{"id":2335,"date":"2013-11-11T22:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-11-11\/2335"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:38:26","slug":"why-does-photography-with-an-ipad-look-so-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-11-11\/2335","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Photography with an iPad Look so Silly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"041161\" href='\/i\/JF4_041161.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_041161_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nphotostream='japan,misc'\nalt=\"Why does this look so silly? (at the Kintai Bridge (\u9326\u5e2f\u6a4b), Iwakuni Japan) -- Kintai Bridge (\u9326\u5e2f\u6a4b) -- Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i041161\"\ntitle=\"Why does this look so silly? (at the Kintai Bridge (\u9326\u5e2f\u6a4b), Iwakuni Japan) -- Kintai Bridge (\u9326\u5e2f\u6a4b) -- Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>320 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 100 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_041161.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_041161.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Why<\/span>\n<br\/>does this look so silly?\n<br\/>(at the Kintai Bridge (\u9326\u5e2f\u6a4b), Iwakuni Japan)\n<\/div>\n\n<p>What is it about taking photos with an iPad or other tablet that makes it look so stupid?<\/p>\n\n<p>My iPad has no camera so I've never been tempted to take <span class='nobr'>a photo<\/span> with\nit, but even if <span class='nobr'>I could,<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I'm not the<\/span> kind to take advantage of its\nsocial-networking benefits (like immediate posting to Facebook or Instagram\nor whatever the current fad is). So I'd probably not use it for photography\nany more than <span class='nobr'>I use<\/span> my iPhone, which is to say, not at all unless it's the\nonly camera around and my quality threshold happens to be low.<\/p>\n\n<p>But anyway, tablet photography looks downright <i>silly<\/i>. Why? <span class='nobr'>Is it that<\/span> we're just not used to seeing people holding up big boards to snap <span class='nobr'>a\nphoto<\/span>? We're used to small boards (phones), so that's why people taking <span class='nobr'>a\nphoto<\/span> with an iPhone don't look silly?<\/p>\n\n<p>Practically speaking the resulting photos should be similar to those\ntaken with <span class='nobr'>a phone,<\/span> so <span class='nobr'>I can't<\/span> come up with <span class='nobr'>a logical<\/span> reason why I (and the\nrest of the Internet) has such <span class='nobr'>a visceral<\/span> reaction when presented with <span class='nobr'>a\nscene<\/span> like this. Any ideas?<\/p>\n\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2013-11-13\/2336'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about taking photos with an iPad or other tablet that makes it look so stupid?<\/p> <p>My iPad has no camera so I've never been tempted to take a photo with it, but even if I could, I'm not the kind to take advantage of its social-networking benefits (like immediate posting to Facebook or Instagram or whatever the current fad is). So I'd probably not use it for photography any more than I use my iPhone, which is to say, not at all unless it's the only camera around and my quality threshold happens to be low.<\/p> <p>But [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}