PHOTOGRAPHY
How Apple Taught Me To Love Photography
Discovering photography through the iPhone
When I was a kid, I never had much of an interest in photography. Like most kids, I had intermittent experiences with Kodak cameras on field trips and family vacations, but little beyond that.
In middle school and high school I had beginner digital media classes, but the cameras we would use always had a few too many buttons for me to make proper sense of. Growing up, I had always had difficulty with multi-step processing and it was an ineptitude I felt in full force when I tried getting comfortable with any of this more complicated camera equipment. It wasn’t until I owned a cellphone that I ever actually took a picture for the fun of it.
When cellphones first began to include cameras, though, their abilities were limited. They could take pictures, but they were hardly anything worth saving. But those first low resolution images that I shot on my phone were incredibly exciting to me.
It wouldn’t be until years later that I’d have a phone with the ability to record videos. And once I finally did, the videos that it took could hardly catch the vaguest of details. Not to mention, the video’s length maxed out at a meager fifteen seconds. And cellphone storage was limited at best. Even with…
