Smartphones Will Not Replace Cameras Altogether
Why futurists who are predicting advanced smartphones will usher in the death of cameras are wrong.
Camera+
Introducing the 365 Full Frame Project
The 365 Full Frame project will take and publish one high resolution image every day that could be used by a community of funders for a whole variety of purposes, from social media shares to print.
Use Your Smartphone to Train Your Eye
By taking regular photos with your smartphone, you can evolve your visual thinking.
Going Back to Mirrors
After two years of shooting photos with a micro 4/3 camera, I am returning to a traditional DSLR from Nikon.
Why Facebook Keeps Carving Itself Up
Facebook Camera has branding issues
The successful release of the Facebook Camera app two weeks ago marked the second major application launch by the social network focused on a singular feature. Joining Messenger, Camera allows users to enjoy functionality without the baggage of Facebook’s leviathan social networks as experienced through the iPhone, iPad, Android and mobile web versions.
For the past few years, Facebook dominated the social network marketplace by absorbing every feature from all of its competitor. In doing so, it became the McDonalds of social networks. However, with mobile revolution, tactile input changes the way we interact online, and Facebook’s girth makes it unwieldy for tablets and smartphones in spite of experience-controlled applications.
At every corner now, there seems to be a niche mobile competitor.
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Social Photography: Thoughts and 4 Tips
Taken mid-air last night with an iPhone 4s.
You may not love Flickr, Instagram or Pinterest, but you can’t deny the continuing rise of social photography. Photos dominate social media. Even on Facebook, the king of networks, people spend 17 percent of their time perusing photos according to a recent ComScore/BuddyMedia study.
Whether they are retail pics “pinned” on Pinterest, food shots discussed on any social site (25 percent of foodie photo creators do so as part of a daily food diary), or a happenstance shared on Instagram or via TwitPic, photos are a universal staple of the online social world. As such, social photography should be a part of your communications strategy.
The results have been fantastic for me. While this blog has a decent following, in the four years I have written here regularly (some of the old 2007-8 posts were imported from my now defunct Now Is Gone blog), my photo blog on Flickr has generated roughly 50% more page views.