Our friends at KelbyOneLive are staging the third annual iPhone Photography Conference, an online event which will feature some of the best mobile photographers in the world, offering their generous tips and tricks over a three day period.
Yes, I’ve been invited to join this group with my insights, thank you very much, and it costs $150 for the early bird pricing to attend, but it’s also worth taking a look at, if for nothing else, the programming, and the people.
These are all great cutting edge photographers who you need to follow and learn from.
You can register for the early bird pricing here:
The photographers who, like me, talk about getting pro results with your phone include Scott Kelby, Erik Kuna, Terry White, Tracy Sweeney, Glyn Dewis, Lisa Carney, Dave Williams, Rick and Susan Sammon and the man I believe is simply the greatest iPhone photographer in the world, bar none, Mr. Russell Preston Brown.
Here are some of the topics that will be discussed:
Scott Kelby, the author of the iPhone Photography Book, among many others, and the Kelby behind the entire operation, will offer his takes on iPhone tips and tricks and travel photography. (Scott will also be here with us on Thursday 2/27 for a Q&A with you and me.)
Rick Sammon, who travels the world even more than I do, most recently in Thailand and Antartica, will talk about bringing only the iPhone with you on vacation, and he’s got amazing pictures to show.
Lisa Carney, who uses her incredible Photoshop skills to retouch movie posters for studios, will talk about the art of storytelling in travel photography, as well as posing and lighting, even with a smartphone. Lisa offers a tutorial PDF on mobile photography on her website, and will be here with me LIVE Thursday for an online Q&A with me and you.
Glyn Dewis, a superstar British photographer will be teaching a class called “You took that with an iPhone?” He’s also talking about how to photograph rides with an iPhone. He’ll be LIVE with me here on Thursday 2/13 at 10 a.m. California time.
Terry White, an Adobe employee who is very prolific helping people learn the ins and outs of software like Lightroom and Photoshop, will talk about mobile editing and lighting.
Russell Brown, who also works at Adobe, has sessions devoted to editing and portraiture.
I’ve got two sessions, and regular readers of this newsletter should enjoy them, because I’ve gotten lots of questions in these areas over the years.
The first up is all about the best accessories for mobile photography and filmmaking, from gimbels, lenses, cages and lighting, to rigs, microphones and power. I’ll be showing off my favorites and demoing in the field.
How does one actually produce a weekly half-hour TV travel show on the iPhone? What’s involved, and how does everything get put together after the fact? Where does one start and end? I’ll reveal all in my session.
Again, early bird pricing is available here.
Drugstore Photos for a Funeral
My brother is helping to plan a funeral for a dear friend, and he’s putting photos together to display. He was planning on using his local home printer to churn out a bunch of prints. I reminded him that he could run out to the drugstore, his local CVS or Walgreen’s and get them made, just like we did in the old days, at a much more affordable price, like under 50 cents a piece for 4x6 prints.
He was unfamiliar with the process, so let me clue everybody in.
First of all, you can upload the images directly from your computer to CVS or Walgreen’s, and arrange to pick them up locally, which lets you skip shipping time and costs.
CVS: https://www.photoprintsnow.com/
Walgreens: http://www.walgreens.com
This is probably the easiest way to get them done. You can also bring your digital images directly to the store, and have them done on the spot.
Both have kiosks in store. You can either connect a flash drive to your computer at home, or bring them in on memory cards, remember them kids? Import the photos and plug your drive or cards into the kiosk at the store. You can also use Bluetooth to beam the photos directly from the phone to the kiosk.
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Meanwhile, I’ll be back at you tomorrow with my hot take on how to photograph New York City with an iPhone in ten degree weather and still get great shots.