Archives for November 2016

I’m sooo excited!

My award winning writer/actress friend Linda Manning and I are teaming up to host a meetup and Vision Board Party for Female Creatives!

Our generous friends at KRVC are opening up their office to us so we’ll have an intimate and inspiring space to gather, network, and design an amazing 2017 for our lives and businesses.

We both separately spend a lot of time in the city, but we thought it would be great to gather and get to know local female creatives in our own neighborhood.

So if you’re in Riverdale or any other areas of The Bronx or close surrounding areas and want to meetup with other like minded women…

Join Us

Tuesday November 29, 2016

6:30pm – 8:30pm

for a Meetup & Vision Board Party

Create a road map for your best year ever!

KRVC is providing the space for us to meet, the supplies for our boards and even some snacks!  Woo Hoo!

All we ask is that you bring some of your favorite magazines to share with the group.  We’ll be cutting them up and using them in our boards.

Space is limited so if you’d like to attend, you can either send an email to info@krvcdc.org to reserve your spot or call 718-543-7100

It’s going to be a great evening!

One of the key elements of having a thriving Instagram Feed is to have great images.  Unless you’re super popular and already well known, having high quality images will help you grow your following and make you stand out.

Having a photo library at hand is key but I’m not saying you need to spend all of your time taking photographs.  My suggestion is to maximize your time by leveraging the images you already have.  Most often you can find photos within a photo.  You can crop the original image to get multiple images from it.  I’ll show you some examples:

From My DSLR

When I use my “real” camera, the image quality is really high and the file size is very large allowing me to zoom or crop without compromising the quality.

Here’s the original image I took of sunflowers at a farm.

I was able to get 6 square images from it that I can now use for my Instagram account.  I prefer to have square images on Instagram even though you are now allowed to have rectangular images.  It’s just a personal preference.

This one I can overlay with text since there’s a lot of open space by the sky.

For the next 3 I zoomed in on the flowers – having them fill up most of the frame.

These next 2 are more of  a wider view just slightly different from one another.

This next example was also from the same farm using my DSLR.  I was able to get 3 square images from this original one.

From My iPhone

So you may be asking if this can also be done from your camera phone.  Yes!!  The file size is smaller so you may not have as many options but for this example of the tree I was still able to get 3 square images from the original.  This was shot with my iPhone 5S.

Three different images from the same original.

Some  Extra Tips:

• I find that the horizontal images work better than vertical.
• When shooting your original subject, shoot it wide – don’t zoom in.
• On your phone, select Photo, not Square.
• I use Photoshop to edit these photos but I’m sure you can do this with whatever photo editing software and apps you currently use.
• Scatter your images – for example don’t post all of your sunflower photos consecutively

Let me know if you have any questions about your images and Instagram.  I LOVE Instagram!  It’s my favorite social media platform right now.   Put your Instagram account in the comments so I can check out your feed.

Mine is @life.happens.now

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