I’ve had my iPhone now for about four months, and was surprised to see that I’d taken 113 photos with it. Surprised in that I thought before I got it that I would take more (I’ve come across photographers online who take 10 to 15 photos a day with theirs). When I got my new SLR I had probably taken 113 photos within the first 48 hours. What with the whole idea of “the best camera being the one that’s with you” and all, I guess I just expected to use it more as a camera. I do use it an awful lot as a phone/internet device/games console/time waster. Just not as much as a camera. That said, in those 113 photos there are some I like that I haven’t shared here, so today and tomorrow on the blog are iPhone-only days, with a handful of images I like and a brief description on the what, where and why. Oh, and all were fully post processed on the iPhone (except for resizing and cropping to my blog-friendly 900×600).
First up, the picture up top was taken on Leeson street bridge as I sat in traffic on a particularly wet miserable Wednesday in the run up to Valentine’s Day. A bus passed with an ad for the film, and I liked the colour and the impact of the rain drops on the image. Technically, I wonder was this use of my phone while driving sitting in traffic an offence? Hmmm.
The photo above was taken from my bedroom window on one of those snowy mornings – the second phase of snow we had last winter – when I woke to this view. I like the monochrome conversion (again done on the iPhone) and pushed this particular image to my Facebook page that day. I can tell it was a Friday from the photo too as the bins are out.
I went through a phase of posting images from Dundrum Town Centre captured on my phone during the weekly grocery shop, and this was one that didn’t make it here previously. Taken from the top floor looking down at Yo Sushi, I like the lines and how the interact with each other compositionally.
Not a photo that would normally make the cut here, but I suppose if you want an example of the low light performance this is one. I took this a couple of weeks ago as I walked along Enniskerry Road having noticed the nice light in the sky post-sunset, and with a planet (Venus maybe) quite visible to the naked eye. With no other camera, I snapped this and was impressed to see some detail (and yes lots of noise) made it through. And that blurry white mark above the trees is what I think was Venus.
The last one for today is from Dundrum again, the evening that Hughes & Hughes (one of my favourite bookshops, and one that stocked a good range of photography books) closed. I’ve heard talk of at least some of them re-opening – I hope this one does. Technically I was impressed with how the camera on the iPhone captured detail both on the sign and in the well-lit shop itself… it did a good job of balancing the exposure.
That’s it for today – check back tomorrow for a few more.
Great post that just goes to show how much of photography is the photographer’s eye rather than the camera they use.
You’ve inspired me to finally go and get an iPhone so that I do always have a camera with me.
Here you’ve shown the kind of poignant moments that are wonderfully suited to mobile phone photography. They are almost sketches, detail descriptions of life.
Wonderful
Thanks Roger! I hope I’m inspiring myself to use it more too.
Once you don’t hold me responsible for the bills or the iTunes costs for all the apps you’ll want to buy too! “Best Camera” is definitely an app to look at. And there may be a new iPhone coming up soon so might be worth sussing out the likelihood of that… the camera is bound to be improved.