User:Myawnick

“I have a camera. Sometimes, I use it to make phone calls.”

Marty Yawnick is a freelance graphic designer and he owns Type A Design, a small graphic design studio based in Dallas/Fort Worth. He holds a degree from College of the Canyons, where he majored in Fine Arts -- theatre, art, music and film. Marty also writes and publishes the Life In LoFi blog, one of the world's leading iPhone photography blogs.

In addition to travel, baseball, and various genres of music, his interests include photography and is a respected iPhoneographer as well. His works have been featured locally and globally, including "Pixels at an Exhibition: The Giorgi Gallery Show", the first EYE'EM Berlin exhibit, and the first "Pixels at Apple" shows.

"I grew up around photography," Marty says. "When I was a kid, my dad had a makeshift darkroom and we would process Kodak Plus-X Pan that we'd shot. Later in school, photography was something I took throughout junior high and high school.

"I've been shooting with a phone since about 2005. I started shooting a project with my old Motorola RAZR. It had a horrible camera! VGA, small picture, no dynamic range, noisy like you wouldn't believe! And I thought it's qualities would compliment the bleakness and monotony, if you will, of the Dallas/Fort Worth suburban landscape. I keep threatening to exhibit that project…!

"I've been shooting with an iPhone since I got my 2G in June of 2008. I love the digital lo-fi qualities of the camera -- the color qualities and the noise the 2G added to an image. I love how the iPhone's camera is practically invisible. You can get the camera into places that you can't with other cameras without effecting the subject or the scene. I currently shoot mostly with an iPhone 4, although we keep an old 2G around when I feel like shooting lo-fi."