Saturday, November 19, 2011

Photos and story

Since going back to work full time photos and playing with fun papers has taken a back seat. I miss it. Nik put on a creative weekend recently and after procrastinating for about twelve hours i finally got creative (had to go shopping) and when Andrea arrived with her enticing Scrapbook Outlet goodies I was off!

 With snapfish recently offering unlimited prints for eleven cents, i took advantage of the offer and got some done. It's been a while. Often the excuse of not having the chance to edit the photos means i dont get them printed. This got me thinking about photos and why i take them. I love seeing amazing photos, I love creating amazing photos (rew and far between...). But really, it's about capturing the memory, the moment in time so does it matter if there isn't perfect composition, saturation or contrast?

 Then there's the camera thing, the good ones are really big and the lenses equally impressive. How can we capture the moment if we need to be lugging that thing around with us...maybe they are better saved for weddings, portraits, and kind of 'set-up' scenes? The good old compact cameras do a nice job for most things...but theres also the phone cameras. Wish i had some photos i had taken on my samsung to share, might have to dive into the old computer and see what i can find, but they can do ok prints. I have just had a wee wander around the internet and there have been many iPhone photorgrahy sites, blogs and flicker groups set up. Has anyone used these photos for telling their stories? What do they print like? I'm thinking that this could be a way easier way to do the photo a day thing or even to scrap a week in the life of...


3 comments:

Mrs Frizz said...

Well I'm no good to you. I've still got my old flip top pink-a-licious phone - due to be replaced next year when I have to and not before, hopefully. Absolutely hopeless with it taking photos. I know whatever phone it is that Meg uses, takes awesome photos and they print with something going on around the edges and I've printed and scrapped them myself and totally loved the look.

Janine said...

I started using my phone as I found sometimes I had forgotten to take my little camera or couldn't be bothered to take the big Canon. I find taking photos on my iPhone less instrusive and depending on the app you use (and there are so many) will depend on what result you get. My fav app at present is Hipstamtaic. I have had them printed at Snapfish and they were not too bad. With the hipstmatic I have a destessed type finish to my photo which I love but others may not. I found it a good way to capture a moment when I did'nt have a camera on me.

Jenny said...

Nice to see you back again! I have used my iPhone for some photos and have printed them out and they're fine. I recently invested in an Olympus XZ-1 and that it the closest a compact can get to a big camera. It's easy to carry around too