Getting the shot YOU want on a mobile phone camera with a touch screen.

This works very well on the Iphone; point the "camera" at you subject, press and hold the "shutter" button and RELEASE when YOU are ready. This pretty much guarantees the shot you want to take and not what the camera wants to take - the shutter on mobile phone cameras tend to be slow. Other makes of phones with a touch screen this will probably work.

Mobile phone cameras

For years I have bemoaned mobile phone cameras. 5 meg this, 8 meg that - great, but all shot through a lens the size of a pinhole. Excellent for Facebook, Twitter and other social networking, blogs etc.

A phone camera doesn't deal well with extremes of light and darkness, and when you try to take the picture they never react fast enough, focus quickly enough and have a habit of demonstrating that you have taken a picture, standing naked, freezing your ass off on the South Pole;  you all know it "camera shake" Take a look at your friends FB pictures - need I say more !  Although I have recently seen for sale in my local garage, "IGloves" - yep you got it again - gloves specifically for touch screen phones...that'll help!!!

So, this week I shall be using my Iphone 4 everyday to try to dispel the above gripes and moans. There are plenty of free apps on the market and having downloaded a number it is going to be fun to discover that I may not have to carry around a hundred weight of camera equipment...hmm I will let you know at the end of the week.

As a teaser I took this image of The Brighton Eye in October on a partly bright, but overcast day. I downloaded "Snapseed" and hit the image with "Grunge" mode. The image is 1.7meg - I have to say it looked better on the camera - but hey it's the first effort.

Launch of the blog......

This blog will be edited weekly over the next 12 months starting from 1st January 2012. Each week a photographic project using creative workshops from a number of sources will be shown, 52 projects. I will be producing and editing one image per day. There will be one image per week published on the blog with a description of the technique used.

There will be an exhibition in early 2013 of the images together with other work, photojournalism, events, portraits and commercial under the heading of "Slip inside the eye of your mind......"

I hope that you enjoy reading the blog and look forward to critiques.

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