photo booth.
There are some fabulous camera photographers out there (Lumilyon springs immediately to mind) and I'm not one of them.
I do love using my phone as my principle camera though. For all the lack (currently) in terms of depth of focus and lens operation they gain in terms of immediacy in sharing of images and the ability to either edit the images in a range of apps or, my personal favourite thing, to take the images through an app which will change the context and capture of the image itself. See below, for example...
I do love using my phone as my principle camera though. For all the lack (currently) in terms of depth of focus and lens operation they gain in terms of immediacy in sharing of images and the ability to either edit the images in a range of apps or, my personal favourite thing, to take the images through an app which will change the context and capture of the image itself. See below, for example...
The below images were drawn using photo textures captured at the time. The left image was drawn in a Wetherspoon's pub while talking to the fabulous Lumilyon and Nettie Edwards. The right hand image was drawn on a Eurostar train as I was on the way to the Hockney exhibition in Paris, way back when. Both were drawn on an iPod touch using Brushes app. To be able to draw and add a photographed texture in seconds was, and is, a hugely freeing and joyous experience.
Not that people don't look at me as if I'm a complete fruitcake while I'm taking a photograph of a pub carpet or train seat leather headrest but hey, I have orange hair, I'm used to being looked at as if I'm a fruitcake...
Not that people don't look at me as if I'm a complete fruitcake while I'm taking a photograph of a pub carpet or train seat leather headrest but hey, I have orange hair, I'm used to being looked at as if I'm a fruitcake...
Apps used: Halftone, Snapseed, You Gotta See This, Autostitch. For the paintings: Camera app and Brushes v2.