Back with some more. I just got off some travel heavy music tour work, and cannot say enough how the X with Focos is my favorite travel camera. When I'm lugging around big video camera rigs, dealing with extreme weather, etc and my hands are full, I can still get stills that I'm genuinely excited about out of my phone.
Without the intense level of computational photography it falls a little flat - I couldn't have the same fun and confidence with a flagship Android device regardless of if the Pixel 2 has an edge on sharpness or whatever - that's not what it's about. The depth implementation over there is simply half arsed by comparison to how it's handled on iOS.
I've definitely got a specific look here - the film grain and analog / expired film style, but I basically mimic what I shoot when I'm using a proper camera. I'm either shooting high ISO film or a variety roll of expired stuff, or vintage lenses on digital bodies. The phone shots are an extension of that style, and are just as fun to shoot as any of my actual cameras.
The buses in Tampa:
Miami, FL:
Washington, DC - Top of the bus mounting a camera for timelapse:
Philadelphia, PA:
Philadelphia, PA - Looking through a disposable camera viewfinder:
Katz's Delicatessen, NYC:
Barclays Center, Brooklyn NY:
Somewhere in NYC:
Somewhere in NYC:
One of the whip:
Working in Park City, Utah:
The snow whips:
Frogtown, Los Angeles CA:
Near Mt. Wilson Observatory, Angeles National Forest:
Somewhere in the Hollywood Hills:
Without the intense level of computational photography it falls a little flat - I couldn't have the same fun and confidence with a flagship Android device regardless of if the Pixel 2 has an edge on sharpness or whatever - that's not what it's about. The depth implementation over there is simply half arsed by comparison to how it's handled on iOS.
I've definitely got a specific look here - the film grain and analog / expired film style, but I basically mimic what I shoot when I'm using a proper camera. I'm either shooting high ISO film or a variety roll of expired stuff, or vintage lenses on digital bodies. The phone shots are an extension of that style, and are just as fun to shoot as any of my actual cameras.
The buses in Tampa:
Miami, FL:
Washington, DC - Top of the bus mounting a camera for timelapse:
Philadelphia, PA:
Philadelphia, PA - Looking through a disposable camera viewfinder:
Katz's Delicatessen, NYC:
Barclays Center, Brooklyn NY:
Somewhere in NYC:
Somewhere in NYC:
One of the whip:
Working in Park City, Utah:
The snow whips:
Frogtown, Los Angeles CA:
Near Mt. Wilson Observatory, Angeles National Forest:
Somewhere in the Hollywood Hills:
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