Here are a few of my smartphone pix. I'm making a number of books on this subject. But smartphone pix are just a few of the hundreds of social doc projects I am doing. So smartphone pix are no big deal to me. If I see someone pointing I shoot it...someone yawning I shoot it...someone kissing I shoot it...someone with a phone I shoot it...lady in a hijab I shoot it...etc and etc. Have lots of projects and you will always have something to shoot on the street.
If any photo violates policy, just remove it...you wont find pix like this on The Atlantic.
Selection from 'Women are Beautiful...Beyond Snapshot Aesthetics' project aka 'Pucker Up' - IR flash - Hollywood Blvd (Candid)
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'Sad Buskers' - IR flash (Candid...No one wants to pay them $5 for a photo of their boobies.)
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'Getting His Money's Worth from the Pole Dancer' (Candid)
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'Money Mouth' (Candid)
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'Multitasking' - IR flash (Candid)
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'Pinky' The Grove, L.A. (Candid)
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IR Flash (Candid)
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Selection from 'The Americans...60 years after Frank' project (Candid)
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IR Flash Hollywood, CA (Candid)
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I got a lot more of them. I also had one of a guy getting oral sex on the side of a road with cars driving by and a smartphone in the corner. But didn't want to push things. Social doc photography has no limits. If it has a human in it and is legal to shoot...you shoot it. (If it is of decent interest.)
maybeA professional would never rely on a phone to get the job done.
maybe
but i know there are some weekly papers ( professional ? )
that use their reporter with their phone.. and it works
the p/s camera and reporter replace a lot of photographers
and the phone is really no different..
not only professional camera operators
but professional photography ..
a lot of stock photos and image found on the internet
and used on the internet are via phone no doubt ..
these anti cellphone arguments are from the 1890s
My point was that the compacts didn't kill professional photography during the film-only era and the phones/compacts will not kill professional photography now either.
Many photojournalists use their phones to document and send images back to the news-desk, because it's a matter of time, but from much of what you can see regarding that line of photography, it's often not much to shout hooray about in regards to actual quality (not just technical, but as photography as well).
There is a place for phones, no doubt, but it will not replace professional photography with other, more suited gear.
My point was that the compacts didn't kill professional photography during the film-only era and the phones/compacts will not kill professional photography now either.
Many photojournalists use their phones to document and send images back to the news-desk, because it's a matter of time, but from much of what you can see regarding that line of photography, it's often not much to shout hooray about in regards to actual quality (not just technical, but as photography as well).
There is a place for phones, no doubt, but it will not replace professional photography with other, more suited gear.
People have been saying that for decades, and for decades technology has put more professionals out of business. There will always be some professionals, and a fewer proportion of them will be able to make a living in photography. At least that is the trend that I see. Technology does replace some professionals, but not all of them. The trend could change, but it is not clear to me how at this point.
Use to be video cameras.As someone with kids in school, I can say that every concert, every assembly, every school event I've attended has been marred by morons holding their mobile phones in the air in front of all the other parents.
Yes, on them and in use at every opportunity, no matter what. Mine has made me very fluent in using every curse-word in the English language, that I know and a few German ones that I have learned, and that is just to turn the xxxx thing on. I have all (too many) cameras now and all I need a "smart" phone for is for phone calls and it takes me longer to do that than a "land" phone ever did. I know it is a lack of knowledge on my part but can't they make a device that just makes "PHONE CALLS" for people who don't need or want all the other crap?......Regards!A camera that is both relatively small and easy to operate is what the masses want, and have always wanted. The smartphone gives them precisely that. Before phone cameras, most people were using consumer pocket cameras or disposable cameras for their photographic needs. However, smartphones are even more convenient because the phones can be used for all sorts of things - make calls, connect to the internet, and utilize countless apps. It is a device many people have on them at all times.
Video cameras were never, at least where I grew up, what I would describe as ubiquitous.Today's kids will never know.
Video cameras were never, at least where I grew up, what I would describe as ubiquitous.
I'd have them down as more of a 'there's always one' sort of tool, where the one person takes up position centre stage to capture the magic ruining the moment for everyone else.
We could all at least kinda still see what we came to see.
The mobile phone thing is a sea of morons, arms held high, like so many of the images in the linked article, totally obscuring what it is we are all trying to watch.
Who gave everyone a camera dammit.
Use to be video cameras.
LOL. I call them JAZWAPs - just another zombie with a phone.This doesn't irritate me as much as the "Zombies" walking slowly on the sidewalk and who pays no attention to their surrounding.
How many of them have I seen crossing the street without looking out for traffic? Darwinism at its best.
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