Odd views of the world. A bit more on phone photography.
Tags: iphoneography, stylus t. Frog, iPhone, Digital phoneography, Olloclip, Phoneography, Lumia, Samsung Galaxy
Date: 11 August 2014 21:00:57
The iPhone is more than a phone for me... In fact I rarely use it as such. Instead it has, for a long while, been my primary method of creating images, initially drawn and now photographed.
The iPad (and a range of tablets including the Hudl, Surface, Galaxy Tab, a variety of Dell, Lenovo and Asus tablets and so on) is currently my go-to painting and drawing device because of the increased screen real estate - something that I remember not being convinced about when I imported my very first iPad. But then, somehow, the larger screens became the ones I picked up most to do a painting and the Phone... well, it didn't languish, but the drawn images became fewer and further between. I still draw on the small screen but those pictures are rarer.
Stylus T says Ribbet, for example, was drawn on my phone a couple of days after I'd come back from a lovely holiday while I was going through my pics.
And therein lies the rub: what I love about the iPhone is the camera. The Lumia's might have better glass but the iPhone, currently, has the better apps and the quicker pedal to metal. The Galaxy S4 was awful in this respect and I took far more blurry photo than I would have liked with that phone which, apart from that one pitfall, I liked loads. All of the pics in this blog and this blog were taken with the iPhone... Its my go to photography device 99% of the time and with the addition of an Olloclip it becomes even more fun:
As you can probably guess I'm extremely fond of Autostitch, Boinx' You Gotta See This app (which, while brilliant, is VERY MUCH in need of an update) and Olloclip's in general. I've mentioned it before but I was utterly heartbroken when one of my two Ollo's bit the dust :(
Pink Marshmallow.
White Marshmallow
'nuff said.I've written about Phoneography before, and no doubt will again ((although you'd be far better served by checking out the work of the very wonderful Nettie 'Lumilyon' Edwards who takes mobile phone photography very much to a higher level)). My mind is already moving towards the likely September 6th announcement of a new iPhone (although I will have an eye very firmly pointed to the keynote at IFA for the Samsung Note 4 - which is a fabulous phone. I love the S-Pen integration very much) but, with both announcements, it'll be the camera that I'll be most interested in seeing the evolution to come...