Mobile Photography
Mobile Photography is as it sounds. It is the art of capturing photographs on a mobile phone or tablet, etc. When editing these photos, it is usually also done on and application on your mobile device. There is a current uprising in the popularity of mobile photography, as almost everyone now-a-days have a mobile phone or tablet, and you don't need to be a professional to be able to capture the perfect photograph, you just need to have an open mind. Many current photographers use their mobiles as their tool for success.
Robert-Paul Jansen
Janson originally began taking photographs to combat stress and to get away from the real world. But when his photographs began getting recognition, his hobby turned into his profession. His aim was to make people appreciate the little things we miss every day, usually nature. He began using his IPhone to take photographs in 2010 and is currently still taking breathtaking pictures for the world to see. Some even being honored in galleries in York, London, Orlando(Florida), Rotterdam and Italy.
Examples of Jansen's work:
Analysis
Out of all of Jansen's work, this particular photograph stands out to me most because of the amount of life and detail he managed to combine into one photograph. It makes you feel as if you are really there. You can see every little bit of mist in the air and frost on the plants that keeps your attention to the picture. Although it's hard to see as it was so brilliantly done, Jansen has set his focus point on the horse itself and not the nature, blurring out the rest of the picture without actually blurring it out. It's brilliant.
Boogie - Vladimir Milivojevich
Often when people think of stunning street photography, they think of Boogie. The Serbian has been publishing books of his work since 2006 and constantly posts images from Cuba to Thailand on his website. Whether pointing out amazing details in architecture, people, or sometimes roadkill, Boogie has claimed his spot as a street photography icon and has inspired many more photographers to see the world as he does.
Analysis
Vladimir Milivojevich (a.k.a Boogie) has a wide range of photographs to show off to the world, however in my opinion, none of his other photographs have as much meaning or creativity as the photographs he takes out in the streets. 'Boogie' has taken photographs in the streets all over the world. In places such as New York, Tokyo, Brazil, and many more. They stand out from his other pieces of work because of the volume of life and emotion he catches in every photo. He also uses black and white effects in a lot of his work which adds more meaning to his photographs, but takes away some of the life and magic in his work, such as all of the lights and colours, etc.
Oliver Lang
Oliver Lang is one of the founding members of the Mobile Photo Group. Oliver shoots street photography in the sun-drenched streets of Sydney with his iPhone, using the Pro Camera application to capture his phenomenal and breathtaking images.
Analysis
Oliver Lang has taken a lot of beautiful photographs via his IPhone in the streets (mainly Sydney), and has made a name for himself with his magical use of light, colour and angles in his work. His work stands out to me because there is always a lot of detail and life hidden within each piece. This specific photograph is extraordinarily creative as there is no real clue to what is happening but there are a lot of possibilities of scenes that could be taking place. This kind of scenario is used with a variety of his work that makes it a lot more interesting to study or just admire.
Retrica.
When using Retrica you are provided with dozens of gorgeous effects to put on your photographs that bring even the most simplest photographs to life. However it does not allow you to manually edit your photographs using tools such as brightness,sharpness, etc. Overall I found Retrica to be a very handy app to use whilst taking photographs and I will be using it in a lot of my projects in the future.
Aviary
Aviary takes a completely different approach to Retrica and allows you to take pictures and edit them manually. You can either take a picture whilst on the app or you can select a photo from your camera roll. Then you can edit every single pixel of the photograph. It offers editing such as lighting (contrast, highlights, shadows), colour (saturation, warmth, fade, tint) and much more. However it does actually have pre-set effects that you can use to make the process a lot faster, but i find that the photo turns out a lot better when you do it yourself, so you can make it exactly as you imagined it.
Adobe Lightroom
For mobile photographers, Adobe Lightroom is pretty much the gold standard. It lets you easily import, select, organize, correct, and share large numbers of photos taken via mobile or tablet. The app doesn't include anywhere near the desktop program's functions, but it will let you do some basic photo organization and editing whenever and wherever you please. However in order to take advantage of Adobe's full potential you will need a paid subscription to adobe, but you still get a satisfying experience from editing using the free version from the app store. I personally enjoyed using the technicalities of the app, from where you can dig deep into your photographs and really edit it to it's fullest potential.
Manchester Cathedral
This shoot was taken using an IPad Mini in the Manchester Cathedral. There was a wide range of old fashioned architecture and statues inside the church that made taking pictures inside the cathedral very easy. I focused mainly on the candles and flames as the lighting add more depth and definition to the colour and therefore was quite easy to taking good photographs.
Manchester Life
Before taking these photographs, we were given the assignment to take photographs that would sell Manchester to the outsiders. I chose to focus mostly on the people of Manchester, as our city consists of countless citizens of whom are from different cultures, religions and backgrounds, something of which as a city we are proud of. This shoot was taken on an IPad Mini using the regular IOS camera. I like the picture of the crowd by the tram, as even though there is a lot to look at your eyes are still drawn directly to the tram as the bright colour stands out.
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A Splash Of Colour
For this task we were asked to take pictures in area with the allocated colour we were given. As you can see in the photographs the colour I was asked to focus on was yellow. It became very clear very fast that this wasn't going to be a very easy task, as this colour didn't seem to be very popular in this area. However I kept my eyes sharp, camera at the ready and left with some fairly colourful, unique photographs. Some of which required me to get on my hands and knees in a crowd of people whilst it was raining hard.
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Manchester Lowery
This Photo shoot was taken at The Lowery in Greater Manchester at dark. At this time of day there are lots of colourful lights and L.E.D's shinning which made for the perfect photo shoot at night. I used Retrica to take this photographs (on an IPad Mini) because it offers a wide range of different effects and lighting's to use in my shoot. When using the different effects i found it added a different meaning behind each photo, for example the black and white/darker effects added a sense of sorrow and depression, however the brighter effects such as yellow or orange made the lights appear brighter and made the picture look happier and festive like.
Also, as you can see in the spider photos, there was a blue L.E.D light shinning onto a spiders web and the spider itself, making all of its details on it's body stand out, and also making it's legs shine blue. I like this photo as it seems quite extraordinary and fascinating. This shoot was taken using an IPhone 5S on the application 'Retrica'. |
Architecture
For this project I was asked to take photographs of the buildings and architecture in the allocated area. I was lucky enough to have a huge old fashioned building right across the street from a modern day building. This was handy because I could make comparisons between the two. I used a 'worms eye view' angle to take pictures of the street and road which showed the light reflecting off the wet floor, making the pictures look more shiny and bright. Also I used a puddle on a wall to take pictures of the buildings by their reflections which made for a very confusing yet eye catching photo.
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Christmas In Manchester
For this project I was asked to photograph how Manchester celebrates Christmas. There were a lot of opportunities to take good photographs as we were surrounded by festive lights, snacks, stalls and decorations. I met the man behind the entire set up and told him of my task, he offered to have his photograph taken with my partner. The people who owned the stalls were hesitant at first but when politely asked, allowed us to take photographs of their stalls. I used a range of different angles and focus points to capture the magic that is the Christmas markets in Manchester.