Cell Phone Photography
February 4, 2007
I've always associated cell phone pictures with impossibly high expectations for quality, and by way of that, total obnoxiousness on the part of the user - not intended, but the accidental result of new technology desperately in need of some corresponding digital etiquette.
Then my good friend Sam Erickson wrote me the other day:
"Hey John: Since you are such a devotee of high end digital photography I decided to share with you a decidedly low tech form of digital photography that I have been working with over the last couple of years. That is cell phone photography. Most of these photos were taken while driving though a few are from taxi or train windows and one or two taken on foot. I love the casual off-handed feel of these pictures when compared with some of the more technically laborious kinds of photography I am obligated to master in my profession. These pictures were emailed to myself and then run through I-photo."
I think this is an interesting new direction - seeing what kind of emotional resonance you can get out of a lens the size of a tick - and it takes a great photographer to do that... Which Sam happens to be. You and I on the other hand are still taking pictures of our bowl-winders and stuff on our cat.
February 4, 2007 , 3:34 AM
