This is a picture I took of the inside cover of the current issue of HMSA's island scene magazine. Those blue dotted jellyfish at the Waikiki Aquarium are very hard to shoot. The lighting in the tank is dark and uneven, and the jellyfish are constantly bobbing and twitching and moving around all over the place. Yet Jonathan Tanji managed to get this beautiful shot with his damn camera phone. My picture of the picture is actually blurry, but I'm too lazy to reshoot it, so if you have the magazine try take a look for yourself . . . it's amazing.
You can check out more irritating camera phone photos here and here.
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:) you so funny.
:) Kat.
The nerve of him taking better shots of the jellys than you. Unless he has an iPhone 4S.
Its good that he had a phone camera with him to take that picture. Most of those photos in the first link are heavily processed. And just because you take pictures that does not make you a photographer. I don't get whats up with Instagram, "aged", "vintage", off beat colors and heavy vignetting. All of a sudden the plain boring photos are now cool and artsy with filters. The flaws and limitations of film that they are trying to recreate are so now overdone with fake authenticity.
Enough Lomo'ed office chairs, sidewalks and nervous pets. Lets have some genuine creativity instead of lazy cookie cutter apps applied to everything.
Honestly i don't think much of Jonathan Tanji's photo. Did he control the lighting in the tank? Settings on the phone? My guess is, just press the camera icon.
I'm positive if you were standing there with your 5dm2 and 85, it would come out fantastic with a quality and look to it that just cannot be matched by cell phone.
-kevin
That is amazing...the photo and the jelly...and to think a person could get awesome pictures with a phone camera...doesn't seem right, huh!
no kidding yah!?! But I can't complain...my camera's resolution is pretty damn good :-)
What is that Erick?
Kevin, you have a way with words that leave me in awe.
Just not right Betty . . . hahaha!
Yeah Les, I loooove our camera.
Last time I stood in front of the jelly tank for 15mins and all i got was blurry blue stuff too. People were gettng mad at me for taking so long!! I wonder if cell phones can get better shots of those memorial day lanterns at Ala Moana beach in the dark?...I need to get me an iphone!!
Shun Wah, I swear I've stood for over an hour in front of that tank on at least three separate occasions trying to get decent shots.
kevin, u took da words right outta my mout! (betta go wash your handz!)
Tee hee, funny Rand.
I have same frustration too. I don't have a camera phone but my husband take great pics with his iPhone with ease. I admit that the photo of jelly fish is awesome.
Akemi, you do take some wonderful photos yourself.
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