The iPhoneography Showcase of John Kieltyka
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 2:01PM | Glyn Evans About me: My name is John Kieltyka and I am a fine art photographer living and working in Seattle, WA.
Like so many people, I got my first camera when I was a teenager; an Olympus OM-1. That's the camera I took with me to art school, then graduate school, and it served me well. By the time I found myself in the role of fine art teacher I had moved on to better 35mm cameras, as well as various first-generation point and shoot digitals (remember those Casios?) Eventually, I jumped headlong into digital and haven't looked back.
Like everyone else, it seems, I have come to see iPhone photography with the same renewed sense of possibility I felt when I got that first 35mm camera; this is a tool that is eminently spontaneous and portable - it's exciting. Add to this the raft of ever-improving apps available for iPhone photographers and you have what is, for me, a paradigm shift in how I see the act of making images.
Not that I'll be abandoning my DSLR or my studio lights anytime soon, but in the same way lo-fi photography (Holga cameras, Polaroids, etc.) freed us from the technical minutiae of things and allowed us to explore, the iPhone allows me to "just shoot" faster than anything I've ever experimented with. Keeping a camera on me at all times has never been so much fun...
The majority of my iPhone photos are shot with the Genius camera. In post-processing, I'll crop the image, maybe sharpen it and balance the colors, then apply a filter or two. My go-to apps for these are mostly Photogene, CameraBag and CrossProcess, although I seem to collect photo apps with startling regularity :)
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
If you would like to showcase your iPhone photos here on the iPhoneography blog, then send me an email with a link to your Flickr account and a short bio about yourself and your iPhoneography, and if suitable I will post your showcase.
Reader Comments (2)
It's great to see your work, John!
Nice iPhone shots John. Really like the bumper. The bloody necked, coffee sippin' kid. And the barrista girl. Is that M's daughter in one of the shots? Like the Seattle scenes as well. - MEH