Instagram Photo Captions: The Ultimate Guide to Writing
Instagram is a diverse social network. In addition to posting photos, publications can (and even need to) be signed. But a natural question arises: how to make a high-quality signature that will interest people and form an idea about the profile. Now we will share a detailed guide to writing captions for both lifestyle blogs and bloggers.
For the average user…
If on Instagram you regularly post photos from everyday life for family and friends, then the approach to captions will be like this.
- Choose from a series of photos the most successful. If necessary, edit in third-party applications or on the social network.
- Define the topic. Food, travel, business, school, a family night out, going to the cinema are all possible subjects for a photo or video.
- Ask a question: what do you want to convey with a photo card? Write down how you felt while hiking in the woods with your family. Make a brief review of the book in the photo. Describe the memorable places and sights that fell into the lens of the phone during the summer trip. Any moment of life can be described with interest.
- Remember an important thing: if the signature is interesting to the one who wrote it, then people will show interest.
- If there is a desire to paint an event not just with a couple of sentences, but to make a full-fledged post, then divide the text into logical paragraphs with micro topics. For example, you visited the Museum of Modern Art yesterday, and this morning you decided to post. Make a description under the photo that will describe different aspects of the cultural trip: how did you find out about the exhibition, whose works were presented, what is unique, what is the overall impression.
- Do not forget to contact subscribers, ask questions if you really want to hear an opinion about the publication.
Blogging approach to writing posts
Blogs are created, as a rule, on certain topics. Therefore, the topics of the posts are appropriate. If you’re starting a blog but don’t know where to start, then try your hand at lifestyle. A person describes work and weekends, talks about hobbies and problems that he considered necessary for publication.
Bloggers write in a more structured way than regular users. If a large blog is already quite popular in the social network, then profile owners receive offers for cooperation and advertising, which is what posts are about.
Basic "rules" for writing signatures for publications
Of course, there is no clear summary of recommendations. But the unwritten rules nevertheless formed during the existence of Instagram:
- Do not copy someone else’s text for publication. It is about copying other people’s ideas, thoughts. There is nothing wrong with signing a photo with a line from your favorite song. But to expose the work of others as your own is not very good.
- If you have a thousandth audience, then there is a responsibility to each reader. Hence the following rule: do not lie to subscribers and be hypocritical in front of them for the sake of profit or image.
- Stick to an individual style: in stories, publications. You are probably following a person whose photos in style make it clear who posted the photo.
- Don’t break Instagram rules. This will result in a ban for a certain amount of time.