Mobile photography
The next topic in Unit 1 of our GCSE photography is all to do with mobile photography. I know I am always taking pictures of things I see when I am out with friends on my phone. I feel that a lot of people take this for granted because say 15 years ago, cameras on phones were only being introduced let alone cameras on iPods, and this recent change in technology has brought many opportunities. For example, Last month an advert was aired for a new Nokia phone of some description. The advert was based around a photography student at university who (for an experiment) parachuted out of a plane and filmed his whole experience on this phone. The experiment was a great success and the footage was great. You can watch it here... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSSSEZXpws ... I thought it was really inspiring and even though I wouldn't choose to jump out of a plane at 2000ft myself, I think it is a great example of how mobile cameras have become so universal and developed well. Not only do mobile phone cameras have the capability of taking up a small amount of physical space but they also can be/ are used to record things in a hurry- like natural disasters. Below are some examples where mobile phone cameras have been used to document natural disasters...
In our lesson we were given an iPod and a subject that we set out to photograph. It was up to us what the dynamics were. I was given the theme lines. Here was the outcome...
David Griffin
The man above is called David Griffin. He is a photographer who uses his iPhone to photograph food. For my home study on mobile photography, I have decided to write about him because I enjoy his work because of two main reasons. One, because of the light. Whenever I take a photo on my phone, I really struggle with getting the lighting just right, in the end I just give up and end up with a badly lit picture of which can result in a particularly granulated texture. However with Griffins work, I can see that he has taken time to perfect it and the result is that these images come out sharp, detailed and looking like they were taken with a dslr. Although even though the photograph above suggests otherwise, it may be the case that he uses lighting equipment. And number 2, because of the composition of the pictures, I am not sure if the just seizes the moment and it happens to turns out okay or if he spends attended periods of time repositioning the the food and objects. Either way, I like the rustic feal it presents. He mostly take pictures of very organic foods and uses applications from the App Store to apply effects, tones and colours. They seems to me like they are from a very healthy and in some ways, organic cook book. In fact they remind me very much of the lurpack butter adverts (again, more reference to adverts) that are made using stop frame animation.
Here is a link to David Griffin's blog http://mobilephonefoodphotography.com
And below is a small arrangement of photographs of his...
Here is a link to David Griffin's blog http://mobilephonefoodphotography.com
And below is a small arrangement of photographs of his...
My Autumn Photography Homework
My Andigraf photography.
- though only some, in my opinion, where successful; here are a few of my attempts using the app Andigraf in order to create these photographs containing a series of 4 photographs to make one image; these were all taken on an iPod touch (hand held and mobile).
My favirotThe most successful images that i took in this session are on the right. As you can see, they are all simplistic and are all of the same thing...
I think this is the key reason that they are my favirot. When a photographer presents their work in a series shown together, I tend to only like ones that all have a common theme. For example, most of the triptychs that I like contain images that work together, have a similar narrative or are of the same thing repeated in different ways or from different angles, similar to my andigraph photos on the right. I think this is because |