So, I became a pixel snob. The more the better. I was a pixel believer and planned that when I died with the most pixels I won. hooray.
Then, I began looking at pictures made by other photographers with "ordinary" cameras (you know the ones that cost less than $40,000!) and thought that some of them (maybe) looked ok (maybe). Some were even made by amateurs. You know, those people who just take pictures because they love photography.
Ok, let me take my tongue out of my cheek. The truth is many of those pictures were fantastic expressions of imaginations unfettered by the cost and delay of shooting film. But would they print to 1 metre square? Well, the answer was no.
More importantly though, it didn't matter. Sadly, for us with pixel fixations, we were missing out on so many opportunities to just take a picture because we weren't using every device available to us.
Then, a blog I subscribe to, raved on about all the iphone pictures he was taking every day. I have an iphone and it has a crap camera. Really crap. It's a brilliant phone and communication device but an absolutely hopeless camera. Still, this guy is a respected pro and his work is ok (actually it's much better than ok!).
I have a link to his blog later because I know you won't come back if you go there now.
The other evening I was on a ferry heading to the city for the opening of the Canon World Press Photo exhibition. It had been one of those beautiful Autumn days. Sunny, blue, blue aussie sky and not cold. That evening, as the ferry left the wharf on its way to the city, a full moon rose above a few bulging clouds on the eastern horizon.
By the time we passed the Opera House the sky was a deep blue/black and its sails were white with light. All I had was the iphone with its crap camera. Then I remembered that blog from Chase Jarvis.
Ok, you can go look his stuff now :-)
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2009/04/updated-iphone-portfolio.html
Cheers
foley
