Social media for photographers - Best 3 in 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
- There are so many social media platforms for photographers but which ones will gain you the most exposure. Here at TSOP we have completed a real-life experiment to answer just that. We’ve figured out which platforms will get the most engagement on your photography.
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I love VERO. I'm not a photographer, just a normal person who enjoys taking photographs and engaging with other people. I was hoping you'd mention in the comparison that VERO has no ads or algorithm, it makes a big difference. It can take a little getting used to because of that, hashtags are very important using VERO. Wonderful video!
Thanks Steve 👍
Vero appears to fast becoming the "photographers" social media platform which means engagement is fantastic but in terms of driving sales it kind of sucks due to the lack of non-photographers after all, how many photographers are interested in buying other peoples prints.
Good point
That picture in Regent Street is absolutely fantastic. I would love to have taken that and you make it look so easy❤
Thank you 👍
Thinking about Vero since weeks and all that kept me back was the idea of honeymoon.
Thanks for detangleing the knot in a clear way
You are welcome Diana 👍
Just joined vero thanks to this video and checked out some of your work, which is amazing.
Thanks for sharing. I really like your angel creation
Thanks Henry 👍
Hi, can you pls make a video on How to photograph Artwork like paintings/posters flat image in a studio/indoor, big or small. There is minimal to none pro videos about Artwork photography
Should one move closer to the painting or should one use the zoom instead to get a sharper photo? What will be the ideal f nr? F4 to f8? Shall I use all the time ISO 100? Thanks so much
This may help th-cam.com/video/wChNFR2CdJw/w-d-xo.html 👍
I didn't realise you had your own pages on social media sites but actually my fav photos were the woodland ones 😊
Me too. The Shard does not do it for me because the stairs of the boat, not the Shard are the focal point.
Of all those mentioned apps, vero is the only that could call social. I also use all of them, but vero is my primary app for showing my works. i honestly don't know why more photographers doesn't use that platform...
Good vid buddy. I've not engaged on social media for my photography in a long while. I got depressed with it all ...😆 and stopped. I'm retired now so I have more time, more photos etc so i was looking for something new to be involved in. Seems Vero is going to get a visitor . 😃
I subbed ya.
Thanks for the vid
Steve
Thanks Steve 👍
Great video. Thanks so much. I am trying to grow on Instagram, weighing up the benefits of spending time growing on Facebook and was not even aware of Vero.
Glad it was helpful! 😊
On flickr, it all depends on you pushing your photos to the groups that appreciate them. Not the ones with a hundred thousand members and 7 million photos - go for the small specialized, but active ones that have anywhere between 700 and 5000 members.
Really interesting, thank you for doing all the research. You are an extremely talented photographer and teacher which is why I joined The School of Photography. I personally hate Instagram, full of time wasting 💩! I also don’t like Facebook, except for the TSOP group page. I have recently joined Flickr and I have been inspired but some of the photos on there but there is also a lot of rubbish. I have found you need to join Groups to get your photos ❤. So if you take photos of Robins or London if you join those Groups like minded people will be viewing them. I have been really pleased with my hit rate and ❤ rate. I only do photography for a hobby so I don’t have the pressure of trying to make money…. this might make a big difference to how I view Flickr. Keep up the good work…..you are amazing.
Thank you Jenny, glad you are part of TSOP :)
Lots of variables here. When you post a picture its competing against others being posted at the same time. If some people posted great pictures at the same time as you your images might not perform well. Its also very dependant on the time of the day you post and the day of the week.
Flickr has completely missed the boat when it comes to mobile applications. People are now mainly active via smartphone or tablet, and the ease of use of mobile Flickr is extremely poor.
Tried to register on Vero myself several times, but I never received the necessary confirmation code by SMS. And support at Vero is apparently non-existent.
So for now "stuck" on IG - with all its drawbacks. But still with many photographers whose work I like to see.
I use Facebook only at the moment. I never understood why Twitter was a thing. I do post a lot of pictures I believe no one ever sees on my Personal FB, but I also post all of the same pictures on a Canon 90D FB site, and the numbers are way higher. I have a lot of long drawn out discussions on there concerning photography. I am sure I have been shadow banned on FB for the past decade, because of my political views, and probably because I discuss things like UFO's. I do love photography, and your teaching material is top notch.
Thank you 🙏
Great video 👍 but what about 500px? For me the best so for for engagement.
Interesting statistics. Would be interesting to see similar test using a brand new account on each platform. Since you had a certain amount of followers on each platform I suspect the algorithms might be skewed. Not throwing any shade, very interesting data.
Thanks Elad 👍
What about 100ASA, a social media platform exclusively for photographers?
Why isn’t the number of views used as a metric?
In this way the views is then used to used likes/views is a measure of engagement.
Was the ratio of likes to followers done by matching names?
Engagement of followers is important, but the number of non followers who liked a post is also important.
Growth in followers over time is a key metric.
I'm curious, did people like a person in the Regent St. photo or not?
Personally I hate people in images most times,
You are spot on you must love your work the most.
Can't remember the exact numbers that liked it or not but you can check it out on my insta 👍
I’ve tried VERO, I like the idea behind it, but I’m getting absolutely zero engagement.
Thanks for sharing Jeff 👍
I guess that the big question is which of those options is where buyers are, lots of engagement with other photographers is not likely to earn you money is it? 🤔
Yeah, but on Flickr and Velo its pretty much other photographers who are not going to pay you to take their pictures?
Good point
The Shard photo is stunning. Very nice! Your POV/aesthetic, based on that pic, is very much like mine.
It's always confusing and confounding when we post photos to the socials and they don't illicit the responses we'd anticipated.
Thanks for demystifying how our posts get/don't get engagement, and which socials may be the best for photography/photographers!
Glad it was helpful Casey 😊
I also liked the picture in Regent Street :-)
I also have facebook, instagram and Vero, the last mentioned I switched to when "all photographers had to switch to vero". For me vero became what flickr became for you, got few followers and few likes. I don't have many followers on Instagram either, but a few more likes, because as you mentioned, you post so that people like what you do, otherwise all the effort is wasted. But all in all, the most important thing is that you yourself like what you do. Sorry for my bad English ;-)
Thank you Atle 👍
VERO is the best
😂Flickr is gone😂😂😂👍🥰
Great video and comparison. Personally I do post on Instagram but I find few people actually comment. I can't be bothered with Facebook therefore I don't. I do post occasionally on Vero but get little feedback from folks. Then there's Flickr... My opinion with Flickr is unless you add the photo to a group it gets little to no attention from your followers. With all of them hashtags are what might bring the image to someones attention. Instagram, Flickr and Vero are great platforms to find other photographers and check out their work.
Thanks Jabeka 👍
I'm a biology Student who loves doing photography and editing. But by doing that too much I'm loosing in study life.
But I have huge passion for this industry
heheh it's great that people don't care about social media anymore, they are just passive now and it has no meaning to like or comment anymore. Nobody seems to bother pressing the like button anymore, even if the like something is just something to scroll by and forget it
Must admit I thought the woodland pictures where amazing along with the others but you dismissed them as ok 🤣
Twitter???
or even better I post to get clients and make cash, I don't care about anything else :)
what about Pinterest?
Please share your experience of it here.
@@theschoolofphotography I never tried it for publishing my photos, only for browsing them.
Hi Marc. I think that Flickr is a much nicer platform than instagram or Fb for photographers but I think that because it was the first platform for photographers the younger generation tend to think of it as old fashioned and of a grandads era, not for them. These days it is all about Fb and insta because basically they had a much better marketing base and aimed their product at the younger up coming generation and so Flickr was dismissed as finished. It is not finished though because most photographers know it is much better than the others but because the money is made from fb and insta that is where they post and try to capture an audience. I think, as you have pointed out, that most folk who are photographers, and especially professional photographers or very keen ameteur use all the platforms for their photos. Sort of hedging there bets so to speak, but, although Vero is supposed to be the place for photographers to go and so all the TH-camrs etc keep telling us, none of them have stopped using fb, instagram or even Flickr and why ? We’ll probably because they ARE hedging their bets and trying to optimise as many sales, likes, and new fans as they possibly can, knowing fine well if they stopped using these other platforms they would lose out. I love Fb only because I can chat away merrily to most of my friends who like my photos and others who come in from friends of friends etc. it can therefore make it fun. What I do not like about Facebook is the fact that it is all about how much money they can get from you via showing adverts or forcing you into paying for advertisements just so that you can reach out to more of YOUR friends and followers, a bit sneaky using algorithms to basically screw everyone for as much money as they can make, using Your work/photos to encourage people to keep using and encouraging folk to go there to see it. I should say I don’t have a lot of followers anywhere and I find it quite disappointing sometimes but I do realise that my photography isn’t going to win any awards but it is what I like doing and I carry on trying to get better at what I do and it is something that I really enjoy, it’s a great hobby . By the way, I think you have come up with a great point and a fantastic subject for a good long chat/ debate, welll done Marc for bring it up in a super way 😁👍
Thank you Duncan, appreciate your thoughts here 🙏 👍
Hi, I have been following your TH-cam channel for a long time you are a fantastic photographer, particularly love the Christmas lights angel and the bus is passing either side fantastic. I don’t particularly like any other social media sites as I find if you have the time to spend time on them you’ll get better results what I’m trying to say is if you only knew like a lot of peoples photos of a majority of those people will look for your work and like it. I joined a site called photos zinc and any it’s purely photographers from all over the world professional and amateur. I realised I was putting photos on there what are considered to be nice wildlife photos not fantastic but not bad I wasn’t really getting any attention just be three people I was looking at photos only in some of them I thought why are they even on here little rubbish, but I will get in lots of likes and even your award. So I posted a picture it wasn’t very good. It was actually a bit blurry but I stayed on that site for about four hours like in every single picture I saw regardless the next night I went back to that site looked at my blurry picture I had over 400 likes and three awards, I realise then that it was actually vote for me and I will vote for you so hence I no longer use that site honesty is what I’m looking for that way I can improve and unfortunately a lot of social media sites are similar if you spend time with them, they will spend time with you Thanks for sharing. Love you so I think you are seriously good photographer. I’d like to be half as good as you.🎉
Thank you so much Andy, really appreciate the comments 🙏👍
I find that on Facebook, people “forget” to like if they write a comment. On Vero, it seems like tags is very efficient, even though you can’t follow tags for some reason. I have almost no followers on Vero, but I often get more likes anyways, so actually more than 100% sometimes. Instagram is just dead to me. Not because I don’t get the likes I want, but I can’t stand to see all the 💩 that is thrown in my face, and even if you spend the time to tell Instagram you are not interested, it never end…
Thanks Ragnar 👍
If you go to the people following you on instagram and see when they last engaged with it you will find the bulk of them are gone. I personally only look at the first 15-20 pictures and give up. Vero I dont follow at all because I dont like the viewers format. I dont use Flickr and never have. However I do use facebook groups and get very good response from that. people tend to follow their interests and you might be opening up your audience to 10s of 1000's of viewers. You also get a lot more comments from people who are interested in the group you are following. it is quite a different scenario.