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The Guardian’s Dan Chung is photographing the entire Olympics using just an iPhone 4S and processing app Snapseed. Though it seems to have taken him a while to find his feet, the results are becoming sensationally good—and with his updates continuing until the end of the games, there’s far more to come.
Go take a look at his work. [Guardian via Verge]
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And Canon Binoculars to get in close to the action.
There are some great shots there but the image quality still looks like it was shot on a app. The noise in some just un-need.
Its nice to see what a phone camera can do but still far from broadcast quality level.
Sometimes it not about the quality of the image, as in pin sharp mega pixel packed broadcast quality, it’s about just capturing the moment.
Trust me as a photographer I know that – and we’re not just talking about pin sharpmega pixels here but image quality as a whole.
Which brings me back to my orginal point – some great shots (as in great compisition, subject and timing – this guy clearly knows what he’s doing) but even when they are shrunk down to the tiny size on that page (which they’ve obviously done to hide flaws) and the IQ is still blatently taken on a phone for me it distracts from all the things thats great about that shot.
i guess what i am trying to say and maybe nick too. what is the point? he is a professional photographer with the best seat in the house and decides to use an iphone. it’s not a case of “i saw a great opportunity for a shot and grabbed my iphone…”. this is just a gimmick.
Just to add – here’s the quality that his peers are hitting:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/08/london_2012_olympics.html
i think his best piece of equipment is actually a photo pass. i don’t see the point really, a professional photographer with a iphone. i think we all understand now that a phone can have a good camera on it.
the gymnastic pictures look rubbish. oh yeah, you can get a ‘real sense of movement’ with longer shutter speeds. errgh.
It’s a good point which I was saying above. These are some great shots but thats mainly down to subject – the fact we have a tiny photo and poor IQ distracts me away.
I don’t think there’s too much more to it than somehow the Guardian haved been roped in to do a PR job for the Snapseed app, I think it’s a great bit of PR: the Guardian, the Olympics, a pro photographer taking good shots on an iPhone using the app in question, that’s why he’s using an iPhone, to help promote Snapseed, which is what he and the Guardian are doing quite well.
But whether news sources (in this case the Guardian) should be promoting products and passing it off as news/reportage rather than through paid for advertising is another case. But I guess that’s what Gizmodo does to some extent anyway!
Basically, it’s a cool story, which is why we reported on it. We can’t be certain it’s a PR stunt on behalf of Snapseed or The Guardian (but I am inclined to agree with you.)
‘Broadcast quality’ is a misleading term, like broadcast cameras are pretty low noise yes, but broadcast lenses have awful chromatic abrasion – presumably down to to the high zoom levels needed.
Great example of the fact that it’s the photographer that makes the image, not the camera. You don’t need thousands or pounds worth of kit to make great pictures.
Is that top right pic underwater? there’s underwater iphones now?
well there are some underwater cases so technically…
But in this case the pool has observation windows along the edge, and then the photographer is using binoculars/a zoom attachment to crop out the wall around the outside, and black and white so it’s harder to tell. Much less exciting.
Some of the pools have observation windows on the side.