<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-2683 alignleft" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/artsy-cdn/static/assets/img/wordpress-artifacts/2017/04/06213141/Untitled2-150x150.jpg" alt="Bryce Lafoon head shot" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://s3.amazonaws.com/artsy-cdn/static/assets/img/wordpress-artifacts/2017/04/06213141/Untitled2-150x150.jpg 150w, https://s3.amazonaws.com/artsy-cdn/static/assets/img/wordpress-artifacts/2017/04/06213141/Untitled2-42x42.jpg 42w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Guest post from Featured Pro Bryce Lafoon of <a href="http://www.brycelafoonphotography.com/">Bryce Lafoon Photography</a>:</p>
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<p>So you want to be &#8220;Insta-famous?&#8221;  Have you ever heard the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for?&#8221;  Read on to find out how this applies to my personal experience, and how it could apply to you, too.</p>
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<p>My name is Bryce Lafoon. I am a wedding photographer from southeastern North Carolina. I started my personal account, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lightshifter/">@lightshifter</a>, about 5 years ago.  Today, my followers have grown to nearly 310K. Here are some of the steps I took to get there:</p>
<p>&nbsp; <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artsycouture.com/blog/instagram-tips-for-photographers" title="Permanent Link: How I Grew My Instagram Account to Over 300,000 Followers" rel="bookmark">Continue Reading</a></span></p>{"id":2677,"date":"2017-04-06T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2017-04-06T21:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:42:34","slug":"instagram-tips-for-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/instagram-tips-for-photographers","title":{"rendered":"How I Grew My Instagram Account to Over 300,000 Followers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2683 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/artsy-cdn\/static\/assets\/img\/wordpress-artifacts\/2017\/04\/06213141\/Untitled2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bryce Lafoon head shot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/artsy-cdn\/static\/assets\/img\/wordpress-artifacts\/2017\/04\/06213141\/Untitled2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/artsy-cdn\/static\/assets\/img\/wordpress-artifacts\/2017\/04\/06213141\/Untitled2-42x42.jpg 42w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Guest post from Featured Pro Bryce Lafoon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brycelafoonphotography.com\/\">Bryce Lafoon Photography<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So you want to be &#8220;Insta-famous?&#8221; \u00a0Have you ever heard the old saying, \u201cBe careful what you wish for?&#8221; \u00a0Read on to find out how this applies to my personal experience, and how it could apply to you, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My name is Bryce Lafoon. I am a wedding photographer from southeastern North Carolina. I started my personal\u00a0account, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lightshifter\/\">@lightshifter<\/a>, about 5 years ago.\u00a0 Today, my\u00a0followers have\u00a0grown to nearly\u00a0310K. Here are some of the steps I took to get there:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/instagram-tips-for-photographers\" title=\"Permanent Link: How I Grew My Instagram Account to Over 300,000 Followers\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[199,53,175,56,200,47,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}