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A Day In The Life Of Pirmin Föllmi – A Talented Mobile Photographer Based In Switzerland

2012-09-04 / 14 Comments

Welcome to our very exciting new column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and this is where we’ll be taking a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world. People that we think you will love to learn more about.

This is our fifty second installment of the series, you can read the others here if you have missed them so far. Pirmin is 36 years old and lives in Switzerland, right next to the capital Zürich. He is an architectural draftsman and plasterer by profession. His family is the centre of his life. One of the most beautiful things that makes Pirmin happy is watching his two daughters grow up.

Most of his photos were taken during walks or hikes with his family. There are a many mountains and lakes nearby where he lives and why it’s easier for him to take landscape pictures rather than street art shots. Pirmin enjoys the silence and beauty of nature a lot. The colors of the fields, mountains or lakes are very important to him. He very seldom shoots in black and white – colors are simply more important to him to express a certain atmosphere.

Pirmin has had his iPhone for about two years now, he never actually took photos before. He came across mobile photography through his Twitter feed and was immediately hooked. To Pirmin it’s amazing to see how much you can do with a picture with various apps.

Read more about Pirmin in our exclusive interview below…

Each image is titled with the apps used to create it in sequential order. You can find all the links the the apps mentioned at the end of this article.

(If you would like to be interviewed for our new ‘A day in the life of …’ section, just send an email to [email protected], and we’ll get it set up).

 

First Things First

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Aufpasser’ (Camera+, LensLight, ScratchCam)

 

JC – Let’s start at the beginning of the day, how does your day start?

PF – Me and the morning are not the best of friends. I seem to be always running late, and never have time for coffee and breakfast.

 

Magic Hour

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Berge’ – (Camera+)

 

JC – Do you like to head out and take photographs early on?

PF – No, never.

Photographer vs Mobile Photographer

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Brücke’ (Camera+, MagicHour)

 

JC – How did the transition from traditional photographer to iPhoneographer develop? (pardon the pun).

PF – I never could seem to develop an interest in photography. My wife is a professional photographer and always took the pictures when we were on vacation. Then I discovered iPhoneography through Twitter and Instagram.

 

New Apps

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Dunkle Orte’ – (Camera+, MagicHour)

 

JC – Do you like to download new iPhoneography apps regularly?

PF – Not as often as I used to.

 

Location, Location, Location

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Fisher’ – (Noir, Snapseed)

 

JC – Where’s your favorite place in the world for a shoot?

PF – I like to take pictures at different places around the Zürichsee and in the mountains.

 

Tools Of The Trade

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘good morning from italy’ ( Camera+, Noir, Snapseed)

 

JC – Do you also use iPhone photography tool apps, such as The Photographer’s Ephemeris and if so do you use it to plan your shoots?

PF – No, I usually just try something out, or when I see somebody else doing something I find interesting, I try to do it in my own way.

 

Sharing

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Herzlich’ – (Camera+ ScratchCam)

 

JC – Where do you like to upload your photographs? Flickr, Instagram?

PF – I use Instagram and Flickr frequently. I also like EyeEm and Tumblr, and then I upload my pictures to my Facebook wall and to my blog. http://www.facebook.com/iPhotography.ch http://iphotography.ch/itourdesuisse/ (http://iphotography.ch)

 

Updates

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Hey You’ – (Camera+, Snapseed)

 

JC – How often do you update your existing apps?

PF – Whenever an update is announced.

 

Favorite Apps

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Magic Hour’ – (Camera+, MagicHour, PhotoFX)

 

JC – What are your favorite, at the moment, iPhoneography apps?

PF – Camera+, Noir, Magic Hour, ScratchCam, PhotoFX, Snapseed and Blender

 

Frequency

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Morning’ – (Camera+, PhotoFX)

 

JC – Do you take photographs with your iPhone everyday?

PF – I mostly photograph during the weekend. Then I take about 500 pictures and go on to edit some of them during the week.

 

 

Favorite Subjects

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘nichts ist schöner als fliegen’ – ( Camera+ Blender)

 

JC – What are your favorite subjects?

PF – I really like to take pictures of landscapes, especially lakes and mountains. But quite often you can also find my children in my pictures.

 

Top Five Tips

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Peter’ – (Camera+)

 

JC – What are your top five tips for iPhone photography?

PF –

Take lots of pictures

Do a lot of editing

Do not be scared of taking bad pictures

Be trigger happy

Have fun with iPhoneography

 

Editing

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Regatta’ (Camera+, Snapseed)

 

JC – Do you edit images on your iPhone or do you prefer to do that on a desktop/laptop?

PF – I edit on my iPhone.

 

Videography

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Riesenrad’ – ( Camera+, MagicHour)

 

JC – Do you enjoy videography with your iPhone?

PF – No, I have never tried that.

 

The Future Of Mobile Photography

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Stille’ – (Camera+, Snapseed

 

JC – Where do you see the future of iPhone photography?

PF – I hope that this art form will receive more recognition and publicity.

 

Where In The World?

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘The Hill’ – (Camera+, MagicHour)

 

JC – Do you think it’s country specific, are some nations more clued up?

PF – I think iphoneography is a global phenomenon where you find smaller and larger groups in the different countries. I really enjoy getting to know and share with other iPhoneographer in my region, and try to promote that in Switzerland through the group iTourDeSuisse.

 

iPhone 5

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Two Hearts’ – (Camera+, Snapseed)

 

JC – What do you hope for in the iPhone 5?

PF – A better camera.

 

TheAppWhisperer.com

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Whuusch!’ – (Camera+, MagicHour)

 

JC – What do you think of Joanne and theappwhisperer.com?

PF – Regrettably I do not know Joanne personally, but I really appreciate what she does through theappwhisperer.com. I am also very honored to have gotten the opportunity to be a part of theappwhisperer.com through this interview.

 

Links To All Apps Used And Mentioned In This Interview

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© Pirmin Föllmi – ‘Winner’ (Camera+, PhotoFX)

Camera+
LensLight
ScratchCam
MagicHour
Noir
Snapseed
ScratchCam
PhotoFX
Image Blender

Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]

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