Instagram Photos

Be sure to check out my instagram photos taken with an iPhone I "rented" from verizon. The set can be found on flickr

I personally really enjoyed shooting with the iPhone and instagram app, it's been my favorite thing to take pictures with so far because it's fast, easy to use, and it shares directly with flickr and facebook at the touch of the screen. It also took better images than the droid and droid apps I used and the app itself was just streamlined for taking a lot of pictures. I wish I could keep the iphone but alas I must return it this week.

Instagram 1

Photo by Matt Embrey
Taken with the Instagram App for the iPhone

Capstone Blog 2

So I was searching around on the internet and I was reading my favorite photo blog and came across a separate blog made by the same people. We love Phoneography is a blog that gathers all of the best images and techniques on using photography applications from your smartphone. This is why the this specific topic is so interesting to me, I've spent hours, and hours of my life in a darkroom trying to get a single image to work, trying my hardest to remove dust, burn the sky to the right exposure, and here I find this blog that has beautiful, I mean absolutely gorgeous images taken with a cell phone. These pictures could totally be put into a gallery in NYC and no one would have any idea that a cell phone was the medium. It just blows my mind.

There are so many apps out now for both the Iphone and Android smartphones that try to emulate old school styles of photography. Then there are now different lenses for iphone cameras which is something I would also like to explore.

Capstone Blog 1

Well for my capstone project I hope to somehow compare the difference between Phoneography and Analog Photography. Phoneography is basically what it sounds like, using your phone to take pictures instead of a normal digital camera. I find it fascinating that we have the power to emulate photographs and their analog processes from the entire history of photography on this small useful device almost everyone carries around with them. I want to compare applications like "Instagram" for Iphone, and 'Fx Camera" for android, with the real thing if possible.

My learning objectives are to come away with a greater understanding of older means of photography, the ways technology is transforming art, and to make art through several different forms of production.

I personally have a terrible time with meeting deadlines and objectives and I want to get better at that. I'm not sure why I procrastinate on everything. It's my worst fault as a person and I know that this year it has to stop because after college, If I continue to fail on turning things in on time i won't be able to keep a job.