Another late night
Last night yrs trly stumbled upon a video posted to the Facebook of my aquatic therapy instructor.
It was how to take impressive iPhone photographs. It prompted a deluge on my part — another late night.
It’s because I consider my iPhone camera mind-blowing. My aquatic instructor also has an iPhone. Some of my photos on this blog were iPhone. Take a photo, then e-mail it home for Photoshop if needed — often it’s just crop and resize.
My iPhone camera was reason to stop carrying my Nikon D7000, a bulky digital single-lens reflex. I’d be walking my dog at a nearby park, and often I came upon a “photographer” photographing lovers.
“This thing is fabulous,” I say, unholstering my iPhone. “When are Nikon and Canon gonna catch up?”
The “photographer” was usually driving a megabuck digital single-lens reflex, often with a gigantic telephoto lens. Lovers are around 80-100 mm, not 300. Why are “photographers” driving telephotos? To me the test of a photographer is how well they drive wide-angle. It requires an eye for composition, plus imagining what you’ll get.
I don’t consider myself a photographer. I take photographs of trains, and became aware of lighting. I have some idea of composition, but really I’m just “shaddup-and-shoot.”
Artistic input is to peruse my photos and decide what worked. There are photos I planned, but didn’t work.
Train-photography with an iPhone doesn’t work. I think an iPhone opens shutter-speed to allow low light. I shoot “shutter-priority” with my Nikon. I need 1/500th or even 1/1000th to stop a train. My brother’s “point-and-shoot” compares to my D7000, but often it widens shutter-speed blurring a locomotive-front.
Beyond that with an iPhone I don’t get a viewfinder. I compose better in a viewfinder, and the image displays only on the iPhone screen. My Nikon also has a large screen to display the image, but I use the viewfinder.
A viewfinder puts the shutter-trip right in-my-face. With an iPhone I gotta hold at arms-length to view the image, and the shutter-trip is also at arms-length. What I get is spastic, especially if it’s moving.
The video had interesting suggestions, but failed to note the importance of lighting and composition. We were told to “pay attention;” that extraordinary photos are all around us. It displayed two ho-hum photos of grass and wood flooring. The wood flooring was fairly interesting because of its pattern of light and shadows — not noted.
The video also failed to note the most grievous error of Smartphone photographs. No verticals please. Rotate yer camera 90 degrees. Most photos are horizontal. Yer TV is horizontal. —My niece’s daughter, a millennial, implied I was stupid to suggest she rotate her iPhone camera.
Nevertheless I’m impressed with my iPhone camera. My mother’s Instamatic was antediluvian.
• RE: “Train-photography......” —I’m a railfan, and have been well over 70 years.
It was how to take impressive iPhone photographs. It prompted a deluge on my part — another late night.
It’s because I consider my iPhone camera mind-blowing. My aquatic instructor also has an iPhone. Some of my photos on this blog were iPhone. Take a photo, then e-mail it home for Photoshop if needed — often it’s just crop and resize.
My iPhone camera was reason to stop carrying my Nikon D7000, a bulky digital single-lens reflex. I’d be walking my dog at a nearby park, and often I came upon a “photographer” photographing lovers.
“This thing is fabulous,” I say, unholstering my iPhone. “When are Nikon and Canon gonna catch up?”
The “photographer” was usually driving a megabuck digital single-lens reflex, often with a gigantic telephoto lens. Lovers are around 80-100 mm, not 300. Why are “photographers” driving telephotos? To me the test of a photographer is how well they drive wide-angle. It requires an eye for composition, plus imagining what you’ll get.
I don’t consider myself a photographer. I take photographs of trains, and became aware of lighting. I have some idea of composition, but really I’m just “shaddup-and-shoot.”
Artistic input is to peruse my photos and decide what worked. There are photos I planned, but didn’t work.
Train-photography with an iPhone doesn’t work. I think an iPhone opens shutter-speed to allow low light. I shoot “shutter-priority” with my Nikon. I need 1/500th or even 1/1000th to stop a train. My brother’s “point-and-shoot” compares to my D7000, but often it widens shutter-speed blurring a locomotive-front.
Beyond that with an iPhone I don’t get a viewfinder. I compose better in a viewfinder, and the image displays only on the iPhone screen. My Nikon also has a large screen to display the image, but I use the viewfinder.
A viewfinder puts the shutter-trip right in-my-face. With an iPhone I gotta hold at arms-length to view the image, and the shutter-trip is also at arms-length. What I get is spastic, especially if it’s moving.
The video had interesting suggestions, but failed to note the importance of lighting and composition. We were told to “pay attention;” that extraordinary photos are all around us. It displayed two ho-hum photos of grass and wood flooring. The wood flooring was fairly interesting because of its pattern of light and shadows — not noted.
The video also failed to note the most grievous error of Smartphone photographs. No verticals please. Rotate yer camera 90 degrees. Most photos are horizontal. Yer TV is horizontal. —My niece’s daughter, a millennial, implied I was stupid to suggest she rotate her iPhone camera.
Nevertheless I’m impressed with my iPhone camera. My mother’s Instamatic was antediluvian.
• RE: “Train-photography......” —I’m a railfan, and have been well over 70 years.
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