An Instagram account is calling BS on people's unrealistic camping photos. Photo / 123RF
An Instagram account is calling BS on people's unrealistic camping photos. Photo / 123RF
Certain people on Instagram, and their picture-perfect lives, have a way of making us feel pretty inferior about our own.
It's especially the case with holiday photos, and when we compare other people's extraordinarily well-framed, well-lit, well-composed snaps in exotic locations to our boring old amateur ones.
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Take, if youwill, this stunning photograph of a very cool camper in what appears to be Trolltunga in Norway, gazing at the view next to his very cool tent, on the edge of a rock formation only he is cool enough to spend the night, looking like he's in a glossy magazine shoot.
Your last camping adventure doesn't quite compare, does it?
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"My friend was like, 'Let's set the tent up over here and take a picture.' And I was like, 'What? Why are you doing that?' And she was like, 'People do that all the time!'" she said.
"I was completely caught off guard and thought it was just the most ridiculous thing ever, but when we got back home I started noticing how much people really do do that, and I started looking at photos wondering if they were actually legit."
There are three kinds of camp photo cliches that really rubs Luisa the wrong way.
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"The crazy long exposure night shots with the light in the tent," she said. "That one drives me crazy. It's like, 'Oh let's throw a light in our tent and take the same photo everyone else has taken 100 times'.
"Camping really close to water. That really gets people going too ... [and] hammocks in ridiculous places. Pretty cringe worthy. I just feel like it's all so cliche now. But people still eat it up, which is insane."
