still life with smart phone

[Godfrey]

Every so often, the iPhone is the ideal camera.

Diversity - Santa Clara 2022
iPhone 11 Pro
ISO 100 @ f/1.8 @ 1/60 @ 4.25mm​

Enjoy! G

 

[Disappointed_Horse]

Here is a still life I made with my iPhone 13 Pro:

 

[raydm6]

The sunlight was coming through the right bedroom window through the back of the image back-lighting and illuminating the "Sacred Heart".

(iPhone 11 ~ Snapseed - 2021)


Sacred Heart by rdc154, on Flickr

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Still life with a smartphone… I missed the boat with cell phones.

The cell phone has always been more of an emergency device for me instead of a way of life. I can barely use mine other than to call my wife to coordinate a meeting in town or a cry for help.

I dread it when I’m walking around (always with a camera hanging around my neck) and some stranger kindly asks me to take a picture of them with their phone. They must assume that I’m capable because I have a camera in my hand, how wrong they are. It’s embarrassing for me, I have to ask how to take the picture.

In the old days people had cameras, they asked you to take a picture of them with their own camera… the biggest obstacle was that the viewfinder was optically corrected to their vision; so blurry or whatever you took the shot. Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Anyway, I admire people who can take good (great) pictures with their phones. I’m not in that group and will never be in that group. That’s the way it is with me. Too bad but not sad.

All the best,
Mike

 

[Godfrey]

Still life with a smartphone… I missed the boat with cell phones.

The cell phone has always been more of an emergency device for me instead of a way of life. I can barely use mine other than to call my wife to coordinate a meeting in town or a cry for help.

I dread it when I’m walking around (always with a camera hanging around my neck) and some stranger kindly asks me to take a picture of them with their phone. They must assume that I’m capable because I have a camera in my hand, how wrong they are. It’s embarrassing for me, I have to ask how to take the picture.

In the old days people had cameras, they asked you to take a picture of them with their own camera… the biggest obstacle was that the viewfinder was optically corrected to their vision; so blurry or whatever you took the shot. Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Anyway, I admire people who can take good (great) pictures with their phones. I’m not in that group and will never be in that group. That’s the way it is with me. Too bad but not sad.

All the best,
Mike

Mike,

I've heard this before. I've even said it before... 🙂

All that you need to do to make great photographs with a cell/smartphone is to take it as seriously as a camera as you do any other camera. That means learning how it works, what its good points are, what its bad points are, and taking the time to use it properly. There's really nothing different about using a smartphone as a camera than there is about using any particular camera at all.

The biggest difference, really, is that a smartphone-as-camera is a bit of a chameleon ... You can get any number of different camera apps that allow it to be tailored to do various different kinds of things in a variety of ways. The degrees of freedom are somewhat broader than a standard camera ... say an Olympus E-M1 to name one that I have on my shelf ... that has highly customizable configurations.

Of course, smartphone-as-camera devices have their own set of limitations and advantages just like any other specific camera type does. But then, we're used to dealing with that sort of learning curve anyway. You just have to decide to take the smartphone-as-camera seriously... 😉

G