My Time With The Iphone 4 So Far (Photography)

Recently I decided to upgrade from my old Sony mobile phone which I must have had for around 4-5 years as it was done. Everyone around me either has an iphone or some kind of fancy android thing. I wasn't really into getting one as all I did was text but then I saw all these awesome photographers getting great results from their iphone it seemed like it would be fun to just shoot with a phone and process on the spot rather than get home, load the images on to the computer and process in photoshop. Don't get me wrong I love my Canon 5D MK 2 and get great images from it but sometimes its a bit over kill to carry around and I've gotten a little sick of sitting in front of the computer for hours at a time looking through and processing images. So this iphone seemed like a good idea just to have as a pocket camera that would free me up from carrying around my SLR all the time. Yeah I could have bought a compact camera but I really didn't want to as they are overpriced for what they really are. With the iphone I could text, use the internet, send emails, shoot photographs, network and oh yeah don't forget about actually calling people.

Anyway I went for the Iphone 4, downloaded instagram and have since started to use it as my compact camera and I have to say I am very impressed, of course the quality is not good but for some shots who cares. It is so liberating being this restricted when it comes to controls and processing options. It kind of reminds me of when I shot a lot of film with my Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim camera which had no controls but I always liked the results as you had to get really creative.

I haven't really shot too much yet with the phone but I am having a blast so thought I would post my results here as a sort of Iphone photography diary thing.

So here's some of the images so far:

Sandend beach as the tide is coming in.

A dull day at Sandend beach. 

Sandend beach through the long grass when the tide is fully in.

This is to the right of the beach. I love just wandering around here.

The highway at night.

Trees at the side of the road.

A very misty sunrise on the way to Glasgow.

Couldn't resist shooting this sunset. 

Part of an abstract painting I did.

Last light.

Rainy day on the way to Glasgow on the megabus.

Rain clouds with the sun trying to battle through. 

Rainy day giving way to some better weather.

On way home from a great weekend in Glasgow.

Cat just after the Mark Lanegan concert.

Ewan in The Moorings Bar, Aberdeen a few weeks ago. 

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Back To My Old Compact

I decided to leave my 5d mark 2 in the house for the day and only take my little compact fuji camera. The Fuji Finepix F11. Yes you probably haven't even heard of it.

This was my very first camera and I remember loving it, I got some really good shots with it but felt I needed something with a little more manul control, so I entered into the DSLR world with a Canon 400d, I pretty much haven't used this small Fuji since. I saw it sitting in the bottom of a drawer the other day and vowed to take it out for a day to see what we could create. So this morning I put it in my pocket as I walked my girlfriend to her work and snapped a few shots (luckily it was a great morning). I got home and  took the shots into photoshop and quickly realised that the quality is not as bad as I first feared (not great but pretty decent for an old 6 megapixel digital compact). This camera could still get a shot if I needed and it is so small. It can't hold up to the compacts nowadays or the new hybrid cameras (it doesn't shoot raw) but I think I will start to use it again. I am currently looking into getting one of the hybrid cameras, either a GH2 or a Fuji X100 (that viewfinder is amazing) as I want a small camera that can deliver results that are useable on a pro assignment.

I wish I had never stopped taking this camera around with me, I might have got some shots that I wasn't have comfortable taking with a big SLR. Just goes to show how we all get caught up in technology, I know that digital compacts especially back in the day have their limitations but I am now going to try and use them to their strengths. Oh and it has a pretty decent macro too which will be nice to play with again.

Below are the shots that I snapped this morning. I will post more shots as I go through them and I will take this around with me for a few days to see how it fairs.

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