Ok, so this is probably going to start some sort of outrage here...But i'm just curious to other peoples thoughts on iphoneography and the such.
Personally I think if the photo holds the emotion and tone the photographer is after then its great
That said...the iphone photos thread looks like somewhere to simply post photos and not discuss what I had originally posted
So i could gauge if there was such snobbery lurking around here, but to be honest its nice to see there is no real snobbery at all!
) Anyhow; she tried justifying this pocket wizard to me because of all the essential life style 'stuff' it does; Its a phone, its a camera; its a GPS, its the internet; its, its.... it tells her how many calories she has used walking to the shop for a top up! It told her there was a shop round the corner that had a cash-point she could use.... So I drove her exactly where it told us. No shop. No Cash point. Two hundred yards away, round the corner, on a completely different street... was 'the shop', and it did have a cash-point.... that didn't take her card. Yup; Wonderful technology! So essential to modern living. Could hapily not find a shop or cash-point quite happily on my own, without a phone's assistance, thank-you very much!
O/H is a fone-freak. Personally I don't get it. Mine makes phone calls. Occassionally. Texts only a little more often. That's it. My son insisted I had games on it last week! It does too! He found them! Only had it three years.
O/H? Has an iPhone. Apparently all these features and capabilities and Aps... APS FFS?!?! (Some-one posted vaunting a 'posing' AP?! Oh How did we live without them?!
BUT.... its an electronic swiss-army pen-knife. Jack-of-all-trades, master of none.
Cameras on them are no different. Like the blades on a swiss army knife; you COULD use one to chop onions and open a can of tomatoes to make a bolognese sauce.... BUT.... you'd probably do a better job with Chefs knife and a butterfly tin-opener, and be a lot less like likely to cut yourself.
But what does amaze me, is how we have been conned that these things are so 'necessary', so essential, how we cant live without them!
Yeah... I can understand my 14 year old daughter, suffering severe anxiety when her Blackberry was nicked... like suddenly cut off from all her school mates, and the instant gossip updates.... that's kids!
But, here, on the fringes of Jeramy Kyle Culture; it effects propper grown ups! (well, that might be stretching things... lets try 'adults'!) We have families round here, who spend more a week on mobile-phone top ups, than they do on RENT FFS! To whom, having the latest, most gadget packed pocket wonder, so they can get instant updates on thier mates Face-book status, telling them some-one has just exhausted last nights curry.... and posted pictures of the result..... or that a five month old has just eaten an ash-tray... or that some-one has just been to the supermarket and that bacon is great..... is actually more important than... well, take your pick; having food in the fridge; paying the gas bill; buying their kid new school shoes; whatever!
Sorry... I don't think that 'smart' phones are either particularly 'smart' nor a make a particularly great contribution to modern living! Makes every-one look like 'Scream' extras too. I mean, hoodie over the face and a screen illuminating the face from beneath! Round here, its like I have stepped into a Simon Pegg Zombie movie!
Eloquently put Mike and with a decent dollop of humour for good measure. Perfect forum fodder.
+1
Absolutely spot on.
O/H is a fone-freak. Personally I don't get it. Mine makes phone calls. Occassionally. Texts only a little more often. That's it. My son insisted I had games on it last week! It does too! He found them! Only had it three years.
O/H? Has an iPhone. Apparently all these features and capabilities and Aps... APS FFS?!?! (Some-one posted vaunting a 'posing' AP?! Oh How did we live without them?!
BUT.... its an electronic swiss-army pen-knife. Jack-of-all-trades, master of none.
Cameras on them are no different. Like the blades on a swiss army knife; you COULD use one to chop onions and open a can of tomatoes to make a bolognese sauce.... BUT.... you'd probably do a better job with Chefs knife and a butterfly tin-opener, and be a lot less like likely to cut yourself.
But what does amaze me, is how we have been conned that these things are so 'necessary', so essential, how we cant live without them!
Yeah... I can understand my 14 year old daughter, suffering severe anxiety when her Blackberry was nicked... like suddenly cut off from all her school mates, and the instant gossip updates.... that's kids!
But, here, on the fringes of Jeramy Kyle Culture; it effects propper grown ups! (well, that might be stretching things... lets try 'adults'!) We have families round here, who spend more a week on mobile-phone top ups, than they do on RENT FFS! To whom, having the latest, most gadget packed pocket wonder, so they can get instant updates on thier mates Face-book status, telling them some-one has just exhausted last nights curry.... and posted pictures of the result..... or that a five month old has just eaten an ash-tray... or that some-one has just been to the supermarket and that bacon is great..... is actually more important than... well, take your pick; having food in the fridge; paying the gas bill; buying their kid new school shoes; whatever!
Sorry... I don't think that 'smart' phones are either particularly 'smart' nor a make a particularly great contribution to modern living! Makes every-one look like 'Scream' extras too. I mean, hoodie over the face and a screen illuminating the face from beneath! Round here, its like I have stepped into a Simon Pegg Zombie movie!
) and that can be done without being antagonistic and condescending.
