Mobile Phone Photography

Street Art

We are living in an era where the majority of the populous now has access to capturing images via mobile telephone. These images can be captured, edited within the telephone itself and uploaded to sites such as Flickr, or personal Blogs in an instance.

Many people have asked me why I capture images on my phone as opposed to using my ‘real’ camera. It is another tool in the hands of a photographer as far as I am concerned, no different to taking images with a pin-hole or with a media format camera.

I tend to use mine quite often for documenting ideas for future photo shoots that I see in magazines/papers and scouting locations, etc. They are extremely versatile and should never be discounted as being a toy.

My tips on using these devices would be to kill the flash, this is one of the worst ways that you could trash a potentially good image. Try and ensure that you make use of available light and use exposure compensation if your device permits its use. Do not be afraid to post process the final image on your computer, you will be surprised with the results that you can achieved with the odd tweak.

The image displayed in this post was captured on the Nokia N95 mobile phone, the location was a pedestrian walk way in St.Albans.

Further links to examples of my mobile phone photography can be viewed by clicking the option at the top right hand side of this page.

Happy Snapping!

~ by lutonian on December 14, 2008.