iPhone Rolling Shutter: A Creative Constraint
Due to the rolling shutter of the iPhone, you can sometimes distort the photo or create varied amounts of blur across the photo as it is taken. What is ‘rolling shutter’ you may ask?
A Fire Runs Through It.
A Fire Runs Through It., originally uploaded by ms4jah. As originally written by the Flickr photog: “(Taken on my Apple iphone, straight from phone cam, no computer enhancement, my Nikon D50 is broken. Location is Artesian Road in Rancho Santa fe; Highest position on explore was #2; this photo was also picked up by the [...]
‘A Drive by Shooting’ or ‘Monkeys at Your Heels’
For today it’s not lo-fi equipment I’ll be talking about. Today I’m going to tell you about Lo-fi talent. And luck. And the masses. And cheap accessible technology. Yesterday’s experiment was based on this lo-fi kick I’m on. (Illustration of how I held my camera to shoot through my car window) I asked myself what [...]
iPhone=Digital Holga
The iPhone produces a wonderfully random image, much like a Holga. Colors are uneven across the frame and the photos are kinda soft…
Teaching film making at the University of Washington
For the last week I have been teaching a course in documentary film making for a program called Climate Quest at the University of Washington. The goal is to take groups of high school students from all over Washington State through the process of preproduction, filming and post production, and help them make compelling short [...]
