Sandra Gaspar / Photo: Mário Pires
Having left my Lumix in the closet, and relaying almost exclusively on the iPhone for all my photo needs, i wanted to put myself and the iPhone to the test. Thinking about possible challenges, i remembered that i never did a portrait session.
Portraits are a bit vague, how could i make a series that makes some sense and it’s within my reach ?
I also wanted to draw some attention to it, so it would need a element of defiance. I remembered some talks i had with fellow photographers about wonderful portraits of women smoking. Smoking has gained a rather negative aura in recent times, and because of it the defiance element would be smoke.
Having established portraits of people smoking as the main theme, i needed to narrow it down a bit in order to establish some logistics that i could master for some time.
- Where to find people to photograph ?
- How to ask them ?
- Which gender and age ?
Those questions will be answered in the next post
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The Ghost of elections past.. (Hipstamatic; iPhone4)
Hipstamatic is a popular photo application for the iPhone, even photojournalist are using it, so i bought it to see what all the fuss was about.
After a very short time i found that this application doesn’t really suits my shooting habits. I take pictures with the iPhone just like any other camera i use, saving the “original” unprossessed picture first. I only run it trough the photo apps if i find it can give the photo a different meaning.
Hipstamatic just saves the processed photo, preventing me from trying other approaches without it’s mark.
But i can see why photojournalists like it though. The UI is build to make us think we are using a classic rangefinder 35mm camera, and if we stick with a lens/film effects combination in the app, we know how the result will be (just like real lens/film/developer in the analog world).
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