iPhone Fun

When I bought my first iPhone, a 3GS, at the end of 2009 I really didn’t even care so much about the fact that it had a camera. Cell phones have had cameras in them for years, crappy low-resolution cameras not worthy of even your dog’s photo. It wasn’t until I began posting photos on my Facebook page did I even regularly use my iPhone camera for anything other than to shoot rosters to ID players at high school sporting events or to snap photos of things like gift ideas for family. Even then, at best, I would use it for a family snapshot every once in a while or for a fun shot covering Razorback games.

Then, at the beginning of this year, I bought an iPhone 4. “This is a decent camera,” I thought to myself. About a month or so later I added the Hipstamatic app and everything changed. Of course I’m a bit slow on the iPhone app scene, so many people already had Hipstamatic at this point. But it was still a fun new outlet for me to take a stab at being “artsy” whenever the opportunity presents itself. Much simpler, and cheaper, than carrying my Holga around with me all the time — it’s baking in the heat on the floorboard of my Jeep as I type this (I’m thinking maybe the heat, more than a month now, will add a cool effect to the already artsy Holga look). So now when I’m on assignment or just out and about I’m always thinking, “Will this make a neat iPhone shot of this too?”

So, this gallery is now the home of my attempt at being artsy and/or just having fun with my iPhone. All of the photos are shot using the John S lens and Ina’s 1969 film, the only combination I seem to like. I will be adding to the gallery regularly, so keep checking back.