Why didn’t I take out my iPhone camera?
As I blogged a few weeks ago, I’m helping out one of my favourite bands, Cornershop, with their Instagram account. And one of the projects we’re working on is to take photos of all the people who were featured on their excellent recent album Urban Turban. So far I’ve taken photos of three of the ten artists on the album and posted them up on the band’s Instagram account. And although the photos would be viewed by the band’s followers on their smart phones, and for all my bigging up of iPhone photography, in all three cases, I pulled out my big camera.
In the most recent photo shoot, of Rajwant, a Punjabi folk singer, who sang on a funktastic track called Beacon Radio 303 on the album, I took the train out of London to take the photos. I was very kindly met at the train station and we went back to Raj’s home for the shoot. So it was an event that we had planned carefully and both myself and Raj took the shoot quite seriously. And I’d also taken the previous two shoots for the band very seriously. And perhaps it was this seriousness that meant that I didn’t use my iPhone camera. Would my subjects perhaps have thought less of the shoot, and of me, if I’d used the iPhone?
In some other portrait shots (see a blog I did a while back) I think it helped to use the iPhone camera because it didn’t put too much pressure on my subjects. So it can work both ways. Or was it a deep-seated insecurity about using the iPhone camera? Or simply that I just wanted to get the absolute best quality shots? I’ll get back to you.
DSLR shot, iPhone edit