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    The Secrets of Pro iPhone 3GS Photographer

    iPhone Photography Collection By a Real Photographer

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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Secrets of Pro iPhone 3GS Photographer
    Isn't being a pro iPhone photographer kinda like being a pro VHS camera videographer? Sure you can repair a car with fixit tools but if you are a pro shouldn't you want pro level tools to do the work even better? I don't understand him I guess. #digitalcameras
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Secrets of Pro iPhone 3GS Photographer
    So, the secrets of pro iPhone photographers are...the secrets of photography?

    Seriously guys. There's taking fantastic pictures with iPhones....and there's claiming that the iPhone is the inspiration behind basic principles of good photography.

    I suppose next you'll claim that color didn't exist before the iPhone. #digitalcameras
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Secrets of Pro iPhone 3GS Photographer
    As an amateur photographer, I fully believe that high contrast and subtle vignetting makes almost any photo look amazing. #digitalcameras
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    Image of OMG! SP00N OMG! SP00N
    10/29/09

    @met2art: I know lol, i have done similar with my other crappy cameraphones to make awesome looking images. #digitalcameras
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    Image of Zac Terrones Zac Terrones
    10/29/09

    @met2art: here's my iPhone attempt with said effects.
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    Image of Coolmodo Coolmodo
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Secrets of Pro iPhone 3GS Photographer
    I assume some/many of these photos were taken using some kind of stabilising stand? At least the iPhone 3G appears to make very fuzzy photos when hand-held, especially in rather dark conditions. #digitalcameras
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    Image of eliblack eliblack
    10/29/09

    @Coolmodo: I hate to compare myself to a surgeon, but professional photographers do generally have steady hands. There are also a couple of programs that use the accelerometer to take the picture when you're not moving much. These pictures are alright, but mostly seem to depend on preset filter effects...they're not really all that interesting. #digitalcameras
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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Secrets of Pro iPhone 3GS Photographer
    And this is why I wanted an ipod touch with a camera. With tons of photo applications on the app store the ipod could take the place of film lomography cameras.

    And I loves me some lomography #digitalcameras
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/29/09

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: I often referred to it (in print) as "loamography" because often the results look so dirty, but good things grow from it. Cheesy, I know. #digitalcameras
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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    10/29/09

    @met2art: A little cheddar but I get where you're coming from. #digitalcameras
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    Image of AustinMiniMan AustinMiniMan
    10/08/09

    In reply to iPhone Photography Collection By a Real Photographer
    This actually inspired me to finally rip apart a DVD drive for the lens. It's awsome... make a little metal clip for my BB so it can slip up and down but always be ready.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    10/08/09

    In reply to iPhone Photography Collection By a Real Photographer
    He have one very good point.

    There are just too many photographers out there that have professional rigs, but either don't know basic composition stuff like rules of thirds, or just don't know how to use the whole setup.

    I mean, nothing is worse than seeing an expensive dSLR owner using it ONLY in full-auto mode...

    Of course the ideal thing would be having all three:
    1. Creativity
    2. Knowledge
    3. Equipment

    You don't need all three to get great photos though... but it is in order of importance, as I see it.
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    Image of suburbancowboy suburbancowboy
    10/08/09

    In reply to iPhone Photography Collection By a Real Photographer
    The best camera is the one you have with you. Which is why I bring my DSLR to work with me every day.
    I have an iPhone 3G, and it is seriously the worst camera I have ever used in my life.
    Dear Apple, please add a hard button to take pictures.
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    10/08/09

    @suburbancowboy: Add a hard button? As long as you don't have to take the audio jack off to press it. Never fear, Apple won't phallus.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    10/08/09

    In reply to iPhone Photography Collection By a Real Photographer
    Were the pictures altered/enhanced in post in any way? Not that I'm putting doing that down, if they were. You can pretty much have access to the same tools as the pros do nowadays free online, so there's more hope for the rest of us.
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    10/08/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_IsWaving: You can alter a bad photo to make it better, but no amount of altering will make a badly composed photo into a great photo.

    I checked out the iphone photos he has online. I see this as proof that it's the photographer not the camera that makes a good photograph.
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    10/08/09

    In reply to iPhone Photography Collection By a Real Photographer
    " a lot of them look like Polaroids you dug up from a shoebox in the attic, buried from the '70s"

    Oh God...baaaaad memories haunt me ("mom?? is that....OH GAAAAADD!!!")
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    Image of Nick Nick
    10/08/09

    @chauncy that billups: you know -- depending on how you read your statement -- that could be a good "OH GAAAAAAADD" or a bad.
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    10/08/09

    @Nick:
    Heh...actually, both interpretations are pretty bad...
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    Image of Technologic Technologic
    10/08/09

    In reply to iPhone Photography Collection By a Real Photographer
    Looks like someone needs to read that book.
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    Image of Strawman Strawman
    08/28/09

    In reply to Digital vs. Analog Storage: How Many VHS Tapes Equal One Hulu.com?
    Am i the only one that cares that the number of CDs held by an ipod is misrepresented?

    People, MP3s are not the same as CDs. You're losing when you don't compress
    lossless.
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    Brian Lam promoted this comment Strawman was starred Strawman was unstarred
    Image of thebigcheese thebigcheese
    08/28/09

    @Strawman: I was thinking that, too. CDs hold .wav, usually, so if you think of each song as being at least 60 MB, you get a better picture. That's about 2000 songs, or somewhere around 200 CDs. HUGE difference.

    Although, granted, still a lot more than 1 CD and I could still put my whole collection on 1 iPod (if I had that big one).
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    Margatron promoted this comment Edited by thebigcheese at 08/28/09 10:20 AM thebigcheese was starred thebigcheese was unstarred
    Image of Margatron Margatron
    08/28/09

    @thebigcheese: There's a similar misrepresentation with the 12" records. The number would be far smaller than that since records have zero compression and represent far more data in the subharmonic ranges that's usually clipped when changed to digital. I'd have to ask the audio tech guys at work for a guess at how much data would be for one record.
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    Image of Complexified Complexified
    08/28/09

    In reply to Digital vs. Analog Storage: How Many VHS Tapes Equal One Hulu.com?
    My phone's memory card has a higher storage capacity than my first desktop computer (3gb HDD back in 1996) and few years from now, we'll all be laughing at 1TB...so what's their point with this comparison?
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    (Starman) AnalysisDialysis promoted this comment Edited by Complexified at 08/28/09 1:24 AM Complexified was starred Complexified was unstarred
    Image of üli von strüple üli von strüple
    08/28/09

    @Complexified:
    so in other words man shouldnt concern himself with progression?
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    Image of (Starman) Cookie_Monster (Starman) Cookie_Monster
    08/28/09

    @Complexified: "so what's their point with this comparison?"

    OH in the name of Gautama, here we go again...
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    Image of itchytooth itchytooth
    08/28/09

    @Complexified: Would you deny future generations the same opportunity to laugh that we've had?
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    08/28/09

    @Complexified: And the 512MB memory card in my point-and-shoot holds two and a half times as much as the HDD in my first desktop. It's pointless, but it's damn cool to think about.
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    08/28/09

    @Complexified: My first desktop didn't have a hard drive....
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    Image of Brodka: regrettably Brodka: regrettably
    08/28/09

    @Barry99705: Mine either. We had an IBM Peanut. Had 128k and a 5.25 floppy. We later upgraded it to 256k. Boo-Ya.

    Broderbund's Ancient Art of War FTW.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    08/28/09

    In reply to Digital vs. Analog Storage: How Many VHS Tapes Equal One Hulu.com?
    Yes, but how many Libraries of Congresses in a Hulu?
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    Image of teknowaffle teknowaffle
    08/28/09

    @dingus: but how many hogsheads in a hulu?

    And how many hulus in a fortnight
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    Identity: Omg! Nessie! promoted this comment teknowaffle was starred teknowaffle was unstarred
    Image of Identity (reclamation) Identity (reclamation)
    08/28/09

    @teknowaffle: How many records in a jukebox?

    And how many twitters in a handbasket?
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    Image of kylewilson kylewilson
    08/28/09

    In reply to Digital vs. Analog Storage: How Many VHS Tapes Equal One Hulu.com?
    120GB = 120 * 1024 = 122880MB / 700MB/CD = 175.54 CDs. Someone fails at math.
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    Image of dannydutton dannydutton
    08/28/09

    @kylewilson: They are not basing the amount of cds using actual storage, they are counting it in minutes.

    83.3 days * 24 hours *60 minutes = 119952 minutes on an ipod

    119952/ 80mins on a cd = 1499.4 cds
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    Image of seapathac seapathac
    08/28/09

    @kylewilson: I think they meant in length of music not actual data so... if you take (83.3Days * 24 hours * 60 minutes) / 80 minute CD you get 1,499.4 compact discs. So yes someone does fail at math... or it's just misleading.
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    Image of Jux Jux
    08/28/09

    @kylewilson: Working it from the available time of storage, the math works but I'm not sure how he came up with the base of 1500 CD's.
    1500 CDs * 80 mins = 120,000 mins
    120,000 mins / 60 = 2,000 hours
    2,000 hours/24 = 83.3 days
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    (Starman) AnalysisDialysis promoted this comment Edited by Jux at 08/28/09 1:34 AM Jux was starred Jux was unstarred
    Image of kylewilson kylewilson
    08/28/09

    @dannydutton: There's no reason you can't store audio in the same format on a cd as you would on a hard drive (or some cloud storage or whatever this is advertising). If they're talking about 128kbps(ish) mp3/aac (which they probably are), then the quality isn't close to comparable with uncompressed CD audio. You should compare apples to apples, not apples to monkey crap. (12" vinyl also stores audio at much higher fidelity than 128kbps mp3/aac, so that comparison is also unfair)
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    A strolling player promoted this comment kylewilson was starred kylewilson was unstarred
    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    08/28/09

    @kylewilson: You're forgetting that nearly all listeners don't know or care about the difference between the 128kbps AAC they got off iTunes two years ago and the CD they bought three years before that. Not everyone is searching what.cd for a V0 copy of Jagged Little Pill.

    You can go on about the quality difference, and as an audiophile I would agree. But the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of users frankly don't give a toss. So let's try this again.

    120GB * 1024MB/GB = 122880 MB.
    Given that, at 128kbps, 1MB is about 1 minute of music, which it is,
    122880min/(80min/CD) = 1536 CDs.

    Since an iPod has a hard drive, and given the discrepancy between advertised and actual hard disk space (1 GB = 1 billion bytes as opposed to 1024^3 bytes), a more accurate calculation would be this:

    120*1000*1000*1000/1024/1024 = 114441 MB.
    Given that 1MB=1min,
    114441min/(80min/CD) = 1431 CDs.

    So yes, I'd consider 1500 a fair estimate.
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