Following on from yesterday’s post, today I bring another 5 images captured from on my iPhone over the last four months or so. Once again, all are post-processed using software on the iPhone only – in this case the Best Camera app, with another app (Shake-it) used on a few of the resultant images to create a polaroid look which I think suits the quality of the image that the iPhone can capture quite well. And to illustrate the immediacy of the iPhone as a camera that’s always with you, the image above was taken less than 10 minutes before this post was published.
It’s kind of obvious from the photo where it was taken (for the record Ranelagh is a suburban ‘village’ just outside the Grand Canal in Dublin, and on my commute to work), and I captured it as I sat at a red light in traffic. I thought it would make for a nice contrasty image, which the iPhone can do well, and had just enough time to wait for the man pushing the buggy to move two thirds across the frame for a eye-pleasing composition. Post-processing was done via two touches to the screen at the next red traffic light (there are a lot of those on my commute).
Next up, is the first photo I took with my iPhone, and this is taken from my desk in work. To coin a snooker term, it’s what you could call “a shot to nothing” but I like the result. Partly due to the post-processing (especially the polaroid effect), partly due to the colour (the late January evening sky was casting a nice dark blue tone outside the window) and partly due to the composition, and somewhat strangely perhaps due to the hint of a story that the crack in the window could suggest if you didn’t know the circumstances of the photo. This image reminds me of the sort of illustration you might see on the cover of some dark thriller (but maybe that’s just me!).
The morning I arrived in Sydney in March it was too early to check into the hotel so having left my bags with the concierge, and having had some breakfast, a ferry trip to Balmain to call into the office beckoned. My camera was with my bags at the hotel, so as we passed under the harbour bridge, framing the opera house behind, I had to make do with my iPhone. This photo became my Facebook profile picture later that day. It’s straight from the camera with no post processing whatsoever.
Another straight-from-the-camera shot from the same trip, this time when I was back on Irish soil and as I waited to leave the airplane. I noticed the my central position gave me a view which had a nice composition with all the lines leading to the centre of the image, and with my camera in the overhead locker and the seatbelt sign illuminated, I captured this on the phone. Not overly exciting, but it’s a record shot of my return home after the Sydney trip.
And finally, as well as capturing photos, iPhones have another useful purpose – entertaining small children. Many’s the time that I’ve used it to take a snap of my godson or of a friend’s baby and memserized them for all of 10 seconds with the photo on themeselves on the screen (or probably in their mind, a photo of another baby). This shot was taken when Samuel came to stay at the end of January and again I thought the colours suited the polaroid treatment from the Shake It app.
So that’s it from the iPhone for now. I’ll hopefully repeat the exercise in a few months as I continue to try to snap away at the world around me with this always-accessible camera. In the meantime, normal service should resume here over the weekend.
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