First Shot
Yes, I can hear you think – “what the hell is this?”.
The simple answer is, the subject of the photograph embedded to the right of this wall of text is my 15-year-old teddy bear who now permanently lives on the shelf next to my bed.
The slightly longer answer though, is that I finally decided to make use of the camera that’s built into my E65 mobile phone and this was the first thing that I saw in my room. It’s supposed to be a 2-MP camera, but considering that it’s a phone designed more for business applications rather than fancy multimedia and cam-whoring, I don’t suppose I can complain. Well, at least not about the camera, though I’m sure that I have a lot more to say about Nokia’s customer support (or the horrendous lack of it).
As Ojl, said, even when all you’ve got is a lousy handphone camera, you can still learn and practice how to frame a shot. I’ve always wanted to use the camera on my phone for capturing events of day-to-day life, but I’ve always been too lazy to setup the bluetooth or data cable connection just to transfer a few photos every now and then. Being a fan of everything-over-IP, I figured out over lunch today that I could use the SMTP client on my phone to send the photos to my Gmail account (over wifi of course).
So expect my future blog posts to be more than just a wall of text, and (hopefully) more often than not, they should be about things more interesting than old and wrinkled teddy bears.
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March 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Yes, composition is much more important in photography than equipment. Picture quality with most, if not all, handphone cameras on the market today are decent if you are never going to print photos or blow them up really big anyway.
The difference between highest end digital cameras (think 1Ds3 or D3x – S$12k a pop for the body) and your handphone camera is when you are shooting in more extreme situations – a room lit by candlelight without using flash, action sports, etc… For landscape and all that in broad daylight it makes little difference (except detail and image size mainly).
March 12th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
i agree with you that DSLR is only useful in more extreme situation.. when details matters..
March 13th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
i think this teddy bear is damn cute hahaha.
and you’re still complaining about nokia lol. someone should tell them that their phones are @#)($*@#()*$