- I'm kind of, like, allergic to selfies.
Whenever I see one I, like, break out in a rash,
'cause I'm just like, why do people do this?
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- I only use my Instagram for, like, nature photos.
So a lot of the people I follow on Instagram
are, like, landscape photographers.
- I think that my Instagram feed
will hopefully become a little more cohesive
and less like "Oh, my God. Dog, dog, dog. Selfie. Dog."
- A lot of photos of stuff I do at work.
Also my dog.
Shots of my friends and husband and I.
- Hey everyone, my name is Jenn Im.
And today I'll be teaching the Buzzfeed ladies
how to post like an Instagram
fashion and lifestyle content creator.
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- [All] Hi, hello!
- It's nice to meet you girls.
So these are my five kind of tips
on how I manage my Instagram account.
It doesn't really matter what device
you're using to take your photo.
Definitely get a DSLR but honestly,
I feel like, just the camera that comes
with your phone works well.
If you're using an iPhone, just find a place
that has shade, somewhere that has completely even lighting
and you're just gonna get a beautiful, creamy photo.
Once you've got your perfect photo
it's time to bust open those apps.
I'll run it through Snapseed first
and then I'll put it on VSCO Cam
and then I'll just throw a couple filters in.
And filters, you can just really play
around with whatever you prefer.
My personal favorite filters are A6 and A7
and then S1 and S2.
- Do you kind of separate work with life
or does it kind of mesh together?
- In the beginning it was a little overwhelming for me
because I just did not know when to stop.
Because when I would go to a really beautiful location
I would feel this pressure to be like,
okay, I need to document this.
It's when you start seeing yourself kind of
stressing over a moment that's supposed to be enjoyable.
Just stop yourself, because that's not healthy.
You need to learn to enjoy the moment and take it in.
I think they definitely have it under control.
As long as they keep the five tips in mind
they're gonna be totally fine.
- [Sheridan] Day one was fun because it was
like basically a professional shoot.
I felt really pretty and really gorgeous.
- It was a lot more challenging
than I thought it would be.
My usual morning routine is I pick up
whatever is on the floor that doesn't
smell gross and I put it on.
- [Kuwilileni] My selfie with a product or food item
was a little tricky at first 'cause I feel like
when you see people doing product photos
on their Instagram it's usually sponsored.
I really wanted to make sure that
if I was gonna take a photo with a product
I wasn't representing something I didn't stand for.
- You know how people are like,
"Oh my God, look at my legs while overlooking
"this gorgeous scenic beach while eating avocado toast!"
That is not me.
So I decided to just show what I was doing that night
which was watching "Vanderpump Rules".
We had to move the lamp to get better lighting.
This is so fucking ridiculous.
- The mirror shot was the hardest photo I took.
I was like, why am I standing in front of a mirror
and taking a photo, because a camera is a mirror?
- I was doing more things this week
than I have done in the past month.
This video forced me to go out and do interesting things.
I honestly felt a little bit uncomfortable
with the idea of doing a whole personal
photo shoot for me and my outfit.
I'm just not used to drawing
that much direct attention to myself.
- When you're hungover, you're not eating gourmet food,
like microbiotic, gluten-free sandwiches.
I got my ass some Panda Express (laughs)
so I did a flat lay of some chow mein and orange chicken
but you know what, I was like, let's classy it up
so I put a little Diptyque candle in there
and I'm like, I see this on other people's Instagrams.
They add a candle and it makes everything classier.
Why can't it make my (laughs) little
styrofoam box of Chinese food classier?
- I was on a shoot.
We were doing black style through history.
I was a civil rights freedom fighter.
I'd never thought about how just taking a photo
of your outfit could immortalize that day.
- I dug into my archives and found a picture
of all three of us looking really nice.
A picture that my dad took last Christmas.
- I had, you know, my work wife Jazzmyne here
and she's just like so fashionable and cool
I feel like she just makes any photo better.
- The hardest part of this challenge
has been bamboozling unsuspecting friends
into taking photos of me.
The most recent person I bamboozled today
was my friend Alex.
She took my sitting pretty photo.
- I really rose to the occasion on that.
- My posts have been getting a lot more likes than usual.
- The two photos I got a shit ton of likes were
my mustache shaving acne cream one
and my Panda Express one.
- I definitely think that my followers
commented a lot more on these posts.
I think they were excited to see
me in my everyday environment.
- The talent in these Instagram bloggers
is they make it look like it's not a lot of hard work
but a lot of hard work goes into it.
- I wouldn't have been able to pull it off
if I didn't keep bringing pictures
that I took before and just posting them.
- Having to have a presence on social media today
and maintain followers on Instagram and Twitter
and everything else is having to do work outside of work.
- She just summed up everything I've been feeling.
In the Instagram world, you should respond to people.
You should comment on other people's things.
I definitely learned there's a lot
of love in that community.
It doesn't matter if you only have a 40 people following
and they have a 90 000 people following.
If you compliment them,
that effects them 'cause they're human.
I think I had a reminder of how human we really all are.
And it doesn't matter how many followers you have,
you can still create that human connection.
- I think I'm doing this right?
Yep, this somehow doesn't look as expensive
as I wanted it to look.