Smartphone Photography of winter 2022–2023. Part 3

Photos taken on a smartphone, sometimes it seems to me, are closer to art than ordinary high-quality photography.

In painting, there are different directions: somewhere hyperrealism, and somewhere a mottled daub, so much so that it is not clear what is near at all, and if you move it away, then an image emerges.

I have been resorting to spotting for the second year.

But smartphone photography gives something else that is in the drawing: some kind of fuzziness, carelessness.

There is also such a principle in photography, as in painting – the main thing is that a picture with a plot emerges, and quality comes second.

When there is a question of quality, detail, excessive sharpness – this is not art, but technique.

What could be worse in our everyday life than the courtyard spaces of the Soviet era? (Only yards of newly built houses).

And every time I strive to make a picture out of this routine! Sometimes it even works out.

And since I began to draw again, I want to transfer many of the pictures to the canvas.

Or I began to look for such subjects for shooting that I would like to see in the form of a picture.

Interestingly, photography and drawing are very different worlds in terms of frequencies, but they have one goal: to write the memory code into the result of creativity.

If there were no smartphones with good cameras now, then I would probably shoot more random frames on a SLR camera.

But there would be clearly fewer random frames, because a large DSLR is not always with you, but a smartphone is ALWAYS with you!

It turns out that the camera is with us almost 24 by 7.

And only a small percentage of people use a smartphone camera for its intended purpose and something comes out of it.

For others, the camera is just a means to capture everyday life around or as a technical means for documenting work processes.

Creativity with the help of a smartphone camera is a rather rare process.

By creativity, I mean high-frequency aesthetic intellectual activity, not funny videos and selfies with friends in a cafe.

But on the other hand, it's good when there is such a means to capture absolutely everything around, and quite private.

If earlier a laboratory assistant could see your sh*t on film during development and printing, then only you can see the pictures on your smartphone, if you want it.

And if you want, the whole world can see your pictures, and the distribution of pictures is almost instantaneous.