There was a time when I personally thought that a mobile phone’s function was not to take photos but to make calls, when mobile phones started having a built-in camera, I was skeptical that photographers could use a cell phone to take serious photographs. .
Take a snapshot of this good way, okay, maybe who knows, but from there, expect a decent photographic quality of these gadgets, naaaa?
I firmly believed that mobile phones would never be used for photography.
Years later, the facts showed that I couldn’t have been more wrong. Here’s some evidence that I was wrong:
Like I said, I had a time when I resisted change, he saw mobile phone cameras evolve and become more powerful, but he preferred to look away. I jealously taped on my COLLECTION of SLR cameras, taking a look at my smartphone thinking “wow?it’s just a fad you’ll see. “
Years later: I take more photos with my mobile phone than with any of my SLR cameras. I continue to work with my Nikon and Canon SLRs in very specific situations, and in fact I don’t think I’ll ever give up SLRs. but I can’t deny the profound positive change that the mobile phone has marked in my role as a photographer.
As mobile has become a staple of my photography, here are some of the positive changes I’ve seen in my routine as a photographer:
I could go on like this, but ultimately, mobile photography has broken into my life completely changing the way I interact with the camera. I always appreciate my relationship with the SLR camera and I take it out whenever I can, I have a special love for it, but now I also use my mobile to get amazing photos that I wouldn’t even have offered before.
This change of photographer facet began to be reflected in the editorial line of the blog for some time, in fact I was not the only one who lived this change, the mobile phone camera has become an essential photographic tool in people’s day to day. all the members who make up the editorial team of the Photographer’s Blog, so it was only a matter of time before we could work on a book entirely dedicated to mobile photography, this is how the idea of the project, which today has form, a title and a cover was born: we call it “MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE PALMA DE YOUR MAIN”, in a clear nod to how you hold your mobile to make a photo?
Through the more than 170 pages of unpublished content that make up the book, we show you all the creative possibilities that you can make using the camera of your mobile phone, that is, the one that you take with you everywhere, whether iPhone or Android. I tried to make MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY IN YOUR MAIN A complete guide to mobile photography, with everything you need to know to take advantage of the possibilities offered by your smartphone camera and that many amateur photographers do not know.
Inside the book you will find tips and tricks to complete tutorials, step by step, to take all kinds of photos. We’ve also included an important list of recommended and very inexpensive accessories with which you’ll be able to capture photos you never thought possible with a simple mobile phone.
In addition, the book is full of examples of photographs illustrating the tips and tricks you will find there, all of them, of course, taken with a simple mobile phone.
After many years in photography and some SLRs to my credit, believe me if I humbly tell you that there are no good or bad cameras, there are good and bad photographers, I have seen people do wonders with a modest basic camera, and I have seen others glued with a professional SLR camera, more than 2000 euros around the neck.
Okay, there’s nothing wrong with trying to have good photographic equipment, but don’t get too obsessed with the “body,” don’t fall into muscle worship.
It doesn’t idolize the camera. Here, the artist is not the camera, it is you. You are the author, the craftsman, the creator, the composer, the magician.
You are the one who imagines, the one who feels, the one who saddens and the one who rejoices, the one who makes the potato beat is you, the one with the goose bump is not the camera, you understand me. Already formed a ball in his throat is you, and the one who has adrenaline in his veins and butterflies camping in his belly . . . He’s with you.
The picture isn’t taken by the camera, you take it. If there are fans who take amazing photos with a simple mobile phone, why can’t you take them?
I’ll leave you a link to browse the book here.