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@masteringbeachportraits

@masteringbeachportraits · Education

398
Followers
261
Following
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Posts
71Instapect ScoreB

Instapect Score

71/100 · grade B — a performance read, benchmarked against under 5K followers.

Nano tier398 followersAudience Reach17/100Benchmarked against under 5K followers
Engagement rate
9.75%

by followers · typical 4.00%

Avg likes
35

median 28

Avg comments
3

median 2

Cadence
3.9

posts / week · 1.8 d apart

Comment-to-like
9.60%

healthy band 1–3%

Median ER
7.54%

middle post in the sample

Public-profile audit · 5 posts sampled (7 pinned excluded) · retrieved 10 Sept 2026· served from cache

Helping photographers master beach photography ☀️ 📸 Light • Settings • Posing • Editing 🌊 Shoot ANY beach with confidence 👇 Grab my FREE Guide!

masteringbeachportraits.com/5-simple-steps-for-stunning-photos

Profile snapshot

Headline public metrics for @masteringbeachportraits, from 5 sampled posts. Averages sit beside medians so one viral post cannot flatter the picture.

Engagement rate

9.75%

(avg likes + avg comments) ÷ followers · median 7.54% · under 5K followers

Average likes

35

Median 28 · 5 posts with a visible like count

Average comments

3

Median 2 · comment-to-like 9.6%

Posting cadence

3.9posts / week

About one post every 1.8 days

Latest posts

Newest first · engagement rate by followers per post

9 Sept 2026 · carousel

Every single one of these messages reminds me why I started teaching. Because I know what it feels like to question yourself after a beach session. To wonder why everyone else seems to "get it." To think, maybe you're just not cut out for beach photography. You're absolutely not alone. Sometimes all it takes is someone breaking things down in a way that finally clicks. Comment MINI and I'll send you all the details about my mini-course! 💛

Pinned · outside the measured window

3

likes

0

comments

0.75%

ER

9 Sept 2026 · reel

One of my dumbest tricks… but kids fall for it EVERY TIME 😂 It’s the CLAW!!!! 🦀🦀 Steal it for your next family session!! BTW, comment BEACH and I’ll send you my FREE guide with 5 simple steps for stunning beach photos! 💥 #hannahruthphotography #masteringbeachportraits #beachphotographytips #myrtlebeachphotography

Pinned · outside the measured window

5

likes

0

comments

1.26%

ER

8 Sept 2026 · reel

I make a living taking pictures on the beach… but if I had to start all over again, THIS is exactly what I’d do!! First? I’d pick ONE thing and get really freaking good at it. I wouldn’t try to be a newborn photographer on Monday, shoot a wedding Saturday and decide I’m a branding photographer by Sunday. 😂 I’d pick what I actually LOVE shooting and become known for it. Then I’d shoot. A LOT. Friends. My kids. Random people who agreed to let me practice on them. Literally anyone. Because you can watch 700 reels about photography, but eventually you have to pick up the camera. I’d stop comparing my beginning to photographers who have been doing this for 15 years. That one wasted WAY too much of my time. I’d put my work out there before I thought it was “good enough.” And I’d start charging sooner. Not $50 forever because I still felt “new.” And probably the biggest one… I’d stop thinking I needed to know EVERYTHING before I could call myself a photographer. You learn by DOING IT. I have been doing this for years and I’m still learning. That’s kind of the whole point. So if you’re sitting there thinking, “I really want to do this, but I have no freaking clue where to start…” Start. Seriously. And if the BEACH is where you want to get better, I can at least make that part easier for you. 😂 I put together 5 Simple Steps for Stunning Beach Photos — totally free. Comment BEACH and I’ll send it to you!! 🤪🤪 #hannahruthphotography #masteringbeachportraits #photographytips #beginnerphotographer

Pinned · outside the measured window

10

likes

0

comments

2.51%

ER

7 Sept 2026 · carousel

I'll be the first to tell you... My mini-course isn't for everyone. If you're looking for a quick fix, a magic preset, or a one-size-fits-all trick that works every single time... This probably isn't it. But if you're ready to stop guessing and start understanding why you're making the decisions you make at the beach... Then I think you're going to love it. Because no two beach sessions are ever the same. That's why I teach a flexible system, not a checklist of random photography tips. Comment MINI and I'll send you all the details! ✨

4

likes

0

comments

1.01%

ER

4 Sept 2026 · reel

The FREAKING fogged lens… I KNOW I am not the only one who struggles with this!! 🤪🤪 🛑 Don’t wipe it! It’s just going to streak and fog right back up… Get there early… get your camera out of that freezing AC and give it a few mins to adjust to the humidity… Just another reason to show up early and prepared and ready to go! Want 5 simple steps to stunning beach photos?! Yes you do!!! 🙌 ✨Comment BEACH and I’ll send it to you FREE!! #masteringbeachportraits #beachphotographytips #myrtlebeachphotography #beginnerphotographer #photographytips

Pinned · outside the measured window

8

likes

0

comments

2.01%

ER

3 Sept 2026 · image

....When all that hard work FINALLY pays off!!! 🥹 you will never know how many tears and doubt went into this… and how much I love all of you 🥰 I’ve been working on @masteringbeachportraits for over a year, and not only did I finally launch it… PEOPLE ACTUALLY BOUGHT IT!! 😂 YAHOOOOOO I’m seriously so excited and pretty freaking proud of myself! And if you’re a photographer who wants to learn more about beach photography, I made something FREE for you too! Comment YES and I’ll send you my FREE guide!! 🤪🤪 Okayyyy back to celebrating 🎉 #masteringbeachportraits #hannahruthphotography #photographytips #learnphotography #beachphotos

51

likes

5

comments

14.07%

ER

How the score was built

The verdict is at the top of the page; this is the reasoning underneath it. Every sub-score prints its own weight and formula — no black box.

Archetype

Developing Profile

No single pattern dominates yet. The sub-scores below show which dimension moves the result most.

Nominal weights: Engagement 35% · Engagement Quality 25% · Consistency 15% · Content Performance 15% · Growth 10%. Audience Reach is context only and carries no weight — every account is graded against peers in its own follower tier · composite from 3 of 5 signals — unavailable sub-scores are excluded from both sums, not scored zero

Audience Reach

17 /100

Nano tier

398 followers (under 10K followers). An asset score: how many people this account can reach. It does not move with how well the posts perform.

What this means

Engagement is top-decile for this size

Engagement rate 9.75% is at or above the 8.00% top-decile mark for under 5K followers. Audience responsiveness is the strength of this account, not something it needs to fix.

Audience Reach

17 /100

398 followers puts this account in the Nano tier (under 10K followers). This is an asset score — how many people the account can reach — and it never moves based on how well the posts perform.

Weight 0% · log-scaled followers: L = log10(followers); L≤3 → 5–25, 3<L≤6 → 25 + (L − 3) × 20, L>6 → 85 + (L − 6) × 15, capped 100

log10(398) = 2.60, mapped as 25 + (L − 3) × 20 across the 1K–1M range (1K=25, 10K=45, 100K=65, 1M=85, 10M=100).

Engagement

89 /100

Engagement rate 9.75%, at or above the 8.00% top-decile rate for accounts with under 5K followers. Typical is 4.00%.

Weight 35% · piecewise-linear percentile curve for under 5K followers: 0%→5, p25 2.00%→30, p50 4.00%→55, p90 8.00%→85, 14.40%→100

Engagement rate 9.75% mapped onto the under 5K followers percentile curve (0%→5, p25 2.00%→30, p50 4.00%→55, p90 8.00%→85), measured across 5 of 5 sampled posts with visible like counts.

Engagement Quality

Not measurable

Weight 25% · comment-to-like ratio = avg comments ÷ avg likes × 100, mapped 0%→5, 0.5%→30, 1.5%→65, 3%→90, ≥5%→100

The typical post carries 2 comments, below the 5-comment base at which a comment-to-like ratio is statistically meaningful. One or two reactions expressed as a percentage is not a measurement, so the weight is redistributed rather than scored.

Consistency

42 /100

Posting cadence 3.88 posts per week, inside the healthy 3–7 per week band. Gaps between posts vary by 0.96× the mean gap of 1.8 days — under 0.5× reads as a dependable rhythm.

Weight 15% · 60 × (1 − clamp(stdev(gaps) ÷ mean(gaps), 0, 1)) + 40 × cadence factor (0/wk → 0, 3/wk → 1.0, 3–7/wk → 1.0, 14/wk → 0.6, ≥21/wk → 0.3)

regularity 0.04 (1 − stdev 1.7d ÷ mean gap 1.8d) and cadence factor 1.00 from 3.9 posts/week (0→0, ramping to 1.0 at 3/wk, flat 1.0 through 7/wk, tapering to 0.6 at 14/wk and 0.3 at 21+/wk).

Content Performance

60 /100

Breakout upside could not be measured on this sample. 40% of sampled posts carry both a caption and at least one hashtag (a well-kept feed is usually above 80%), across 3 distinct formats.

Weight 15% · 60 × upside score (top-post likes ÷ median likes: 1×→30, 2×→60, 3×→80, ≥5×→100) + 25 × caption-and-hashtag share + 15 × format mix (1.0 if ≥2 product types, else 0.5)

Upside unavailable (the median post draws fewer than 30 visible likes, too thin a base for a breakout ratio); its weight was redistributed. enrichment 0.40 (caption + ≥1 hashtag), format mix 1.0 (3 distinct product types).

Growth Signals

Not measurable

Weight 10% · clamp(50 + weekly follower growth % × 25, 0, 100), where weekly % = (followers now ÷ followers then − 1) × 100 ÷ weeks

This is the first recorded audit of this account, so there is no observation window yet. Instagram publishes no follower history — Instapect measures growth by comparing snapshots it takes itself, and the trend appears from the second audit that is at least 7 days later.

Growth & cadence

Instagram publishes no follower history, so Instapect builds its own: every audit records a snapshot, and the trend below is measured across those snapshots. Everything else here comes from the visible posting record.

Follower growth

This is the first recorded audit of this account, so there is no observation window yet. Instagram publishes no follower history — Instapect measures growth by comparing snapshots it takes itself, and the trend appears from the second audit that is at least 7 days later.

Engagement rate per post (%)

Oldest to newest across the sampled posts. Unit: % of followers.

Likes and comments per post

Unit: absolute interactions per post.

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Engagement diagnostics

Averages are easily distorted by one viral post. The median tells you what a typical post actually does — read them side by side.

Average engagement rate

9.75%

Mean of (likes + comments) ÷ followers

Comment-only engagement rate

0.85%

Comments ÷ followers × 100 — the honest fallback when likes are hidden

Median engagement rate

7.54%

Middle post in the sample

Comment-to-like ratio

9.6%

Higher means more conversational audience

Like-based sample

5of 5 posts

Every sampled post shows its like count. Comment metrics use all 5 posts.

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Content leaderboard

Posts ranked by engagement rate by followers. Pinned posts are shown because a reader will recognise them, but they sit outside the measured window and feed no average, rate or rhythm.

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Hashtags & mentions

Frequency from captions in the sample, with the average engagement rate of the posts each tag appears on. Association, not causation.

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Action plan

Prioritised by expected impact, written from the measured data above. The advisor sees only the metrics this report could actually compute — never an estimate, never a metric Instagram keeps private.

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Methodology & caveats

What this report measures, how, and what it deliberately does not claim.

What this account does not make measurable

  • 7 pinned posts were detected at the head of the response and excluded from the content window, leaving 5 of the 12 returned items. Pinned posts hold permanent placement and keep accumulating engagement, and the oldest one manufactures a gap that never happened — so they are excluded from cadence, gaps, regularity, format mix and every average. They still appear in the content leaderboard, badged "Pinned".
  • The content sample is the 5-item recent-posts window. The reels endpoint reaches further back and covers Reels only, so it is used to enrich matched items with their play count (7 matched) — never to extend the sample, which would inflate the Reel share and corrupt cadence.
  • 5 older Reels outside the content window are shown separately in "Top Reels by plays" with their own window, and are excluded from every average, the format mix and all cadence maths.
  • Play counts are published public counts shown only where the provider returns them. They are not reach, views or watch time, and none of those are available for a public-profile audit.

KPI definitions

  • Engagement rate by followers = (average likes + average comments) ÷ followers × 100.
  • Median engagement rate = the middle post's engagement rate in the sample; robust to viral outliers.
  • Posting cadence = (sampled posts − 1) ÷ days spanned × 7. Intervals, not posts: n posts span n−1 gaps. Unavailable below 2 posts or a zero-day window.
  • Instapect Score = 0.35 × Engagement + 0.25 × Engagement Quality + 0.15 × Consistency + 0.15 × Content Performance + 0.10 × Growth Signals, renormalised over the sub-scores that could be measured. Every account is graded against peers in its own follower tier; Audience Reach is reported separately and carries no weight.
  • Comment-to-like ratio = average comments ÷ average likes × 100. A healthy conversational account sits between 1% and 3%.

Sample, source & limits

  • 5 public posts sampled (5 usable for like-based metrics) · retrieved 10 Sept 2026 · served from the 24-hour cache.
  • Only lawfully-visible public signals are used: published posts, visible counts, captions, hashtags, mentions and timestamps.
  • Instapect never reports reach, impressions, audience demographics, Story insights or Reels watch-time. Those are private to the account owner and any tool claiming them for a third party is guessing.
  • Benchmarks are published industry medians by follower tier and are indicative, not guarantees. Any forward-looking figure is labelled an estimate with its method stated.

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