Jef Harris

iPhone 4 photography: how does it perform as a camera?

// June 23rd, 2010 // View Comments // Features

Via Boing Boing
As a camera, the iPhone 4 is really sweet. I hopped on my bike and took the device down to the Venice Skate Park, then out to the ocean pier, then rode back to the office and tested the device out in a variety of lighting conditions with less animated subjects. The images I took in this post (other than the ones I’m in) were snapped on the fourth-generation iPhone with and without built-in flash, and have not been altered in any way other then cropping, resizing, and considerable JPEG compression to keep web file size down for this blog post. No Photoshop, no Hipstamatic, no sweetening or sharpening the image content.
Full Gallery HERE.

Are Cameras the New Guns?

// June 4th, 2010 // View Comments // Features

VIA Gizmodo

In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.

Read the full article HERE.

Blood, Sweat and Photographic Tears

// March 22nd, 2010 // View Comments // Features

Via Gizmodo.

Greg du Toit contracted several diseases and parasites while spending months half-submerged in a Kenyan watering hole. But he also captured a rare and stunning look of the wildlife he encountered nose-to-lens.

This narration documents my pursuit of that ever illusive frame, which became an obsession that lasted a total of eight months and took me along an eventful journey, during which I contracted numerous parasites (some quite possibly unknown to science), not to mention the thousands upon thousands of insect bites.

Continue reading and see more of his amazing pictures here.