Are you an iPhonography buff?

Thanks to cool new smartphone technology and a range of innovative apps, you can be on a vacation, and play the role of a completely in command director at the same time. There is no dearth of apps that let you edit everything that you shoot, and even add some special effects and sound effects. Once everything is done and ready, you can use the app to slap it on to YouTube, where the entire world can watch it.

Being a Steven Spielberg has never been so easy. This new way by which individuals create videos and pictures through their handheld devices has now earned a name for itself iPhonography. This is a field that can encourage new forms of creativity and also go so far as providing users with a therapeutic outlet. To some of us it may make no sense that so many others are choosing to regurgitate intimate details of their lives online for an army of strangers.

Perhaps it is their way of expressing themselves. Perhaps it is the vanity of the users, as some detractors of social media claim. However, the truth is that a small fraction of the videos do turn out to be quite good. They look not just pleasing to the eye, but are informative as well. If you know that you are going to share the work with rest of the world, then you will be naturally inclined to do a much better job at photography, effects and editing.

As the photographs and videos are often taken and edited on the go, they tend to have a rather haphazard quality to them. This is because of the fact that when you pick up your smartphone and go somewhere, you are not specifically going out to shoot and create a new video for YouTube or Facebook. You focus your smartphones lens in a certain direction, because you have noticed something that is interesting or unusual. You would like to take a shot to show it to your friends.

The bottom line is that iPhonography is more of photography at play. And that is precisely the reason why the results so often turn out to be charming. However, iPhoneography isn't only for amateurs. There are umpteen numbers of instances where pictures shot and edited with smartphones have made it to the front page of newspapers, travel magazines and even in TV shows.

Everything is social now; new technologies enable not only the capturing of unique moments, but also the ability to share them through social sites like Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.

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