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Title: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 07, 2012, 10:25
Well, since IS opened the door to mobile phone photos and I just bought a new iPhone 4s, I thought I would give it a go. My first shoot was actually some test shots at a local music store where I was planning a full on 5D-with-strobes shoot. The iPhone shots came out pretty good for an iPhone using Camera+ app and some light post in LR and PS. All were accepted but one. Surprising.

Yesterday I was at Oceanside Pier and snagged a bunch of nice photos and just ULed them. I got some, IMO, nice shots with good compositions and subject matter. BUT while doing post, I kept thinking, why . didn't I just bring my 5D and not have to deal with all this noise, color distortion, jpeg format, and other issues inherent in a freaking iPhone sensor.

I guess my point is, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I am looking at beautiful captures that have a 50/50 chance of acceptance depending upon an inspector's tolerance of all this iphone stuff. With a FF sensor and speed light fill, that goes up to 85%+ chance of acceptance.

Anyway, that is my morning ramble and first experience with mobile phone shooting.

What you got?
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: fotoVoyager on September 07, 2012, 11:03
I submitted a couple of experiments shot with an iPhone 4 and Instagram and they were both accepted. I think I'd submit them with borders next time to make it more obvious what their origins were.

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21398451-mobilestock-child-with-missing-front-teeth.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21398451-mobilestock-child-with-missing-front-teeth.php)

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21398452-mobilestock-mother-and-child-reunion.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21398452-mobilestock-mother-and-child-reunion.php)

* sight easier than lugging 10kg of DSLR equipment around I can tell you. I notice iStock are accepting editorial images filtered in this way as well if you search 'mobilestock'. That's great news for street shots in cities where a DSLR will get cops buzzing round you like flies.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 07, 2012, 14:00
Nice stuff FV.

Yeah a real advantage is the stealth and non-intimatadation factor  you don't get with a DSLR. Suddenly, grocery stores, retail, bars etc... are fair game -- well, let's say in the game.

What is kinda cool too is that you don't have to mess with all the camera settings in these point-and-shoots. Shooting with an LCD in sunlight sucks though.

Damnn, I am starting to waffle on this. Sean will be ripping me a new one before dawn!  ::)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 07, 2012, 14:13
Uhhhh...

(http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/21457766/2/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.jpg)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: vonkara on September 07, 2012, 14:13

Yeah a real advantage is the stealth and non-intimatadation factor  you don't get with a DSLR. Suddenly, grocery stores, retail, bars etc... are fair game -- well, let's say in the game.

What is kinda cool too is that you don't have to mess with all the camera settings in these point-and-shoots. Shooting with an LCD in sunlight sucks though.


I agree on this, I know for asking that I can't take out my camera with the 24-70 on it in a mall without having the security at least looking at me.

The question is, does a small point and shoot camera can be reviewed with the same standards as an iphone picture. I really have no need of an iphone at the moment and certainly won't pay a monthly fee only for taking pictures in malls and grocery stores. I guess that's a Istock forum question...
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 07, 2012, 14:16
Uhhhh...

([url]http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/21457766/2/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.jpg[/url])


OHMYGAWD... the walls are crumbling as I speak!!  :o
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: vonkara on September 07, 2012, 14:17
Uhhhh...

([url]http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/21457766/2/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.jpg[/url])


LOL, square with a white frame and a tweeked wrong color balance only hipsters can achieve. It be funny if it even sell once.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 07, 2012, 14:19
Nice stuff FV.
 Suddenly, grocery stores, retail, bars etc... are fair game -- well, let's say in the game.
Don't you need a permission release for them for editorial?

Are the acceptance standards much lower for phones than for p&ss?
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 07, 2012, 14:21
Don't you need a permission release for them for editorial?

But not for commercial.

Lol, I know, I know.  As I said, I'm sure there's a market, but hopefully they will find a way to segment these out so they don't affect the regular collection standards.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: traveler1116 on September 07, 2012, 14:24
Nice stuff FV.
 Suddenly, grocery stores, retail, bars etc... are fair game -- well, let's say in the game.
Don't you need a permission release for them for editorial?
I just browsed the collection and don't see anything from grocery stores or bars.  I would assume those standards will be the same as the other collections.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 07, 2012, 14:25
Don't you need a permission release for them for editorial?

But not for commercial.

Lol, I know, I know. 

Yeah, but how often would you find a shop or bar with no IP issues? By the time you'd drawn attention to yourself getting into weird positions or moving stuff around, you might as well pull out your dSLR. And if you're going to have to spend ages cloning out stuff, again you might as well have taken it on your dSLR and had more size options.

I just don't see (m)any photos coming through that couldn't have been taken on a p&S or dSLR.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: EmberMike on September 07, 2012, 14:51
Anyone know if, hypothetically, a new photographer applied to istock, could they use iPhone photos to pass the initial application process?

I'm not planning to try it. Just curious.

Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 07, 2012, 14:59
Don't you need a permission release for them for editorial?

But not for commercial.

Lol, I know, I know. 

Yeah, but how often would you find a shop or bar with no IP issues? By the time you'd drawn attention to yourself getting into weird positions or moving stuff around, you might as well pull out your dSLR. And if you're going to have to spend ages cloning out stuff, again you might as well have taken it on your dSLR and had more size options.

I just don't see (m)any photos coming through that couldn't have been taken on a p&S or dSLR.

sue -- i've done undercover produce section and got accepted without IP.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 07, 2012, 15:04
Anyone know if, hypothetically, a new photographer applied to istock, could they use iPhone photos to pass the initial application process?

I'm not planning to try it. Just curious.


I'm guessing so. EvilClown, an iStock admin posted:
"It can be sure and the point of this is not to make everyone put down their DSLR and start using phones... but what if you don't have your D800 with you? Or you don't own a DSLR and only have a mobile phone.

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=346647&page=3 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=346647&page=3)  (3rd post on that page)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 07, 2012, 15:05
Don't you need a permission release for them for editorial?

But not for commercial.

Lol, I know, I know. 

Yeah, but how often would you find a shop or bar with no IP issues? By the time you'd drawn attention to yourself getting into weird positions or moving stuff around, you might as well pull out your dSLR. And if you're going to have to spend ages cloning out stuff, again you might as well have taken it on your dSLR and had more size options.

I just don't see (m)any photos coming through that couldn't have been taken on a p&S or dSLR.

sue -- i've done undercover produce section and got accepted without IP.

Fruit and veg? I've done that with my dSLR!
But the advantage of phone is that they don't seem to expect a proper white balance.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: heywoody on September 07, 2012, 17:13
Here's the thing, a picture is a picture and you either have standards or you don't and differing standards are the same as no standards.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 07, 2012, 18:16
Here's the thing, a picture is a picture and you either have standards or you don't and differing standards are the same as no standards.

Yes and no. Buyers have differing standards regarding technical requirements vs image content and style etc. Buyers also have money to spend on what they like. I only pick up a camera to make money. I am a whore but love the lifestyle.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: sharpshot on September 08, 2012, 02:16
The mobile phones with a decent camera cost too much at the moment.  I'd like to have one but there's always something I'd rather have instead.  Broke the lens on my Fuji compact and I'll probably get a Fujifilm FinePix Z1000EXR.  It's about the size of a mobile phone and can be used like one, with a touch screen but has better image quality than most phone at a much lower price.  And I wont have a phone ring tone going off while I'm taking photos.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: EmberMike on September 08, 2012, 10:51

I'm still wondering why the phone is preferred over a DSLR and then using some filters like these (http://www.caseymacphoto.com/casey-mac-vintage-presets) to create that vintage Instagram look.

The phone is just a tool. What they seem to want is a certain look, which can be easily achieved in a much higher resolution image from a DSLR. But visually, there's nothing preventing someone from capturing the same image on a DSLR that would be had with a phone and then giving it that phone look in post.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: stockastic on September 08, 2012, 11:35
The phone is just a tool. What they seem to want is a certain look...

I think that behind all this 'mobile photography' nonsense, what they really want is photos that look like they were taken by young people.  I am totally serious when I say this. 



Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: vonkara on September 08, 2012, 11:50
The phone is just a tool. What they seem to want is a certain look...

I think that behind all this 'mobile photography' nonsense, what they really want is photos that look like they were taken by young people.  I am totally serious when I say this.

 :D
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ffNixx on September 08, 2012, 12:32
I think that behind all this 'mobile photography' nonsense, what they really want is photos that look like they were taken by young people.  I am totally serious when I say this.

You're right! They're looking for people under thirty making faces at the camera, awkwardly holding their bikes, scooters, skateboards or bottles of water. Pants drooping, perhaps held up with a buckly belt, loose t-shirts and old trainers. Their bodies should be all elbows and wrists and wobbly knees, and the make up on the girls should look vaguely goth. Their hair should be pointy or flattened, the boys' a carefully arranged mess. They should look like they are on their way somewhere, but not in a hurry, like from point A in the park to point B in the park. Or they're at a festival and just hanging out in front of their tent. At least one of them should be laughing, another look confused, while the rest are making faces. You'll get rich if you shoot that!
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: heywoody on September 08, 2012, 12:35
Cool and "edgy" like the downtime page  ;D
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 08, 2012, 13:03
I think that behind all this 'mobile photography' nonsense, what they really want is photos that look like they were taken by young people.  I am totally serious when I say this.

You're right! They're looking for people under thirty making faces at the camera, awkwardly holding their bikes, scooters, skateboards or bottles of water. Pants drooping, perhaps held up with a buckly belt, loose t-shirts and old trainers. Their bodies should be all elbows and wrists and wobbly knees, and the make up on the girls should look vaguely goth. Their hair should be pointy or flattened, the boys' a carefully arranged mess. They should look like they are on their way somewhere, but not in a hurry, like from point A in the park to point B in the park. Or they're at a festival and just hanging out in front of their tent. At least one of them should be laughing, another look confused, while the rest are making faces. You'll get rich if you shoot that!

And why couldn't you shoot that shakily on a dSLR or p&s and leave it to the deeziner to add several colour casts and take down the contrast?

NB, I'm not 'against' mobile phone pics as such, except if pics similar in IQ to those I had rejected for poor light are accepted. I still don't see any photos coming through that could only have been taken on a 'traditional' camera. However, people do seem to be taking less stock-y pics, which I like, but it remains to see what the buyers will think.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: stockastic on September 08, 2012, 13:12
I think that behind all this 'mobile photography' nonsense, what they really want is photos that look like they were taken by young people.  I am totally serious when I say this.

You're right! They're looking for people under thirty making faces at the camera, awkwardly holding their bikes, scooters, skateboards or bottles of water. Pants drooping, perhaps held up with a buckly belt, loose t-shirts and old trainers. Their bodies should be all elbows and wrists and wobbly knees, and the make up on the girls should look vaguely goth. Their hair should be pointy or flattened, the boys' a carefully arranged mess. They should look like they are on their way somewhere, but not in a hurry, like from point A in the park to point B in the park. Or they're at a festival and just hanging out in front of their tent. At least one of them should be laughing, another look confused, while the rest are making faces. You'll get rich if you shoot that!

LOL although I'm not quite sure if you're really agreeing with me... :-)

I'm not necessarily thinking in such negative ways.   There's an ongoing change in ideas about photographic imagery.  When I was a kid my Dad had the camera (kids didn't) and he carefully lined us up for formal portraits.  Today, 15-year-olds all pack cameras and shoot by sticking the phone out at arm's length, unannounced. To sell products to kids today, you need photos that look like they were taken by their peers, not their parents.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 08, 2012, 13:45
And why couldn't you shoot that shakily on a dSLR or p&s and leave it to the deeziner to add several colour casts and take down the contrast?


Anywhere close?
(http://www.lizworld.com/Mobilestock.jpg)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: cathyslife on September 08, 2012, 15:30
I think that behind all this 'mobile photography' nonsense, what they really want is photos that look like they were taken by young people.  I am totally serious when I say this.

I hope somebody posts here the first "duckface" that gets uploaded to istock.  :D
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 08, 2012, 22:08
Ya know...Their is something really cool about strolling around HomeDepot taking tons of photos with your iPhone on high-res mode, right in front of sales staff  and they never say a word.

Try that with a 5D and 24/70 glass  8)

OX
...undercover apple shooter
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: tab62 on September 08, 2012, 22:41
Yes, I am using my 20 lbs canon 1D Mark IV with my 10 lbs 24-70mm lens - as mobile as an M1 Abrams Army Tank...
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Reef on September 09, 2012, 04:04
The phone is just a tool. What they seem to want is a certain look...

I think that behind all this 'mobile photography' nonsense, what they really want is photos that look like they were taken by young people.  I am totally serious when I say this.

You hit this one on the nail I believe. I backup my kids iPod photos for posterity but perhaps its time to look through them. They can earn their own pocket money then :)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: LSD72 on September 09, 2012, 08:14
Just strap one of these on your regular camera. http://shop.holgadirect.com/products/holga-nikon-camera-slr-lens-hl-n (http://shop.holgadirect.com/products/holga-nikon-camera-slr-lens-hl-n)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 09, 2012, 08:17
Just strap one of these on your regular camera. [url]http://shop.holgadirect.com/products/holga-nikon-camera-slr-lens-hl-n[/url] ([url]http://shop.holgadirect.com/products/holga-nikon-camera-slr-lens-hl-n[/url])

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: red on September 09, 2012, 10:38
I've had a digital tilt-shift image accepted at DT. I submitted it just to see if it would pass and it did, and has sold a few times. Neingrenze 5000T, very small and plastic but easy to carry and kind of fun. These are some samples, not mine...

Neingrenze 5000T Sample Photos Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5WcWq5p5o#)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: OM on September 09, 2012, 14:48
 ;D

http://thedoghousediaries.com/4542 (http://thedoghousediaries.com/4542)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: stockastic on September 09, 2012, 18:53
Expedited review if 3 people in the photo have visible tattoos.

Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 11, 2012, 12:24
As kinda expected, I am getting and inspection beat down on my iphone shots for compression artifacts, noise, color distortion, and over filtering. My initial images were approved but that looks like a fluke.

Oh well, back to the 5D.

Anyone else getting alot of mobile shots accepted or rejected?
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 12, 2012, 10:43
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457823-mobile-smiling-teen-looking-at-camera.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457823-mobile-smiling-teen-looking-at-camera.php)
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457802-mobile-lone-florida-palm-tree-against-clouds.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457802-mobile-lone-florida-palm-tree-against-clouds.php)
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.php)
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457781-mobile-signs-at-a-fair-for-fried-foods.php (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457781-mobile-signs-at-a-fair-for-fried-foods.php)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: oxman on September 12, 2012, 10:54
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457823-mobile-smiling-teen-looking-at-camera.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457823-mobile-smiling-teen-looking-at-camera.php[/url])
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457802-mobile-lone-florida-palm-tree-against-clouds.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457802-mobile-lone-florida-palm-tree-against-clouds.php[/url])
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.php[/url])
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457781-mobile-signs-at-a-fair-for-fried-foods.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457781-mobile-signs-at-a-fair-for-fried-foods.php[/url])


Nice stuff Sean. What's your acceptance ratio for your mobile stuff? I'm about 40% to 50%.  Those sky artifacts are killing me. Are you downsizing? I've been looking for a downsizing script for Photoshop CS6. Can't find one. BTW - there is nothing in your mobile photo light box at the moment.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 12, 2012, 11:06
4 for 4. :)  No downsizing.  Straight from phone, except for the sign one which I cleaned out a logo thing.

The search needs to update before the banner will work...
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 12, 2012, 11:17
4 for 4. :)  No downsizing.  Straight from phone, except for the sign one which I cleaned out a logo thing.

The search needs to update before the banner will work...

No, the banner's working.  :)
I've found I have to save banners twice before they'll show. It's not time; save them twice, I can see them immediately, save once and I can't see them after half an hour.

Maybe other people can see them, but not you?
Oh, who knows? Certainly not their IT people.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 12, 2012, 11:19
No, I mean they just got approved - the search won't show the images until the next index.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: ShadySue on September 12, 2012, 11:33
Aren't Oreos or Twinkies brand names?
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 12, 2012, 11:36
Oh well...
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: heywoody on September 12, 2012, 17:25
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457823-mobile-smiling-teen-looking-at-camera.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457823-mobile-smiling-teen-looking-at-camera.php[/url])
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457802-mobile-lone-florida-palm-tree-against-clouds.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457802-mobile-lone-florida-palm-tree-against-clouds.php[/url])
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457766-mobile-teen-looking-off-into-distance-from-below.php[/url])
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457781-mobile-signs-at-a-fair-for-fried-foods.php[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-21457781-mobile-signs-at-a-fair-for-fried-foods.php[/url])


Do you think these are approved because:

(a)   They meet normal image acceptance criteria at IS?
(b)   They meet a lower standard because they are taken using a phone?
(c)   Because you’re you?
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 12, 2012, 17:49
I would say a mix of A and B.  they're in focus and exposed ok.  They're obviously filtered and slightly noisy, but I assume that's part of the aura they're looking for with these.  They shouldn't know it's me when reviewing afaik.  Hopefully when the zoom works buyers will be able to inspect as needed and maybe the keyword will equal segregation into a collection.

Eta: she's not one of my usual models, so they wouldn't associate her to me.  I am trying to do some phone shooting during my regular shoots so they may recognize those.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Mantis on September 12, 2012, 17:59
They're obviously filtered

Straight from phone

Which one is it?
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: red on September 12, 2012, 18:11
Today's phones (not just iphones) have filters built in so they could be straight from the phone with a phone filter applied. You pick your filter then shoot and you get what you get. Different results with different filters. Instagram is in the keywords so I'm assuming he used that iphone filter.

I think he means that he didn't do any post-processing (correct me if I'm wrong).
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Mantis on September 12, 2012, 18:13
Today's phones have filters built in so they could be straight from the phone with a phone filter applied. You pick one filter then shoot and you get what you get. Different results with different filters. I think he means that he didn't do any post-processing (correct me if I'm wrong).

Wow.  You learn something new every day. Probably most certainly what he means then.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 12, 2012, 18:22
Yes, they're shot with the instagram 'camera/filters'.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: heywoody on September 12, 2012, 18:32
Interesting, so (b).

I phrased it imprecisely though and should have said different standard not lower as I don’t believe minor technical flaws necessarily mean an image is bad but, then again, I’m not an IS reviewer.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Mantis on September 12, 2012, 18:42
Yes, they're shot with the instagram 'camera/filters'.

Are these photo apps you can download?
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Caz on September 13, 2012, 05:31

There's an ongoing change in ideas about photographic imagery.  When I was a kid my Dad had the camera (kids didn't) and he carefully lined us up for formal portraits.  Today, 15-year-olds all pack cameras and shoot by sticking the phone out at arm's length, unannounced. To sell products to kids today, you need photos that look like they were taken by their peers, not their parents.

Finally, someone who gets it! Gets it so much I wanted to quote it.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: leaf on September 13, 2012, 05:36

There's an ongoing change in ideas about photographic imagery.  When I was a kid my Dad had the camera (kids didn't) and he carefully lined us up for formal portraits.  Today, 15-year-olds all pack cameras and shoot by sticking the phone out at arm's length, unannounced. To sell products to kids today, you need photos that look like they were taken by their peers, not their parents.

Finally, someone who gets it! Gets it so much I wanted to quote it.

spot on. I gave you a heart for that :)
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Caz on September 13, 2012, 05:38
Yes, they're shot with the instagram 'camera/filters'.

Are these photo apps you can download?

Yes.
Just as a general observation (I don't know that you are Mantis, but I suspect you could not have escaped knowing about these things otherwise), I've noticed those who are reluctant to embrace social media miss out on so many important trends that affect advertisting (and so what we should be shooting & how we do it) Downloadable apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic and Snapseed have been shaping how the majority of under 30's in the developed world communicate now. Hence my desire to quote Stocktastic above. Of course it's a fad, there'll be something different soon, but currently this is what people with products that they want to sell to people under 30 want.
Title: Re: Are you shooting with a mobile phone yet?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on September 19, 2012, 08:21
A couple more here: http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/351711/?facets={%2235%22:%22mobilestock%22} (http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/351711/?facets={%2235%22:%22mobilestock%22}) if you care...