The theme of my project was how people spend so much time trying to get the “right angle” that they don’t enjoy the moment. I made a polaroid frame and asked two of my friends if they would reenact some of their favorite memories for me. In order to emphasize my point of focusing on what is happening in front of oneself I made sure that my phone’s camera focus was on the polaroid frame rather than the humans in the picture. If you look at the photos you get a general idea of what is going on in the photo, but without the focus or the context you can not fully grasp the situation.
I posted these photos on Instagram because it is a photo oriented social media platform and people generally put a lot of time into what photos they post on Instagram. All of my photos I posted recieved likes, but none of them recieved a big response in the comments. The comments were more along the lines of “cool picture” or “nice idea”.
Why do you think you didn’t get more response on social media for this project? I think the project could also work if you photographed many different subjects within the frame. That would allow your audience to understand how everything is framed and as users of cameras we are constantly framing.