What is Mobile Photography?
Mobile photography is images taken with a mobile device such as a phone, iPod or tablet computer such as iPads. The invention of more sophisticated camera lenses for mobile devices, plus the amazing variety of inexpensive applications available have created a rich and diverse culture.
Advantages of mobile photography:
My first go at personal photography, using the iPad and an app called 'cross process'
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Anton Kawasaki - mobile photographer
Anton Kawasaki is a mobile photographer from a range of mobile photographers I've choose to follow his form of imagiry and techniques.
My Task
My task is as follows:
- Beginning with the work of Anton Kawasaki, I will research mobile photography - tools, apps, photographers etc.
- I will experiment with the school’s iPod Touch devices (and my own equipment). I will refine my work and ideas. I will develop a theme for your project e.g. patterns, shadows, texture, movement etc. that helps to connect my images.
- I will document my research, ideas, experiments and observations on this website.
- I will present at least 10 images that I consider to be successful. I will evaluate my final images, describing how they relate to my research and experiments.
My Slideshow
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As I transported myself around London mainly south-eastern parts of Blackheath, Kidbrooke, Lee, Lewisham and Catford I took images using my mobile device of places, objects etc. that had caught my eye and took a quick snap of them. This was my first homework on mobile photography |
Exhibition & Response
On Wednesday 28 November I visited Somerset House on a school trip to see two exhibitions - Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour and Tim Walker: Story Teller. I enjoyed both of the exhibitions. Tim Walker is a fashion photographer and Henri Cartier-Bresson is a famous street photographer. I was really influenced by the images in the Cartier-Bresson show because they were colour street photographs. I used an iPodTouch to experiment with my own street photography.
My Favourite Image
This is one of my favourite images taken in the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. It was taken at a very strange angle as I was walking down the stairs. In the image there are loads of different things going on and I think you can tell that by looking at the image.
I think this image is really cool as you can see the man directly in the image read a book and a mother with a child in the pram as well as a man resting his head at the same time. The quality of light on this image is really good as you can see the strike of light coming in from the higher left hand corner and hits one of the people in the image. The Cross Process app I was using has enhanced this effect.
My least favourite image
This image is not one of my favourites as there is not really anything to focus on. There are too many things going on but then again this image was taken when I was sitting on a moving train.
- Its not focused
- doesn't follow the rule of thirds
Patterns
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I took these images using an app called Hueless app to create black and white images as I thought my images would be more positive as the weather outside wasn't the best. As I walked around my school I realised that there are a lot of lines and repetition of things so I took images of mainly lines and I think this was very creative and amazing. |
-I don't think this image worked very well as it looks on a slant and not straight, the left hand side looks bigger than the right hand side but I'd say that's because I was closer to the left hand side. Maybe next time I'd have to centre myself more in the middle then the image would look symmetrical. I do like the way how the window fame cuts right along the middle, it works very well as the top half of the image you can see the outside of you school, the houses, post laps, and trees, whereas with the lower half of the image you can see everything that belongs to the school Thomas Tallis.
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+I'd say this image worked fairly well as I was standing along my school corridoors. I like this as the corridor looks like it's forever going on and the door far down looks like it is open, I also like the look of the two parallel lines slightly look like they are going to meet each other if they were to continues.
whilst I took this image I think I leaned/stood too close to the left maybe if I centred myself in the middle I'd get better symmetrical image. |