Who said you need an expensive camera to take professional photos?

[jgomez65]

I love this video. It shows how a good photographer can take great pictures with the simplest camera, an iPhone camera!.

[Murtasma]

I think they forgot to mention the several thousand dollars of lighting equipment and modifiers, professional make up artist, professional model then retouching afterward. Let's remove all those things and compare that phone against a point and shoot in real world senario's. The iphone dosen't even offer an apature or shutter speed selection to my knowlege.

Sure you don't need a great camera but you certinaly need to know what the heck your doing. 95% of the video was about the lighting not the phone.

I do like the very end about the service on the iphone however haha.

[zona5101]

It's all about the light!

[TheDarkReaver]

Perhaps the title of this thread should have been 'Who said you need an expensive camera (but you do need some expensive lighting and a pro touch-up guy) to take professional photos?'

[Rehesan]

Originally Posted by Murtasma

I think they forgot to mention the several thousand dollars of lighting equipment and modifiers, professional make up artist, professional model then retouching afterward. Let's remove all those things and compare that phone against a point and shoot in real world senario's. The iphone dosen't even offer an apature or shutter speed selection to my knowlege.

Sure you don't need a great camera but you certinaly need to know what the heck your doing. 95% of the video was about the lighting not the phone.

I do like the very end about the service on the iphone however haha.

I am agree with you.

Lighting is the basis of photography, in other words: photography is all about light, so if you have a good light you can do a good photos even with the iPhone camera, but if you have poor light conditions, the iPhone will not do, not even a DSLR without a prime lens.

On the other side, I agree partially with the statement of the guy in the video: you don´t need a pro camera or DSLR to achieve great photos, I think far from the photography technical side at the end of the day, the photrographer eye is the foundation of all this art.

I think this thread is a good opportunity to share with you this photo I made a few years ago, and I think it proofs that sometimes you do not need an expensive or professional camera equipment to achieve a good image. I toke this using an iPhone 2G camera, it is a part of México City skyline on a stormy day, it was about to rain that afternoon:



Cheers

[Jim Poor]

Actually, the lighting was quite inexpensive.

[OsmosisStudios]

I'd also like to see what would happen to the photo if it were blown up for advertising use. Printing from that file would be very hard.

[CanonRebelz]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

I'd also like to see what would happen to the photo if it were blown up for advertising use. Printing from that file would be very hard.

Yea, me too.
Throw it on a billboard and let's see how the pixels hold up.

Also, I find it funny at the beginning how he talks about readers complaining about not having enough equipment(note the key word here, equipment not camera) to achieve good images, while, even if they have an iPhone they will still need some lighting equipment.

[Jim Bryant]

Lighting makes or breaks a photograph!

[Vagebond]

And it doesn't even shoot RAW.