Monday, March 11, 2013

Some of my own iPhone work

Here are some of my best iPhone photos so far:





Friday, March 1, 2013

Independent Research: iPhone Photography

Recently I have been experimenting taking photos with my iPhone. Over the years the quality of phone cameras has greatly increased. Currently the iPhone has one of the best cameras and can produce some really great images. There are also a number of apps that can assist in creating these images like "Camera+" and "Snapseed". Here are some iPhone images that inspired me.

Jimmy Mazur (Winning image of the 5th Annual iPhone Photography Awards)


  Greg Schmigel (Pioneer in mobile photography who uses iPhone as main camera) 

For more examples check out www.iPhoneography.com which is the biggest iphone photography blog right now.



Monday, February 25, 2013

Book making inspiration

Here's some inspiration for the book I will be making based on the poem, "Morning" by Billy Collins, which is below:

Morning

BY BILLY COLLINS
Why do we bother with the rest of the day,
the swale of the afternoon,
the sudden dip into evening,


then night with his notorious perfumes,
his many-pointed stars?


This is the best—
throwing off the light covers,
feet on the cold floor,
and buzzing around the house on espresso—


maybe a splash of water on the face,
a palmful of vitamins—
but mostly buzzing around the house on espresso,


dictionary and atlas open on the rug,
the typewriter waiting for the key of the head,
a cello on the radio,


and, if necessary, the windows—
trees fifty, a hundred years old
out there,
heavy clouds on the way
and the lawn steaming like a horse
in the early morning.



Sunday, February 24, 2013

Relating words and image

Here is some inspiration I found for both of the assignments for this quarter where we are asked to relate words and images.

Stefan Stagmiester:



Barbara Kruger:







Monday, January 7, 2013

Some of my attempts at camera tossing

First I tried camera tossing with my phone. I used a simple self timer app and tried to make it go off right at the peak of the throw.



I also tried some camera tossing indoors, using a few simple patterns I found on a camera tossing blog. 

Here are the patterns I used to create this images: