My terrible cell phone photography

[Phantasee]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40439147@N ... 248940643/
I'm not sure how I can get these to post on the forum like Death is always doing. Am I going to have to link each individual image?

These have been taken over the years I've owned this phone. It's terrible quality, which isn't helped by my terrible skill set. Just things I thought were amusing, or looked nice, and I found where I stashed all of them, and decided to share.

I do have some more on my phone at the moment, but I'll have to dig up the adaptor for the microSD card before those can find a safe haven.

[The Grim Squeaker]

quickr pickr.
http://quickrpickr.com

I even posted it on the useful links thread . Just put in your username on the website, and remove the "" tags.

[Phantasee]

22-12-06_1627

Schwing

30-01-07_1153

The level of smugness necessary to get your face on a $100 note: VERY HIGH.

30-01-07_1151

Comparison of old and new $100 CAD notes.

07-05-07_1858

My emo book.

23-05-07_2150

Taken from a friend's house in Terwilligar at sunset-ish.

29-08-07_1819

A secret code, perhaps?

30-08-07_2202

A galaxy of onions.

Nothing goes with chicken like onion!

06-09-07_1958

Rainbows behind my house on my sister's birthday.

14-10-07_0747

Sunrise in Strathcona County in October.

15 minutes before sunrise.

14-10-07_0800

Sunrise in Strathcona County in October.

Just before sunrise.

14-10-07_0801

Sunrise in Strathcona County in October.

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

20-10-07_1114

1993 Grand Prix. The reason I'll never buy a used GM from the 90s again.



27-10-07_2111

Flames Central is probably one of the nicest sports bars in the province. It causes me great pain to admit that the Flames may have done something better than the Oilers.

06-11-07_1825

He looks like Dr. Phil.

23-01-08_1244

I still won that game, somehow.

19-06-08_1228

Just south of the Edmonton International Airport (YEG), looking south. I estimate my position to be approx. 400m from the runway and 600m from the terminal. So much for security.

25-06-08_1318

The cockpit of my jet? Or just the view from my sleeper?

Ignore the huge steering wheel, for a moment.

26-06-08_1531

Take a few letters out of JOHN DEERE and you end up with this guy's machine: OH DEER.

I was convinced he was going to tip over any minute, the entire time he was loading the trucks in front of me.

26-07-08_1138

no seriously his name is jackass

Nice guy, though. Taken at the 2008 Rexall Edmonton Indy.

14-01-09_1300

In the Fine Arts Building at the University of Alberta.

06-03-09_1641

This was on the floor of Rutherford Library, South Building on the main floor Lobby.

06-03-09_1643

This was on the floor of Rutherford Library, South Building on the main floor Lobby.



a quickr pickr post

[Questor]

26-07-08_1138

no seriously his name is jackass

Nice guy, though. Taken at the 2008 Rexall Edmonton Indy.

For obvious reasons, this amuses me.

Into the desktop background rotation it goes.

[Simplicius]

Eh, it's all relative. 'Terrible' depends on who you're trying to impress. Or, more seriously, on how close the picture you got is to the one you were trying to get. Keep shooting, and feel free to keep sharing.

I had started fiddling with an essay I thought you'd like about casual photography but it started to grow out of control. Now there's at least two general posts and a book talk's worth, but I'm still putting it all together.

[Phantasee]

I'm glad you liked it Jason. I hadn't thought of that at the time of posting - I focused on his call sign more.

I'm not trying to impress because I accept nobody is going to be impressed. As far as impressing myself, I can see several issues with my images now that I've seen them on a decent screen.

I would be very interested in reading about your perspective of casual photography, yeah.

These are things that I noticed about my photos, please tell me if I'm identifying the problem and not the symptom:

First image is juvenile and has terrible framing. I see this truck all the time and every time I think to take a picture, I either remember I already have, or it drives off.

The second image could do with a crop on the top and bottom to hide both my NASCAR wallpaper border and my fan. If I had a prettier light source, like a bright lamp, that might be an improvement. I doubt I'm going to get my hands on many C-notes in the near future, however.

Third image fell prey to the same problem almost all my photos have: blur from too-long exposure times. I cant' hold the thing steady long enough. I could do somewhat better with my digital camera, but that's never on hand like the phone is.

Fourth image is amusing to me, and that's about it.

That storm/sunset image would have been better if the houses were level with the bottom of the image, I think.

Sixth image of the garbage bin does pretty much exactly what I want. The subject is mostly level (the 1337), and you get enough context to know what it is.

Onion-chicken sandwich is pretty lame overall, I think. Could have moved the mayo jar out of the view (far enough to avoid the shadow as well), my book could have been pushed aside, and the lettuce on the mat could have been arranged nicer.

I like the eighth image. I think it's a nice balance between the foreground and sky.

The sun rise photos are a series of images taken from my car early on a Sunday morning in October in the county east of Edmonton. I think I went far enough to have a claim of seeing the sunrise before anyone in Edmonton (unless they were in a building more than 4-5 stories high facing East). I'm sure with some nice film it would have given me some nice colours in the final product.

The twelfth image is just a fun snapshot of a shitty car. The noisiest transmission I've ever had between (all the city-legal) speeds of 45-75km/h, and smooth as glass past 130. Go figure. Could do with a crop of most of the steering column and a bit of the dash above the gauges. I'm not going to suggest I could have taken it straighter, if you consider the speed I was going at... And yeah, I know the brake warning lights were on.

I'm surprised how nicely the Flames 'C' came out, considering it was one of the only light sources in the entire place. It's surrounded by some crown moulding, where I guess a chandelier used to be? There were smaller ones all over the roof, as well.

Dr. Phil is just a creepy stalker photo I shot from the hip. I do like how the angle emphasizes his size, though.

The fifteenth image needs some cropping of the table, and would have been nicer if you could see more of the poster (I think it's Travolta and Jackson from Pulp Fiction), but I had to focus where I did to get the lighting right for the camera's sensor to take a decent picture.

I'm feeling a little ill and sleep-deprived at this point, so I'll finish my own critique later.

[Rye]

Considering this is phone photography, here's one I took on my way home.