I know I promised that I’d catch up soon on my 365 Cellphone pics. Well, I lied. But don’t feel too bad. I’m nearly two months behind on posting my daily self-portraits on flickr. But I’m working on it. So here we go, let’s try to get some of the pics from earlier in September…
Ok, so I’ve fallen behind with posting the 365 cellphone pics but that doesn’t mean that I have stopped taking them. Quite the opposite. I’ve been busy taking them in a variety of locations and it just took me a while to get them ready. 8-30-10 Night photography presents a special…
Time for another batch of cell phone pics. 8-25-10 Using a cellphone for sports photography is difficult, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. The first key is to get as close to the action as possible. This is not always easy. With traditional cameras, this could be accomplished by…
A bunch of new pics to talk about today. 8-19-10 The first is kind of a request pic. My friend Vic asked me about using a cellphone to take pictures of drinks in bars. Bar photography creates a very obvious problem. Bars are poorly lit and since cellphones lack flashes to create additional light there’s…
I’ve said before that the real key to successful photography is having a camera with you at all times and as such, this is the largest bonus to the cellphone camera. Always being able to reach in your pocket and snap a shot of anything that you happen to see in any situation. This article on…
Ok, really I do need to get better about catching up with posting these. Today I have another shot from a photoshoot. I kind of like doing this, as it’s really my photography specialty and I like seeing what I can do with a more limited camera. This portrait was taken while I was doing a photoshoot…
Since it’s impossible to “really zoom” on most cell phone cameras as I’ve discussed before, one thing that can be fun to do is take advantage of the wide angle look of them for panoramic views. When given enough light, and enough patience with and understanding of that light by the photographer, some stunning wide…
Well, it certainly didn’t take long for me to fall behind on posting these. I’m going to try to be better about that now. But I haven’t missed a day, so lets try to fix that.My fiancee loves plants. And by loves, I mean she loves buying them and then making it my responsibility to…
But for the obvious lack of resolution, the cellphone camera may be the best thing that’s ever happened to street photography. The true photographer knows that you should never be without your camera ever. Pick it up when you get out of bed and carry it with you every where you go. To work, to…
This is one of those photos that I was really looking forward to. I love cityscape photography. Really, most of it is rather simplistic, but I just always find the view of city lights from a higher vantage point breathtaking.The main tricks to make this really work are choosing the right time of day and…
One of the trickiest problems with digital photography in general and cellphone photography in specific is the concept of zoom. This is complicated for beginning photographers by the fact that it’s not clear how much “Zooming” is actually taking place on a camera from spec sheets unless you know how to read them correctly. There…
The big challenge for today’s photo was working in a low-light situation, something quite difficult with a cellphone camera. The shot was taken at the bar at Kaya, a Caribbean restaurant here in Pittsburgh. Bars are interesting in the realm of cellphone photography, as they are generally very poorly lit, however they’re probably among the…
Well, I’ve made it a week without resorting to backup shots yet. One week down, only 52 to go. I think if I make a book of this project, I’m going to call it “Phoning It In.” Anyway, for today’s shot I wanted to try something with landscape photography, and I thought, why not start…
I’ve been waiting to do a shot like this since I started this project. As I mentioned in the beginning, one of the inspirations for the project was Lee Morris’s iPhone fashion photography shoot. In that shoot, Morris accomplished the photos by using his entire photography studio, except the Camera, using his iPhone instead. So I…
In the name of continuing to work on basic photography building blocks, I decided to just take a pic about texture today. The manhole is in the street in front of my house. I walk past it like every day. But looking at it today I noticed it has some of the most interesting texture…
