For most accounts, personal photos (selfies) and life-changing moments (birth, marriage, new job, new house) get the most the continuous development of artificiallikes. And that is the success of Instagram: you get a glimpse into the world of other people and you can follow anyone you find interesting. From a Russian girl who takes beautiful dark spooky photos of plants to a sheik who is rich & famous in Dubai. From a lumberjack in Virginia to a Japanese teenage girl who photographs candy.
collage nature photography
Left: LindaLaughs. Right: Shish0va
Beautiful photos, a recognizable concept or subject
The Japanese and Russian girls above understand how Instagram works and stick to their niche. They won’t suddenly post a photo that is completely out of place in terms of color, subject or style. That’s their strength.
When you take photos of everything that happens in your life, like many people use Instagram as a visual diary, you get a mix of all sorts of subjects and photography styles. If you want to grow quickly, a niche, a subject and a style works best. Just look at the accounts that only post photos of nature like LindaLaughs , or about architecture like Macenzo . Or the strong style of @zilverblauw and @beeldsteil .
Left: Silver-blue. Right: Image-steel
Left: Silver-blue. Right: Image-steel.
Don’t forget the people who already follow you! They no longer judge you on a consistent or beautiful photo feed, marketing list but on the photos that you post separately and that appear in their timeline. These people already know you a little and will therefore also appreciate the stories behind the photo. And from these people you will also get the most likes for selfies and life-changing events, which I already talked about. So for your existing followers: give them what they expect from you and interact with you can even open a live broadcast them: talk to them and also respond to their photos.