{"id":16806,"date":"2016-04-11T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=16806"},"modified":"2016-04-11T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:55:27","slug":"what-do-your-images-look-like-when-you-share-them-in-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/16806\/what-do-your-images-look-like-when-you-share-them-in-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Your Images Look Like When You Share Them In Social Networks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSocial networks can be wonderful ways of sharing events in our lives, with or without images. Most posts are seen, commented on, and shared more if they include an image.
\nSome posts are just images. And there are social networks just for images. This all creates an insatiable demand for images, specifically photographs. Now, over one trillion photographs are made every year. (For the past several years, each year more photographs are created in the current year than in all previous years combined.)
\nUsually when photographs are shared there is no indication of what kind of photograph it is. They\u2019re all shared equally, almost as if they\u2019re all equal and all made for the same reasons, which they\u2019re not. Never mind that some photographs are of higher quality than others. Making this kind of value judgment is another matter entirely \u2013\u00a0and not the point here. The point here is that we make many different kinds of photographs for many different reasons. (We quickly disregard the imperfections in family snapshots, sometimes they feel more real and immediate because of them, favoring instead their accuracy and spontaneity. We evaluate and use formal portraits in entirely different ways.) How successful photographs are is determined by how well they do what we want them to do. There is no one set of criteria that can be applied equally to all photographs; instead we apply different criteria to different kinds of photographs.
\nThey shouldn\u2019t all be read the same. If we looked at all photographs as being the same, and if we looked at all photographs in the same ways, we\u2019d make many inaccurate conclusions and miss many important points.
\nSo it\u2019s important to ask, \u201cHow do we want the photographs we share to be received?\u201d
\nCan we make it easier by taking some of the guesswork out of it all and tell our viewers more about what we\u2019re trying to say by telling them more about how we\u2019re trying to say it? There aren\u2019t standard conventions for this \u2013 yet. (And we need them.)
\nIn an attempt to embrace the challenge of communicating what kinds of photographs I share, I\u2019ve started using specific language to describe and ways of presenting different types of photographs differently.
\nHere\u2019s my current solution.
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Documents are shared bare with no border.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Studies made during the development of more resolved work are shared with a textured paper border.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fine art is shared with a matt and frame. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It takes a little extra time to add these touches but I think it\u2019s worth the effort. In the end, I feel I\u2019m communicating more effectively. I also find making the distinction between these types of images personally useful. I become clearer about what I\u2019m trying to do, often while I\u2019m making photographs. I\u2019m better able to assess how well I\u2019ve done what I\u2019m trying to do and don\u2019t waste time and energy applying an inappropriate set of criteria; sometimes this affects both productivity and how I make photographs. And finally, because I ask these questions I find new ideas \u2013\u00a0and that may be the most rewarding part of this process.
\nHow do you share images in social networks?
\nFollow me on Instagram.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nLike me on Facebook.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nFollow me on\u00a0Twitter.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nCircle me on Google+.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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