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September 3, 2009 4:43 PM | Related Categories: iPhone,Cafes

.... before I got my hands on the croissants....

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Richard... thought you might be interested in this.... better not get any people in these photographs of yours...

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# Posted By Sean | 9/3/09 2:16 PM
Sean - thanks for the info, but hopefully common sense will prevail. Otherwise SF2 will have to pixelate everyone's faces when they broadcast FC Zurich matches.
# Posted By Richard | 9/3/09 2:23 PM
Tks Sean for the Google item. This is becoming rediculous. Like Lemmings we are racing towards the cliff of unintended consequences. I hope that soon a Court will categorically knock down all this carping and complaining about photography. What a sad world we are creating for ourselves. Breugel could never have done his paintings.
# Posted By Chuckeroon | 9/3/09 5:30 PM
Now back to the pictures and this IPhone fetish... I really like the "honesty" of these photographs, but I dont know how else to put it but I kind of miss the ones where you werent drinking coffee, having breakfast or sitting in a cafe , and you had a real camera on you. Not that these are bad mind you but you know what I mean? If not just say and I will elaborate... it is just that the other ones made us (and I think I speak for more than myself here), feel a little more special, that we were not a sideline thing.... :) I will still come back tho' but just thought it should be said...
# Posted By Sean | 9/3/09 6:29 PM
Sean - this blog is a bit whimsical so expect equipment, topics, content etc to change without warning. Most of the photos on it are just visual memories, whatever caught my eye or interested me, and I find the iPhone is fine. It means I don't have to worry about quality, but I'm impressed that you think I have better things up my sleeve. Thanks for visiting!
# Posted By Richard | 9/4/09 10:25 AM
I have to thank Sean for putting my anxieties into words I couldn't find. The refined nature of the "real" photos did make me and obviously many others feel special, because they passed over to us a sort of spiritual depth which these iPhone offerings seriously lack. Suddenly the achievements of Mr. Leitz of Wetzlar and the technological strivings of Mssrs Zeiss and Schott become clear. The iPhone is for talking, not imaging.
# Posted By Chuckeroon | 9/4/09 11:07 AM
Sean/chuckeroon - oh well, and I harboured illusions that I might be a photographer. But like everyone else all I need is a bigger/fancier camera. Now where did I see one of those Leica S2's? That ought to do the trick at 500 x 350 px
# Posted By Richard | 9/4/09 11:44 AM
Richard, fais comme moi, promène toi partout avec le G10 de chez Canon ! Tous les photographes disent que c'est un bon appareil.
Il m'a changé la vie depuis que je n'ai plus la prétention d'essayer d'être une vraie photographe qui connais tout à la technique, et il réalise de très belles macros < excellente profondeur de champ.

Ceci dit j'aime bien le principe de photographier ce qui t'a sauté aux yeux de prime abord, c'est ainsi que les plus belles photos se réalisent, lorsqu'on prend par exemple un paysage qui nous stupéfie à l'instant et à l'endroit où on est stupéfié. Il y a toujours une raison à ce saisissement : lumière ou volumes. Tu as été saisi par ces croissants et le coté convivial de la scène !
Pour ma part je regrette toujours de ne pas avoir photographié les suites d'hôtel (cela m'arrive et oui ! Pas assez souvent ,hélas !), avec bureau, salon, salle de bain etc, avant d'y avoir mis mon bazard.
# Posted By Cergie | 9/4/09 2:58 PM
C'est le bazard dans ce commentaire, Richard ! Tant pis !
# Posted By Cergie | 9/4/09 2:59 PM
Richard, your eluding to the fact that it is not the camera it is the photographer is noted and accepted, it's just that I cant help but feel that someone somewhere else is getting the stuff that you spend alot of time on... you know, setting up the tripod, measuring the lighting.. .all that sort of painstaking thing. I admit that if you had not labelled them IPhone I wouldnt know the difference, because since all your work I like, and I would have attributed it to some sort of crisis you are going through, but, it is just that as an avid viewer of your blog I would also like to feel a little special sometime... spend some time on us...
# Posted By Sean | 9/4/09 5:05 PM
Cergie - exactement! As the qualty of image does not relate much to the quality of photograph, neither does it equate to quality of memory
# Posted By Richard | 9/5/09 2:18 PM
Interesting discussion, but I come in a bit late ... and you may guess what I would have added as comment! :-)
# Posted By Peter | 9/18/09 10:02 PM
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