Building Blog Identity with Mobile Photography

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A lot of bloggers depend on stock photos for their content. But, with the advancements of the smartphone cameras, bloggers can now take pictures of their own to leverage on excellent original blog content easily.

Mobile photography can help build your blog identity by:

Authenticating Your Blog Personality

Bloggers are known to put a lot of their time into developing a unique blogger personality. However, many fail when it comes to sharing photo content. It takes just a few seconds to search for stock photos online, therefore; most bloggers don’t have to worry about investing their time or resources in a custom photo for their content. However, as a creator looking to share unique and original content online, mobile photography can help you build authenticity and set you apart from other content creators.

For instance, if you are a formal writer and would like this style to reflect on your blog consistently, uploading clean and elegant photos will help in building your identity. Whereas if you’re an expressive fashion writer, taking vibrant mobile pictures on different outfits and how you wear them will create your unique blog personality effectively.

Besides, with the numerous available photo apps for mobile, a fashion blogger, for example, can on retouchme.com to clean up skin blemishes, change the background, and remove fat folds, thin legs and so on. With such a tool you can publish professional photos that are consistent with your brand.

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Travel bloggers especially need to “show and tell” in their blog posts, for example, if you are on vacation in Paris, France, then taking a snap of you with the majestic Eiffel Tower in the background will build your authenticity and trustworthiness as opposed to sharing a stock photo.

Connecting With Your Audience

As a blogger, not only are you putting out authentic content to your audience but each time you publish a post or picture, you are opening up your soul and revealing something about yourself. Using generic stock photos alongside your content makes it harder for readers to get to know you and relate with you more. With mobile photography, however, you can easily connect with your audience, for example, if you are on the home & living niche and are blogging about shopping for kitchen appliances, taking a picture of the items you like and showing how functional they are in your kitchen will be exciting and relatable to your audience.

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Content Distribution

Photos are an excellent way to distribute your content on different social media channels. You could be having a lot of excellent shots stored on your iPhone or Android device that you didn’t get to include in your blog posts – sharing them on your Instagram, or Facebook profile is a great way to keep the conversation going, building your audience and ultimately growing your brand identity.

With Smartphone photography for blogging content creators, there are tons of new possibilities to explore and share your stories. The more your take mobile photos, the more you hone your skills, and once you have your confidence, you’ll never want to use stoke photos on your content ever again.