Mobile Photography Quotes

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.

I remember, when I was a little kid playing with the 25 Legos I had, I thought, 'If I just had a camera, I could film different setups and make it look like I have way more Legos and tell a story.' I didn't get a camera, though, until I basically got an iPhone.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

There are essentially two main reasons to hold a phone up at a show. First, to capture a memory for yourself, a reminder of the moment you're enjoying. And second, to share that moment with someone - to express your emotions socially. Both seem perfectly legitimate to me.

There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.

Every camera shoots horizontal, right? So we're all super used to framing things with lots of horizontal room. We've seen this new wave of Snapchat stories and Instagram stories where people are actually framing for and recording in vertical. Whether it's better or not is debatable.

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future, most photographs would be taken on telephones. They weren't able to do anything with that. They were engineers, not management.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can't get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it... at the state's cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost.

But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.

I love Instagram. I like taking pictures. I've always been into that ever since cellphones had that capability.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.