An expensive camera is not a requirement to take good photographs. I am not kidding. If you don't have a fancy camera, you can still make fabulous photos with a camera on your phone. This blog, I'd like to blog about the cellphone photography. If you wonder about what it is, please keep reading, you will have an answer for you at the end of this post.
First of all, I’d say that a camera is not an only factor to determine a photo quality. According to Ken Rockwell on his article "Your Camera Doesn’t Matter" on his website, he said
Your camera has NOTHING to do with making great photos…The hard part is saying something with your images. Photography is art. It's abstract. Therefore it's difficult for many people to grasp. It's easy and lazy to think a camera makes the photos. It's easy to blame bad photos on a camera. When you get better you'll realize you would have been better off to pay more attention to your images and less to your camera.
So we need to remember that an expensive camera doesn’t guarantee giving out great photos. I think the equipment just makes the process of taking photos easier and faster. As I research that not everybody has a camera, but a cellphone. I believe that a lot of people own a smartphone such as a Samsung Galaxy, Sony Xperia, or Nokia Lumia, or an Iphone, and each one of these has an outstanding camera on it. And I think it’s more comfortable and convenient to take photos with a cellphone, we can take photos anytime and anywhere. I am sure that we all know about Instagram, an application for a smartphone. According to the copy on their website, they describe
It is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your photos with friends and family. Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr too – it's as easy as pie. It's photo sharing, reinvented.
As I know that after taking photos by using that application, we can use the filters to edit the photos, and then post them to Instagram community to share with other people. It is a wonderful community, people are sharing their photos there and some of them become famous from your work. Like most people, Emily Reid started using Instagram on a lark. She'd taken a picture of the view from her friends' rooftop, decided it looked pretty cool, and then posted it to her page on the Instagram website so her friends could see. According to Lucas Kavner in his article on www.huffingtonpost.com, he said more details
On Monday, she posted a photo of a D.C. building in front of a distorted blue sky at 8:00 p.m. -- she edits her photos, sometimes for hours apiece, using a variety of iPhone apps -- and by 8:30 p.m. it had collected more than 200 likes and a stream of comments…."I became very, very quickly addicted," says Reid, who works primarily as a web designer. "It's a fascinating phenomenon, unlike anything…where people are all sharing their art and talking about it, like Instagram."
I think it's simple to get into photography world with your cellphone. The Instagram is free for everyone and it's very easy to use. Here are some tips I found that may help you a lot when you take photos with your cellphone: get to know your phone, take note of your lighting, avoid using digital zoom, consider composition, think about your background, and keep your lens clean. I think you should take your phone out and try to shoot, and then share them to Instagram community.
Work Cited:
Rockwell, Ken. " Your Camera Doesn’t Matter." www.kenrockwell.com. Ken Rockwell Photography, 2005. Web. 26 Sept 2012
Kavner, Lucas. "Instagram: Photography's Antichrist, Savior, Or Something In Between?" www.huffingtonpost.com. Huffpost Art & Culture, 18 Sept 2012. Web. 26 Sept 2012.
Whatever happened when we talked after class...has really worked this week for you! I am impressed with your range of topics this week, you use of sources, the detail you provide, and the flow of the text. You're really shining here in your writing!
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