March 16, 2015A camera is a set of capabilities and limitations. The most remarkable capability of smartphones is that they are “invisible” and always with us. For most people the fact that everything is automatic is also an advantage, but for street photography it is a limitation.
The first iPhones had fixed focus at the
hyperfocal. Starting with version 4 they introduced autofocus, which was marketed as an advancement, but it complicates the shot. Waiting for the phone to be able to focus often means losing the photo.
October 27, 2014 I’ve been wanting to share a workflow I’m exploring. Usually I edit photos with a sequential system of several passes. In the case of my own photos I try to leave a long time between a pass, months or years.
The normal cycle is to do a review of all the material immediately after capture and let it sit for a year before doing the second pass (on all the material). From the combination comes the “draft” of my work, which I post on my
photoblog. At this stage I already nominate some photographs as “
my-favs”, which are the ones I show when someone asks for a theme. To do something I consider meditated I leave it even longer.