iPhoneography: SFO in monochrome – Trains
San Francisco, California
January, 2010
Blue Train to the G Stop
The F Train
Powell Street Station
Toolbox: Gorillacam, CameraKit, Format126, Vint B&W
Three trains in San Francisco.
People going somewhere. People going nowhere. People moving or waiting to move.
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MartyNearDFW
Marty is a self-employed graphic designer in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex. He loves beer, coffee, baseball, Macs, photography, scotch and traveling in seats 5E and 5F with his girlfriend.
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Oh … found some pics! These are great! Excellent use of B&W … perfect for the shots.
This reminds me of Jeremy Edward’s piece on shooting and not over-apping … I see you have used three apps and the pics look as natural as hell. It’s like Chris Isaaks’ retro sound … anybody have any idea how much technology goes into that sound?
Hi, Knox,
Thank you! I’ve been shooting a lot, but I’ve been lax in posting them promptly. Those are my weekend plans while DFW digs out from our 3 days of winter….
Yes, there is a lot of good stuff in Jeremy’s article. It’s actually a good mantra for *any* photographer (hey, I’ve seen some over-Photoshopped images as well).
I was actually motivated by an email exchange I’d had several weeks ago with an iPhoneographer and photographer, Jordi V. Pou (who also had an image in “Pixels…”). We were discussing my 10 favorite images from 2009 and how stylistically they were all over the place. It wasn’t that my stuff was over-apped — I think my stuff was “too many apped” — something that is easy for me to do when it’s my night job to test, play with and try to break all these cool toys that we have available on the iPhone.
Years ago, I went to Paris with another photographer. On that trip, he decided to shoot Paris in black & white only. It inspired me to try and challenge myself in a similar fashion this last trip to SFO. Throughout the trip, I was thinking in black & white. Creativity through limitation (thank you, Jane) which I believe is one of the reasons we love iPhone photography. I got some good color stuff in SFO, but for the most part, my images that blew me away were the monochrome ones. Seriously, Vint B&W rocks and produces some beautiful black & white, especially in low light.
Going forward, I’m not going to limit my use of apps per se. I’m moving towards more consistent presentation.
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