One of my favorite things to do each year is to follow Stephanie's Christmas Photo Challenge. I was so excited this year when she asked me to help co-host it! I love taking and sharing photographs of all things Christmas on Instagram! It's my absolute favorite. Below are the prompts and today I want to share my photos for days 1-12 (half of the challenge).
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{#2018ChristmasMoments // Christmas Photo Challenge}
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Labels:
2018,
Christmas,
CHRISTmas Time,
Instagram
{#14daysoflovephoto2018 // IG Photo Challenge}
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
For the first half of the month of February I joined the ladies of Caffeinated Moments in hosting a fun love themed Instagram Photo Challenge. While the month started out rough for me due to health issues, I joined in when I could. More often than not, I posted each day way late and even skipped a picture. But? I almost completed it. All but the last picture. I missed it on Valentine's Day and didn't want to post a "Valentine" picture way after the fact. I think it's okay, though, because everyone knows who my forever Valetine's are. Here's a look at the pictures I posted for #14daysoflovephoto2018...
Labels:
2018,
Instagram,
Valentine's Day
{2016 Christmas Photo Challenge}
Monday, January 9, 2017
{Hall Around Texas // 2016 in pictures}
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
For a while I posted a monthly collage of pictures on Instagram. The collage featured things we had done that month. Somewhere along the way I stopped posting them on Instagram, but I didn't stop making the collages. I wanted to share them here. This is a look at our 2016...in pictures!
Labels:
2016,
Hall Around Texas,
Instagram
{Instagram Round-Up // 2016 // v1}
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Happy Wednesday friends! I'm devoting today to catching up on my blog emails {all 98 of them}. So for today, it's a good ole' IG round-up post.
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
To see more of what I post on Instagram follow me at @HallAroundTexasA photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
{HallAroundTexas IG Monthly - 2015}
Friday, January 1, 2016
One of my dearest friends {Ashlea} started documenting her family's month by a round-up of photos in a collage on IG and I loved the idea. So much that I copied her! Even though these pictures can be found on my Instagram I wanted them here on my blog too!
January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
#hallaroundtexasmonthly
January:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
February:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
March:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
April:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
May:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
June:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
July:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
August:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
September:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
October:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
November:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
December:
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
#hallaroundtexasmonthly
{Instagram Round-up}
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Instagram is my jam. Its by far my favorite form of social media. I guess its because I am obsessed with photographs and love getting to peek inside other peoples lives. And I think my favorite time on IG is Fall & the holidays. Feeds are so pretty at this time of year. Anyhow, time for a good ol' Instagram Round-up. Just some of the things I've been posting on Instagram lately.
Do you IG? Do we follow each other?
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
A photo posted by >>> Crystal <<< (@hallaroundtexas) on
Do you IG? Do we follow each other?
{Instagram editing // my style // embedding IG pictures into your post}
Thursday, September 17, 2015
![photo IMG_9391_zpsu0ydjsv8.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9391_zpsu0ydjsv8.png)
![photo ig_zpsbbzp7pvl.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/ig_zpsbbzp7pvl.png)
Yesterday I posted an Instagram Round-up post and was asked by several people how I get my photos to look the way they do. I've also gotten several emails and messages about this before so I thought I'd do a post on my Instagram editing style. My style is definitely clean, bright and crisp. Not that all of my photos reflect that by any means, but that is what I love. I rarely use filters unless it's a black and white filter.
My go to app for editing is Afterlight. I use this to brighten, adjust contrast & saturation and crop my Instagram photos. This is the process I use:
1.) open photo in Afterlight
![EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9376_zps8plzalcb.png)
2.) adjust the brightness. I usually take it all the way up to 100. And if that's not enough I save that and then select brightness again and adjust until the picture looks bright enough.
![EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9377_zps1j9i4waf.png)
3.) then I choose the 'clarify' filter and adjust that as needed
![EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9378_zpscow3hfjy.png)
4.) next I adjust the contrast and saturation if needed.
![EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/cont-sat_zpsixiwgyhs.jpg)
5.) after I have my photo looking the way I like I choose the square crop {if my photo isn't already in square form}.
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6.) next I choose the shape cropping tool and from the 'original' section I choose the 2nd option for trimming the corners. I take that to 50. I like all of my photos to be the same size and uniform.
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Add caption |
![EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT EDITING WITH AFTERLIGHT](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9380_zpsgdy7ybrn.png)
7.) and that's it. I save and post on Insta.
![photo IMG_9382_zpsywjtnweq.jpg](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9382_zpsywjtnweq.jpg)
Before/After
![photo IG2_zpshfldovz1.jpg](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IG2_zpshfldovz1.jpg)
For all of my black & white photos I use Snapseed. Here is my process..
1.) open photo in Snapseed
![photo IMG_9383_zpslecrieti.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9383_zpslecrieti.png)
2.) click on the little pencil in the bottom right hand corner to open the editing tools. under filters choose black and white.
![photo IMG_9385_zpskccf1oyi.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9385_zpskccf1oyi.png)
3.) click on the little clipboard icon choose which type of b&w filter you want. I usually always go with contrast (unless the photos is already too contrast-y then I choose bright). then I adjust the contrast and brightness to my liking. save.
![photo IMG_9386_zpswwhuxc4b.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/IMG_9386_zpswwhuxc4b.png)
before /after
![photo beforeafter_zpsviuipb5o.jpg](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/Sept%202014/Sept%202015/beforeafter_zpsviuipb5o.jpg)
Embedding Instagram Pictures into your post:
1.) open up Instagram in your browser
2.) click on your profile
3.) click on a picture you want to embed into your blog
![photo 1_zpsz6gfitnb.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/1_zpsz6gfitnb.png)
4.) click on the three little dots in the right hand corner. and another button will pop up to embed.
![HOW TO EMBED INSTAGRAM PHOTOS INTO A BLOG POST HOW TO EMBED INSTAGRAM PHOTOS INTO A BLOG POST](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/2_zpshfsa8bqx.png)
5.) click embed & copy the code
![photo 3_zpsa3eqtmkj.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/3_zpsa3eqtmkj.png)
![photo 4_zpsrkinzsjq.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/4_zpsrkinzsjq.png)
6.) paste that code in the html of your blog post
![photo 5_zpsmi6dzm18.png](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/chall1018/5_zpsmi6dzm18.png)
And to center it on your blog:
<center> (put this before the html you copied from IG)
</center> (put this after the html you copied from IG)
voila!!!
What's your Instagram editing style? What are your go-to apps?
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