Wed
Dec 19
8:47pm
The 4.55 to Marshall. Harry Potter train
I quite like this shot, even though it highlights the crapness of my cameraphone. Looks a bit spooky. Appropriate for Harry Potter, I suppose.
Maybe I’ll keep the k608i for a bit longer. After all, the photos I take with it are what they are when I take them. Nobody’s pretending they’re pro quality, least of all me.
Note: This one actually went through properly on the Flickr post-to-blog thing, but the Message one (previous post) didn’t. Weird.
I thought you were going to take your proper camera everywhere… this would have been great at a higher quality and with some photoshop treatment to make it a bit mysterious and haunting!
Rob
Comment by Rob — December 20, 2007 @ 8:53 am
Well I can’t take it *everywhere*. Maybe I should buy a decent cameraphone. What do you think?
Comment by Marty — December 20, 2007 @ 9:17 pm
Even a decent camera-phone will take crappy shots compared to a real camera. I wouldn’t waste the money. If you are serious about having some fun with photography, what you’ll soon find is that the shots you took are too crap quality to do anything with. They’ll look crap printed large for example, or a full of noisy compression artifacts.
I’m having trouble with my camera (4 mp) being too low resolution for submission to many stock photo sites. It takes great shots, but their standards are getting higher and higher.
Rob.
Comment by Rob — December 21, 2007 @ 7:33 am
“serious about having some fun with photography”
Interesting phrasing!
- I’m not a pro and doubt I ever will be.
- I’m not an enthusiast - I don’t actively seek out best light, optimum camera settings etc.
- I’m not a rank amateur - I don’t chop feet off, I can frame a subject, I know what medium close-up means, etc.
- I’m a mildly interested amateur - I try to take an interesting shot.
Our 7mp ultra-compact takes great outdoor photos, good indoor ones and is waterproof, but at the moment we use it mostly for snapshots rather than for art. We print some of them out at A4 size on our printer and frame them or stick them on the wall.
My 1.3mp cameraphone takes crap quality photos but I carry it around everywhere because it’s my phone. The quality isn’t good enough for the web, even.
I suppose my thinking is that I can lift the quality of the phone photos by upgrading the phone, and I can lift the quantity of the art shots by carrying the ultra-compact around.
Comment by Marty — December 21, 2007 @ 8:33 am
Glad you liked the ’serious about having fun’ statement… I thought that was cool.
To describe myself, the only edit to your points above would be to remove ‘mildly’ from the 4th statement.
My eye picks out cool shots ALL DAY, all over the place, but I’ve come to the realization that I can’t take a camera everywhere (plus I’d never get anything done).
I use my phone for ‘records’ and ‘uncreative’ shots mostly. I’ve found there’s nothing worse than taking a great shot and it being to crap quality to use anywhere! I think I’d rather just enjoy the image in my mind and not taint the memory with bad colour reproduction, lens distortion or compression artifacts!
It’s hard enough to capture the image as you intended to without adding crap equipment into the mix.
Maybe I’m just being a fuddy duddy!
Rob.
Comment by Rob — December 21, 2007 @ 10:42 am
Take a look at the Sony Ericsson K850i. It’s what I’m looking at.
Comment by Marty — December 21, 2007 @ 5:10 pm