iPods, iPhones and iPads are all becoming a part of the photography scene. With apps that allow the user to do just about anything imaginable at the touch of a screen, but is this helping the industry or hurting it?
iPods/iPhones/iPads are all capable of taking up to 5 megapixel photos without anything added (apps, lens, etc.) but there are apps out there that allow for a much higher megapixel photo. Some apps that are quite popular and diverse are hipstomatic which only costs $1.99 and brings all the beauty, fun, and unpredictability back of plastic toy cameras. Camerabag is another popular app again for only $1.99 and allows you to create all kinds of pictures by switching the camera style. ShakeItPhoto is a fun app for the same price that allows the user to make polariods out of any picture on their apple device. it even prints out and developes on the screen like a real polariod camera! some other names of apps are Photoshop.com Mobile, BestCamera, Photogene, TiltShift Generator - Fake Miniature, PhotoForge, and Lo-Mob. These can allow the user to give the photos effects like cross processing, polaroids, and just about every effect you can think of that anyone using a normal point and shoot or an SLR camera would have to do afterwards in Photoshop or other editing programs.
Although there may not be much of a market for this type of photography, I believe it is going to create a challenge for photographers. This is because more and more people are going to be able to take their own photos (like family photos and what not) thanks to having so much photography technology readily available to them. With this new technology the creativity of photographers will definitely be challenged, but who says that's a bad thing?
Here are some examples that I really enjoyed!
