Welcome to Phoneye . . . . A Phoneography Project
"This project has been severely interrupted but is being reignited, so stay tuned for updates and keep in mind that it was started in 2013 and some of it is now old hat, so to speak".
Through posting to Facebook and other photography groups I started receiving numerous messages asking, 'how did you do that?', 'what did you use for this?' and 'what were the settings for this?' These queries are what led me to set up this site and blog as a better way to help answer some of the questions.
Through posting to Facebook and other photography groups I started receiving numerous messages asking, 'how did you do that?', 'what did you use for this?' and 'what were the settings for this?' These queries are what led me to set up this site and blog as a better way to help answer some of the questions.
Why a project? Well projects can be motivational, educational and fun. Also they help to set goals, spark the imagination and can be a release from the normal run of your daily life. I decided to embark on a phoneography project, having acquired a Nexus 4 smartphone. I've never really had a decent camera on a phone before, so although I knew about the world of phoneography and Instagram,(being a photographer and image maker) I never got into the whole phoneography thing as I believed at the time, that the quality and level of control to edit on the phone was very restricted.
Initially I started this project as a personal one, that would eventually be included with other photographers projects into an exhibition at The Leicester Peoples Photographic Gallery. This changed following conversations with fellow photographers who were trashing the idea of mobile phone photography. Some argue that camera phones have caused the death of the High Street camera shop. That the imagery they produce is second rate and has introduced a state of mediocrity in photography. This may well be true and this premise added another dimension to my project.
At the beginning the idea was to post my daily image to Facebook and when the time came for planning the exhibition, I would edit down the images shot, to fit the space allocated for the exhibition. This would be done on the computer using my chosen editing software, ie. Photoshop and then saved and sent to the printers for the exhibition. So to test the arguments of my fellow photographers I changed my thoughts and decided to do everything on the phone. Shoot, edit, save and possibly post and print. Just as I would using my normal camera and computer. To this end I won't be using Apps like Instagram or Hipstamatic as they are already well know and I also want to approximate the editing process as much as possible to my full blown set up ie. adjusting exposure, contrast, crop, resize, clone etc.
As this is a first for me editing on a phone, I will be using free applications to test out the App market before purchasing the best full versions. This will form a sort of market survey of the best mobile photography apps out there. So anyone following my project (thankyou) can take note of the apps that are in the image descriptions or blog. Hopefully this will be useful for some and save you time trawling the app stores.
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