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Post by daves on Aug 24, 2024 11:20:30 GMT
Just a quick bump to say that this week's AP is all about smartphone photography.
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Post by peterob on Aug 24, 2024 13:32:39 GMT
Just a quick bump to say that this week's AP is all about smartphone photography. I was just going to say that the AP that came today was all about smartphone photography, so cover to cover didn't take anything as long as drinking my 11:00 coffee. Also, The Times had a lifestyle article I skimmed about the fashion comeback of the digital compact (nothing so grand as a Fuji X100 series). Sadly it seemed mostly concerned with the challenge of taking a "selfie" without an LCD facing the user. The only good thing about the smartphone camera was the end of me being regularly stopped and asked to take tourists' portraits for them so I hope the fad doesn't catch on. |
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Post by daves on Aug 24, 2024 15:27:17 GMT
I guess there are AP issues that are totally uninteresting. Total focus on portraits for instance, a quick skim for any equipment reviews then into the recycling bin.
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Post by geoffr on Aug 24, 2024 17:04:06 GMT
I guess there are AP issues that are totally uninteresting. Total focus on portraits for instance, a quick skim for any equipment reviews then into the recycling bin. My last AP will be dated 3 September, I wonder whether it will arrive before then. Judging by recent experience it’s probably unlikely. |
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Post by daves on Aug 25, 2024 9:06:57 GMT
I very nearly had a rush of blood to the head and just avoided buying a Xiaomi 14 Ultra and photo kit. I just dropped on to their site and saw that it was reduced by £400. Got as far as hitting the "Buy" button before better sense prevailed.
I could afford it but I have some fairly horrible expenses coming up, so put it off until the next reduction.
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Post by zx9 on Aug 25, 2024 9:36:42 GMT
Just a quick bump to say that this week's AP is all about smartphone photography. I was just going to say that the AP that came today was all about smartphone photography, so cover to cover didn't take anything as long as drinking my 11:00 coffee. Also, The Times had a lifestyle article I skimmed about the fashion comeback of the digital compact (nothing so grand as a Fuji X100 series). Sadly it seemed mostly concerned with the challenge of taking a "selfie" without an LCD facing the user. The only good thing about the smartphone camera was the end of me being regularly stopped and asked to take tourists' portraits for them so I hope the fad doesn't catch on.Oh I don't know, given the time and if in the right mood, I quite enjoyed an impromptu David Bailey session. |
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Post by dreampolice on Aug 25, 2024 10:05:56 GMT
Just a quick bump to say that this week's AP is all about smartphone photography. I was just going to say that the AP that came today was all about smartphone photography, so cover to cover didn't take anything as long as drinking my 11:00 coffee. Also, The Times had a lifestyle article I skimmed about the fashion comeback of the digital compact (nothing so grand as a Fuji X100 series). Sadly it seemed mostly concerned with the challenge of taking a "selfie" without an LCD facing the user. The only good thing about the smartphone camera was the end of me being regularly stopped and asked to take tourists' portraits for them so I hope the fad doesn't catch on. I still get stopped and asked when on my travels to take photos of people with their phones. Likewise I ask folk to sometimes do one for us, or as happens quite often someone sees you and offers to take your photo (only when I am out as a couple). I also offer to take photos if I see they maybe struggling getting a selfie. It doesn't bother me in the slightest and it is invariably always with a smartphone and not a camera as such. Last month in the US, so many people just walking by when seeing we were taking photos just stopped and asked if we wanted one taking, they took one, wished us a good day and off they went (luckily not legging it with a thousand pound phone in their hands, lol) |
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Post by don on Aug 28, 2024 18:03:38 GMT
I have just come from reading one of a few articles about camera phones in this week’s AP. Even the front page is given over to the humble picture taking device that’s in most people’s pockets of hand bags (purses for our American readers) do we get any rogue American readers? apple.news/IQuabpTaBQGylpFGLNDUBvwI doubt the link will actually work but I had to have a go The reason for writing this post is just to show that the best camera is the one that you have in your hand and most people on earth have a smartphone. It also gives instant access to the marvellous world 🌎 of social media and every photo platform has its social media presence. Phone’s are a marvellous tool for imaging and I wish I could take better advantage of them. If anyone still reads AP this week’s issue is well worth a read |
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Post by don on Aug 28, 2024 18:15:54 GMT
I guess there are AP issues that are totally uninteresting. Total focus on portraits for instance, a quick skim for any equipment reviews then into the recycling bin. Nope they are interesting all about smartphones and it’s uses in reporting and related issues. I am enjoying this 27th August issue and I’m reading it on my iPad which is another piece of smart technology that’s a big help with my traditional photography. Smart is the way forward “ work smarter not harder “ |
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Post by don on Aug 28, 2024 18:19:04 GMT
I guess there are AP issues that are totally uninteresting. Total focus on portraits for instance, a quick skim for any equipment reviews then into the recycling bin. My last AP will be dated 3 September, I wonder whether it will arrive before then. Judging by recent experience it’s probably unlikely. Our experience of the postal service is they now save all letters etc for about a week and then do a bulk delivery 🚚 |
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Post by dorsetmike on Aug 28, 2024 18:47:03 GMT
No mobile phone, let alone a smart one, basic BT landline; no soshul meeja - feacesbook, nor twatter, only 2 forums; no TV either, radio only an hour or so of Classic FM at bedtime. Fully paid up Luddite and happy with it.
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Post by zou on Aug 28, 2024 18:47:45 GMT
House!
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Post by MJB on Aug 28, 2024 18:48:51 GMT
No mobile phone, let alone a smart one, basic BT landline; no feacesbook, nor twatter, only 2 forums No TV either, radio only an hour or so of Classic FM at bedtime. Fully paid up Luddite and happy with it. Bingo! You say no Facebook, but where do you think the Star Trek memes you post in the joke thread come from? |
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Post by don on Aug 28, 2024 18:55:11 GMT
this bit is copy and pasted from this week’s issue of and I found the whole article very poignant and informative as to how phones have become an integral part of 21st century life, when Brendan O Sé talks about ‘Sense of community’ it almost brings tears to my eyes
Sense of community
Brendan O Sé is a photographer educator from Cork, Ireland, with
over 25 years of experience working in third-level education. He’s also a multi-award-winning mobile phone photographer – including first place Photographer of the Year in the 10th iPhone Photography Awards, first in the 2016 Street Photography category in the annual Mobile Photography Awards, and 2015 winner at the Mira Mobile Photography Prize. He was part of the original 2015 Apple World Gallery of images shot on iPhone 6.
O Sé pinpoints the moment the mobile enveloped his craft. ‘In 2012 I went on a family holiday to Asia and it coincided with my brother being seriously sick at home. The way that I was able to connect with him was each day, sending him photographs using the phone. I was shooting lots of photos and just loved the whole process, the ease of it, and then kind of fell in with the community on Flickr and other places where there were very active photographers embracing smartphone photography. It really got me on an accelerated path photographically.’
The meaning of imag
The meaning of images
O Sé embraced the jumps in innovation of the pre-iPhone 7
era and the aberrations, blur and abstracts he produced. ‘It doesn’t matter what the image-capture device, a good photograph is a good photograph. Photographs that people treasure can be tattered and torn and discoloured but they mean everything.’
The in-your-pocket accessibility catapulted O Sé from passive observer to active seeker. Over 15 weekends in 2018, he used his smartphone to capture what hurling means to Irish people through the relationships among fans that form around Ireland’s unique game
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Post by dorsetmike on Aug 28, 2024 20:17:40 GMT
No mobile phone, let alone a smart one, basic BT landline; no feacesbook, nor twatter, only 2 forums No TV either, radio only an hour or so of Classic FM at bedtime. Fully paid up Luddite and happy with it. Bingo! You say no Facebook, but where do you think the Star Trek memes you post in the joke thread come from? Another forum. |
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