Megapixels don’t mean much
Leo Laporte and folks were talking about the Droid on This Week in Google and This Week in Tech over the last few days and someone mentioned they weren’t especially impressed with the camera. Despite the 5 megapixels it’s not much (or any) better than the iPhone camera.
It just goes to show that there’s only so much quality you can get out of those tiny little (plastic?) lenses and small sensors, and the megapixel battle is mostly a load of crap. If you want to make good images, worry less about megapixels and more about using your brain: grapple composition, making the most of the equipment you have and seeing interesting things where others see the mundane. Of course, you might be concerned about megapixels if you’re printing enormous photos, but most people don’t.
iPhone photos are mad fun
I think much of the iPhone photo fun is the apps you can edit them with. Sure, you can just bring them into your regular photo editing application and edit them there (and I have cropped some in Aperture), but I the apps with all kinds of tap-of-the-screen filters and effects are half (or more!) of the fun.
Some of my favourites are
- Paid apps
- Free apps (first ones are by GhostBirdSoftware)
- PhotoCurvesFree
- PhotoCleaner
- PhotoSharpFree
- Photo Lab Daily
I much prefer looking at my iPhone photos at small sizes (due to the quality/megapixel issue — especially low light photos) and even though they’re sometimes intriguing and make me want to view them larger, it’s usually just better if they stay small. Maybe that means I have a lot to learn in iPhone photography, but that’s okay; learning is fun too.
If you’ve got your phone (doesn’t have to be iPhone) photos on the interwebs and think they’re interesting, point me at ’em!
I love using iPhone apps π but I need to learn how to use the other photography apps though…
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nice, I’ll have to take up pics with my G1 Android phone. Nice shots. π
Great article and got some inspiration for this weekend with my iphone. See some of my iphone photos at http://www.johntmcgregor.com.
Mine are here – http://cecily.posterous.com. I mostly use The Best Camera (because it is the best camera app on the iPhone, IMO), but I’ve also used QuadCamera and Photogene. Since discovering The Best Camera, I think my iPhone photographic style has matured, somewhat. I just don’t shoot as much now as I used to.
Thanks for sharing everyone!
I think I left comments on John’s blog — I didn’t ignore him as the comment thread here appears!
Cecily, I love the photo of the U2 stage! and your LL Bean Boots and the Bay Building and the pigeons. Is everything there iPhone or some other cameras too? Posterous looks like a good way of sharing photos.
Great pics! I don’t suppose you have a slick way (quick, painless, awesome – like your firebug tutorial) of getting iPhone Photos to a gallery (like above in this post) on your Thesis site? All the steps of pluggin in phone, synching, downloading, editing, logging in to WP, uploading, arranging drive me nuts. There is so many better things to do with the 80 hours that process takes me. Any help from my favorite Css-WordPress-Thesis-Photography ninja?
Ted — I don’t really have a really slick way of doing it. I regularly download my iPhone photos to my photo management software (Aperture, but I’m sure any software will do it that detects camera devices). Then I upload as a batch to WordPress (by selecting multiple images at once in the Finder) and click the “insert gallery” button. The gallery takes care of all the layout for me, so that bit’s pretty slick, but there’s not a good way to get photos straight from iPhone to WordPress. Unfortunately, the WordPress iPhone app doesn’t attach images to posts properly; it just inserts the photo in the body of the post. I’ve been meaning to look into it and see if I can suggest a fix for that.
I saw Teds question and just had to answer. If you have an iPhone and use Thesis with wordpress then you can easily use the iPhone wordpress application to post quickly and easily, your post with pics attached! I do this with my personal blog. Hope this saves you time!
Sorry, I should have kept reading to get Kristarella’s answer on wordpress app. I have really found it to work well but not for a whole batch at a time. : )