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Smart Phone Photography

March 14, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We all know that the photographic capabilities of smartphones are incredible. The miniature camera(s) on the digital phone are both a huge benefit and a major influence on the purchase decisions. They are a vital selling point.

Shot by iPhone ten years ago.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: iphoneography, photography, snapseed

Fascinating Developments

January 11, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m fascinated by how one image can be manipulated to shape different stories. What is the essence of a shot given that there are an infinite number of photographs you can take from where you are reading this? Are there an infinite number of stories to be found in one shot?

  • 735 seconds © Simon Robinson 2013
  • 1/60 seconds © Simon Robinson 2019
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: edo zollo, iphoneography, nigel danson, photography

Wednesday’s Hump

May 27, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘Don’t you like landscapes?’ someone once asked during a Tadaa challenge in 2012. Tadaa was an Instagram kind of app very popular with iPhone users in the time before Instagram took off.

Of course I like landscapes. The question came at a time when I was learning how to capitalise on the tiny lens in a phone. I spent several years on an iPhoneography mission while learning how to spot ‘the decisive moment’. Things have changed but here are five iPhone photos from 2009 that were ‘published’ on Tadaa in 2012.

  • Tree Spotting
    20091010 iPhone 3GS
  •  Paris Smile
    20091010 iPhone 3GS

  • Another Fluffy Souvenir
    20091010 iPhone 3GS
  • Hotel Des Invalides
    20091010 iPhone 3GS
  • Sea Walking
    20091107 iPhone 3GS
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: centre culturel irlandais, henri cartier-bresson, instagram, iphoneography, landscape, photos, tadaa, travel, walking

Desaturated Circles

April 18, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

First coffee in hand, looking out at the 7 am mist, I noticed the trillium was bejewelled by droplets. Bescented and bejewelled, suffused and saturated.

Saturated, a word that rang a bell. A theme with seven photos posted this week two years ago, amidst a personal iPhoneography challenge to hone my skills and learn to minimise compositional distractions. In this case, a series of desaturated pictures offered up in daily posts on Instagram.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: christine dwyer hickey, city of books, desaturate, dublin one city one book, instagram, iphoneography, martina devlin, photography, photos, trillium, what3words

Learning from the dog.

March 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

30 March 2020 – 20:29 GMT – 7°C Mostly Cloudy – Co. Dublin, Ireland

You’ve met our dog Gus in a previous post. He suffers from separation anxieties yet still looks to the bright side of life. He does so without the concept of zero, suffering no anxiety for its absence. Now, I only have one olfactory bulb. I know I lose more by my limitations than does Gus for his.

Dog bowls don’t need zeroes. Empty. Full. Is. Isn’t. Now. Later. Happy. Sad.

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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: dog, existentialism, iphoneography, odour, photography, zero

Fuji Wabi Sabi

March 13, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

13 Mar 2020 – 19:48 GMT – 6°C Light Rain – Co. Dublin, Ireland

I plan to bring a camera towards Rome. Weight is a major consideration and things have improved in that regard. In years gone by, I brought an iPhone on my walks because my DSLR kits were too heavy and unwieldy for use by brain tired, wet hands. So I’d bought iPhone battery extenders, lens kits for telephoto and wide angle options, specialty tripods and my favourite, a grip that also acted as stabiliser. These all coupled nicely with iPhone earphones, cleverly designed so the volume control also acted as a remote shutter release. Except I’d walked the batteries dead with Walkmeter and other mapping apps on iPhone versions 3, 4, 5 and 7 and wouldn’t you know, the camera kits tended to change from one generation of phone to the next.

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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: camera, iphoneography, photography, vegetarianism, wabi sabi

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