I was hanging out with a group of strangers the other day, when the topic of instagram came up. I hid the fact that I'm "instafamous"[not my description of myself], because I was curious about what they thought of the platform. It turns out, to them...using non-phone cameras is a form of cheating, because the point is to post as life happens. I can definitely see their point. I personally try to post as close as I can with my film photos, and generally post right away when it comes to phone photos. [I don't believe in over-editing...which is another topic]
But that brings me to the point of the post....I don't think its cheating. I know tons of extremely talented phone photographers, and even more people that own DSLRs that seem to mainly use it to photograph their food. Below I have posted examples of bad and good photos I've taken throughout the years. Not all my film photos are magnificient...the moral being anybody can use a camera....but it really takes somebody with a good eye to take a good photo, regardless of what they are using to take it with. Mannn....I've even seen good photographers take good photos with reeally reeeally bad cameras...
top row: "eh" film photos
middle row: unedited iPhone 4S photos [yes, even the blue horse]
bottom row: Hipstamatic photos on a 3GS or iPod Touch 4G [with less than 1mpx resolution!]
Here some of the photos I captured on the Hi-matic AF2 during my 27 hour trip to Las Vegas...I left for Vegas packing extremely light. The pennsylvania-native cab driver that picked me up from the airport was a little confused when he opened the trunk for my luggage to realize I didn't have any. Did I feel dirty and exhausted by the time I returned to San Diego? Absolutely. Would I do it again? Probably. It's always refreshing dancing with, and sneaking photos of strangers in a different city.
i just finished developing my film from this past weekend. i think i might've either left some chemicals sitting for too long, didn't wash the film completely, or you people have just been out in the sun without any proper protection...because some of the images came out with a hint of red. i'm going to clean my scanner and film positives of dust and re-scan them later...alot of dust collected on the film while drying.
By the way, Happy Birthday to my girlfriend <3
I just developed two rolls of Ilford HP5+ 400, and I have alot of good shots from it. I will be posting them gradually in categories. I'm still new to black and white photography, but I feel like I'm getting the hang of it. This is my collection of street photos from these two rolls.
This is a composition entitled "Long Distance Relationship". It's about me and my girlfriend, living in two different parts of California. I don't think I need to go deeper into our story, because the picture speaks for itself.
