MOBIOGRAPHY
The use of the mobile phone in professional photography
Can a wedding photographer or a couple photoshoot photographer take pictures with a mobile phone?
Short answer: “Absolutely yes, we are talking about a topic in the modern history of photography!”
You will often find wedding and couple photographers using a processing preset with a cutting-edge analogue mood to give warmth to their work, obtaining a full-bodied look.
Mobile phones have great potential to emulate every aspect of the analogue mood and the Polaroid style, better and faster than a computer because they use well-built “one-click” apps.
Moreover, the best phone apps do not have a corresponding computer program.
There are also renowned photojournalists who work in #Mobiography – the word for mobile photography – such as Michael Christopher Brown, a former Magnum photographer, best known for documenting the 2011 war in Libya largely with an iPhone.
War photographers and other photojournalists use the phone for their professional work when a professional camera would draw too much attention.
My idea for you about mobiography
Opportunities and options with a mobiographer
This idea was born while photographing a couple of Instagrammers. During the photoshoot with me, they asked for a sequence of images with their phone app, because they were interested in having images in that style as well.
So I can do this for you too, and maybe you are an Instagrammer too.
On request, my studio can also provide an additional photographer working exclusively with a mobile phone, in a ‘Polaroid’ style and mood if you like. It is not in my price list, but you only need to ask: it works especially well at weddings.
The galleries in this article show exactly this: the Polaroid mood, either emulated or evoked.
Mobile phones also have a greater depth of field – the range of distances within which everything appears sharp – and this too belongs to the Polaroid mood. With the large sensor of a professional camera, Polaroid-style images often end up with an obvious area of selective focus and large parts of the frame out of focus – an effect the everyday instant cameras rarely produced.
Often a Polaroid emulation app acts as a “virtual analogue camera”, even in its customisable settings.
These are my own results. They feel “analogue”, don’t you think?
