Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

When America entered the conflict in Vietnam, so, too, did its news teams. For the first time in our country’s history the true nature of war was being shown to our people. This forever changed the way we viewed war, as well as the power of the camera.

Technology (moving at such a steady clip as it does) has reached massive benchmarks. Perhaps leading this charge into centuries unknown is a surprising little tool we’ve all grown accustomed to carrying….

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Like so many others, I owe my career to Steve Jobs. Without his vision, I can’t even imagine what I’d be doing or what my life would be like right now.

I never met Steve Jobs. I don’t know what I would have said to him if I ever had. But, Steve has made a huge difference in the course of my life, far beyond the reach of the iPhone and this blog.

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“I really love the look of high end digital photography and commercially I wouldn’t shoot anything but. But I miss the imperfections of LoFi photography. I believe, however, that those wonderful surprises that the limitations of your equipment produce are far outweighed by the opportunity to capture in photography all the found moments that we all experience everyday.”

Words I said in my first post for my new blog, Life In LoFi. My camera of choice at the time was an iPhone 2G.

Two years. 1041 posts (including this one). 6186 comments. 3,890 Facebook followers. Over 286,084 unique visitors. Today is the two year anniversary of Life In LoFi. “Since 2009″ may not sound like much, but it’s an eternity in internet years.

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I used to do these fairly often, but it’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these musings. Sometimes, you bump into a quote that just puts it all into perspective.

Photographer/iPhoneographer Jim Darling recently shared this on Facebook. I thought I’d pass it along here. If I ever complete my photo book, this quote is going inside.

‎”Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Don’t be in a rush to pay your rent with your camera. Jimi Hendrix didn’t decide on the career of professional musician before he learned to play guitar. No, he loved music and created something beautiful and that THEN became a profession. Larry Towell, for instance, was not a “professional” photographer until he was already a “famous” photographer. Make the pictures you feel compelled to make and perhaps that will lead to a career. But if you try to make the career first, you will just make shitty pictures that you don’t care about.”

– Christopher Anderson

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The last long weekend of the summer is upon us. If, like Marty, you’re lucky enough to live somewhere with a nice climate year round that may not be such a big deal. But for those of us facing months of winter cold making us think twice about pulling off our gloves to take a photo it’s a disappointing affair.

Wherever you live I invite you to join me for a long weekend photo project. In honour of Labour Day the theme will be “Labour of Love.” (Or, for my American friends, Labor of Love.)

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I’m big on taking safety shots. Storage is ridiculously cheap compared to a few years ago. I’ve got plenty of room on my iPhone to shoot more images than I need. There’s no excuse not to shoot safety shots when the subject affords you the opportunity.

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Of Mirrors by Nacho Cordova

On Saturday, iPhoneography lost one of its brightest stars.

Nacho Cordova was an artist with a gifted eye. He was a teacher. He was a husband and a father. In all my contact with Nacho both direct and indirect, he was polite, respectful of others and gracious. Nacho was a good guy. He touched many, many people in his life as evidenced by the pages and pages of tributes left on his Facebook wall. Nacho Cordova leaves a void and will be missed by many.

Over the weekend, many iPhoneographers began posting tribute photos in memory of Nacho. Life in LoFi and the iPhoneogenic blogs present many of those tribute images here in remembrance of our colleague and our friend.

Nathaniel I. Cordova | October 22, 1964 - July, 16th 2011

Information on Nacho’s memorial service this Wednesday at Willamette University can be found here.

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Pixels at an Exhibition, Giorgi Gallery. Photo: Stacy Anderson

Cameras have been an option on mobile phones since the late 1990’s. By 2006, half of the world’s mobile phones had a camera… less than 10 years after their introduction. The mobile phone camera was originally included as a means to quickly share instant digital snapshots. I doubt that the mobile phone camera was ever envisioned as creating a new art form. But today, some of the most creative and dynamic photographic works are being shot and processed solely with an iPhone.

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Photo courtesy of MacTrast

Ahh, Spring. Time for renewal, allergies, baseball and iPhone rumors.

Recently, the interwebs have been buzzing (a little, anyway) about a comments made by Sony CEO Howard Stringer stating that Sony will be supplying the 8 MP cameras for the next generation of iPhone. I recently posted about it here. I still don’t think it’ll be called the iPhone 5, but for consistency’s sake I’ll call it that here.

Over on MacTrast, Frank Prendergast has written an excellent post “iPhone 5 – 8 megapixel camera a step backwards?“  comparing the current iPhone 4 5 MP camera by OmniVision to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc mobile phone camera.

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