Camera Phone Thread

[Stevenmarc]

OK so now that it's off the table for the contest it might be a good idea to explore what can be done with the camera that most of us carry with us all the time.

A lot of people tend to ignore the camera phone as a photographic tool, I know I was one of them for quite a while but around three years ago sat in on a talk by Chase Jarvis and had that moment of clarity when I saw some extraordinary work, I was sold.

So I'm going to kick this off with some photos of peonies that I took today with the iPhone using one of my favorite apps, Hipstamatic

The First two were taken with Hipstamatic's Lucifer VI Lens and DreamCanvas Film. I went with this one to give the petals a fabric look





These two were taken with the Chunky Lens and Cano Cafenol Film, I went with this one because the film gives a brown wash to the image and I was going for a tea stained chintz look.

[Celebration]

1. thanks

You already sold me on this! It looks like fun. I'm afraid for me it's going to be after learning the settings and buttons on my computerized dashboard of my new car, but at some point I would love to be able to do all this. Your photo in the poll thread may have had the unintended consequence of getting people to vote for Backlit, because it was too good!! I will not let this thread die, but I don't have anything to contribute right now.

Impressive. And thanks for starting this.

[Mira]

3. I agree with your hypothesis, and am laughing at that the people saying

"I don't know nothin' about birthin' no phone pictures"
also contributed.

(I voted for critters, because I did not think cellphones would have a chance plua I don't know how, and while I was at it figured I don't know about backlit photos either)

Since I don't have an Iphone I will send this thread to read and stimulate the interest of some talented photographer family members who do.

[postatomic]

2. I really like your images

Quite nice. Very beautiful. I don't use the cell phone camera as often as I once did. I carry around fully manual film cameras and inexpensive digital cameras with me now, but I still use the cell phone once in awhile. I don't have any apps. I just yank the image from the phone and process it like any other image.

I've posted a few from my cell phone camera before and these are just a couple of the most recent that I've done.





Hope to see some others. A camera is a camera is a camera - and if it's on a cell phone that simple rule still applies.

[Stevenmarc]

6. Really nice shots.

I still love shooting with film too but no matter what camera I'm using that day I always find myself pulling out the iphone and taking a similar shot.

[postatomic]

11. Thank you

I don't have an iphone. Nothing fancy. It's the camera we got for free when we renewed our cellular contract.

The iphone is gaining in popularity as a camera. I saw where you can even get a Leica facade/case that you can put over your iphone so you can feel like you're using a camera.

[Celebration]

7. postatomic I like this photo!

The sunlight on the floor, the coffee, the emptiness of the place. It shows the cell phone photography is a great idea. I would not have a regular camera on me when I encountered this scene.

[postatomic]

12. I'm glad you saw what I saw - and liked it

When my SO saw me taking the picture she couldn't figure out what I was looking at until she actually saw the pic later.

A cell phone is pretty handy. Most people are always carrying around a cell phone but very few people are always carrying around a camera.

[Mira]

9. I have to admit, I've been waiting for you to post a photo. Because, you may well

correct me as wrong, these are the first ones???

Your first one is a masterpiece to me. It's reminiscent of so much in the annals of my memories, my present, films I've seen, and culminates in my simple appreciation of a damn fine photo with perfect pitch.

Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

4. Wow. I'll have to look at cell phones differently.

Nice shots!

My handy is as simple as simple can be...no camera/no extras. But now....maybe it's time for an adult :) cell phone.

[Mira]

8. Handy, eh? Do the Americans know that the Germans call their cell phone a "Handy"?

I read over it casually and then backed up in my mind.

[Solly Mack]

10. Don't know if most do...the Americans here do, of course.

I've just grown accustomed to thinking of them as a Handy. I also can't think of a muffler without thinking auspuff first and muffler second. Much like I look for the ausfahrt instead of thinking in terms of exit. I'm used to the metric system..not that that will be a hard thing to change. I'm used to the price shown containing the tax already...that will take some remembering when I shop back in America. Lot of little things I've grown used to and will now have to rethink. No biggie really. Military life is one of change and adapting.

We were told we'd experience a form of culture shock upon returning. They said that people who live abroad as long as we have tend to experience varying degrees of it. I know many of the American kids here who opt to attend college in the US are so affected by it that they come back and go to University here instead.

[Richard D]

13. Me too.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. Here's one sailing off the Jersey coast