A platform for photography and Shot on iPhone stories and galleries plus the NEW eBook, Point of View, a storytelling skill builder of how to guides and step by step process deep dives.
Image galleries. Street photography. Stories about the history of photography with a focus on digital image capture. My edit workflow. What the photographers and cinematographers I follow and what they have to say about how they work and how those influences shape/shaped my work.
Why I shoot on iPhone, only iPhone, and how those icons of photography and film think iPhones fit into the image creation landscape.
SELF PORTRAIT [ ANDY WARHOL TRIBUTE ]
WRITTEN AND SHOT ON iPHONE BY: STEVE HOLLOWAY
In fifth grade I took my first camera to school. Not for special events but to photograph kids at their desks, on playgrounds and in classrooms.
That’s how I learned to visualize, see and capture images.
Photography, marketing, design and copywriting. Halfway through my career, I went back to my first love, photography. I worked as an assignment photographer until I retired.
Retiring gave me the freedom to photograph and write about only what interests me.
Photography and road trips are two of my favorite subjects. They evolved into Drop Top Road Trips with images and stories from Route 66, the Grand Canyon, the Texas Hill Country and the beaches of Padre Island.
And into Nonlinear Content.
Nonlinear Content explores photography and the storytelling process.
Shot on IPhone Gallery is a digital publication of images from the road, street photography and still lifes.
Road Portraits explores one of my favorite disciplines, portraiture.
Every great image, every great film started with a story someone wanted to tell. The new eBook, Point of View is a storytelling skill builder of how-to guides and deep dive technical posts with a focus on how shooting on iPhone is changing our visual landscape.
From the screen to the wall is a project tasked with developing a workflow to test the reproduction limits of iPhone images output on high resolution 20″x20″ images printed on 24″x24″ archival paper and 10″x10″ images printed on 12″X12″ archival paper. Also testing a 48’x48″ rolled canvas. Currently in edit and post production. Release date to be announced.
Photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue for his imaginative turn of the century images from the streets and homes of Paris. Photographer W. Eugene Smith for developing the photo essay and a meticulous approach in the darkroom. Cinematographer Greig Fraser for his imagery and approach to storytelling in films like “Dune” and “The Batman”. Photographer Dean Collins for his mastery of photographic lighting and his ability to teach complex ideas by turning them into approachable, understandable material. Photographer Bert Stern for developing the discipline of photo illustration, the communication of big ideas using symbolism in relatable visuals. Advertising Icon David Ogilvy of Ogilvy & Mather (still operating as Ogilvy) for his use of images and copy to tell a story and the rules he developed for writing advertising copy. Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for his approach to storytelling that refused to “dot every i and cross every t” relying on the viewer’s participation in the process to finish parts of a story line. Thirteenth century French Architect Villard D Honnecourt whose diagram to produce page layouts formed the foundation of the grid approach to design, the act of dividing up space on the printed page to organize and align page elements and maintain a visual appearance across different media. Fashion photographer Robert Farber for his approach to composition, use of added, controlled diffusion and of ambient light subtly supplemented with controlled sources bringing a painterly aesthetic to photographing people that translates to almost any story or subject idea. Director, screen writer David Mamet for his classes on the art of film direction that became the book On Directing Film. While I work in still photography, his techniques have been invaluable for answering the two questions every director (photographer) starts his day with: Where do I put the camera? What do I tell the actors (people in my photos)? Artist, Interview Magazine founder, publisher and creative director Andy Warhol for his images and art in Interview magazine, his self-portraits, client Polaroid portraits and using other peoples’ images to turn them into poster-size, silk screen originals. Andy would have been so happy in our world of emojis, texting shorthand and the “famous for 15 minutes” social media life. (We miss you Andy!) Photorealist portrait painter Chuck Close for changing the way I look at portraiture. I went for the smile. Close went for the opposite. He thought you learn more about a person when facial expression doesn’t color what you see. Take away the smile and you take away the tendency to discount an image. To think “nice smile” and move on. Instead, you have to look deeper to form an opinion about what you see. Annie Leibovitz (represented by Hauser & Wirth Gallery) for her images created for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and book after book after book. Images that formed our visual landscape. Richard Avedon especially for his 10 foot tall, mural of the Chicago 7. Vivian Maier for her intuitive eye and her commitment to doing the work even she was unpublished, unsold and unnoticed.
The “Where to next?” index at the end of each post lists galleries and stories with new additions shown first followed by the Toolbox how-to guides.
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The “Where to next?” index at the end of each post lists galleries and stories with new additions shown first followed by the Point of View eBook of how-to guides, process deep dives and early work.
- About Nonlinear Content
- Street [ Photography ] Cha Cha Changes
- Shot on iPhone Gallery 2
- Shot on iPhone Gallery 1
- Road Portraits 1
- Road Portraits 2
Introduction
Become a storyteller
Technology
- 02A Digital evolution.
- 02B Annie Leibovitz.
- 02C From Batman to the iPhone.
- 02D Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Leica.
- 02E Moving from film to digital to iPhone.
- 02F The self portrait series.
- 02G iPhone camera rigging.
- 03A Working with light.
- 03B The scout.
- 03C Shooting during the golden hour.
- 03D Photographing people.
- 03E Details, shadows, shapes and textures.
- 03F Plate shots and reflections.
- 03G Feed your passions.
- 03H People and food, two favorites.
- 03I On the road.
- 03J Wall art (it’s not what you think).
- 03K Transitional images.
- 03L Night photography.
- 04B Assemblages and abstractions.
- 04C Change the composition of an image.
- 04D Color correction vs color grading.
- 04E Create motion with Live Photo.
- 04F Resize images and retain detail.
- 04G Software and skill building resources.
- 04H On device apps.
- 04I Off board resources.
- 05A Two key iPhone features.
- 05B Camera and light kit ideas.
- 05C Copied on iPhone.
- 05D Learning post production.
- 05E Designing with type
- 05F Learning from cinema
- 05G The three lens solution
