Nikon photographer Chase Jarvis has opened me up to a new way of looking at photography...using your camera phone as a legit way of creating art and capturing life as it happens.
Jarvis wrote a book called "The Best Camera: Is the One That's With You" and even though I haven't read it, or even had a chance to even look at it, browsing the website and the Apple iPhone application that he created with it is remarkable. It makes me jealous at one point, but then stop and realize that regardless of what is happening, there is always something to take a photo of.
I was sitting in my school's dining commons, bored, and so I pulled out my phone and started playing with it just as most college students would, but instead of texting someone, I decided to take photos. This isn't the greatest photo in the world, but the 3 megapixel camera on a cell phone isn't suppose to go up against a Canon 5D Mk II robust 21 megapixels.
SLRs are by far the most superior cameras that are on the market for there ability to let the photographer create the best possible image with the best possible accessories available; lenses, flashes, etc. Point and shoots are getting exceptional quality photos now though thanks to new technology, but nothing like SLRs. The camera phone on the other hand, is a fun addition to a tool we use for communication everyday, but has become much more than that.
Thanks to new smart phone applications and the ability to do edits on our cellphones and then upload them to our computers, the way photo creating and sharing has drastically jumped. Everywhere on Twitter and Facebook there are people with Mobile Uploads from the scene out of a car window to group of friends at a restaurant. They are the gateway to everyone getting into digital photography.
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