Hello,
Today I wanted to have a little fun and make this suggestion – your camera is nothing without you. It’s an inert machine that requires your vision, your inspiration, your excitement and energy to create interesting photos.
So to illustrate this today I want to send you some photos I took in the last few weeks with my smartphone camera.
I want to show you that:
1) It doesn’t matter what camera you have – good photos can always be created.
2) Regardless of where, and with what you are shooting, take time to pause and compose your shot! In fact taking photos in the day-to-day way with your phone camera is an awesome way to practise composition. A little practise every day will do wonders!
So let’s see what I came up with with my smartphone camera in these past few weeks….
How many of the photos in this post are about light?
Light doing interesting things is everywhere. You just need to look out for it….
What do you think? Am I right – or do you totally disagree? I’d love to know!! Let me know in the comments below. It’s amazing hearing what you think.
Have a great day,
Anthony and Diana
PS – here is the 19th shot, taken by Di, on the subject of how difficult it is to take a nap when there is a 5 year old around 🙂
Andy
21/01/2020 @ 12:03 PM
Hi Anthony the best Camera……is the one you got in your hand love your stuff thanks for the ride
Diana Bird
23/01/2020 @ 6:17 PM
Yes totally agree! Thank you Andy, really happy you enjoying our work 🙂
Peter
19/12/2019 @ 10:01 AM
Photography is a passion. A good picture does not always depend on the quality of camera. If the vision of a photographer is no good enough its valueless how much price the camera is. A camera is an inert machine it doesn’t have any self capacity to capture a great picture. It totally depends on the vision, inspiration, excitement, and energy of photographer.
Anthony Epes
31/12/2019 @ 12:15 PM
That is the lesson in a nutshell. Thank you
Philip Hall
21/11/2019 @ 1:02 PM
Photography is an art. Not everyone is an artist. As the article says the camera doesn’t matter at all. By reading the article it actually proves right how beautifully the picture was taken. It completely belongs to the hands of the cameraperson.
BOYE ADEWODU
05/11/2019 @ 1:30 PM
Thanks for this post. I take a lot of photos using my camera phone. It’s easy and convenient and one can catch any scene on the go.
I do enjoy your other posts and you and your wife inspire me a lot.
BOYE ADEWODU
Diana Bird
07/11/2019 @ 6:25 AM
Thank you Boye! We love what we do, so we are so glad you are enjoying our work.
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Yves Gagne
13/03/2018 @ 3:06 PM
When i’m walking in the woods i’m always looking for the light o come through, hitting a creature or a plant. Yes light is everuthing in photography.
Epes
23/04/2018 @ 8:35 PM
It really is a way of living a rich life when you are seeing it that way…
Michael Rooke
15/09/2017 @ 10:15 AM
Some great shots and sound ideas. I lead a camera club and we are expecting to see more and more competition entries coming from modern mobile phones. With the ease of post-processing in camera improving rapidly these are exciting developments. Some phones are better than others though. Which one do you use Anthony?
You are so right that it is the eye of the photographer not the equipment that makes the difference. I still love using my DSLR and tripod though!
I’ll put a link to your blog on our website. Good luck on your travels.
Epes
15/09/2017 @ 10:25 AM
Thanks for the linkback Michael! Glad you like the post. My phone is a Samsung Edge G7. Great screen and fairly good sensor. I really don’t know much about cameraphones other than the are super easy to use. LOL!