Awesome photos, its amazing how tech has developed such a great camera 👍
Yes, and it's the candid, or spontaneous shots that really bring home the message that the medium plays such a huge part in what we like to capture and express.
For instance - would
Scaff have set up a regular camera to get that shot of the Nissan pow-wow? I doubt it - the drama and significance of the moment catches one's eye and the next moment one is fishing for ye olde cellphone camera. And then it's not so much a
visual that's recorded - but an actual moment in time. To be savoured over and over.
Your own shot of the rabbit, nice one, too, expresses this.
I've taken tons and tons of shots like that with my cellphone. Which of course is the whole idea behind such a medium, I guess.
And on to the iWatch, probably, which might shoot HDVideo.
from which we will extract stunning stills.
Really like some of the shots that
machate and
kenny have captured, too.
Here's a little cellphone story from a few days ago - I was visiting my ailing mother - who is in her eighties and in the hospital for observation. (She's back home now, and stable again.) I noticed that she would constantly glance at a picture on the far wall - it was a tiny picture that was about 3 inches by 4, that someone had stuck on the wall facing the bed.
Finally, in the middle of our conversation, she asked me, "What is that picture on the wall?" (Her sight is pretty bad now and she can see only real close up.) Without a moment's thought I went up to the picture, took a cell-shot, then went back to her side and gave her the phone-pic, which little screen she held up to her face in wonder.
Her eyes lit up and she cracked a huge smile as she stared at it for a long while.
She gave me back the phone, eventually, saying: "I always wondered what that picture was. Now I know." And the contentment in her voice was priceless to me. Such is the value of a good cellphone, tapped.
In case you were wondering what the picture was, it was Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsamane.
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The contract on my iPhone 3GS is done, and the company is now offering me the iPhone5. I can't wait to explore the photon-catching.
Keep snapping, guys!
Cheers,
Harry.