iPhotography

Let me start by saying im not sure how I completly feel about this. I'm more of just thinking aloud and hopefully letting you into, what I think is, an obvious future. This has been going on for about a couple years and it's been growing and feeding me into this blog. This has a lot to do with the amazing invention of the iPhone and the fact that it is now a better camera makes things, well, I guess worse. 3mp, better in low light, auto-touch focus (which will most likely show up in our bigger SLRs with live-view) and a couple more things. This is typical for camera phones now a days. My issue has to do with the editing, the post-processing, the "photoshopping" without using photoshop. I mean some of this stuff looks great! Vignetting, selective color, selective focus, b&w, tinting, on and on...

Their are plenty photographers that show, sell, their work for use on the web arent there? Look around, its everywhere and PLENTY of it. The obvious use in advertising, not to mention stock photography. So does the web need 21, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3 even 2mp?? No, it doesn't. Does it need PS or the like? Nope! OK, so how do we usually work? We take our, at least, $1500 camera, our hopefully expensive lens, our hopefully expensive tri-pod, which I think the costs are too much, and take the picture with our wireless remote. Then we bring it in to our $700 piece of software and edit it for hours right? Right. Well, how about this? We take our PHONE out of our pocket, slide and press a few buttons, actually touch the screen of where we want it to focus, compose the shot and click the screen. No shutter, no mirrors, no chip that is bigger than a quarter size of the iPhone. Then we can open the picture in one of many, many different apps that we purchased for probably a few dollars or even FREE and "edit" away in a few minutes. Not to mention being able to post that picture almost whenever you want.

So what does this all mean? Is the, proverbial, writing on the wall? Do some people actually care more about getting their pictures online? Portraits of their kids, senior pictures, headshots and even yes, their weddings onto to their facebook page? A web slideshow? Their blog? Can an iPhone take care of all that too... sure, to a certain point. Will it get better, easier? You bet it will.

The industry is talking more about all this convergence of video. Grant it, it is pretty awesome but I think we need to have more discussions on where this "low-end" type of photography is headed and whats it all means to all of us as professional and amateur photographers.

Right now, we think its pretty damn cool but I hope it doesnt bite us in the rear.

— Aldo

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You're baby grew alot last night...

You're baby grew alot last night she said to me. My wife took a trip for work without me. She asked me to go with her a while ago but didn't find it necessary and didn't want to spend the money. Almost 2 months later, what we've trying to achieve finally comes to fruition, I hate that word. We, she whatever, became pregnant. So now, yea, I wanna go with her now, I wanna be there everyday, every step of the way, "take care of her". So when she tells me "your baby grew last night" my heart kind of dropped. Grant it yes, it's only been almost 4 months but this is amazing, a "miracle" they say right? So yea, I'm gonna feel upset, I missed something. Two weeks ago I felt her tummy and it was firmer than the previous days. When I told her I could feel something she was ecstatic! So happy that I finally, after asking me everyday to "feel, feel, feel" I could FEEL it. Earlier today she said there's a bigger bump on the left side. So, my baby grew alot last night and I missed it. I'm looking forward to kissing that left side growth when she gets back. And hopefully I'll never hear that again from 615 miles away. 

Here's one of our first ultrasound videos...

There they were...

During my lunch break today I sat and watched "the three free months of Showtime" Directv gave the company for being a loyal customer. I flipped on an older movie with Demi Moore, pre-Ashton im sure. They showed an aerial view of NYC and there they were. On the same televison set I saw it happen. The twin towers were right there. The vision of the those planes crashing into them. My boss telling me to get back to work, my wife calling me on a phone she couldn't quite figure out how to dial on. Holding back the urge to rush over and interrupt her classroom that just so happens to sit, only 1/2 mile east of the airport, directly under a flight path. All the while my coworker is at the hospital expecting his, now 8 year old, daughter.

I could go on... But I don't have to.

Btw, the movie was "Passion of Mind" from 2000. It's about a woman with split personas, split lives. Does that 11th day in September make you feel that way too sometime?

The Best of Sam and Haley's Wedding June 6th, 2009...