OK. Finally I’ve got myself geared up to start posting regularly. Procrastination is a bitch.
On Sunday I came across a book called The Art of Iphoneography by Stephanie C. Roberts. Up to that point, I’d never heard of Iphoneography.
I knew taking pictures with your iPhone was becoming something of a fad with numerous apps and books and websites popping up encouraging folks to take pictures with their iPhones.
One of my favorites, and perhaps the guy that first sparked the idea in my head that my iphone could be my primary point and shoot camera was professional photographer, Chase Jarvis. He wrote a book called The Best Camera is the One You Have with You. I was inspired by the title alone. It really hit home with me as a hopeless tech geek who is addicted to possessing the latest in gadgetry. Chase reminded me that the camera is just a tool. The real art is made by the person behind the camera. Chase reminds folks that the iPhone is the best camera because, as your phone, it’s always with you. Chase says he takes over 100 photos a day with his iPhone. (Please forgive me, Dear Reader, if you are not an iPhone user. If your camera has a phone, then you too, can be a mobile photographer.)
Now getting out and taking photos with your iPhone is a field in its on right with many sites and groups and galleries dedicated to Iphoneography. I liked Stephanie’s book because she only spent a few chapters on the tech stuff. The majority of the book was focused on creativity and getting out and taking photos, which I promptly did today. I was that inspired by her book.
One of the projects in her book has do with taking self-portraits. She suggests that you take one a week for a year and then at the end of the year, go back through them and follow the story they tell. So the photo above is my first photo in my self-portrait project. I used the 3GS, the native camera, and Photo Fx for processing.
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