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The iPhone Photo Shoot by SLR Lounge

April 29, 2011 - Article by Pye

There is a theory out there, that it “doesn’t take expensive professional photography equipment to take great photos.” For those of you that have seen the FStoppers iPhone Photo Shoot, they show just that, taking great professional-looking images on an iPhone 3GS.

We wanted to add upon what they have already done and go one step further in proving this theory. So, we did an iPhone Photo Shoot tribute to the FStoppers.

But, for this photo shoot we have set some ground rules:

The Rules

1) iPhone Camera Only – We are not using any additional apps or functions other than the iPhone Camera that comes standard with each phone.

2) Accessories < $30 – We are limiting all additional photographic accessories to less than $30 each, and less than $100 in total for the entire shoot.

3) Non-Professional Model – We are using our lighting assistant and friend Yoko as our model. While she is beautiful, she doesn’t have any prior modeling experience.

4) Harsh Daytime Lighting – We rescheduled this shoot to ensure that we didn’t have any nice, photography-friendly overcast skies. We wanted to shoot in direct harsh sunlight so we can prove that this is possible regardless of the weather.

So, enjoy the video guys, and be sure to let us know what you think! To see all of the original and edited shots from this shoot. Please check out the photos on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/slrlounge

SLR Lounge iPhone Photo Shoot

Remember to see more photos on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/slrlounge

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For those of you who prefer Vimeo:

iPhone Fashion Photography Shoot by SLR Lounge from SLR Lounge on Vimeo.

FStoppers iPhone Photo Shoot

For those of you interested in the original “The iPhone Fashion Shoot,” by Lee Morris and Patrick Hall of the Fstoppers, we’ve included the video below as well.

Post Production Pye
SLR Lounge Senior Editor
Partner ofLin and Jirsa, Los Angeles Wedding Photographer

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About Pye
Pye (AKA Post Production Pye) is a founder and the Managing Editor for SLR Lounge. Pye is also a Partner of Lin and Jirsa Photography, an Orange County based wedding, engagement and portrait photography studio. Connect with him on Google Plus
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  • Stormin Norm

    wow, and these were processed on iPhone Photoshop Express with the skin smoothing and blur action set installed? :P

    • http://www.linandjirsa.com admin

      Haha, obviously they were processed Norm. We limited all the edits to things that can be done in a basic 3rd party editor, like Photoshop Elements.

      Processing is a part of photography, it has been with film, and still is now. I would like to see the professional that doesn’t process their images.

      – Pye

      • http://www.blindhogphotography.com Kevin

        Nice. Ultimately it’s the final image that counts of course and these look great. I certainly don’t consider it “cheating” to use post process.

        I’ve found with the iPhone that with enough light you can achieve pretty nice results. Low light unfortunately is pretty unforgiving with the iPhone. And it’s nearly impossible to process it away.

      • Stormin Norm

        LOL – I my Droid does that…

        forgot to include the Mac, PS, and processing time in the equipment list.

        how about the “SOOC” shots side by side?

  • http://www.linandjirsa.com admin

    Thanks Kevin,

    Yeah, the iPhone in low light is terrible. But, for $300 – $400 bucks the S95, G11s and that class of point and shoots actually do a great job with low light. Only reason we used the iPhone is cause its kinda the crappiest camera you can get, worse than $100 point and shoots.

    We did some cool hot lighting shots with the G11, and with a little bit of post, they looked awesome.

    – Pye

  • http://www.rchircop.com reuben chircop

    Great shots, this really shows that its not the equipment but the ability to use light that counts. Great work. I wonder how this works our with night shots.

  • http://www.photographybyobi.co.uk Obi

    amazing stuff ..

  • dd

    great video but what I really liked was the canvas among al the photo’s in the beginning that said: “Where words fail our imagery speaks”.
    Got any bigger (more detailed) shot of that perhaps?

  • Photoassist

    Nice. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for ages but was never going to get around to it :) The only thing I think you should have added was how you got from the final unedited image to the post-processed one. I’m sure a lot of people were feeling a bit lost there…

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