Light, light, light

David Hobby posted this video from Fstoppers.com which is Lee Morris proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that with the right light you can use perhaps the worst camera in the world and come up with great shots.

The capability of low quality cameras have been shining recently. Competitions specifically for mobile phone photography have been turning out some serious entries. Henry Reichhold has been doing some stunning shooting with nothing more than a Nokia N86 and some of his work has been on display at Heathrow Airport. Chase Jarvis uses his Apple iPhone and developed The Best Camera named, basically, after the fact that the best camera there is, is the one that's with you at the time.

Many of the demo and thumbnail shots for my blogs have been with my camera phone, because the secret sauce is usually down to the amount of light that is available. Enemy number one with a mobile is hand holding and number two is the on camera, "flash," which, when it does have enough power, gives your subjects a really crappy look. But with enough light I can get a really great shot of something which is definitely good enough. Some of the small tricks I use even with a small camera, can be found at Shoot Green that I started to put together specifically for small camera shooting. Now, there are even photography courses specifically aimed at the camera phones that are out there. Wow.

I even did a Christmas Quiz at the end of 2008 of the same shot taken with different cameras; the answers are here.

However, Lee goes further than I can; he gets out the studio lights and shows what can be done with an iPhone camera. Go Lee!