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iPhone Photo Gallery
As professional photographers who shoot a lot of stock, there isn’t a whole lot we can do with an iPhone photo. We’ll feel like we blew it if we get a great image on the iPhone but not the real camera. But, the phone is always along for the ride (literally in my case with so much time on a bike) and we love making photos with them, using the apps to play with effects and sharing via social media. Who doesn’t these days?
During our last trip to Nepal, we purposely cruised around with just a phone and some ideas. It was great fun and super liberating. More and more, whether we like it or not, how one makes images with their phone says a lot about their life, how they see it and their creativity. Before we head off on our next trip, we decided to post a gallery of our twelve favorite images from the phone and processed with iPhone Apps. We hope you’ll have a look and enjoy.
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Having a Life First
It is always a pleasure to be reading along and suddenly just stop on a line that hits home. Over at Rob Haggart’s site, A Photo Editor, I stumbled upon this:
“You need to have a life first so you have something to draw from and you need to consistently produce work.”
It is immediately apparent to me that this sums it all up, many things. Running a blog, two in fact, I have realized that when I am in the office working long hours, inspiration for new content is slim. Other than a few Re-Tweets of things I see, I come up blank. Sure I keep a list of “To be Blogged”, but even that stuff seems dishonest when all I have been doing is tapping and mousing. I want fresh.
The same can be said for creative content in photos. Do the photos we produce match our life? Yes, absolutely. We live in an amazingly beautiful place. Our photos put people in the landscape. It is what we see, it is what we find beautiful, it is what we do. Having lived in the Dolomites for just over two years, we are still taking it all in, especially in our images.
The second half of the quote is something I have long understood and believed in. We must produce something that is a result of our work, our skills, and our intelligence. It makes us happy to create.
To bring these two ideas together is something we must all strive for – balance.
Janine and I are feeling the desire to try something new, to challenge ourselves with some new way of seeing and thus producing. We vow to look at our surroundings in a new way, and especially our friends and what & how they do things.
Just in writing this I have come to realize that when I shoot in a place like India, I study the people, I study their actions, and especially their eyes. With this I become determined to make an image I find interesting. To produce great work from the life I enjoy living and am seeking to understand.
We’d love to hear from you, your thoughts on what makes an image interesting. Please Comment here for everyone to read.
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