{"id":1482,"date":"2011-03-24T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2011-03-24T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T13:22:33","slug":"its-not-the-camera-return-to-simpler-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/its-not-the-camera-return-to-simpler-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not The Camera | Return to Simpler Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1483\" title=\"iPhoneography\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girlsonhillIPHONE-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"by Chicago Photographer Marianne Drenthe\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girlsonhillIPHONE-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girlsonhillIPHONE-1024x1000.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girlsonhillIPHONE.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In the past couple years I have really enjoyed going back to\u00a0 the &#8216;point and shoot&#8217; nature of photography, mostly via the tool I have most handy at all times.\u00a0 This tools&#8217; simplicity is flawed in many ways but its&#8217; back to basics &#8211; point, click, go aspect appeals to me on a fundamental level.\u00a0 The quirkiness of its&#8217; shortcomings, the inability to manipulate the exposure accurately in camera, the lack of controls &#8211; all these would be seem to be frustrating for a pro photographer who enjoys the CONTROL aspect of photography.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s the rub.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the simplicity in the tool, the ability to use various apps that allow you to express creativity without the digital darkroom (AKA Photoshop) or chemicals (AKA the actual darkroom).\u00a0 The simplicity + the ability to control the variables normally associated with downloading and manipulating on a computer make it such a fun tool for photographers and amateurs alike.\u00a0 Of course I&#8217;m speaking of the iPhone camera.<\/p>\n<p>I read a quote several days ago and I think I&#8217;ll share it here:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;If your work speaks for itself, don&#8217;t interrupt.&#8221;  ~Henry J. Kaiser<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhoneography is a simpler way of looking at the world, taking the rules that photographers know and using them in a very limited tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[316,1],"tags":[43,683,317,214],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-miscellaneous-photo-related","tag-creativity","tag-iphone","tag-iphoneography","tag-point-and-shoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}