Trailing Off

This picture looks more impressive than the amount of work that went into getting it. One of the tricks to getting a good Instagram photo is that you simply have to start with a good camera or good picture. What I mean is the quality. You want a high-resolution image so that you can't see the individual pixels of an image. Older photos or ones taken and blown up from the internet have a bit of fuzzy coloring and texture to them. With the iPhone this isn't a big concern because it is great quality for a camera on a phone.

When you frame up your shots, you also need to make sure they're well focused. If you tap once on your screen in shooting mode, the camera will try to focus the area you tapped on. If your image is still out of focus, then you are simply too close to the object. This picture was actually taken about 6-8 inches from the subject. Because you've started with a higher quality image, you can zoom in once you're in Instagram and the image will still look crisp and clean because you don't need to zoom in much so there isn't much loss of quality.

After that it was as simple as popping the Lo-Fi filter on this because I felt it gave a nicer, more contrasty, old school feel than the original. The background sinks away more definitively and the flowers pop out.