Tag Archives: Photography

The ultimate Camera app

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You know what the coolest would be? A DECENT camera app for my iPhone.

As a photographer, I love taking pictures. Both with my DSLRs, as my iPhone. Mostly because it’s very easy to grab it, always ready.

We all know that people do create great pictures with just an iPhone, but the standard app is so very limiting. So a great app, with the controls of a DSLR could make a winning combination, beating many point and shoots.

Of course, now you think, what’s the use of trying to create the feeling of a DSLR on a phone? Well, the iPhone 4S is a brilliant device, with the built quality of a Leica. And the most important thing: It has a great camera.

If you check the Slow Shutter Cam, you can see they added quite some manual controls, making sure that you can create long exposure shots, and light trails.

Too bad it starts only at 0.5s Shutter speed, and the sensitivity is in stops, and not in ISO. But it proves it is possible! How great would it be, to have this kind of settings from all the range.

If I look at the great controls at the Nikon F4, and other analog cameras, this could be great. Throw in a way to send a signal to off-camera flash triggers through the audio jack, Manual or automatic controls, ISO and Shutterspeed control, A Lightmeter, Single shot, continues high and low, and a timer, and we have a winner. And you could even go even more crazy and ad manual focus or a Auto Exposure and Auto focus lock. Who wouldn’t want this!

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I’d pay good money for this.

We all know, the best camera out there, is the one you have with you. Sooooo .. App devs… get cranking!

The Photographer

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Behold! The photographer in his natural habitat. More or less. Hasselt, but in the morning. In his hands his trusted Nikon, in his other hand an overpriced cup of designer coffee, in this case a machiato without caramel (he wants his Starbucks!). When you look at his face you can detect the caffeine slowly opening his eyes. In his ears his trusted earbuds, enjoying a bit of music. His chin unshaven, because of lazyness/time issues.

He wears a coat that is pre-vintage modern something something that would resemble a english/napoleon-like era frockcoat. Bought when a sudden rainstorm caught up with him in Maastricht. Around his neck a Slytherin scarf. ‘Cause it looks good, and it’s friggin cold! Thin wind-stopping gloves help with the early mornings.

Also note the fake vintage effect. 6k worth of equipment, and we make it look like it’s made with a $5 analog camera from the 60′s. Right!

I his pocket you can still see the press release from his last assignment, together with more useless things.

And best of all, he is on his way to the next assignment. As always.

PS: I swear, this sounded all better in my head.

The iPad role in traveling

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So I have an iPad, everyone knows that by now. No, not the 2, my original works fine enough thankyouverymuch.

By NF

If I compare my travels from 2 years ago in Ireland to this week in Schotland, I see very different things. When I was traveling Ireland took my MacBook with me, and used that to daily capture my 8 gig of pictures of the day (or more). Also I wrote blogposts just as now, and edited some pictures.

At 4 moments in 2 weeks I found free or unprotected wifi to upload these posts and pictures, and that was it. Also it was rather heavy to have a camera, laptop, etc with me. With no entertainment on it at all (I needed all space for my pictures). In fact, it went that far that I actually had to erase all apps I no longer was using on the trip, and erase large un-used files. In the end I got home with over 200 GB of pictures. In a cleaning spree later on I deleted all except the ones I really liked.

But I evolved, and in the 4 past days, I still have all shots on my camera, and I have gathered a lot less pictures. Less than 300 shots that I would consider as a keeper, where a lot of those are actually portraits and party shots.

And just like that, the iPad is an evolution, and a best companion. I now carry my iPad and a 70-200 2.8 lens, and it still feels lighter than my backpack back then.

Also New, is constant connectivity. My iPad has a 3G connection, and with the prepaid 1gig Three iPad MicroSim Cards I have a rather good connection in the cities while visiting. Also, the GPS is great for locating myself, and with The Cartographer I can cache google maps and use GPS tracking to find my spots for when I enter a no-coverage zone. (and save new spots for future geotagging of my pictures, or nice places and such.)

The Cartographer for now, is an iPhone app, but it does work on the iPad too, and an iPad version will be coming soon!

The iPad is also great to blog, edit your key-shots, and send em off online. Over WiFi or 3G. (and GPS navigation), and of course, stay up to date with RSS and email. And stuff like that. Or play games. All with that 10 hour battery.

All by all it’s an amazing device, giving me the right mixture of work, entertainment, and is the perfect travel companion.