Photography: Cellphones are the future

I have Photoshop Express on my iPhone. I decided to take the crappiest photo on my phone and see what I could do with it.

Last August we went to a cabin on Loon Lake and I ended up with this picture. Not sure if it was an accident, but it’s of a bottle of Aleve and diet doctor pepper.

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Spending about 60 seconds on the photo, from my iPhone, it now looks like this.

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Not that the picture is very interesting in the second iteration, but it’s more interesting. I have a DSLR, and honestly I don’t pull it out as often as I’d like. I love the camera to death, but it pretty much take a backpack to lug it around with the filters, lenses, flash, and other accessories. Unfortunately, I think the phone camera is more and more going to be the camera of choice.

My biggest problem with that is that I like the ability to uses lenses because you can get better shots. The depth of field is the strongest reason I like the better lenses. So I decided to look up lenses for iPhone…. They exist in DIY and Commercial form.

Here is one from http://blog.cow.mooh.org/2009/12/phone-o-scope-attaching-slr-lenses-to.html

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This seems like a bit much, but I like the photos that come out of it. I will not likely be carrying around a lens and duct tape to make this work.

This one looks really promising. It’s a case that has lens attachments. I read about this on http://tamsijungle.tamoggemon.com/2009/07/07/iphone-3g-3gs-case-provides-external-lenses/

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This is a bit expensive and only for the iPhone 3G/3GS. Very cool idea, but not likely to get purchased by me anytime soon. I guess I’ll just have to wait for the lenses to get better in the phones, and rely on application on the iPhone to make it look like I had the lenses I have on my DSLR. It might have to be good enough for now.

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