Photography & iPhones

[FrankS]

I can understand the desire to photograph or be photographed with a significant object or in an exotic location. People have been doing this since the availability of film cameras. Nothing new here, just the scale has increased.

The ease of digital photography has increased the recording of objects and situations previously thought to be too trivial/frivolous to commit to film.

 

[FrankS]

Sorry. Double post.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I take your tongue-in-cheek point here but I have actually seen some pretty good photos from an iPhone (personal opinion, of course). As someone who loathes Apple and their products that wasn't an easy thing to type, I assure you.

Being a little pedantic - as I'm rather known to be - surely a photograph is defined along the lines of any captured image? That being the case, any image-recording device makes a photograph and using it is "photography". The quality and appeal of images may be questioned, by way of subjective opinion or on technical grounds but it still remains "photography".

Sure. No question. On the other hand...

Cheers,

R.

 

[rivercityrocker]

Live streaming head-mounted video cameras, direct to your weblog - the next big thing !!

You mean Google Glass?😎

 

[Roger Hicks]

You mean Google Glass?😎

Well, there's no such thing as Google class...

Cheers,

R.

 

[hausen]

Phones and photography is a very interesting subject I feel. I have been encouraging my daughter to take mores photos because she really has an eye for it. (22yo) Bought her a Nex 5n which she almost never carries. Decided to buy her a Sony QX-10 for Xmas, gave it to her on Friday, early I know but I am a soft touch, and it hasn't left her person since she got it. All of her girlfriends are jealous, even my ex-wife(her mother) love it as well. There are real benefits for young kids, smartphones seem to be getting bigger and with better screens that any modern camera has and wifi connection means she is in contact with the world. She loves it, I am the hero, and best of all she has shot a lot of very decent photos over the weekend. Slightly off topic I know but Sony will make 3 sales of the QX-10 here in Auckland next week as her BFFs join the club.

 

[Linkert]

The iPhone was the reason I started film photography. Here are some of the earliest photos I took:

1. 2. 3.

Are my iPhone photos amazing? No. But they are the starting point of my interest in photography. It's like the Holga over in China back in the day. The cheap way for the Chinese people to start taking photos. I'm most likely just one among thousands of young people whom have had their time with the iPhone, and are now moving into other mediums for capturing photos.

That's not a death, that's a birth.

It's just about three years since I got my iPhone 4. I now have a fantastic hobby of rolling film, shooting, developing, scanning and showing my photos. Shooting with an iPhone 4 is much like shooting with film. It's rather limited but also unobtrusive.

What is a photographer anyway?

Owning a camera makes you a photographer, but not a payed one.
Owning a pencil with the knowledge of language makes you a writer, but not a published writer.

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

So far as I'm concerned, anything that records an image through a lens is a camera.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all stopped pretending that using a [insert favoured brand name] is any different, in any meaningful way, from using the camera built into a 'phone?

 

[jsrockit]

The strange thing for me here is the impulse to "take a picture to prove to myself and others that I was here." The first time I visited the Louvre, I was one of about five people looking at it, and it didn't occur to any of us to take its picture. It was in a kind of glass box back then. The last time I was there, in 2012, big groups of tourists were running up to the Venus de Milo, taking turns at having their picture taken with it, one at a time. None of them ever really looked at this beautiful statue, beyond a quick glance. Sad.

It seems people do things for two reasons... (1) for the experience and (2) to show off to others. When you take your picture in front of something, it's just to show others "look at me and what I've been doing."

 

[Red Robin]

For the "skilled" photographer. has the phone equaled or surpassed the need to purchase an additional camera? I'm no "Techie"-- don't even own a cell phone. Can hardly post a photo on a web page, but was reading about a cell that's got "wi-fi, so presumably an image taken with a "hi-pixiled phone may be sent directly to personal computer! Perhaps old news to many but like I said I'm no techie.But geezem petes! Talk about "Cut-tin' out the Middleman".

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Guy moved from Mexico to England, nobody noticed his pictures, so he chooses to blame Instagram for it? 😎

Art is not something created by crowds. If millions of people dumping their MP pictures on Instagram, how it is different from million or less dumping their MF pictures on Flickr?


Then Mobile Phone pictures will replace impressionists at museum, then it will be real.

My avatar was taken with Mobile Phone, BTW 🙂