iPhone Photography – On My Way Home

iPhone Photography is going to change the way a lot of people shoot. Me included. I have a camera with me all the time now. The terminology used should really be mobile photography, I think. Other smart phones, like those on Android, will allow you to do the same. I only have iPhone and I am happy with it. If you have Android phones, use it and have fun with it.

What makes iPhone photography so fun and powerful are the apps and the increasingly good quality camera that comes with the phone. Having some photography knowledge helps. At least for me. But, if you don’t know, don’t let that stop you. Shoot a lot and have fun. This is subjective, I know, but the more you shoot, the more you will know what generally makes good images, and the more you will train your eyes to see the subjects and the moments.

I have some photography apps on my iPhone, and I use almost all of them. I can’t really decide which one is my favorite now, but one day I may have favorite(s) when I have used them enough. For now, “what’s in the bag” of my iPhone are: Camera+, SnapSeed, Filterstorm, Hipstamatic, Instagram, PS Express, PhotoStudio, Spica, SlowShutter and MonoPhix.

The series of images here, “On My Way Home”, were shot using the Hipstamatic app. The “lens” and “film” used were John S and BlacKeys B+W. The original images had slight color tint and I removed it in Adobe Lightroom. I could have removed it using MonoPhix app too, but I was too lazy to go back to my iPhone after downloading the images to my computer.  🙂

On My Way Home, is a series of images of what I saw one morning while on my way home by bus and train. I’ll leave you with the images as it’s time for me to lie down now. I can’t walk and sit for too long yet after the surgery I had on Monday. See you all on my next post.

The woman on the right was getting ready to alight. She fixed her hair while waiting for the bus to reach the bus stop.

She got off the bus and I had these two gentlemen in front of me.

Nobody sitting behind me.

I had more companies in the bus.

I got off the bus and walked to the train station. People were making their way to work.

I was traveling east and the morning sun caught my attention when I looked out through the train’s glass door.

I arrived at my destination and saw the train on the other platform arriving. The arriving train quickly blocked the sunlight and created shadows and highlights. People were getting ready to board the train.

And just one more shot before I went home. The newspaper seller.