It’s time to offer some new photography workshops for iPhone users. These workshops will be available online and in person. For more info please send an email to joelheffner (at) gmail.com.
iPhone Photo Basics
…for those who want to learn how to get the most out of their iPhones.
iPhone Garden Photography
…for those who want to preserve their garden memories using an iPhone.
Preserve Your Family Memories
…using your iPhone.
More than a hundred years ago, George Eastman (the creator of the Kodak camera and company) said, “You push the button, we do the rest.” He was talking about the Kodak cameras. I wonder how he would have felt about this button!
This one innocent looking button is part of the iPhone’s editing function that’s built into your iPhone. I clicked it for a photo and it made eight intelligent changes to the photo…with one click! Impressive.
Photoshop, Lightroom, and a zillion other apps can improve your photos greatly. But 8 changes with one click would certainly have made Eastman envious.
Experiment with Edit when you take your next iPhone pictures. It’s easy, fun, and free. What a combo!
More about it next time…
I used this handout for a workshop I conducted a few years ago. I decided to use all Pug photos for the workshop. The people liked it, I hope you find it helpful. I once did a photo workshop using only one photo…it was the Polaroid photo in this handout. That one was taken at P.J.’s first dog show…about 30 years ago. He didn’t do very well that day, but eventually he became a champion. I miss him.
Years ago, when I was a wedding photographer I used a Hasselblad. It took 120 or 220 film. As a wedding photographer (way back in the 1980s) we used flash for just about all of the photos indoors. If you used a rectangular format camera you would need to shift the flash every time you changed from vertical to horizontal. Very annoying. That’s what was great about the Hasselblad. It took square photos…no shifting needed.
Now, if you use an iPhone, square is an option. It’s the option I used most of the time. It allows you to “crop” in the camera (iPhone). It’s one of my favorite features. If you don’t already shoot in squares try it. Maybe you’ll become a square like me.
When you see a good looking girl it’s usually easy to take a nice photo. Here’s an example…
The problem is that there’s a load of distractions. The easiest cure is cropping. Here’s the cropped version.
Cropping can help…a lot.
Before we left for the day, my wife asked me to take a picture of a flower. This is it.
When we came home, she asked me to take another picture. Same flower, a few hours later.
Unless you are in a studio setting, you sometimes have to wait for just the right time to take a photo. It pays to be patient.
Although I use my iPhone to take photos 99% of the time, there are times when it just doesn’t work. This is one of them. I saw the bird outside in the yard. I was inside, in the kitchen. If I tried to take the photo with my iPhone I’d hardly even know it was a bird.
So, I took my dinky little point-and-shoot camera out of the drawer…and took the photo. Sometimes, you have to admit that your iPhone isn’t ideal. 🙁
Before it’s too late save your old family photos. This family picture was taken in the mid-1930s in Poland. By the end of World War II, only two people were still alive…my father and uncle.
Make copies of your family photos. Make prints. Give them out. Make sure you write captions telling who is in the photo. It’s important. Start saving your family…now!
Ansel Adams said, “Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” It happened to me a few years ago while walking with my wife through the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
Aside from being there during cherry blossom season, I was there when on one was walking on the path!