Mobile Photography - A whole new Genre
Mobile photography is a new interesting and yet challenging field in the arena of photography. It is a new jargon for almost any activities related to taking pictures and sometimes followed by uploading them to the web using a mobile camera phone.
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It is estimated that 6 out of 10 individuals the world own a mobile phone and everyday hundred a huge number of new pictures are uploaded to the net directly from mobile phones. Judging from these numbers, there is no doubt that mobile photography will be here with us, like it or otherwise not.
Majority of picture sharing services and also social networking sites provide mobile interface to upload photos. People enjoy to share their pictures, especially the great ones. Individuals find new ways and technics to create exciting photos out of their very own mobile camera phones. This can lead to some kind of competition to provide the best that they can, and mobile photography was given birth to.
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Making pictures using a mobile camera phone presents many challenges because of limitations of the device. Mobile camera phones are mainly phones with built-in simple camera as added feature. The standard of the image is usually presented as megapixels, which may be anywhere between one to a superb 12 megapixels. Other limitations such as no optical zoom, no manual shutter, low response, and poor image quality in low light, add further challenge to generate acceptable results.
Off course it is debatable whether mobile photography is real photography. A few of you may argue that no serious photography can be produced using a very limited device. On the other hand, we can argue that photography is not merely about the camera, yet it's about how to produce beautiful pictures with whatever is your hand. That said, mobile photography is real photography providing it follows the basic principles of photography.