iPhoneography

Jump With Tony Day

{Jump by Tony Day}

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Aamora chose Feb 2012 to spread iPhoneography ❤

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South Bank Abstract

by Marc Melander

{South Bank Abstract by Marc Melander}

Marc Melander is a photographer based in Norfolk, UK

and member of the Moments In Time With Your iPhone.

View more of his work on his Redbubble profile.

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Feb Featured Artist Back With A Trio

by Caroline Penris

{Whispering Wallpaper}

{Life On Earth}

{Screenshots}

I’m looking for abandoned factories, hospitals, greenhouses, airports and other strange destinations. I wander and wonder around, making photographs of details caught by time.   

- Caroline Penris

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Caroline Penris

Featured Artist – Feb 2012

Artist, photographer & designer, Caroline Penris, is based in Groningen, The Netherlands. Fascinated by the unexpected beauty of things chipped, discoloured, torn & broken, Caroline travels in an old VW bus to forgotten places throughout Europe to photograph. View her website, her flickr or check out her book, Discoloured.

Bench

by Kevin Bergen

{Bench by Kevin Bergen}

Kevin Bergen is a photographer from Torrance, California, USA

View Kevin’s iPhone work or visit his website.

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Welcome (and thank you)

out to Photographer Fourth Angel

{Hanging Heart by Fourth Angel}

Angela Landsberg, best known under her artist moniker Fourth Angel, is a photographer from Somerset West, South Africa and the host of Moments In Time With Your iPhone.

For the hosts to accept artwork into the Moments In Time group, the photo must have been taken and edited inside an iPhone; only downloaded iPhone applications are allowed and there can be no post-editing with computer software. View their featured work by clicking here.

Additionally, each contribution in Moments In Time With Your iPhone, indicates the photographer and application used for the composition. The group is a great resource if you want to learn more about various iPhone applications and their effects on photos.

Fourth Angel brings with her nine artists we’ll showcase during aamora’s celebration of iPhoneography month. We hope you’ll enjoy each artist as much as we have in preparation.  

Extra special thanks to Fourth Angel for sharing such a diversity of artists with aamora friends. Thank you, and everyone, stay tuned as we roll each of these artists out!

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Fourth Angel is a photographer from Somerset West, South Africa and the host of Moments In Time With Your iPhone. Find more of her work at her Redbubble profile.

Please help us welcome a new contributing member

Photographer and Imagemaker

Anne McGinn

{Chasing The Last Light by Anne McGinn}

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Anne McGinn is a digital photographer and image maker from Los Angeles, California. Through her work, Anne seeks to express emotion, reveal beauty, and explore the liminal edge between reality and dreams. View more of Anne’s wonderful work at Redbubble.

{Photo by Leanna Lomanski}

{Lemon (again, but moodier) by Kreddible Trout}

{Photo by Aaron Schwartz}

{Photo by Rita Iszlai}

{Double Limey by Kreddible Trout}

Help us welcome Rita Iszlai as a special guest getting fruity with aamora. Rita is an economist living in Transylvania. She has a passion for photography and loves images, immersing herself in nature to detoxify from daily life with camera in hand. View more of her work JPG Magazine or on Redbubble.

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Leanna Lomanski is a photographer from Lethbridge, Alberta; Enjoy Leanna’s work by viewing her portraitures, her fine art website or her blogs O Snap! & Sometimes The World Is Black & White.

Kreddible Trout is a self-proclaimed satirist/artist who’s relocated to Toronto from Canada’s west coast to further his acting career [William Foley]. View his website, tumblr, JPG Magazine Redbubble or Aamora contributions.

Aamora founder, Aaron Schwartz, is a photographer, actor, lawyer, writer, and flaneur based in Toronto. You can view more of Aaron’s work at his website, on JPG Magazine, or right here on Aamora.

Using the iPhone

Can Influence Creative Choice

by Skip Hunt

Years ago I made the point that it doesn’t matter which camera you use; what mattered most is vision.

In an attempt to prove this, I did a small collection of images with my old Motorola cell phone. The results made the point I wanted, but the lower resolution became restrictive.

When the iPhone came out, I couldn’t wait to take it for a spin. After loading apps, I took it along to make images to illustrate a motorcycle trip through the Southwest toward California from Texas. It was the 3rd generation iPhone 3G. I took it for an easy way to upload images live from the road.

For back up, I took a high-end compact, a Panasonic LX-3 and a Nikon dSLR D300 for book images I was to publish at the end of the trip. (Now available on Amazon).

{Calypso}

What I noticed was many of the images I was getting were quite acceptable beyond web use, but not quite there yet. Not long after that trip, I upgraded to the iPhone 4 and hopped a bus for Mexico to travel blog and see what I could come up with over a month’s time. I also took a high-end compact camera for those images that needed a bit more resolution and flexibility, but it was on this trip that I started noticing a difference in the images I made with the iPhone as opposed to a conventional camera. I’m not referring to obvious differences in resolution, but instead the creative aesthetic choices I was making. Not that they were better or worse, just different.

Fast forward to Summer 2011, I decided to fly to the furthest point in Mexico without any particular plan at all. Zig-zagging from coast to coast, through the jungles, mountains, beaches, cities and deserts until I wandered my way back up to Texas two months later. I travel blogged the experience using only the iPhone for audio, video, text and edited photos here.

{Cowboy Chicken}

By this time, I now had plenty of apps and knew how to use them.  It’s still better than lugging a laptop along, but there are times when I still crave a bigger screen. Next time and iPad may come along with me as well. Again, I took a high-end compact along, the Olympus XZ-1 this time for back up and for those situations that needed a little more photographic muscle.

Again, I was noticing a remarkable difference between the aesthetic psychology of shooting a conventional camera to using an iPhone full of apps. It wasn’t so much about the convenience of it either, i.e. being able to keep the iPhone in my pocket and available at all times because high-end compacts are small enough now to conveniently keep with you in a large pocket as well. No, there was something different that effected my approach between the two.

My photographic experience goes back more than 30 years to pre-digital days when you didn’t think about digital post production when you make an image. Many of my original habits are still there, like thinking of whether or not the image I was about to make was worth the cost of film, processing and printing. If not, then I wouldn’t press the shutter button. I’ve still got that habit even though it costs nothing to make a digital image.

What I began to figure out was that when I shoot with a conventional camera, I’m thinking strictly of the composition of light, shadow, color, texture, and how the subject matter moves me. I don’t think about what I can do with it later, but strictly capturing what ever it is that caused me to stop and study a particular scene or objects within a scene.

{The Land of Milk and Honey}

When I use the iPhone to make images, I consider all of those things as well, but because the camera is very limited in function I’m also thinking of what app I’m going to process this image with. I’m no longer strictly thinking of how this image will convey how I’m motivated by a scene, but whether that scene can also serve as good source material or digital clay to be molded into something else via software applications.

The images made from this trip with the conventional camera have just been published and available for sale in a beautiful new photo book at MagCloud. Click the link below to preview or order.

Skip Hunt Austin, Texas

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Austin, TX based member Skip Hunt is a wandering soul attempting to break the chains & surf free atop wavelengths within the visible spectrum. View his website, travel blog, tumblr, or aamora.com.

Aamora Contributing Member

Danielle Kelly

Danielle Kelly with iPhone love for February . . .

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Aamora contributor Danielle Kelly is a NYC photographer currently focused on street, portrait & landscapes photography with available light. View her work on her website, tumblr, posterous or her other Aamora contributions.

Please help us welcome 

Caroline Penris

Aamora’s Featured Artist

February 2012

The world through Caroline’s eyes . . .

{Draperie}

{Wealth}

{Old Money}

I’m looking for abandoned factories, hospitals, greenhouses, airports and other strange destinations. I wander and wonder around, making photographs of details caught by time.  

 - Caroline Penris

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Caroline Penris is an artist, photographer and designer, based in Groningen, The Netherlands, fascinated by the unexpected beauty of things chipped, discoloured, torn and broken. Caroline travels in an old VW bus to forgotten places throughout Europe for her photography. Find more of Caroline’s work at her website, her flickr or check out her book Discoloured.