Finding Your Mobile Photo Mojo

ﬁnding your mobile photo
mojo

victor hernandez

“THE BEST CAMERA IS THE
ONE THAT’S WITH YOU”
-- Chase Jarvis

Oh hey, by the way...
Every single image in this presentation
was shot on a camera phone

Richard ‘Koci’
Hernandez
• Multimedia Professor
• UC Berkeley Journalism School
• Mobile Reporting Guide
• @koci

“People do not
understand the
unbelievable opportunity
that mobile photography
is giving photographers.
It’s a golden age.”
-- Richard ‘Koci’ Hernandez

Tools of the trade
• Smartphone

• Lens kit

• Battery pack

• Apps (photography, editing, sharing)

Smartphones - iPhone
• 8 megapixel camera
• Better low-light
• Larger ﬁle sizes
• Panorama mode

Smartphones -
Android
• Also 8 megapixel
• Burst mode = ultra fast!
• Easy to use
• Fantastic viewﬁnder

Galaxy S III

Smartphones - Nokia
808
• Whopping 41 megapixels!
• Extra-large sensor
• Expensive
• Not intended for U.S. (Symbian)

Telephoto lens kit
• iPhone telephoto lens
• 8X telephoto view
• $35 bucks
• PSA: Gadget Library

All about the extra
JUICE
• Absolutely essential
• rechargeable external battery
• Hard-shell phone case
• TIP: Don’t wait to charge!

Apps
picture taking

ProCamera $2.99 Camera+ $1.99 Camera Awesome free Camera Zoom FX $2.99

Apps
picture taking

ProCamera $2.99 Camera+ $1.99 Camera Awesome free Camera Zoom FX $2.99

editing

Snapseed $4.99 Photoshop Express free Filterstorm $3.99 PicsPlayPro $3.99

Rise of Instagram
Instagram now beating
Twitter in Daily Mobile
Users for the ﬁrst time.

Average Instagram user
spent 257 minutes
accessing the photo-
sharing site via mobile
device in August.

Source: comScore

Rise of Instagram
Instagram now beating
Twitter in Daily Mobile
Users for the ﬁrst time.

170

Average Instagram user
spent 257 minutes
accessing the photo-
sharing site via mobile
device in August.

Source: comScore

Creative Filters Active Community

Path Flickr Hipstamatic PicPlz iReport

But wait, there are othe

Sweat the Technique
• never use the mobile zoom.

Sweat the Technique
• always shoot horizontal

Sweat the Technique
• stability supports everything

Sweat the Technique
• go big with full screen trigger

Sweat the Technique
• organize your game - use folders

Sweat the Technique
• organize your game - use folders
• *ﬁlters for news images requires
discussion

let there be light

Courtesy: iPhoneography Central / Koshi

black and white >
neutral >
brightness -55

pushing boundaries
• magazine covers
• weddings
• award-winning journalism

In 2010 professional photographers
used Nokia’s 12 megapixel N8 cell
phone instead
of DSLR camera to shoot the cover for
S. Africa
photography magazine, PIX.
How do you think it turned out?

Earlier this year Sports Illustrated published 20
Instagram photos Senior NFL Writer Peter King
captured while covering team training camps

Earlier this year Sports Illustrated published 20
Instagram photos Senior NFL Writer Peter King
captured while covering team training camps

Time Inc. Sports Group editor Terry McDonell
told Mashable that the feature
“reﬂects the ‘socialization’ of photojournalism”

Ladies, would you trust a wedding
photographer that showed on your big
day with only an iPhone?

An Instagram Wedding
In mid-August, Instagrammers
@kimathomas and @colerise
photographed a wedding at San
Francisco City Hall with just iPhones and
Instagram. The couple -
@jonathanbuckley and @blynnsfbay -
met and fell in love in SF, and they
wanted a wedding day full of the things
that make The City so wonderful,
including a number of startup inﬂuences
(Instagram).

In 2011 Damon Winter of The
New York Times won third place
for feature picture story from
Pictures of the Year International
with photographs taken on an
iPhone using the Hipstamatic
app.

Critics have pounced. The
debate over the propriety of
using apps, already hot, is
intensifying.

Winters later wrote in a NYT blog... I have
always loved shooting in a square format.

This program allows you to shoot and —
most importantly — compose in that
format. I could not have taken these
photos using my S.L.R. and that perhaps
is the most important point to be made
about the camera phone in this story.

“We are not walking photocopiers.
We are storytellers. We observe, we
chose moments, we frame little
slices of our world with our
viewﬁnders.”
-- Damon Winters

overshoot but don’t
overshare

Photo Credits
• http://dpnow.com/galleries/data//500/snooker.jpg

• http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/afg092812/
a29_52806658.jpg

• http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y3m8SGAUQeQ/T62hcUa2qII/
AAAAAAAABCU/u1GvwcsHwoU/s1600/very.jpg

• http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/
177433/the-beneﬁts-drawbacks-of-using-camera-phones-
as-a-photojournalist/

• http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/isnob/7979005310/

• http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000w9BgM8mpg4k/
s/900/900/leeds-city-street-stones-circular-texture-round-
rocks-black-and-white-iphone-photo.jpg

• http://kimathomasblog.squarespace.com/blog-home/

• http://image.naldzgraphics.net/2012/03/5-rule-of-thirds.jpg

• http://www.iphoneographycentral.com/tutorial/view-tutorial-
detail/id/157

• http://statigr.am/p/303000528795533578_202546855

• http://statigr.am/p/145939018527132435_5462929

• http://www.justwhatisee.com/images.html

• http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-
not-hipstamatics/

• http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/24/nokia-n8-earns-its-
fashion-wings-ﬁlls-in-for-dslr-on-magazine/

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