[header] How to take better instagram photos [title] Use your phone's internal camera. [step] Instead of taking photos through instagram itself, pull up your device's dedicated photo app. Your internal camera doesn't have the same size constraints, so you'll be able to take large, high-quality photos and edit them to suit your exact specifications later on. 
This will enable you to shoot more fluidly on the go without stopping to open another app. [substeps] Photos will look better if they're shot uncompressed and then loaded through the instagram app.