Photographing Architecture
The iPhone's lens focal length 37mm equivalent permits you to fit giant buildings into your frame. Keep it in portrait mode to fit in tall buildings and in landscape mode to fit in wide buildings. The first thing you want to do to get a compelling architecture shot is to keep the sun behind you. It's best if the sun is cast upon the building you are shooting. Figure 5.6 shows a building shot lit by the sun. Note that the sky is blue behind the building. That only happens when the sun is on the...
Ready for Your CloseUp
In the movie SunsetBoulevard, Gloria Swanson plays Norma Desmond, a washed-up movie star. In the last scene of the movie, she moves into the camera and says, All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. It certainly is apropos to begin this chapter with that line. Although the iPhone takes a pretty sharp image of a person close up see Figure 4.1 , it does have a bit of barrel distortion. Barrel distortion is caused by the curvature of the lens. In extreme close-up portraits, it will...
Transferring Photos
You can transfer your photos from your iPhone to your computer or from your computer to your iPhone by following some simple steps. To get your images from your iPhone to your computer on a Mac, follow these steps. The steps for Windows are given after those for the Mac. 1. Insert the USB cable from your iPhone into your computer. 2. A prompt will come up like that shown in Figure 1.15. This will come up if your computer is configured to automatically download images using Image Capture. f al...
Changing Image Sizes
One thing is for sure Image size affects the look of your photograph. For Internet purposes, you'll want to resize your iPhone image to send it to others, to display on a website, to use it to sell something on eBay, to upload it via a social networking site, and or to use it on a blog. You can change image sizes directly on your iPhone using an app. One app for this purpose is Resizer. You can also use almost any image processing program on your computer to change the size of your image. When...
iPhone 3G Fixed Focus
The iPhone 3G uses an area in the center of the touch screen to both focus and determine exposure. The way it focuses is determined in the same way the iPhone 3GS focuses without tapping. It will use the entire frame to focus and expose your image. Since the focus point on the iPhone 3G is fixed, most of the time the entire image is either in or out of focus because the camera focuses on the entire frame. In other words, you're not likely to get a blurred background when you take a portrait....
Ucr Extension Matthew Bamberg
Matthew Bamberg is the author of many books about digital photography. He is a Professor of Education at National University and currently teaches the History of Fine Art Photography at UCR. Matthew began his career in the arts as a graduate student at San Francisco State University in 1992. His work in the visual and media arts included video production and software applications. He completed his master's degree in Creative Arts in 1997. Matthew's experience with cameras goes back to 1998,...