It’s been a good and busy week for the blog. It started with the announcement of the nominations for the Irish Blog Awards, where this site is nominated in the Best Photo Blog category – one of 50 photoblogs (so let’s not get too excited just yet!) and thanks to anyone who nominated me and to pix.ie for sponsoring that category. The week has included a couple of blog posts which I think are some of my better efforts in terms of their content, and which are getting a lot of traffic. One in particular is generating a lot of discussion, which is great to see. So after a busy week, and as an antidote to all of that, today’s post is about as basic as it gets around here.
Yesterday’s post about Aperture 3 will have indicated a little about how I generally work with images that I’ve shot on one of my two Nikon cameras, but I’ve mentioned before that I recently bought an iPhone, and have been experimenting with its camera, and with its ability to post-process, via some apps on the phone, the photos it takes. Even if the camera has some serious limitations, I’m really liking the ability to capture, process and upload photos directly from the phone in a very short space of time.
For some reason, this year I’ve developed a habit of using the iPhone, or indeed my older mobile phone before that, to take photographs of produce in the supermarket, be it bananas or the contents of the trolley that I’m pushing.
Last night I did it again, and this time what caught my eye in Tesco in Dundrum was the very impressive and tasty looking array of Easter eggs. I spotted it as we did our usual circuit of the aisles, and before I left returned for a quick “drive-by” photo.
It took me about as long to take it as it did to process it, and standing right there in the aisle I used the Best Camera app to apply, appropriately, a preset called Candy to give it some real punchy contrast and saturate all those colours. Before I uploaded the photo, still standing in the aisle of Tesco, I applied a cooling filter to take away some of the orange cast that the photo had. From capture to upload was 20 seconds, maximum.
“20 second photography” using this approach is refreshingly different to my usual approach of taking and retaking photos with an SLR, carefully composing and exposing, and then choosing the best of the lot in post-processing and working on the image to bring out the best in it.
It all depends on the circumstances – the iPhone approach wouldn’t work for a wedding (but how interesting would it be to shoot an entire wedding with one all the same?!). However, for a few boxes of easter eggs at 8 o’clock on a Wednesday night in Tesco, it’s perfect.
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