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Juliana Cosenza
1. Southdown Coffee - Oyster Bay
Juliana Cosenza
Southdown is one of my favorite coffee spots on Long Island. With another location in Huntington, Southdown has the perfect assortment of coffee, tea, and pastries. Additionally, Southdown is a great place to sit down and do work, read, or relax.
2. The Witches Brew - Hempstead
Juliana Cosenza
The Witches Brew is not only a cafe but a small, comfy restaurant with a lot of healthy and vegan options. The drink menu includes a list of different coffees, teas, lattes, and other beverages as well as different desserts. There is a cozy candle-lit aesthetic that makes for a great place to get coffee and hang out with friends.
3. Sweetie Pies on Main - Cold Spring Harbor
Kendyl Ryan
Sweetie Pies on Main is a small bakery in the middle of Cold Spring Harbor. With a cute ambience inside, my favorite thing to order here is their iced coffees, and the menu offers many different flavors, including Snickers, S'mores, or a simple Mocha Iced Coffee.
Celebrities know how to make their feeds look good. They have millions of followers looking at their feeds every single day. They have to keep their feed relevant and unique so they can start the new trends for Instagram users all over the world. Unlike your average person, celebrities have a team of photographers and social media experts to help them conquer this.
As a photographer, I wanted to show people how they need to edit their photos for these two celebrity inspired VSCO filters for your next Instagram feed. I will be using a photo of a mannequin that I took so I can show you the photo before and after I edit the photos using the celebrity inspired filters.
First off, here is the original photo
1. The Kim Kardashian West Filter
C1/Chromatic
White Balance Temperature: -2
White Balance Tint: +3
Fade: +2.5
Split Tone Highlight Tint Blue: +2
Split Tone Shadow Tint Green: +3
Exposure: +0.5
Contrast: +1
Saturation: +1
Grain: +4
Kim Kardashian West is one of the most famous people in the entire world. With over 137 million followers on Instagram, her feed is one that millions of people will try to mimic.
She is known for always doing a changeup in her feed on her Instagram page.
The picture above shows a filter that she had on her feed a few years ago. The filter was made to make photos look like a very blue/greenish Polaroid picture. You can tell that through the grain and fade.
2. The Ariana Grande Filter
M3/Mood
Exposure: -0.8
Contrast: +1.5
Tone Highlights: +7.5
White Balance Temperature: -1.4
White Balance Tint: +6
Saturation: -0.9
Split Tone Highlight Tint Magenta: +2.3
Ariana Grande is one of the most popular female singers in the music business. With over 154 million followers on Instagram, her feed is one that her fans want to try and copy for their own feeds.
She is known for having most of her pictures look exactly like Polaroid pictures just like Kim Kardashian West. The picture above shows a filter that is very similar to one that looks like her feed. You can tell this through the white balance and split tone highlight.
If you are starting to get bored with your feed or just want to start a change up in your feed, I would definitely recommend using one of these filters for your new feed. I think each filter shows a different type of Polaroid-picturesque feed that is easy to do. Your followers will be so impressed with your pictures. Maybe they might try to start mimicking your own feed.
1. Find your special niche
When setting out to elevate you Instagram it's very important, to begin with, defining who your audience is and why they follow you. This does not include friends or family, but actually, the people who enjoy your posts. These followers enjoy what you bring to the table and your story for a reason. You and everyone else bring a certain special theme or quality to all your posts, and this can be seen as a niche, which is good because people who enjoy your niche will follow you. The most popular niches include lifestyle, fashion, and beauty. While these are popular, it is better to take one broad niche and make it a little more specific to stand out and gain a following from the uniqueness of your content that can not be found anywhere else, but your specific account.
2. Inspiration eliminates boring posts
While there is nothing wrong with posting a head-on selfie every once and then, it can get boring and bland if that is all your Instagram has become. Showing variety is easy just by adding different angles, incorporation full body shots, and even a location change, but the problem is you've come used to taking the same selfie from the same angle in the same location that you're not sure what else is out there, but have no fear there are billions of photos for you to gather inspiration from on the same app, and many more like Pinterest, and Tumblr. These apps have become online databases for beautiful photos and inspiration material like photoshoots, outfits, and even recipes for food blogs. The one rule when using inspiration is, do not copy and give credit where credit is due. Many beauty gurus and influencers have been "canceled" these past months due to them copying other's makeup looks and not giving credit to the original source so take that as a warning.
3. It is all about visual aesthetics
The best way to not only stand out but to also create an aesthetic for yourself that others do not have is having a consistent and recognizable preset/filter. This is not only to make all your posts look more cohesive as if your Instagram is one big story, but it will also drive attention to your account due to the distinct, and aesthetically pleasing aesthetic. If editing photos and creating your own filter/preset is not your thing there are many sold on Etsy or your favorite Instagram influencer is already selling theirs.
1. Create a long playlist.
GiphyYou're going to be writing for several hours, and each song has to align with the plot and scenes of each chapter while fitting with the tone of the story. This means that your playlist needs to be carefully selected and rearranged. Several times over, perhaps.
3. Research more.
GiphyHow do you say this word in another language? Or is it possible to jump from the second floor of a building without being injured in the process? You'll have to do some digging on the web to confirm the answers, even if you already have a concise Word document filled with research.
4. Hop onto Pinterest.
GiphyYou still haven't figured out a character, so why not make an aesthetic board to figure them out? (Warning: you will fall down the Pinterest hole. Exercise caution.)
5. Talk to your friends about your project.
GiphyYes, spend all that time talking about your story instead of actually writing it.
6. Debate over which font to use.
GiphyTimes New Roman makes you feel like you're writing a high school paper, but Comic Sans looks like it is meant for children. Sigh.
7. Check your social media.
GiphyIt's been a minute since you last checked it. Maybe something has happened since then.
If you're a writer, then listen to me: just start writing. I know it feels impossible at times, especially when the words aren't flowing right and everything around you seems to be a mess. But there is no way you'll be able to tell the story if you don't fill the pages, and even if they're terrible and the first draft is a wreck, at least you have something to work with.
Just keep writing.
