After being a loser social media hermit, I wanna make a flex instagram. You know, /fit/ pics, /fa/shion pics, /trv/el pics all of that. I don't really have a nice smartphone camera and I do not intend to get an iPhone either, but I do own a Nikon D5300 with a manual 50mm f/2, a kit 18-50mm and a 50-200mm. I also have a friend who's willing to take pictures for me in return for getting him into a new hobby that I know a fair bit about. Here's what I want to know
Tell me all about editing. Never done it before since I never intended anyone else to see my pictures. I downloaded GIMP and was thinking about pirating Lightroom but I want my pictures to use as less fakery as possible. Besides, that's the culture from what I can see
Is taking shirtless mirror pics with a DSLR too much? Like I said, I don't own a good phone
Should I be taking RAW pics? Always did jpeg but if I'm gonna edit may as well do RAW
When my friend is unavailable, how do I take pictures. I own a tripod but I don't think it's convenient to take pictures setting a timer and moving back and forth

Wtf is lens "character"?

How often do you buy a new camera? How many cameras do you own? What’s the reason to own more than 3?

Phone camera

I have one of these cameras in good shape with all the accessories and apparently these things are an overhyped meme? I had literally no idea. I inherited it and I never use it. Been thinking of selling it and I see that they go for literally $1K+ kek

What cameras would you recommend, that fit on a pocket and have better image quality than Iphones?

I will be using it mostly for printing photos to place on memory albuns, and maybe like 1 or 2 profile photos...I have a thing that I hate when the eyes are out of focus or blurry in photos, so I think portrait capacity would be important.

Preferably if it's under 600 used and if it has interchangeable lens, even better

going to post some photoseries

I've been photographing for just two years and I always used f/4 lenses (I shoot Canon) and never felt like I needed something like f/2.8 as I can just either use a tripod or increase the ISO.
What makes fast lenses so desired? Don't tell me it's depth of field, even f/4 telephotos can do that magic bokeh.

Are there any other Youtubers who tear down other Youtubers?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zNF1aXdxYM
>the best digital camera of all time is a micro four thirds camera
Who would have thought?