Anyway I love your photos Sion! I just took mine like a couple of days ago and I really like the result as well. Your artwork is my inspiration… Yay! =D

I’ve checked your website and left you a comment there. Hope you get to read it!

Best,
Sion.

PS: I wanna take the chance as well to publicly thank both Dominique and Scott for defending my position in the “What’s iPhoneography?” debate.

There’s a Photoshop app now for the iPhone, and many others. The lines of what happens on and off the phone are definitely blurred.

Otherwise, in my opinion, when you’re just following your passion, as long as you’re honest about what you’re doing, anything can be viewed as artistic.

The iPhone is a unique tool for photography, like the Holga and LOMO cameras that have captured people’s imaginations. Hang on to your 3G Knox, the new phones are going to keep getting more “high end.”

Beyond that, to me, the amazing thing about the iPhone is that it’s a tiny camera that’s always with you AND a computer with an OS that has apps allowing effects to be applied right away. Add in that it’s connected to the Internet where the special moment that you’ve captured can be shared immediately on Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, or your own blog. What a device.

And now the Android OS will be bringing a whole new class of portable, app enhanced, Internet connected devices to the market.

Amazing times. Watch out Flickr!

Happy New Year!

I also think that Sion’s photos prove that the iPhone does not have an inferior camera but, a simple camera that can do amazing things (like the toy cameras i.e., Helga effect).

Peace from a MacLover ; )

First of all, I’m a HE, not a SHE. :-))

In second place, the images you saw here in this post belong to the first months that I started shooting with my iPhone, and they are far away from the great work I’ve accomplished after that. And you’ll agree with me that we all tend to “overdo it” in our humble beginnings.

That said, I can’t be more in disagreement with your point. First of all, I have NEVER used Photoshop to process any of my iPhone photos, just done minor adjustments with other basic software as Picnik or iPhoto. It’s ridiculous somehow to disqualify the art of an image just because you don’t show it exactly how it was taken raw. Even the masters of photography working in film always improved their art in the processing and developing of their material.

Besides, I don’t think that you can call yourself an iPhone photographer (or iPhoneographer) ONLY IF you took, processed and uploaded the photo from the phone. I do that whole process often, but please tell me what’s wrong with uploading the photos to the computer and from there to your website, blog or Flickr page.

On my iPhone set on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sionfullana/sets/72157606373779150/) you will see tons of examples of my work with iPhone that were uploaded straight from camera. In those cases, I didn’t feel any further change was necessary to express what I wanted. But I will always work to show my art at its best and I strongly believe that your ability to process a photo to make it look as good as possible is a huge part of the artistic process and the eye of a creator.

And again, if there was no good in that, I don’t think me or my work would have had the recognition I’ve been lucky to get so far, including an article on CNET Australia (that you ran on your website), being the only non-American of four iPhoneographers featured in “American Photo Magazine”, or being about to present my work at the PMA 2010 Trade show.

Please don’t take this as any form of attack to your comment. I totally value your opinion. I’m just trying to prove that when it comes to iPhone photography, the biggest joy of it all is that it’s a movement whose rules we write every day, and the sky is the limit. No one neither can nor should say what iPhoneography truly is. Just keep working all of us to make it become a permanent and rich artistic movement.

Best,

Sion

So I saved money and bought an iPhone, Im not a professional photographer, nor have a photo website account where I publish my work, but since I was 8 years old or something I liked taking photos, I have my camera and I take photos as a hobby, Im a senior now, and Im planning to keep up with photography even if my family disagrees, anyways, the point is, that when I got my phone and used the camera for the first time I was pretty dissapointed, of course now Im an iPhone freak and I’ve learned and downloaded all the tricks and apps that help me get cool photos..

It was awesome to read this article, it shows that its true that art can be created in any way we want it to.

Congrats, your work is awesome!

If you’re using a Mac, use Image Capture to copy the photos off your phone, then select all images and click the delete button – it’ll go through them on your phone, removing them for you!

On a PC… Who knows… Anyone?

- Haje

Matt-

I’m a mac user, and I’m probably quite guilty of being a bit of a fanboy, but the fact remains that people get more excited about taking photos (and getting tips about doing so) about the iPhone, than they do about taking photos with a Sony Ericsson K550i… While the latter undoubtedly has a far superior camera built-in.

The tips in Sion’s interview are 100% transferrable, so if you aren’t interested in the iPhone, pretend it says ‘camera phone’.

And to Djin: You say “I can Photoshop anything and the results WILL be extremely good looking”. Well could you point us to an image in your deviantART gallery that in any way backs that claim up?

First of all, because I have NEVER used Photoshop in ANY of my images. Perhaps, for starters, because I don’t even know how to use the program whatsoever. The only tool I use is Picnik.com, that allows you to tweak certain aspects of the photo, but never manipulate (add or eliminate) anything. In the case he’s interested in, “Gentleman on a rainy day”, the only steps I took were raise the contrast, apply the Lomo effect, and soften a bit everything but the man. Nothing else.

And hey, it’s not a secret that I process my photos a bit. In my answers, I never hid my passion for what you can achieve with that. On the contrary, I’m actually quite proud of it.

Anyway… thanks for commenting.

And as for Simon… Sion is actually my real name. In Catalan language is the abbreviation of Melsion (Melchior, one of the Three Kings of the Bible). :-)