NY Times: Travel Photos/Cellphone?

[TLCOhio]

From the New York Times Travel Section this past weekend, they had this headline: “Travel Photography: How to Make the Most of Your Cellphone Camera” by James Hill with these highlights: “A cellphone allows travelers to have a camera always at the ready. The latest phones offer multiple lenses with better resolution and enhanced macro and telephoto capabilities, enabling virtually every moment to be captured for posterity. This can be both a blessing and a curse. When should we be taking a photograph and when should we simply be taking the time to look and wonder at the world around us?”

 

A wide variety of ideas and tips are offered.  This includes: "Try to capture a wide variety of images. While it is important to concentrate on classic landscape shots and portraits, also search for photographs with arresting colors and shapes, as well as the details of objects, works of art and food — the things that flavor a place and weave its visual tapestry."

 

Also: "Choosing the best pictures is just as important as taking them. If you have been making a separate album of your favorites, you already have a base from which to start. Nonetheless, take your time and go through all the photographs you have taken, scrolling through the images at least twice."

 

Full story at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/travel/travel-photography-cellphones.html

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio

 

Canada 2022/2023: Scenic visuals, details from Canada Maritimes (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island).  Plus, new from Aug. 2023, exploring historic/charming Quebec City.    Visual/Info Summaries:

www.flickr.com/photos/196555480@N08/albums

[TLCOhio]

While doing cruises and travel trips, my main camera is a Nikon D7200.  Many pluses and reasons for using that camera, its lenses, etc.  

 

BUT, cell phone cameras and quality keeps getting better.  Plus, quick and handy to shoot a variety of visuals, capture fun moments when a bigger camera is too much, etc.  

 

From our Quebec City exploring in mid August, the cell phone was quick and adjusts well in lower light circumstances.  This is especially true to capture "food porn" moments.  Plus, the quality of that image can be very good and easy to work with on my MacBook Pro laptop.  

 

Nice to have that cell phone option to use . . . quickly!!!

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio

 

While in historic and charming Quebec City earlier this month, below are three quick cell phone visuals that worked well to capture the moment with our food experiences and in one of the interesting dining locations in this walled town with so much character and dining excitement.:

(Open your screen/viewer wider to see these visuals larger/better!)

 

 

[TLCOhio]

 

Doing this afternoon a session at the Apple Store for using the iPhone for photography.  Will make notes and maybe share more later.   

 

From that NY Times story originally cited and linked, one reader posted this comment: "I was once showing some vacation photos to a pro video friend and apologized for some of them by saying I'm not a very good technical photographer. She told me 'You can learn the technical stuff, but you have a really good eye and you can't really teach that.' I'd never thought about any of that, as I just shot what I thought was interesting. Her kind comment gave me more confidence that I had some idea of what I was doing and went on to take some classes to learn more of the mechanics."

 

Great comment about having the "EYE" for the better, more interesting visual pictures. That skill and/or gift makes all of the difference of capturing those memorable and key images.  

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio

 

Norway Coast/Fjords/Arctic Circle cruise from Copenhagen, July 2010, to the top of Europe. Scenic visuals with key tips. Live/blog at 248,537 views.

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/1172051-livesilver-cloud-norway-coastfjords-july-1-16-reports/

[eileeshb]

I attended a couple of the mojo (mobile journalism) conferences held here in ireland when I was doing a journalism masters. They included a few photographers and videographers who had converted to smartphones almost entirely. I've used various phones as well as dSLRs and a mirrorless over the years and the only use case where the dSLR outperforms the rest is in the variety off lenses you can use , particularly telephoto lenses for sports or nature. However I just got the Samsun S23 ultra and tried it out this morning for the surf report pictures at work. The camera we usually use is a really old bridge camera that can't cope with mist at all, on my old phone I'd have set it to x3 zoom and the image would still be pretty grainy. This is the shot from a misty morning and low tide using the new phone x10 zoom, the waves were a good 500+m from me.. To be absolutely honest I could see the waves and surfers more clearly on phone screen than with my bare eye ! 

[TLCOhio]

19 hours ago, eileeshb said:

I attended a couple of the mojo (mobile journalism) conferences held here in ireland when I was doing a journalism masters. They included a few photographers and videographers who had converted to smartphones almost entirely. I've used various phones as well as dSLRs and a mirrorless over the years and the only use case where the dSLR outperforms the rest is in the variety off lenses you can use , particularly telephoto lenses for sports or nature. However I just got the Samsun S23 ultra and tried it out this morning for the surf report pictures at work.

 

Great follow-up and this visual example for how your new Samsung camera phone is working.  Yes, it is amazing how this technology has dramatically improved and involved.  

 

At that Apple Store program earlier this week, I learned much more about the many options that are possible for using your iPhone for shooting and editing.  While I do not have the newest iPhone 14 Pro, there are a nice variety of "tricks" and techniques to know and use with these newer Apple products.  As an example, on the large round button at the bottom when in camera mode, it will capture a single picture.  but if you hold down that button continuously, it will quickly shift to taking a video while holding down on that button.  Nice trick to grab video quickly!!

 

But, one warning.  You need to check the iPhone camera settings.  It is possible to shoot at a very level of quality that is like capturing "RAW" on my Nikon DSLR.  But, shooting at that level takes up much more memory.  Trade-offs??  Be careful as to what you seek and want?      

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio

[Host Bonjour]

On 9/2/2023 at 7:20 AM, TLCOhio said:

 But, shooting at that level takes up much more memory

 

You can transfer the photos to the cloud (various options through Apple, or Google, or maybe some other service you already subscribe to has an option) or transfer to a backup drive to save space on the camera, don't forget. 

 

Having the ability to take such complex images on the smartphone can be incredible, as you see what's possible–the brilliant quality, especially when you can turn the settings on/off. 

 

It can be handy for when you see something you want to capture and don't happen to have (or just forgot) the DSLR but want the better quality image. It might not yet match, depending on the conditions (great available lighting, model of phone/sensor etc) but it's a lot closer than it ever was and in many cases, print a stunning exhibition image. 

 

Creators have been using the phones to make images and films for a while now, with various accoutrements etc. (not only the phone) so the quality is there. (And lots of storage devices/plans!)

 

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[Turtles06]

I have an iPhone 13 Pro that I bought a little over a year ago for its camera. My iPhone 8 was still working fine as a phone, but after seeing the quality of the camera images on my wife’s iPhone 11, I realized it was time to get a new phone. 
 

Once I got the 13 Pro, I also took an on line  iPhone photography course, which was well worth it, because there are so many features built into the camera that you would just not know about. 
 

I’ve gotten to the point in my life that schlepping the DSLR, even mirrorless, with lenses, chargers, batteries, on trips is getting to be a bit much. In the past year, I’ve gone on a few trips with just my iPhone, and I haven’t regretted it, especially on land tours where I’m walking around all day. It’s been nice to go light.