I enjoy your video as always. Your eye for composing a scene is simply brilliant. Without a viewfinder - using shadows , light and geometric elements of buildings to compose on a phone screen - Excellent!
I've been wanting a real camera for years, and now I finally ordered one online, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II. Before I always used to just snap some pictures on my iPhone and try to make them look as good as possible, and to be honest iPhone cameras are pretty good for what it is. I have taken some really nice pictures with. The thing is, it's never gonna be better than a real camera, and it's just less fun. The biggest advantage is obviously that you can just whip it out of your pocket anywhere. Also, the night mode is stunning, I've been able to take brilliant pictures of the northern lights while they were barely visible to the naked eye.
Some very nice shots, never thought about the tidal tower as a thing to photograph, but it works, will have to remember that for next time I'm in Hull, I agree with you about the ergonomics when photographing with a phone, adding a mag safe grip to mine has been an improvement, not perfect but an improvement.
Use my Samsung android, occasionally for street photography, but mainly for travel photography, and often use a simple selfie stick, which gives the option of differing POV, great if only producing photo books!😀
My biggest problem with a phone is that to get anything like a camera experience, you need extra stuff which soon starts to make the phone bigger than some cameras you can get but with worse image quality. I recently picket up a Sony Nex 3 for £31 and the image quality is far superior as you’d expect from a much larger sensor and it’s not a lot bigger than the phone. It was fun to get a few shots and no one take you seriously, I think that’s the phones super power🖖
At least for me, I use my phone (a Xiaomi) to take pictures when it's forbidden taking pictures 😅 (or forbidden using the flash). Nobody think I'm taking pictures if I have my phone. And of course, we have always our phones in our pockets, so if I'm out and I didn't plan to take pictures and I see one, I just take my phone.
Love your videos, thank you for them! Could I please ask which camera/phone you filmed this or some of your previous videos here? Looking for photocamera with option to film (good quality/not too pricey). Could you please share what do you think the options here to look at? Cheers
@@DavidFlowerOfficial really huge and many thanks for the reply, recommendations and tips overall. All your videos so helpful, interesting and esthetic! So thanks very much :)
I use my iPhone 7 a lot for street & throwaway images and it’s fine, I suppose, given it’s obvious limitations. (Great if like me you’re shy about using a camera in public places). Don’t overlook an iPod Touch as a decent carry-around camera without the phone element distractions :)
Honestly I’d much rather use a little compact over the phone. Coincidentally I saw an iPod touch today and I’d forgotten those things existed 😂 Thanks for watching 🖖
It was like you were wearing a cloak of invisibility when you were walking along photographing people David, no one even raised an eyebrow!!! I agree that a mobile phone is a horrible thing as far as ergonomics are concerned and I'd rather use a proper camera every day of the week. I don't even think modern phones are that nice to use as a phone, or web browser, or whatever, they have too little to hold on to and are far too easy to drop, but they are pretty useful all the same.
Yeah it’s very much like they saw me, saw the phone and just continued on without further thought. As I said, I don’t particularly care for that type of image, but the fact that you can get them and no one seems to care is quite interesting. I was a fairly early adopter of the smart phone with one of my earliest being the Sony Ericsson P800 and as you’d expect they have just become more and more streamlined since then. I can’t use a phone without a case because I’d drop the thing in a heartbeat 😂
Your video made me wonder how many times I've been shot as I walk innocently down the street - although I'm sure they'd delete the image once they'd looked at it!!!
@GrumpyTim I’ve always been something of a people watcher, human behaviour fascinates me, but getting up close and personal to photograph it never appealed to me which is why I’m more comfortable shooting from afar safe distance. And I just realised that sentence made me sound a bit like an alien, I guess my secret is out😂 I’ve long since dismissed any illusions about privacy being old enough to have existed before the modern internet so I’ve no doubt that most of us appear on phone cameras, dashcams and even doorbells on a daily basis
I enjoy your video as always. Your eye for composing a scene is simply brilliant. Without a viewfinder - using shadows , light and geometric elements of buildings to compose on a phone screen - Excellent!
Very kind of you. Thanks for watching 🖖
I've been wanting a real camera for years, and now I finally ordered one online, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II. Before I always used to just snap some pictures on my iPhone and try to make them look as good as possible, and to be honest iPhone cameras are pretty good for what it is. I have taken some really nice pictures with. The thing is, it's never gonna be better than a real camera, and it's just less fun. The biggest advantage is obviously that you can just whip it out of your pocket anywhere. Also, the night mode is stunning, I've been able to take brilliant pictures of the northern lights while they were barely visible to the naked eye.
Some very nice shots, never thought about the tidal tower as a thing to photograph, but it works, will have to remember that for next time I'm in Hull, I agree with you about the ergonomics when photographing with a phone, adding a mag safe grip to mine has been an improvement, not perfect but an improvement.
Use my Samsung android, occasionally for street photography, but mainly for travel photography, and often use a simple selfie stick, which gives the option of differing POV, great if only producing photo books!😀
Try it with a Bluetooth shutter release, not a perfect experience but better than shooting without one.
My biggest problem with a phone is that to get anything like a camera experience, you need extra stuff which soon starts to make the phone bigger than some cameras you can get but with worse image quality. I recently picket up a Sony Nex 3 for £31 and the image quality is far superior as you’d expect from a much larger sensor and it’s not a lot bigger than the phone.
It was fun to get a few shots and no one take you seriously, I think that’s the phones super power🖖
Great video as always 🖖🏻
Thanks Alex🖖😁
At least for me, I use my phone (a Xiaomi) to take pictures when it's forbidden taking pictures 😅 (or forbidden using the flash). Nobody think I'm taking pictures if I have my phone. And of course, we have always our phones in our pockets, so if I'm out and I didn't plan to take pictures and I see one, I just take my phone.
Exactly, they’re so convenient!
Thanks for watching 🖖😁
Love your videos, thank you for them! Could I please ask which camera/phone you filmed this or some of your previous videos here? Looking for photocamera with option to film (good quality/not too pricey). Could you please share what do you think the options here to look at? Cheers
This one and the last were both filmed entirely on the insta360 one rs, the one before was with the Osmo pocket mk1,
Thanks for watching 🖖
@@DavidFlowerOfficial really huge and many thanks for the reply, recommendations and tips overall. All your videos so helpful, interesting and esthetic! So thanks very much :)
@ValeHow-de5ts Very kind of you mate🖖
Great video. Interesting and informative but I will be sticking with my 6D, G12 and e-m10 😂
@andrewmcdowall8640 I don’t blame you, the iPhone is a horrible camera to use😂
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I use my iPhone 7 a lot for street & throwaway images and it’s fine, I suppose, given it’s obvious limitations. (Great if like me you’re shy about using a camera in public places). Don’t overlook an iPod Touch as a decent carry-around camera without the phone element distractions :)
@@RealBesty thank you very much :)
Honestly I’d much rather use a little compact over the phone. Coincidentally I saw an iPod touch today and I’d forgotten those things existed 😂
Thanks for watching 🖖
@@DavidFlowerOfficial Oh, I agree entirely that a compact is much preferable :)
It was like you were wearing a cloak of invisibility when you were walking along photographing people David, no one even raised an eyebrow!!! I agree that a mobile phone is a horrible thing as far as ergonomics are concerned and I'd rather use a proper camera every day of the week. I don't even think modern phones are that nice to use as a phone, or web browser, or whatever, they have too little to hold on to and are far too easy to drop, but they are pretty useful all the same.
Yeah it’s very much like they saw me, saw the phone and just continued on without further thought. As I said, I don’t particularly care for that type of image, but the fact that you can get them and no one seems to care is quite interesting. I was a fairly early adopter of the smart phone with one of my earliest being the Sony Ericsson P800 and as you’d expect they have just become more and more streamlined since then. I can’t use a phone without a case because I’d drop the thing in a heartbeat 😂
Your video made me wonder how many times I've been shot as I walk innocently down the street - although I'm sure they'd delete the image once they'd looked at it!!!
@GrumpyTim I’ve always been something of a people watcher, human behaviour fascinates me, but getting up close and personal to photograph it never appealed to me which is why I’m more comfortable shooting from afar safe distance. And I just realised that sentence made me sound a bit like an alien, I guess my secret is out😂
I’ve long since dismissed any illusions about privacy being old enough to have existed before the modern internet so I’ve no doubt that most of us appear on phone cameras, dashcams and even doorbells on a daily basis