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Sony Action Cam | Weekend Warriors Unite!
I have the good fortune of being one of the first 50 people in Aus to own a sparkly new Sony Action Cam, I'm not going to ram technical jargon down your sweet looking throat, I'm just going to feed you nice, bite-sized little bits of 'what's this camera like?' to you over the next however long.... I wanted to start with a couple of comparison images to show you what it's like when sat beside the GoPro HD2... Here they are, the GoPro Hero 2 along side the Sony Action Cam...
The Sony Action Cam in the waterproof (to 60 meters) housing...
This (and more) make up part of what you get in the kit...
Fave feature of the waterproof case - BIG start / stop button!
The Sony Action Cam and the GoPro Hero 2 stand side by side in battle...
More to follow.....
A Project : October
I'm participating in a photo project for October, it's a photo per day type thing... There are preset topics for each day and you can do it how you want - As I'm doing it with Yvonne, we're posting on Instagram and using a tag #PhotoaDay_Ya_gtv
Here are a couple from today, I didn't take todays Instagram with my iPhone, I took it with my 5D and some lights.... I don't feel the need to explain my art to you, Warren...
Day Four | What You Read
The book is Mick Rock Exposed: The Faces of Rock n' Roll
I did it my way...
I have a *nearly* three year old, and there's something I've come to understand - that is, for him to learn I need to involve him in *almost* everything, and, as a result, he's very interested in all that we do and he's also very inclined to want to try these things himself. One thing he HAS to do him himself is get breakfast ready... It's 6:47am and he's dragged me out of bed - this is after him coming in and kicking me out of my own bed at 2am... I'm in his bed, I don't fit, but I'm asleep! Grabbing my hand, he proceeds to try pulling me out of bed "DAAAAD! BREAKFAST!!!" Yeah, I'll be having an espresso first my man... I make my coffee whilst he potters about, then, as ever, I hear the chairs in the kitchen being shuffled about - I thought I'd document his little morning ritual... Who else has a mini-person that insists on making breakfast?
The chair to reach the oats...
I have your oats on my head!
I need a pan, dadda?
...and the lid!
Mmmm... Oats (He always eats a handful raw)
I know where the milk goes, in my tummy!
...then go 'looking for drumsticks'
You can see how I work in the mornings when M goes to work - from wherever I can, in this case, perched atop the coffee grinder. Yeah.
Shoot a wedding on an iPhone?
Well, you can't... well, you can, but it's going to be pretty low-fi ya know... Yeah, you could do it if that's all you had... You can print 6x4's You can make yourself a wedding album on instagram. You could print a little book for all your guests as a mementos...
But that's not what this post is about... This post is about the attitude attached.
I was driving out to Healsville sanctuary yesterday with the family, Seb was asleep and M and I were talking about photography, I was trying to work out if I should get a certain type of camera - we eventually managed to get to talking about how photographers are an opinionated bunch, me included, and we are... You know, if someone posted "I can only get someone with an iPhone to take my photos" in one of the professional forums on the internet, that person would be laughed off, escorted out, ridiculed... But why? If that's all they could afford / if that's all they wanted... if that's all... then who are we to judge? I used to be one of those people - so worried about my gear / the gear people used to define their work that I was missing the point... Generally it ain't the 'professionals' that are all about the gear, it's the fauxfessionals or the amateurs with a 9 to 5 and a serious hobby / gear addiction. I'm the first to admit, I love tech, I love gadgets and I love my iPhone... I'll get a 5 as soon as I've got the moolah. But we have to remember, it ain't the gear that defines us, its what we create with whatever we have...
The only reason I can think of that there's all this worry and talking down to people doing the best with what they can is that, people with nice gear and more experience are going to lose work to this army of iPhone equipped photographer types? If you're worried, work harder, set yourself apart from someone with a phone camera or a point and shoot (does anyone bother with a point & shoot anymore?)
If that's not the reason, then what is?
This is a creative industry, why then are our collective creative brains so against people using different ways to create their art? 90% of the population can't tell what your photo, 600px wide on a blog or Facebook was created with... Yes, if you're printing a sweet wedding album, then you're going to notice... If you're printing large, then you're probably going to notice... well, the pixel peepers amongst us will... I had a friend in my office recently, he picked up a print I'd done on my Canon Pixma, it was a 5x7 of a coffee photograph I'd taken with my iPhone... when I told him what I'd shot it on, he was blown away...
Attitude, Snobbery and Hate, there's no place for it...
