Mobile phone photography

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 Taking pictures with mobile phone. The camera technology on smartphones is more than adequate for taking photos and publishing them online. Depending on the camera quality and number of pixels, photos can be printed 8x10" and higher with excellent results. The significant difference today is that everyone with a smartphone has a camera handy.

Mobile Photography has changed everything.
Other wise known as: iphoneography, mobile street photography or smartphone photography this relatively new form of photography has firmly established itself as the visual vanguard of the 21st century.

As a totem, citizen weapon and an artists tool, the mobile photography is pissing off traditional photographers everywhere and creating new stars along the way.

Some bloggers have said that Instagram has ruined mobile photography.

I disagree. I think it has transformed it into one of the most exciting and inventive forms of photography since the birth of digital cameras
Mobile photography is the art of photography using a smartphone or mobile device.

Defined using the philosophy of 'the best camera is the one that's always with you', mobile photography is the future of the art form. Discreet, intimate and always accessible to capture a moment.

Mobile photography is so influential now that camera manufacturers are bringing phones to cameras rather than cameras to phones. 

As a term, mobile photography is wide category in need of some specific definitions.

So, what are the characteristics of mobile photography? 

- it is inherently mobile i.e. there is no studio or staged shots

- it is photography made exclusively by a smartphone or mobile device 

- it is non exclusive in its choice of subject matter

- camera apps dominate the mobile photography experience

- fast editing on the fly is commonplace, no deliberation here