{"id":371,"date":"2015-04-29T23:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:56:53","slug":"shot-on-iphone-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/shot-on-iphone-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Shot on iPhone 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> is currently running an advertising campaign with the theme “Shot on iPhone 6<\/a>.” I suppose the message Apple is trying to promote is that the iPhone 6 is a capable camera. (The same aim is probably true for previous iPhone models.) Taking a look through the gallery linked above, and acknowledging that the contents of the gallery might\u00a0change over time, a couple of points stand out to me from the pictures currently on display:<\/p>\n

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  1. Few<\/em> of the photographs appear to have been shot in low light<\/em>. The only low light pictures I see are landscapes, which place relatively light\u00a0demands on the equipment. (Set your camera up on a tripod.\u00a0If you are hand-holding your camera, brace yourself against a wall or other solid object to help stabilise the camera.)<\/li>\n
  2. None<\/em> of the photographs are of action in low light<\/em>. There are no indoor sports pictures at all. I’m not saying that we\u00a0couldn’t shoot some decent indoor sports photographs with an iPhone, but any mobile telephone would not be my first choice for this type of shooting! The\u00a0sensor (and hence, potential image quality), degree of control, and frame rate would be far superior with a DSLR.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For all of the pictures currently on display in Apple’s iPhone 6 gallery, the camera is probably the least<\/em> important factor\u2014the same photographs could have been shot with even less capable\u00a0cameras than an iPhone. Instead, the individual photographer’s artistic vision and skill are the most important factors in making the pictures as distinctive or beautiful as they are.<\/p>\n

    This is consistent with what many other photographers have said before, and it ties in with\u00a0some articles I read recently on The Online Photographer<\/em> (edited by Mike Johnston). First, there’s\u00a0Should You Ever Work for Free?<\/a><\/em> (posing the age old question that all serious photographers have probably faced), and following on from that is\u00a0The Hawkins Axiom<\/a><\/em>. These posts, and the associated comments, raise\u00a0some of the issues\u00a0photographers face when being asked to work for no financial compensation.<\/p>\n

    I think the general\u00a0undervaluing of photographers’ skills comes down, in part, to not appreciating how much work is actually involved in creating\u00a0an excellent photograph. Aiming the camera\u00a0and pressing the shutter release button are\u00a0just the tip of the iceberg. Another recent article, The Unspoken Reason Why Wedding Photography is So Expensive<\/em><\/a> (Pavel Kounine, 3 February 2015), sets out some of the considerations\u00a0involved from a professional wedding photographer’s point of view.<\/p>\n

    Reflecting on my own (amateur) experience to date, I have shot a few weddings for family and friends\u00a0(at no cost to them), both as principal photographer and as a supplementary photographer. As far as most observers would have been concerned, I probably spent just a few hours shooting at the wedding and the reception. In reality, many more hours went into sorting and post-processing the source images to create the polished final set of images.<\/p>\n

    The most demanding event involved shooting the wedding and the reception\u2014around three hours’ work\u2014followed by a full 32 hours of intensive post-processing over two days (i.e., 16 hours of work per day for two days). The aim was to get a good selection of images\u00a0ready as quickly\u00a0as possible after the wedding\u2014so that they could be shared in person with the newlywed couple’s extended family, who had flown in for the wedding and were\u00a0returning overseas. In this case, the amount of time spent\u00a0shooting was less than a tenth of the time taken for the project as a whole.\u00a0A wedding photographer’s job is not an easy one!<\/p>\n

    At this point, I’ll make a recommendation if you’re in Perth and looking for a wedding photographer par excellence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    \"Erica<\/a>
    Erica Serena Photographer logo \u00a9 Erica Serena 2015. Used with permission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    I selected\u00a0Erica Serena<\/a>\u00a0from a range of first-class\u00a0professional photographers whose work I surveyed some\u00a0years ago, I’ve entrusted her with the most important photographic work in my life since that time, and I personally refer my family and friends to her without hesitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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