Now, there's one question I get every single time
I show a photograph that I've taken with my iPhone.
Just how big could you print them?
Pretty big.
Now, if you know anything about me,
you'll know that I am a big fan of printing my images.
Nothing beats a physical print.
No matter how good the displays we use,
there's nothing like a print
for really showing you
the quality of the file and revealing the good and the bad.
And I'm
sure I would feel exactly the same way
if I was using another brand of camera. I mean phone.
But that's a 72 inch print, 72 inches
that I took with my iPhone, and it genuinely looks
fantastic, and apart from one little bit at the end,
it was all edited in Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop on my iPad.
That's just crazy.
I remember when Lightroom Mobile was first launched
and being in the audience and like ... naaaah!
Now I think it's pretty fair to suggest
that of the people that are aski the question,
some are genuinely interested
because they're embracing the technology,
but there are definitely
some naysayers, people who are resisting.
But love it or loathe it, there's no escaping it.
The quality is already mind blowing, but today is the worst
it will be.
Every second, every minute, it's being worked
on, it's being developed, it's getting better and better.
“Do you know how many people
at Apple work on the iPhone?” “A lot” “800 and something
was the last number” A trillion dollar company.” “No, No ...
they just work on the camera. Over eight hundred ...
like 827 people just working on the camera.”
So let's have a quick
look at the kit I used, the App I used to photograph
the long exposure
and what I did to produce that whopping 72 inch print.
So at the
time of recording this, I'm using an iPhone 14 pro max
with one terabyte of storage, and with that I use a few lenses
from an Italian company called ReeFlex.
I've got a 210 degree fisheye, an 18 millimeter
wide angle and a 60 millimeter telephoto.
These screw into the aperture
on my phone case, which is also magsafe.
As for holders, I've tried a number of different ones,
some small and light
and really quick to attach the phone
to like this one from Joby.
But the trouble with
that one is the slightest breeze causes a bit of movement.
My favorite now is the universal holder
for photo and video by smallrig.
This comes with handles you can quickly screw into the sides
making it great for recording video footage,
but I've screwed a couple of ARCA Swiss plates,
one on the short side and one on the long side
so I can use it with the ballhead on my tripod
and easily go from landscape to portrait orientation.
The app for use for long exposure is ReeXpose
and it's made by the same folks who make the lenses that I use.
It's crazy easy to use with a super clean interface
where you can easily
change exposure, check focus, levels and do a lot more,
but it also shoots Raw, so you'll get a DNG, a Bayer
Raw file and can go from one second up to bulb mode
for the long exposures just by scrolling the wheel.
There's also an app on the Apple Watch
that you can use to trigger the shutter.
This comes in really handy, preventing movement
by tapping the screen,
but also for triggering the shutter
without being right next to the camera.
I mean phone.
So I’d already printed an
A3 of this image which looks incredible,
but for the 72 inch print I had to scale it up
and for that I used Topaz Gigapixel AI.
In Lightroom here's the edited image
and we can see that the longest side is 4008 pixels.
The version I upscaled is this one labeled red.
And if I click on it, you can see it's
17,280 pixels on the longest side.
So over four times the original.
I'll send this upscaled version into Photoshop.
I'll go to image size
and just change the units to inches.
So this is definitely the upscaled 72 inch version.
But check this out.
I mean, look, when I zoom in, the quality is incredible.
So much detail.
Amazing.
Now I really have to give a huge thanks to Jeff
and the folks at Digitalab who printed this for me.
This is the lab that I used for printing all of the portraits
I had in my World War
Two Veterans exhibition and they looked fantastic.
Quality and attention to detail is second to none.
These are people who genuinely love what they do.
Oh and the print itself was done on Fujifilm Crystal
Archive DP II professional photographic paper.
So what I got is classed as a digital C type print.
The paper is light sensitive
like would be used in the traditional darkroom
and the information making up the file is exposed
onto the paper through red, green and blue LEDs.
But yes, seriously impressed and excited
about all of this stuff and where it's going.
The fact that I can go out and take photographs like this
with minimal kit
that is extremely light and portable
rather than lugging around a bag full of heavy lenses, filters,
adapters and other stuff makes this a no brainer.
The quality is there
and it's only going to keep on getting better and better.
So anybody who says it isn't, well,
I guess the same people said DSLRs wouldn't catch on either.
To choose not to embrace it though, that's a personal choice
and that's fine, but a flat out no to not accept it
and even say it's not real photography ...
Well,
anyway, very exciting times ahead
for anyone who embraces this stuff.
But thinking of the year ahead, do
I update my mirrorless camera to the latest model
or do I upgrade my iPhone?
Come to think of it, I always did like the number 15.
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