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National Geographic Photographer Praises iPhone 5s Camera
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HAHA, Even more so, the phone hasn't even been out that long. Who shoots that many pictures in such a short amount of time?
This thread reminds me of what you see in YouTube comments. Find a performance by Vladimir Horowitz or Arthur Rubinstein, considered to be two of the greatest concert pianists of the twentieth century. Then look at the comments to find people posting things like "I can play this better" or "To fast at 1:34 in the video" or "His rubato is atrocious." Always makes me laugh hysterically.
If any professional makes a positive comment about an Apple product he/she is immediately accused of being on Apple's payroll. Always makes me laugh hysterically.
If any professional makes a positive comment about an Apple product he/she is immediately accused of being on Apple's payroll. Always makes me laugh hysterically.
HAHA, Even more so, the phone hasn't even been out that long. Who shoots that many pictures in such a short amount of time?
Photographers.
HAHA, Even more so, the phone hasn't even been out that long. Who shoots that many pictures in such a short amount of time?
I did 2,000 pictures on my 2 week trip through Europe with the iPhone 5. And I'm not even a photographer. I can say some were HDR double shots though.
No, because I always carry two. A cheap disposable and my iPhone. Now which one is better?
It is really quite amazing. These modern smartphones can be connected to a computer via the included cable and the photographs you have taken can actually be MOVED from the phone to a COMPUTER!! Holy Smokes!! I know, it is truly amazing! We indeed do live in a time when we are surrounded by magic in our everyday lives!
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Not at all
Just because someone is a Pro Photog, doesn't mean they can't post pics using Instagram or on Facebook or whatever. Do you thing Pro Chefs always consume haute cuisine? They eat peanut butter sandwiches too.
Just because someone is a Pro Photog, doesn't mean they can't post pics using Instagram or on Facebook or whatever. Do you thing Pro Chefs always consume haute cuisine? They eat peanut butter sandwiches too.
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That's different. The youtube comparisons that you mentioned are absolute whereas phone cameras praises should be taken in certain context. What photographers are saying - this camera is very good [for a phone camera]. The latter part is implied but it often gets lost on the readers. I am sure that after this guy finishes his current iPhone assignment he will switch back to using his DSLR gear for real work and he will never take another iPhone picture that will be published in NG (until the release of iPhone 6 when they will do this whole product placement stunt again).
Directly? Yes, it would be. But drumming up interest in his Instagram (I just added him, and I had no idea who he was 24 hours ago) can't hurt NG's business or any ad revenue as Instagram starts rolling out inline ad images. I doubt Apple just "lucked out" and had a top-notch professional photographer test out their new product and write a review about it... which then magically found its way to all of the major tech blogs.
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Just because someone is a Pro Photog, doesn't mean they can post pics using Instagram or on Facebook or whatever. Do you thing Pro Chefs always consume haute cuisine? They eat peanut butter sandwiches too.
But only with FANCY peanut butter. Only amateur hacks would use Jiff chunky.
My gosh there's so much misinformation in this thread my head hurts!
The pics are nice for a phone, but don't get too caught up in the marketing hype of the tech specs. 15% bigger is hardly anything and it's still a tiny sensor compared to many pocketable cameras so I find it funny they advertised an increase as little as 15%.
Don't get my wrong, I'm sure it makes a noticeable difference but it's still just a camera phone. Trying to pretend it's a serious photographic tool is just Apple hype and marketing at its best.
The pics are nice for a phone, but don't get too caught up in the marketing hype of the tech specs. 15% bigger is hardly anything and it's still a tiny sensor compared to many pocketable cameras so I find it funny they advertised an increase as little as 15%.
Don't get my wrong, I'm sure it makes a noticeable difference but it's still just a camera phone. Trying to pretend it's a serious photographic tool is just Apple hype and marketing at its best.
So True
You are absolutely correct!! And comments like the one about too much magenta indicate someone a little too enamored with post production processing. Sometimes things just look magenta, or yellow or dark or light or whatever. I have seen times where I live when, right after a storm, the sky and everything takes on an eery yellow color. If I took a photograph at that time and posted it, people would chime in about how it was "too Yellow" when in fact it may be a very accurate representation of what the eye saw that day. Modern digital photographic editing tools are wonderful but tend to be over-valued by many. Every photo does not need to be "optimized" to some fictitious ideal.
You are absolutely correct!! And comments like the one about too much magenta indicate someone a little too enamored with post production processing. Sometimes things just look magenta, or yellow or dark or light or whatever. I have seen times where I live when, right after a storm, the sky and everything takes on an eery yellow color. If I took a photograph at that time and posted it, people would chime in about how it was "too Yellow" when in fact it may be a very accurate representation of what the eye saw that day. Modern digital photographic editing tools are wonderful but tend to be over-valued by many. Every photo does not need to be "optimized" to some fictitious ideal.
Distance issue?
I have a 5 and the pictures continue to impress me. However the issue I have with it is that every photo seems like it is being taken much further away than it actually is. I have taken several pictures of the Manhattan skyline and it looks like it is in Jersey. I am one stop into Brooklyn! Has the iPhone 5S solved this issue?
I have a 5 and the pictures continue to impress me. However the issue I have with it is that every photo seems like it is being taken much further away than it actually is. I have taken several pictures of the Manhattan skyline and it looks like it is in Jersey. I am one stop into Brooklyn! Has the iPhone 5S solved this issue?
Ahhh. Steps on high horse, proclaims that others are spreading mis-information, and then offers a purely baseless opinion with no real purpose and full of contradictory statements. I love the internet.
I'm a Getty images contributor through Flickr, and keep a close watch on Getty's specific wants/requests. I can say that Getty Images is highly interested in pictures and video that comes from Mobile phones such as the iPhone, and it's even a question they specifically ask of every photo that they request to license. One of my images taken with an iPhone 5 was licensed through Getty, and has sold as well. So your statement of "trying to pretend it's a serious photographic tool is just Apple hype and marketing at its best" wins the internet for most ridiculous statement of the day. Believe it or not, the iPhone (and other phone cameras) ARE capable photographic tools, when in the hands of a talented photographer have the capability of producing excellent images that others willingly pay for.
I regularly used my iphone 4S camera while traveling because it was easier and more discrete than whipping out my Nikon D5100 (yes, I'm an amateur). When doing research in remote places (Guyana, Panama, Alps, Hokkaido) I try to bring and use both but weight limits and the ease of waterproofing the iphone often limit me to bringing just the phone. I now have a 5. A DSLR is great if you plan on blowing up and printing your photo but complete overkill for social media. These are tools, not all tools are perfect for all jobs. Glad to see NG's presence on IG. While we're talking about tools for the job I should mention that I even read NG on my iP5! Who want's to lug around heavy magazines?
Unless Apple incorporates all DSLR features in iPhone, It wont beat DSRL. It is threatening more to point N Shoot cameras.
Having said that I definately rely on my iPhone 5 when I m not carrying DSRL because I dont want to miss something interesting just because I am without my DSLR... I am more than happy to click wih iPhone than missing that shot completely.
This reminds me portait photography assignment done 7/8 years back with theme "Travel bags reflects personality" i.e. asking people to open travel bags and based on baggage you understand the person. One bag of tourist had following things
1) Point n shoot camera with recharganble batteries , Charger
2) Few CD's and CD player
3) Books
4) Local travel book and Map
5) Mobile and its charger
Now you need not carry so many things , your phone can be used in more than one way. I find it funny when people fight about megapixels ,OS , or Facebook , instagram but forget to understand how many technical advances we use today which are truly amazing or magical ...They just work ...
Having said that I definately rely on my iPhone 5 when I m not carrying DSRL because I dont want to miss something interesting just because I am without my DSLR... I am more than happy to click wih iPhone than missing that shot completely.
This reminds me portait photography assignment done 7/8 years back with theme "Travel bags reflects personality" i.e. asking people to open travel bags and based on baggage you understand the person. One bag of tourist had following things
1) Point n shoot camera with recharganble batteries , Charger
2) Few CD's and CD player
3) Books
4) Local travel book and Map
5) Mobile and its charger
Now you need not carry so many things , your phone can be used in more than one way. I find it funny when people fight about megapixels ,OS , or Facebook , instagram but forget to understand how many technical advances we use today which are truly amazing or magical ...They just work ...
Your "corrected" one looks too washed out. It has lost all of the sense of dark mystery and foreboding that is in the original. This is understandable since you are a real estate photographer. You want the pictures you take to be "pretty" and make the thing you are trying to sell look happy and appealing. That is fine. But sometimes people take pictures of small islands on a day when there are considerable dark clouds and the place has a certain mysterious look. If you adjust the exposure and other qualities such that all the mystery is gone you have sucked the life out of the photograph. You have reduced it to the over processed ideal which is all too prevalent today.
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And if a chef makes a turkey sandwich for lunch then he can't possibly be a real chef, right?
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What you are referring to is not just an iPhone problem, but something you have to watch with wide angle lenses in general. A zoomed out picture taken with a wide angle lens will make everything look small and unimpressive unless there is something interesting in the foreground. This will be the case with an iPhone or a $5000 DSLR, and is one of the technique blunders many photographers make. Unfortunately, your only real option is to crop the picture, which is where the MP count is beneficial. If I take a picture of the skyline you refer to with a 22MP DSLR I can crop away until I get the picture I want, but that won't look so hot with a picture taken using an iPhone.
Try finding something interesting to take a picture close up, with the Manhattan skyline as a background/backdrop. It may not be the exact picture you wanted initially, but you might find it's actually much more interesting.
Thanks for the correction. I tend to take a lot of pictures, but early iPhones (and most camera-phones at the time) took such terrible pictures that it was easy to forget they had a camera at all. I know I don't have any photos saved from my iPhone, and only a few from the 3G. If I wanted pictures, I would carry a P&S digital camera.
It's all the rage these days for Pro Photographers to 'slum it with the masses' and use iPhones. Generally I'm wary as a percentage of these stories are based around self promotion.
One thing it does prove it that people who want to get in to photography don't need DSLR's.
One thing it does prove it that people who want to get in to photography don't need DSLR's.