I thoroughly agree that a camera in the hand is worth two in the… well, not in the bush. On the other hand I'm not totally won over by iPhone photography. I don't feel I have the same level of control and half the time I can't see the screen well enough. But your images here speak for themselves.
I resonate too with your comment, 'In this instance, the best camera was the eye and memory.'
The case that always sticks with me was over 20 years ago on the island of Canna, somewhere above cliffs on the North coast with a terrific vista of Skye and Rum. So naturally I had a wide-angle lens on and the camera firmly fixed to the tripod when… not one but TWO sea eagles floated up on an updraft about fifteen metres away. With a 20mm lens they would have been little more than specks and I didn't think I had time to get camera off tripod and change to a long lens. I decided not to even try, just to fix the moment in memory, and just as well as two seconds later, with barely a flick of their wings, they seemed to be half way to Skye.
Hello Josephine, thanks for the heads-up about the iphone camera. Aside from that, this piece is a very interesting read, more so because of the mother-daughter combination. Also, from someone who knows nothing about Iceland, it's very informative. Gordon
Fantastic images, Josephine! Have you experimented with shooting in raw and processing the photos yourself, as you would raw files from your camera? I’ve found that this can really elevate iPhone images and help to avoid the overbaked ‘smartphone photo look’ that can creep in from time to time.
Personally I’ve relied on an iPhone as a sidekick camera for years, and it’s certainly capable of producing printable results if used with intention, but for me the loss of control is a major downside. Currently using a 15 Pro. I can’t compose effectively without a viewfinder and I find that my eye gets lazy when I shoot with a phone. It feels like a very clumsy and unrefined photographic tool without much soul. All very personal, though!
Dull cloudy day in the Borders I got much better results shooting in raw and processing in the computer than anything I could achieve with in-phone processing on the (fairly high-end) Android phone. But most of the time, the phone is just as good or better, and a lot quicker. NB this is Ronald, ie not a professional serious photographer like Jon!
I thoroughly agree that a camera in the hand is worth two in the… well, not in the bush. On the other hand I'm not totally won over by iPhone photography. I don't feel I have the same level of control and half the time I can't see the screen well enough. But your images here speak for themselves.
I resonate too with your comment, 'In this instance, the best camera was the eye and memory.'
The case that always sticks with me was over 20 years ago on the island of Canna, somewhere above cliffs on the North coast with a terrific vista of Skye and Rum. So naturally I had a wide-angle lens on and the camera firmly fixed to the tripod when… not one but TWO sea eagles floated up on an updraft about fifteen metres away. With a 20mm lens they would have been little more than specks and I didn't think I had time to get camera off tripod and change to a long lens. I decided not to even try, just to fix the moment in memory, and just as well as two seconds later, with barely a flick of their wings, they seemed to be half way to Skye.
Hello Josephine, thanks for the heads-up about the iphone camera. Aside from that, this piece is a very interesting read, more so because of the mother-daughter combination. Also, from someone who knows nothing about Iceland, it's very informative. Gordon
Fantastic images, Josephine! Have you experimented with shooting in raw and processing the photos yourself, as you would raw files from your camera? I’ve found that this can really elevate iPhone images and help to avoid the overbaked ‘smartphone photo look’ that can creep in from time to time.
Personally I’ve relied on an iPhone as a sidekick camera for years, and it’s certainly capable of producing printable results if used with intention, but for me the loss of control is a major downside. Currently using a 15 Pro. I can’t compose effectively without a viewfinder and I find that my eye gets lazy when I shoot with a phone. It feels like a very clumsy and unrefined photographic tool without much soul. All very personal, though!
Can Android phones shoot in raw format as well? Mine's a Pixel (Google) one.
Having seen what can be done with an iPhone camera, I’m not sure I’ll bother to replace my ‘good’ camera when it dies!
Dull cloudy day in the Borders I got much better results shooting in raw and processing in the computer than anything I could achieve with in-phone processing on the (fairly high-end) Android phone. But most of the time, the phone is just as good or better, and a lot quicker. NB this is Ronald, ie not a professional serious photographer like Jon!