FOR MY tour of UK last year, and of Europe earlier this year, I decided to buy an iPhone 13 Pro Max.
This is an upgrade from my last iPhone, a 7 Plus RED, which I also used for my 2017 grand European tour.
I had entertained the idea of a DSLR, and a GoPro, but my friends told me these are so early 2000s.
They have effectively convinced me that an iPhone 13 is all I needed; Pro Max, if I can afford it.
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Because I have been pretty, and prettily, convinced, I am actually starting to live, and believe, that it is a great iPhone camera for me.
I mostly use my iPhone to photograph my meals, a documentation that I need for my Ate meal tracking app; and for my 2022 Sunrises and Sunsets Project.
(Again, you can check this on my Instagram @petersolisnery or #petersolisnery.)
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You can hardly see me without my iPhone these days.
And because I am retired from the cares of the workforce, I have time for social media.
By now, you understand that when reading, and reading comprehension are becoming a problem among netizens, pictures speak a million words.
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Becoming more frequent though is my iPhone photography service being requested, because, well, I have the better camera.
The Cinematic function takes great videos even if my nine-year old niece is operating the phone.
In the UK, I have trained even my seven-year old niece to take my souvenir photos during our Manchester trips; and my nephews are also now my expert photographers in the Portrait mode.
The Portrait mode is my preferred camera function.
When I take photos with it, it just brings out the best features of the people.
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Because I am also a filmmaker, I do a lot of shooting willing people who are just introduced to me.
It’s a seduction game.
You pose for me, you are mine! Haha.
Well, mostly.
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Because I have a friend driving for me (I still am not confident to drive myself with manual transmission), I fall victim to my friend’s schemes.
I mean, he obviously likes boys.
And he invites them, and introduces me as “the filmmaker”, the movie director.
And so, I end up taking photos of his boylets.
Sometimes, I would end up taking photos of him and the boys holding hands.
Or, him cuddling the boy’s arms.
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I have no problem with that.
For as long as the boys consent, I take the photos.
I take “their story” in photos.
Now, mostly, I delete the photos immediately once I have sent it to them.
I do that to almost everybody.
I do not keep files of people’s photos in my phone.
That’s how vain I am. Haha.
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Occasionally, I keep one or two as remembrance of the people I’ve shot.
I did not say I delete everything.
I just said, “I delete the photos immediately once I have sent it to them.”
So, I keep some files; often (I’d like to say ‘always’; but to be safe, I’ll say ‘often’) to keep a tab, a reminder of people I may want to cast in my future films.
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If I have to say so myself, I’m really getting better at getting photos, be they of food, sunrises, sunsets, people, even artworks, architectural designs, landscapes, seascapes.
I concede that I have a good iPhone camera.
But because of the skills and habits that I have acquired from photographing everything day in and day out, I also have to insist that my photography is more than just good equipment.
I’m actually good at what I do.
At everything I do, period!
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I also ask people to take my photos in Portrait mode.
I usually set the frame.
I pose myself.
But sometimes, some people are just ain’t brilliant.
However good my phone camera is, they are just committed to being photography failures 99% of the time.
These are the people that deserve to be in hell.
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Who do I hate most?
Those people who I shoot beautifully, and who end up f*cking my photos.
Like, I would shoot them in a certain frame, at a certain angle, and they would rave how beautifully I have captured them.
Then, I would ask them to do the same for me.
And they would 99% of the time f*ck it up.
Mess it up so bad that I would not be in the mood to smile for a reshoot.
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Thankfully, I am not trying to be friends with these people.
So, if you f*ck up my photo, please do not show your face to me again.
I may not sound like I mean it, but I really mean it!
Haha!/PN
