IPhone 5s as photographer's tool
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photo_i
Explorer
This is a HUGE turn off for me on any point-n-shoot cameras. How can you see anything on that tiny screen with sun shining into it?
Lost Canadian
Expedition Leader
I think one thing being dramatically overlooked is context... An image can be technically perfect on every level, but if it fails to evoke any feeling or emotion then it's not a good photograph, period,....conversely, you could have a less than perfect image that simply oozes emotion and because of that it can stand the test of time. Photography is about much more than the technical...
Lost Canadian
Expedition Leader
I would have a look at these iPhone galleries. Who says the iPhone can't be a serious photography tool.
http://oggsie.com/mobile-street
http://byjansen.com/iphone/
http://m.benedicteguillon.wix.com/portfolio#!Photos|gallery_page
http://oggsie.com/mobile-street
http://byjansen.com/iphone/
http://m.benedicteguillon.wix.com/portfolio#!Photos|gallery_page
photo_i
Explorer
Ah! If photos are made for family albums and Facebook pages, then who cares what are they made with?
graynomad
Photographer, traveller
True, as long as people see them as what they are and not some genius images, of course occasionally one may be but that's a "million monkeys" thing.
I've been scanning and sorting such photos lately and I wish I had a 1000 more "bad" photos of people I've known and places I've been. They are your life and as such much more important than the lion-kills-elephant photos most of us aspire to (well the wildlife photographers anyway).
What gets up my nose (as I said back on the first page of this thread) is such images being held up as great when in fact they are just happy snaps that required little or no skill to produce. Those Scottish images were sub-standard by any professional metric and yet the sycophants (not everyone, some people had similar views to me) in the comment section wax lyrical about how fantastic they are.
Anyway I'm getting too close to a "what is art" theme and talking about the BS in the art market and we don't want to go there. The basic premise of this thread (I think) is that iPhone pics are good quality and quite valid in context, I have no argument with that, quite agree in fact.
I've been scanning and sorting such photos lately and I wish I had a 1000 more "bad" photos of people I've known and places I've been. They are your life and as such much more important than the lion-kills-elephant photos most of us aspire to (well the wildlife photographers anyway).
What gets up my nose (as I said back on the first page of this thread) is such images being held up as great when in fact they are just happy snaps that required little or no skill to produce. Those Scottish images were sub-standard by any professional metric and yet the sycophants (not everyone, some people had similar views to me) in the comment section wax lyrical about how fantastic they are.
Anyway I'm getting too close to a "what is art" theme and talking about the BS in the art market and we don't want to go there. The basic premise of this thread (I think) is that iPhone pics are good quality and quite valid in context, I have no argument with that, quite agree in fact.
photo_i
Explorer
I tell you one form of photography "art" that the iphone excels at, and it does this even better than the high-end cameras..
http://www.lomography.com/
http://www.lomography.com/
graynomad
Photographer, traveller
Ha, I've never heard of it although I knew there were movements based around cameras like the Diana, Holga et al. One problem
iPhones don't qualify and before long there will be no film. I suspect that like many religions they will have to change the rules to keep up with the times.
iPhones don't qualify and before long there will be no film. I suspect that like many religions they will have to change the rules to keep up with the times.