Looking for the best camera Instagram captions?
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In this post, I’ve put together funny, short, and cool caption ideas for cameras and lenses.
Whether you’re shooting on a DSLR, film camera, or snapping Polaroids, you’ll find the perfect photoshoot captions here.
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Short Camera Instagram Captions
1. My camera is my passport.
2. Photography is the memory of our lives.
3. Shoot your shot.
4. Adjust your focus when life gets blurry.
5. Sleepless nights and flashing lights.
6. Photography is a story I can’t put into words.
7. Sending you this postcard.
8. Shadows vs. light.
9. Take only photos, leave only footprints.
10. Once upon a time…
11. Feeling the magic that is photography.
12. The best memories are captured in photos.
13. Endless adventures captured forever.
14. Another day, another photo.
15. Found inner peace with my camera in hand.
16. A photographic love affair.
17. Meanwhile…
18. It’s less what the eye sees, and more what the soul feels.
19. In my photographic element.
20. Today’s mood.
21. Photography dreaming.
22. Go where you feel most alive.
23. Today’s aesthetic.
24. So, this happened today.
25. A picture never changes, even when the people in it do.
26. Capturing dreams.
27. I could get used to this view.
28. Photography is a lifelong love affair.
29. Living for the details.
30. A picture is worth a thousand words.
31. I woke up like this.
32. We take photographs as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.
33. Every heart has a story waiting to be told.
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Cool DSLR Camera Instagram Captions
34. Just me, my camera, and I.
35. Click with love.
36. I’m addicted to photography, and I don’t want to be cured.
37. Do it for the ‘gram.
38. A photo a day keeps the worries away.
39. I picked up a camera, and never looked back.
40. Forever chasing good light.
41. Say cheese.
42. A photograph is the pause button of life.
43. Pursuing my purpose.
44. Photography vibes.
45. Sunny rays, and camera days.
46. Seek beauty every day.
47. Currently…
48. Making sure these moments last forever.
49. In my element.
50. Pretty as a postcard.
51. Live for the little moments.
52. Slow down and enjoy the view.
53. The eyes are the windows to the soul.
54. Oh, hey there.
55. Collect moments, not things.
56. New camera, who dis?
57. A smile can change the world.
58. Get out there and live a little.
Film & Polaroid Camera Instagram Captions
59. “Shake it like a Polaroid picture.” — Outkast, “Hey Ya!”
60. Forever and always.
61. Falling in love with you was like a Polaroid: instant.
62. Low quality pic, but high quality people.
63. The unexpected moment is always sweeter.
64. Soul full of sunshine.
65. Even the stars are jealous of how bright you shine.
66. Life is better when you’re laughing.
67. Look for the magic in every moment.
68. Captured true love today.
69. Life on film.
70. It won’t always be easy, but it’ll be worth it.
71. Baby, you’re like lightning in a bottle.
72. If you were looking for a sign, here it is.
73. You put a spell on me.
74. Why so serious?
75. Once-in-a-lifetime kind of love.
76. Left me speechless.
77. These are the moments I want to keep.
78. Chasing the sun.
79. It always feels impossible until it’s done.
80. Feeling golden.
81. Wild and free: exactly how life should be.
82. Can’t dull my sparkle.
83. So grateful for this moment.
84. Express gratitude. Regret nothing.
85. Nothing shines brighter than a heart of gold.
86. Memories made together, last forever.
87. Guess where I am?
88. Just the two of us.
89. Don’t wait for the storm to pass, go out there and dance in the rain.
90. You bring out the best in me.
91. How you doin’?
92. Hello, sunshine.
93. This is me, in all my glory.
94. Somewhere only we know.
95. Born to shine.
96. Say yes, take risks, and live life on your own terms.
97. Living my best life.
98. Whatever is good for your soul, do that.
99. Normal is boring.
100. “Candle wax and Polaroids on the hardwood floor.” — Taylor Swift, “New Year’s Day”
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Black And White Camera Instagram Captions
101. Your soul shines in black and white.
102. I’m classic, just like black and white.
103. Black and white isn’t sad, it’s poetic.
104. Good times in black and white.
105. All the best things are black and white.
106. Black and white looks good on me.
107. Today’s aesthetic: black and white.
108. Putting on my black-and-white-tinted glasses.
109. Dreaming in black and white.
110. You’re the yin to my yang.
111. In black and white, with love.
112. Sleepless nights in black and white.
113. Mood: black and white.
114. Things aren’t always black and white.
115. Black and white vibes.
116. In my black and white era.
117. Black and white is pure magic.
118. Capturing dreams in black and white.
119. A black and white affair.
120. Endless adventures in black and white.
121. Unbothered in black and white.
122. Life looks better in black and white.
123. A black and white postcard.
124. Black and white baby.
125. All that glitters in black and white.
126. Black and white is timeless.
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127. See life through a new lens.
128. Life without my camera? I shutter to think about it.
129. Yes, we cam-era.
130. I’m learning photography, so you could say I’m developing a new hobby.
131. Oh, shoot.
132. If you don’t know how your camera works, you really just need to look into it.
133. What a great body.
134. Something really clicked today.
135. I’ll be gone in a flash.
136. Taking a picture of my coffee makes a great mug shot.
137. Picture this.
138. If you want to make a camera blush, you just need to show it a film strip.
139. Could you lens me a hand?
140. Let’s find a dark room, and see what develops.
141. Oh snap, we’re having a good time.
142. If you don’t like where you’re at in life, adjust your settings.
143. Just doing this for the exposure.
144. Want to go on a date? I’ll pick you up at f/8.
145. Call me a photographer, because I can picture us together.
146. If you’re feeling lost, don’t lose focus.
147. Are you a camera? Because I smile every time I look at you.
148. I keep having flashbacks.
149. Photographers are great problem solvers. They’re really good at looking at things from a different perspective.
150. Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
151. If it ain’t bokeh, don’t fix it.
152. Photographers are the only people who don’t get arrested for flashing in public.
153. Warning: I may snap at any time.
154. I want to shoot you, frame you, and hang you on my wall.
155. I guess I call the shots.
156. Shutter up, this pic is amazing.
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Camera Quotes For Instagram Captions
157. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange
158. “A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.” – Ansel Adams
159. “Great photography is about the depth of feeling, not the depth of field” – Peter Adams
160. “In successful photography, you don’t just look alive at the photo, but the photo also looks alive at you!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
161. “Don’t shoot what it looks like, shoot what it feels like.” – David Alan Harvey
162. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” — Elliott Erwitt
163. “Photography is all about light, composition, and most importantly, emotion.” – Larry Wilder
164. “When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” – Robert Frank
165. “Once photography enters your bloodstream, it’s like a disease.” – Unknown
166. “Photography is the quintessence of a telling memory, where it allows us to preserve time in a photograph.” – Unknown
167. “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” – Aaron Siskind
168. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
169. “A photograph is an opportunity to keep a moment forever.” – Destin Sparks
170. “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” — Eudora Welty
171. “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” – Photography Journals
172. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” – Mark Riboud
173. “Photography is about capturing souls, not faces.” – Unknown
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Inspiring Camera Quotes For Instagram Captions
174. “Essentially what photography is is life lit up.” – Sam Abell
175. “If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.” – David Glen Larson
176. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” – Diane Arbus
177. “I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.” – Wayne Miller
178. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce
179. “There are no rules for good photographs. There are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams
180. “A picture is a poem without words.” – Horace
181. “Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I’ve been.” – Destin Sparks
182. “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.” – Irving Penn
183. “Photography’s beauty is to find beauty even in ugly situations.” – Biju Karakkonam
184. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
185. “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” – Diane Arbus
186. “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” — Linda McCartney
187. “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” – Jim Richardson
188. “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank
Camera Quotes From Famous Photographers
189. “Every photograph is an open-ended visual statement.” – Unknown
190. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank
191. “Photography is what emotions look like.” – John Luvelli
192. “Photography is austere and blazing poetry of the real.” – Ansel Adams
193. “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” – Scott Lorenzo
194. “A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” – Amit Kalantri
195. “When people ask what equipment I use, I say – my eyes.” – Cole Thompson
196. “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy
197. “In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
198. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams
199. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them as an artist.” – Picasso
200. “Seeing is not enough. You have to feel what you photograph.” – Andre Kertesz
201. “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Stieglitz
202. “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” – Unknown
203. “Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” – Bruno Barbey
204. “Photography is inspired by beauty, captured with passion.” – Destin Sparks
205. “Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” – Percy W. Harris
206. “There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” – Robert Heinecken
Beautiful Camera Quotes For Instagram Captions
207. “This is what I like about photographs. It’s proof that once, just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.” – Jodi Picoult
208. “Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” – Yousuf Karsh
209. “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” – Diane Arbus
210. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
211. “A photo is a unique record of the state existing at a certain moment of time and at a certain place.” ― Eraldo Banovac
212. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” – Annie Leibovitz
213. “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” – Gilles Peress
214. “Your first 1,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
215. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” – Ansel Adams
216. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” – Robert Capa
217. “Wherever the center of the light source is, you want that to be a little bit above the center of the couple’s eyes – something magical happens when you do this.” – Zach and Jody Gray
218. “I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of a place could be photographed.” – Annie Leibovitz
219. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange
220. “The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” – Edward Weston
221. “Photography helps people to see.” – Berenice Abbott
DSLR Camera Quotes For Instagram Captions
222. “When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
223. “How do we start taking pictures of people, and stop taking pictures of poses?” – Justin and Mary Marantz
224. “The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.” – Annie Leibovitz
225. “When you acquire an understanding of the science behind light and what governs it, then you can predict its behavior and control the lighting in photographs.” – Roberto Valenzuela
226. “I believe photographers should shoot what they want, not shoot what they get.” – Roberto Valenzuela
227. “The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” – William Thackeray
228. “The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.” – Anne Geddes
229. “The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.” – Yann Arthus-Bertrand
230. “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.” – Alfred Stieglitz
231. “Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.” – Bill Brandt
232. “The pictures are there, and you just take them.” – Robert Capa
233. “A photograph is like a recipe – memory is the finished dish.” – Carrie Latet
234. “Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.” – Martin Parr
235. “In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.” – August Sander
Black And White Photography Quotes For Camera Instagram Captions
236. “Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with color photography. Everything looks more exciting.” – Jack Lowden
237. “There’s something strange and powerful about black and white imagery.” – Stefan Kanfer
238. “Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.” – Joel Sternfeld
239. “Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” – Jason Peterson
240. “When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.” – Ted Grant
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