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Nina Hauser: Photographs With My iPhone and my Eye

March 2013

Nina Hauser • with my iPhone and Eye

March 25 – May 5, 2013

I recently interviewed photographer Nina Hauser about her new show at WSG Gallery.  You can see a few of the pieces here and find out more about her, her art and her work process.  The reception is Friday, March 29, 7-9pm, and you meet her and can ask her a few questions of your own!

Interview:

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1. What are some of the ways taking photos w/ your Iphone are different than with your digital SLR? (Do you use digital SLR?)

when i take pictures with my iphone, i do it using  various apps and it is great fun, challenging, creative ……..i can play with filters, light, colors, format so  i can see what i’m creating right at the moment of conception and i can keep redoing them and saving them until one strikes the right chord………….with my digital SLR, i have to  take a photo and then wait to edit it in photoshop when i get to my laptop…….isn’t it funny to say that?   i used to have to wait for film to be developed and that usually took at least a day………and now i have to wait until i get home…………how our perception changes with the times!
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 2.  How do you ‘look’ differently at your subjects with your Iphone?  
i think it’s about feeling as well as the  visual………..i get alot more experimental with my iPhone and  find more subjects around ann arbor (and wherever i am)  that interest me since i have my iphone in my pocket and can visualize them in different ways………so i might take a photo at a stoplight of something curious  in the next car or something on the street or something i notice about shadows or the house around the corner………..the students are always interesting and probably wouldn’t even notice me aiming at them and i haven’t yet………but i will.

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3.  What was your first camera and do you recall what your thoughts were when you first got to take photos? my first camera was my Brownie Hawk eye  given to me by my father when i was about eight…………i was adopted by my father when i was four and he married my mother,      It was the first time i remember feeling an attachment to him because he gave me a camera so that he and i had something special that  we did together……..just we two……………..he was a doctor and this was a hobby for him, but for me……..it was much more significant because it was link that we shared and could talk about……….

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4.  What app were you most excited to add to your photo-altering tool kit? 

i don’t have just  one favorite……….i have MANY favorites………….and i keep discovering them………..the latest one i found is called PuddingCam and i also like Hipstamatic……….both of them offer different lenses and film types and i am still trying to remember what does what………..alot of what i do that turns really well by accident……..there’s another one that i love called juxtaposer which allows me to combine two photos ………in one of my photos in the show, i used a sky i photographed in indonesia behind a porch that i shot on the cape because that day, the sky was blown out…….just whitish but i loved the porch………..looks pretty good now……..

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5.  Do you find any particular app more useful, overall, than others?
i couldn’t say that there is only one that is more useful……. it depends on my mood and what i feel like the photo’s mood should be………some of the basic ones are Photogene, Snapseed and Photo fx is good.

 

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6.  You have quite varied subject matter.  Is there anything in particular that you find yourself gravitating to in terms of subject or are you looking at light and shadow, color and contrast or something else?

i have been pretty consistent for the past 15 years now in loving things that are still ………..architecture, landscapes, objects usually old, receding perspectives ……………and then when the light is right, i get into my “zone” and i’m in heaven…………

 
POSTED BY VM March 27, 2013