care. In today's society we have the younger generations that at such a young age are discovering stages of life that shouldn't be discovered, and moments that are now pressured to accomplish. If my self-esteem was in danger when I reached the age of twelve among the better-looking girls in my class, I wonder how the self-esteem of a twelve-year-old in 2019 is now in danger among Instagram models where ten filters have been added and the perfect angles were captured, spiced with a caption they cannot relate to at the age of twelve. Why are kids understanding adult jokes? Who the h*** is Kylie Jenner and why is she making millions after society double taps her distortion of reality, making this reality more of distortion to the younger generations.
The definition of Instaholic is the need to post.
There wouldn't be an Instagram without any posts. Our society is the definition of Instaholics. Mental Health is already at risk, and depression already plays a big role in today's society. Instagram is full of unrealistic exceptions, so much for being the generation of leaving a legacy.
Why is Instagram making reality so miserable?
Photography was meant to capture the best moments. It began with wedding pictures hung over the walls. Baby pictures that held the treasure of memories that couldn't be recalled. Family photos that became a living memory of the ones that left us. graduation pictures that would capture accomplishments. Photographs would make us happy, so why are there 600 mirror selfies that have filled up my phone storage that make me quite unhappy. And why are grandma's hanging up their granddaughter's pictures that have been edited and 20 filters have been applied? Why the hell are mirror selfies even a thing, why are these the ones that will be hung after our funeral? These only reflect the distortion of reality, where reality is being forgotten, and a shadow of it has taken over. This is the generation of Instaholics.
