Zone & Shrub

Peter: 4th May 2005 - 17:17 GMT

"ON" was a rotated zoom of the same area...

elaine: 4th May 2005 - 17:46 GMT

now, see, i like these, and to me this is as good as a lomo. should i be shot?

Peter: 4th May 2005 - 17:55 GMT

well, the lomo is much higher res than my cameraphone, as it takes actual 35mm film and has a glass lens and stuff... but yeah, the color saturation is very similar!

elaine: 4th May 2005 - 18:09 GMT

nowadays it completely depends on what your end output is going to be. onscreen 72dpi still or moving image gives a lorra lorra scope for the inputs. i was discussing about putting 'eye of the storm' onto canvas with a geezer and suddenly how big it could get became an issue again for the first time in a long while. i have many reasons why, but big format is not always big deal

Paul G: 5th May 2005 - 04:43 GMT

i like the abstract quality of your low-res images. all hyper-realism, all the time, can be fatiguing. smudgy, inky, rough gestures are fun in painting and photography: freeing, in a way...

Peter: 5th May 2005 - 14:18 GMT

me too. ive been enjoying using the low-res camphone a bit as opposed to the usual digicam... a new way of looking at things. i am very limited with my palate and depth and detail with this device, so i have to think alot more about capturing something, and how to get close enough (as well as getting the right light) to even make a photo worth seeing. i feel like the modern, digital equivalent of those photographers that came before, lugging glass plates, chemicals and phosphor flashes. just more portable and conceniently easy to use. same visual/quality challenges though.

in the comment thread accompanying this entry, i explain the cam im using, as well as some hacks ive installed to allow more control over saturation/exposure and zoom. its fun.

kobe: 5th May 2005 - 16:08 GMT

i like that "zone" photo. how do you make links in comments? use the same commands as in making a post?

Peter: 5th May 2005 - 17:14 GMT

kobe: yup! refer to www.citynoise.org/post.php for those commands.

kobe: 5th May 2005 - 18:53 GMT

cool thanks for the tips !

elaine: 5th May 2005 - 19:27 GMT

well, that's what i meant before about it being like pinhole - the restrictions make you have to think about things in a different way than if you have loads of tech spec

Jamie: 5th May 2005 - 19:46 GMT

The lack of detail and having to get up close is something i remember from a few years back when i used to carry around a cheap mini toy digicam around with me wherever i went. Most of my photographic record of that time is in extreme closeup. It was the only way of capturing any detail at such low resolutions. I had big problems with the colour balancing on that thing so i eventually began just greyscaling and contrast adjusting all the shots to my liking. There are a bunch of them on here if you care to dig through my old posts citynoise.org/author/jamie anything that looks grey and grainy is one of my toycam shots. I initially bought a CooliCam which took 10 photos at CIF resolution (half VGA) it took nice shots in all daylight situations but was limited by it's storage capacity and a lack of selective deletion

Jamie: 5th May 2005 - 19:58 GMT

I was eventually frustrated into buying a Blink. It held around 100 VGA shots though it had poor resonse times by which i mean the period in between clicking the button and the camera actually taking the photo. I put this down to the real time jpeg compression. Any lateral movement would lead to bizarre warping and furthermore it blurred towards the corners. I took not many photos with this though did get some quite good results considering its flaws. There are a few of Moynalty which demonstrate its ability. These days i use my Nokia 6230 mobile phone to take off the cuff photos, though i'm making a conscious effort to carry my real camera with me whenever i can.