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Photography is one of the most accessible and democratic forms of artistic expression there is. The ubiquity of cameras -- on mobile phones or small digital point-and-shoot cameras in our pockets, all the way to large, powerful digital SLR cameras -- makes it ever easier to capture fantastic images.
But making great photographs has little to do with owning the best and most expensive equipment. The real secret behind original photography is in how you see a moment and interpret it in a still frame. Are you able to make something ordinary appear extraordinary by showing it differently? Are you able to make the viewer feel a physical emotion when they look at your photograph? Are you able to transport someone with you to a moment in time simply by pressing your shutter?
Jointly inspired by this artistic and photographic philosophy, as well as by my good friend Mike Sargent (the Photo Editor at the Straits Times newspaper in Singapore), who is never without his digital point-and-shoot camera, and Chase Jarvis (a Seattle-based photographer) and his "The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You" project, I've taken to shooting a lot more often with my iPhone.
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It's free. It's fun. It's easy.
And it makes walking to get lunch more than just about food; its now a daily photography assignment.
See more of my iPhoneography on Flickr.
Or better yet, share some of yours with me.
**EDIT** An article about the point-and-shoot cameras used by a handful of well-known professional photographers, including Pulitzer Prize-winner David Hume Kennerly, can be found here.
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Great post Scott and beautiful strong photographs. However, I will stick with a camera for several reasons:
-photography is a state of mind. If I use the phone and I have it all the time with me, this state of mid either prolongs or vanishes. If it prolongs, it becomes tiring, boring, intoxicating. If it vanishes, well, it’s a pity;
-as soon as I take too many photos I feel I’m losing creativity;
-doing too many things in the same time take us away from actually enjoying those things. I imagine myself driving, drinking coffee, talking at the cell phone about contracts and stuff and taking marvellous burst photographs, while listening a concert at the radio. For sure I will not taste the coffee!
Indeed, not having the camera with you means you don’t take photos. So what? I will take photos when I will take the camera for this purpose. And maybe I will let home the damn cell phone, just to have the peace of thinking about what am I doing.
I remember I have seen once a scene that would have been the best photography I could have taken: a contest between a poor disabled in a wheel chair and a poor boy with an old bicycle. All in front of old rotten architecture. Superb light and concentrated expressions on their faces. I just looked at them. What if I should have started to take some 15 burst photos of them? How would they have felt about? I don’t know.
Comment by Lorin Niculae — August 2, 2010 @ 3:12 PM
Scott. Iphone + photo apps.. what a better combination. Waiting for the day they bring out iphone with interchangeable teeeny weeny lenses! Love it. Q
Comment by Q — July 30, 2010 @ 9:57 AM
Love these colors and shapes. Kinda makes me think Havana !
Comment by Francesca — July 29, 2010 @ 2:07 PM