Last week, I shared a couple of photos I shot at the end of the day on a trip to Blackpool. Those were captured using a Nikon Z7ii, but that wasn’t the only camera I used on this trip. I spent most of the day photographing with my iPhone, and the Nikon only came out for the last hour of light.
If you do a lot of urban shooting, you are probably used to carrying a camera around a city or town centre. But that’s not for me. I hate taking photos with a camera in public as it seems to attract a lot of attention, often unwanted. But using an iPhone for this type of photography, people ignore me, and I can capture all kinds of scenes.
Of course, I’m not very good at urban photography with an iPhone yet, so don’t judge me too harshly when I share the following shots.
This first one is the old Post Office, which is sadly now closed. Fortunately, the row of telephone boxes (I think there are eight) is still outside.
This was taken using the iPhone’s 3x Telephoto lens. It was then processed using Snapseed to create the faded, worn look.
As I mentioned in last week’s post, the weather was glorious, with bright sun and a clear blue sky. These weren’t the ideal conditions for photography, but that’s another advantage of the iPhone. It seems to make most things look great.
When faced with harsh light like this, I like hunting for shadows. This sculpture on the seafront created some interesting ones.
Please forgive me for adding the film edge in Snapseed. I just liked it.
This image was shot using the 24mm standard lens (I have no idea why Apple calls it a standard lens when 24mm is wide-angle to the rest of us).
In the afternoon, I headed over to find “Bad Santa”. This is a wonderful piece of graffiti art from someone with a sense of humour. Here’s a shot of my friend photographing it.
Then here’s one of the last iPhone shots I took. This shows the seafront with North Pier in the distance.
This is a handheld 5-second long exposure. I captured it using an iPhone App called Light Stack. It’s a new app for me, but it seems to work great for daytime long exposures, although I haven’t tried it at night yet. I then processed the image using Snapseed to add a vintage film grain effect.
But I can’t end this post without sharing another shot from the end of the day.
This is the Central Pier that I shot handheld using the Nikon Z7ii and z24-120 Nikon lens at 59mm. It’s a 1/80 second exposure at f/14.0 and ISO 64.
I hope you like the photos and have a great weekend.
The Lightweight Photographer 