iPhone for photographers
Those of you who know me know that I’m never more than a metre away from my iPhone - it has its flaws (as I’ve written about on my personal home page before), but nonetheless, it’s a class piece of kit - and the iPhone 3G is going to make it better still - for photographers, too.
Interestingly, AppleMatters have done an article about what the iPhone can do for us photographers, including nuggets such as:
3. Client Photos: I’ve always thought it would be great to take a photo of my wedding photography clients at the end of a sell, so the iPhone would be just the stylish camera to do so. I could send them a thank you email with their photo almost instantly. Better yet, I could take a photo of all three us together and send an email with the subject, “your wedding photographer thanks you.” Likewise, the camera on the iPhone could be a useful networking tool in the same manner. There are some people you meat and really become friendly with that you it’s great to snap a photo of them and keep in touch that way.
and:
6. iPhone on a shoot: The most difficult parts of shooting weddings is keeping up with group shots. It might be useful to keep a gallery of group shots on my iPhone that I can glance at to remind me of group shots that I might have missed—ort of a visual checklist.
Pretty awesome stuff. Check out the full article, 10 ways professional photographers can use the iPhone, over at AppleMatters!
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Interesting ideas, I think I use my iphone camera for documentation purposes from almost the day I got it and realized, hey, this thing is convenient and it doesn’t take bad snap shots. I often use the camera while shooting my Nikon.
iPhone is definitely every photographers dream phone we can imagine - we definitely understand why!
I have been using my Ipod Touch as an quick portfolio for potential clients to see my work, I put photos aswell as Videos of my work on it.
People will be happy to see your work just to play with a ipod/iphone ;)
The iphone is a great way to capture those ‘oh I wish I had my camera’ moments. It was definitely worth it’s investment!
Makes me wish I had an iPhone! This is a good idea that I think adds a nice personal touch.
Wow. I’ve had an Iphone for a year now, and always complained about the quality of pics. With these ideas, I feel like I’ve been taking it for granted. Glad I stumbled on this. Another great reason why it was a great investment.
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