You posted your favorite shot from this weekend’s session to Instagram an hour ago. It’s already cropped, captioned, and sitting right there on your phone. Getting it onto your actual portfolio site used to mean finding the original file, uploading it again, and doing that all over for every photo after it. Not anymore. Instagram…

As a photography business expert, I’ve been using Instagram since its early days in 2012 (back when everyone thought the X-Pro filter made them a professional photographer—remember those days?). With its visual-first approach and massive user base, it remains one of the most powerful platforms for sharing your work, building your brand, and connecting with…

I shared a photograph on Instagram, tagged the hotel where the photo was made and was asked if it was ok to repost the photo. https://www.instagram.com/p/BQeNGhejXDg That’s a normal thing which happens daily to thousands of people on Instagram. But Hilton linked to their terms and conditions for user-generated content. What I read shocked me.…