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11/07/2013 04:39:58 PM · #1 |
Originally posted by latest iPhone 5s ad:
A better photographer, built-in.
Instead of teaching people to take better photos, why not teach the camera? The new iSight camera's software makes dozens of smart decisions every time you click -- from True Tone flash that analyzes and adapts to your lighting, to burst mode which takes multiple pictures and suggests the best ones. The new iSight camera. Only on iPhone 5s. |
Clearly, we are wasting our time with all that stuff about apertures and shutter speed and what not...
Message edited by author 2013-11-07 16:40:08. |
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11/07/2013 04:44:40 PM · #2 |
Apple makes everything better.
Just ask them. |
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11/07/2013 04:49:11 PM · #3 |
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11/07/2013 05:16:08 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by pamb:
iDon't think so. |
LOL! |
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11/07/2013 05:43:01 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Originally posted by pamb:
iDon't think so. |
LOL! |
+1... LOLLLLLL! |
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11/07/2013 05:49:42 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by pamb:
iDon't think so. |
Can I vote yours as the best comment ever? |
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11/07/2013 05:51:52 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Alexkc:
Originally posted by pamb:
iDon't think so. |
Can I vote yours as the best comment ever? |
iGuess that would be OK... |
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11/07/2013 05:55:15 PM · #8 |
| Does it even matter how good the phone cameras are? Don't most people just use them to be able to slap on their retro-vintage-scratches-lightleaks-vignette-blur filters? |
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11/07/2013 05:55:19 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Alexkc:
Originally posted by pamb:
iDon't think so. |
Can I vote yours as the best comment ever? |
iGuess that would be OK... |
iLove this place... ok, wait... is this a virus?! |
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11/07/2013 06:29:50 PM · #10 |
| Just great. Now every fauxtog with a cellphone is going to be charging $200 for an 8-hr wedding, complete with badly done spot colour and white vignettes, no doubt built-in. *iSigh*... |
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11/07/2013 06:32:50 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by pamb:
iDon't think so. |
iLOL |
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11/07/2013 09:58:04 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
Just great. Now every fauxtog with a cellphone is going to be charging $200 for an 8-hr wedding, complete with badly done spot colour and white vignettes, no doubt built-in. *iSigh*... |
I'm only gonna charge 100.00 plus cake... |
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11/07/2013 11:06:53 PM · #13 |
i own an iphone s its a nice handy point n shoot =) it is a good camera to be aware of if you already own the phone. Its not replacing any serious gear soon i imagine.. i am impressed with the low light abilities of this camera though.
Message edited by author 2013-11-07 23:07:32. |
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11/07/2013 11:20:39 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Skip:
Originally posted by latest iPhone 5s ad:
A better photographer, built-in.
Instead of teaching people to take better photos, why not teach the camera? The new iSight camera's software makes dozens of smart decisions every time you click -- from True Tone flash that analyzes and adapts to your lighting, to burst mode which takes multiple pictures and suggests the best ones. The new iSight camera. Only on iPhone 5s. |
Clearly, we are wasting our time with all that stuff about apertures and shutter speed and what not... |
Photography is changing because the photograph is changing (and not, as is so often claimed, the other way around).
Which leaves all those folks who know everything about photography but very little about photographs feeling a little marginalised. The natural reaction is to denigrate the 'new' photography as not-the-real-thing. I said exactly that when digital cameras appeared. Much earlier, many photographers said the same when 35mm appeared.
Apple's blurb says, 'A better photographer, built-in.' And they're right, as they so regularly are. It's not the photography that matters; it's the photograph. So Apple is saying let's get the photographer out of the picture entirely and take photographs.
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11/08/2013 12:02:54 AM · #15 |
| Is this any different than when during the film era the masses would drop off their exposed film to be developed and processed by third party labs who were making all the decisions as to the look of the photos with little to no input by the actual photographer? iSight is a new term to me and I have never used it and know very little about it, but I bet that the users of this technology have a little more say in the final outcome of their photos. Also, is it any different than putting your camera in P-mode? |
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11/08/2013 12:53:51 AM · #16 |
It's almost time...
Soon I will be able to build my army of photography robots and finance the operation through wedding photography. |
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11/08/2013 01:00:21 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by Cory:
It's almost time...
Soon I will be able to build my army of photography robots and finance the operation through wedding photography. |
You're missing the real opportunity. It won't be long until we can capture entire scenes from every possible angle by recording them continuously with synchronized imaging devices, and then step inside the scene with powerful computers and walk around in what amounts to real time. We'll be able to experience the event holographically, and we'll be able to isolate instantaneous points-of-view for capturing and preserving in holographic "books" that project when you tap them. |
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11/08/2013 01:13:56 AM · #18 |
| Bear, you ability to visualize things that don't yet exist never ceases to amaze me. |
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11/08/2013 01:50:33 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
... It won't be long until we can capture entire scenes from every possible angle by recording them continuously with synchronized imaging devices, and then step inside the scene with powerful computers and walk around in what amounts to real time. We'll be able to experience the event holographically, and we'll be able to isolate instantaneous points-of-view for capturing and preserving in holographic "books" that project when you tap them. |
we'll be spending so much time on this there won't be any left. but wait! isn't that what we are doing now? |
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11/08/2013 01:50:35 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by littlemav:
Originally posted by snaffles:
Just great. Now every fauxtog with a cellphone is going to be charging $200 for an 8-hr wedding, complete with badly done spot colour and white vignettes, no doubt built-in. *iSigh*... |
I'm only gonna charge 100.00 plus cake... |
I'll do it for exposure if you post my pics on your facebook page ;-) |
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11/08/2013 02:44:43 AM · #21 |
So what are we going to call the person who uses the new iPhone to take the photograph if not a photographer?
A record keeper? Whom do we award if next years NHM winner was taken with an iPhone? The human or the device? |
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11/08/2013 04:19:25 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by HarveyG:
So what are we going to call the person who uses the new iPhone to take the photograph if not a photographer?
A record keeper? Whom do we award if next years NHM winner was taken with an iPhone? The human or the device? |
It's the photograph that wins the NHM (or any other photographic competition or award). We award the prize to the human who authored the photograph, but it's the photograph itself that was judged the winner. And the device is of course irrelevant.
Admittedly certain devices operated by certain humans (such as yourself, Harvey) will be more likely to produce a NHM winning wildlife photograph, but it's not a prerequisite. I've used an iPhone in Kruger, and it has severe limitations.. No prizes there!
The only reason that photography changes is because the photograph itself is (as it ever was) changing. As an object, as an artefact, as a document; what it is, what it's for, who sees it, when, and under what circumstances. It's the photograph that drives the bus, and not cameras nor photographers.
Message edited by author 2013-11-08 05:57:49. |
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11/08/2013 07:38:05 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by ubique:
It's the photograph that drives the bus, and not cameras nor photographers. |
Not really, it's our inherent laziness.
The next iteration iPhone will probably monitor the recent style of shooting in People/Vougue [eg blown-out backgrounds], set the camera such, you press the button, and the image is sent automatically to your 4 dedicated web-areas, including DPC, each one with its own correct generic post-processing, the phone grabbing a title from a quick search of similar images on the net. As little involvement by the photographer as possible.
In 5 year's time all the hardware will have moved into your contact lens, you only have to blink. |
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11/08/2013 10:34:14 AM · #24 |
These brilliant programmers are revealing to us the difference between skill and art. It's hard to swallow sometimes, for me, too. But there you have it.
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11/08/2013 10:37:14 AM · #25 |
| Why take pictures at all? Just ask NSA for a copy of theirs. |
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