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A lot of the comments are looking to find ways to get around the fact that entering text on a phone is a pain. Others have suggested creating 'art' but, persona

A lot of the comments are looking to find ways to get around the fact that entering text on a phone is a pain. Others have suggested creating 'art' but, personally I find a phone screen far too small for drawing on. If you want to 'create' with your phone, why not use the feature it has which is actually as good as [and in some aspects better than] the equivalent 'proper' equipment. ie. the camera. I'm a keen amateur photographer and have actually sold my SLR and compact cameras and now use my phone for 100% of my photography. It may lack some of the capabilities of my proper cameras, but [like most modern phone cameras] it's very good indeed and light years ahead of the equipment many of history's greatest photographers had access to, in their time. And, as the famous quote says; "The best camera is the one you have with you" [and who of us leaves the house without our phones, these days?] Next time you're thumb-twiddling somewhere, why not set yourself a photography project to kill the time: * Find and photograph 'faces' in everyday objects * Pick a random word [for example off a billboard] and take photos on that 'theme' * Pretend you're a news photographer and record 'stories' on your journey to wherever you're going * Photograph some everyday objects from weird angles and see if your mates can recognise them * Try and find some 'beauty' in decay; dilapidated buildings, rubbish, grafitti, etc. ....and so on.

mrkwse 6y ago
Phone photography is brilliant nowadays. In recent years with the emergence of computational photography, smartphones present a fantastically accessible way of creating very decent images. You'll have certain constraints caused by the lack of a zoom lens (or limited alternate zoom cameras), but such constraints often can lead to good creative challenges. The single best thing about smartphone photography vs. a dedicated SLR/mirrorless camera, however, is the ease of editing images with the varied apps that provide all sorts of creative control (with degrees of involvement/automatic adjustment).
blackrock 6y ago
This scene comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8_8TJC9E8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8_8TJC9E8
gala8y 6y ago
> A lot of the comments are looking to find ways to get around the fact that entering text on a phone is a pain. Years ago I bought a small, pricey bluetooth keyboard. It's been my companion in travels since then. Connecting takes a second and amount of time and hassle saved is enormous. Some people would call me strange ('oh, oh, nobody does that, you must be strange'). I couldn't care less. It's wonderful when flow strikes you... wherever.

mrkwse 6y ago

Phone photography is brilliant nowadays. In recent years with the emergence of computational photography, smartphones present a fantastically accessible way of creating very decent images. You'll have certain constraints caused by the lack of a zoom lens (or limited alternate zoom cameras), but such constraints often can lead to good creative challenges. The single best thing about smartphone photography vs. a dedicated SLR/mirrorless camera, however, is the ease of editing images with the varied apps that provide all sorts of creative control (with degrees of involvement/automatic adjustment).

blackrock 6y ago

This scene comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8_8TJC9E8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8_8TJC9E8

gala8y 6y ago

> A lot of the comments are looking to find ways to get around the fact that entering text on a phone is a pain. Years ago I bought a small, pricey bluetooth keyboard. It's been my companion in travels since then. Connecting takes a second and amount of time and hassle saved is enormous. Some people would call me strange ('oh, oh, nobody does that, you must be strange'). I couldn't care less. It's wonderful when flow strikes you... wherever.