Are you a 'Hunter' or 'Gatherer'?

I'm trigger happy with my iPhone, so if an opp presents itself I just shoot, then think about it later. I find that if I have to think "hmmm what camera shall I use?" the opp slips away, or I might find myself using the wrong camera and then have no original, unedited image to work from. You need lightning reflexes to make snap decisions like that; I admire those of you who can do this.

"Hunters" are those who have their replacement camera App at the ready and are happy to shoot with it; "Gatherers" are those who shoot first, and then bring it home to eat, I mean, edit, later. I'm artistic, but I'm no artist - I could never draw to save my life. The reason iPhoneography resonates so well with me is that I know I can turn an image into something out of the ordinary, just by manipulating pixels. I don't have a photography background (it's Music, actually), but I do have a PHD in photography - as in "Press Here, Dummy"!

I do wish great Apps like Hipstamatic would have a facility for users to use images from their camera roll, rather than just as a replacement camera. I have several other Apps in my "Camera Only" folder, as in "these don't work with camera roll images", which is a shame, really.

I just tend to bash away with it, so what does that make me Oh, and I'm easily led with apps and the like by you lot

What I do find is, I don't use my DSLR as much which I actually find contrary to my beliefs as I love the post processing opportunities on the iphone and yet hate the actual quality of the photo's one (ie me), produces on them.

What is fantastic tho is when I look through the photo's on my phone, and I actually only have 400-500 or so they tell a story that progresses through the year or so I've had it. It's an interesting journey punctuated and make all the more poignant by the apparent seasons photographed. A lot of the photo's may not mean much to others or indeed tell much of a story, but to me they do, and I love that about the iPhone and it's ability and that's why I never delete the photo's I have on the phone.

**Sorry, rambling old post which is probably completely off topic!

Not at all off topic, Wibbly . I too keep my photos on my iPhone camera roll, both processed and unedited images. When I scroll back through them, it's like going back thru Time. I can actually trace my iPhoneography history, from my very bad, cringeworthy 200 or so first attempts, to the present not-so-bad but still occasionally cringeworthy attempts . It's like a visual time capsule.

I am just a hunter, wishing to "shoot" people in interesting moments in the streets and forms that pop up cause of special light conditions...

I have come to the iPhone after enjoying photography with a DSLR where I shoot in raw come home and post process. I love Instagram because it replicates this approach but at speed. Shoot, apply a filter post and I love the instantaneousness of this. Hipstagram to me is the opposite, you have to think then shoot. I should like it as it is only like shooting in manual on a DSLR but up to now I am not so keen as it seems less fun than Instagram. Maybe it is becuase I am still thinking of iphoneography as fun photography and for more serious stuff I would use a DSLR and I need a mind set change to really regard iPhoneography as a very serious discipline in its own right. It is of course and I understand that but for now to me it is second to DSLR work so the fun comes from its of the moment instant sharing abilities.

So er gatherer I think...

I guess I am a Hunter Gatherer as I'm a little dizzy and go off at a tangent all too easily. I do love my DSLR and used to use it every day without fail. I guess most posts in this thread ring true for all of us, I used to get very frustrated when I was a boy as all my art looked like stick men or at least nothing like what i was trying to achieve and the ideas I had I just didn't have the abitity to create. With togging I can capture things of beauty just by motivating myself to walk out of my front door and wander, I can sometimes motivate to do this at home too

I am trying to love my iPhone camera too but I'm afraid I went app mad and have two folders of different cameras to choose from :shrug: I love some of the effects created with post processing in the iPhone apps and I may learn to love it in time. I should discipline myself to use just a couple of cameras but refer to point "off at a tangent" earlier, I love to experiment and even had a chance to use a Leica recently that took stunning quality photos (even in professional mode, fully automatic). Sometimes I think the quality of a DSLR just can't be beaten and I do love taking family photos so iPhone is for incoming calls on these days only :runaway: I'm rambling a little so :sorry: for that but I hope I got my thoughts across

Even reading a thread like this means I have to do a number of important things right now and forget what I had planned a only few minutes ago. :spontaneous: Watch your pm box Mr Wibbly

Ahh I will just add that not being too attentative at school means I may have missed a little punctuation and paragraphs. Will add some here so you don't have to tell me so. Place them where needed

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Hmm see what I mean about tangents, I bet Mr Wibbly was expecting his PM

Who, what, eh?!

Have you not found the PM system yet :tut: