I’m coming very late to the phone photography party. Always been sniffy about it and never enjoyed the experience of using the phone to take photographs as much as using a camera. However, when I finally bought a mobile with a half decent camera and some ability to manually control what it does, I’ve realised I need to rethink.
So here are some early attempts from my everyday carry. No more compact camera – there doesn’t seem to be an awful lot of point – although the phone photos still look pretty messy at higher ISOs as soon as you view them at larger sizes (which you very rarely actually need to do).
I’ve rather surprised myself by finding phone-snapping rather liberating. Even fun. I wouldn’t want to rely on it for anything critical or important, but I think in a funny sort of way, the phone is likely to get encourage me to do more photography than my camera.
Some images above from a recent visit to the spectacular Coventry Cathedral. Click to see them larger
So there we have it – the mobile phone – aka the air-fryer of modern photography; it’s never going to give gourmet results, but it will produce something semi-decent quite a lot of the time.
Cheers,
Jon
The Photographer's Block 