He's moaning again ..

We're all photographers now (Part 466) ..

A lady called to ask if she could have a portrait on a canvas. "Of course you can .." I said "When would you like to come in to the studio?" "Oh .." she replied "I've already got the photograph, I just need it putting on a canvas!" She sent me the picture, which was taken on a phone and looked like it had been shot through used toilet paper, and I had to tell her it wasn't up to the job of being blown up for a canvas. "Oh well .." she sighed "I'll just have to take it on my 'proper' camera next time .."

Perhaps she should use the new iPhone. It's being advertised at the moment as now having the capacity to shoot portraits with out-of-focus backgrounds. "Practically magic .." croons the ad.
Folks, I've been practically a magician since 1978 ..

Holy smoke ..

You'll go a long way to see a shot like this these days .. (Greece?) .. but I just thought I'd show it you as I found it in a box of archive prints the other day. Notice it's a print - I can't find the negative anywhere, but I'm really pleased with the scan I did of the old image. Click on the picture and get a better look at it. It shows a plate of chips and an overflowing ashtray full of cigarette ends.  in a pub. Yuck! Man, the things we put up with before the smoking ban! ..

My photography's on hold today. The crummy weather's put paid to a pr shoot I'm booked to do for a church's new website. This is about the third week we've failed to get it off the ground as either the vicar or I have always been busy when we've had a sunny day. We're both praying to the Weather Gods that we'll get the shoot done soon ..

Still, it means I'm in for the delivery of my new iPhone today. Yes, I'm fed up with my Android and I'm moving over to the converted! Perhaps I should photograph the church with it..

Snap!..

A Kodak 110 in 1977. An iphone last Friday! Kids at Weddings! Nothing changes, eh? But it makes me think about the 'so-called' worry over the archiving of digital files. All that head-shaking over the fact that phone/digital camera shots are simply viewed a few times and then deleted. Yet nobody's asking that young girl from the Seventies where her prints are, are they? Nobody's checking that her negatives are properly filed in acid free packaging! So nobody will ever have any idea what her shots were like, what the bride's dress was like, what the car she arrived in looked like! Unless .. ah, relax .. there was a professional photographer there! Phew ..

©Martin O'Neill