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So many of us are
using camera phones

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and sometimes tablets to make
some pretty terrific pictures.

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I made this one.

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I was sauteing some
colorful peppers,

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and when I put the
cover on, I saw

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what I thought would be
a pretty beautiful image.

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So of course, I quickly
grabbed my phone.

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And that's what this
is about, isn't it--

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the ability to
quickly take a picture

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without a big deal using phone
cameras to quickly make images

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when you see
something interesting,

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or in this case, something
very beautiful, in my opinion.

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So did my son, by
the way, who made

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a whole series of photographs
of my amazing birthday party

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with my family at
Per Se in New York.

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The dishes were created
by Chef Jarrod Huth.

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And so these pictures
are basically

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portraits of each course, all
taken with his camera phone.

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And by the way, I adjusted
the color later on,

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before uploading all of
these for this tutorial.

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And here when we're permitted
to take a look at the kitchen,

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we see a place very much like
a laboratory, showing process

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and equipment and people
doing their thing.

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So camera phones do
have an important place

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for a means of making very quick
portraits of various places

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in the lab, of the
work, of the equipment.

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You can think about taking the
picture and then cropping it,

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for example, as I did here.

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But for the most part, the
quality of the photograph

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is not what we're
encouraging in this course.

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If you remember,
we did a comparison

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between two images of a Petri
dish, one with my phone camera

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and one with a flatbed scanner
at a higher resolution.

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Well here, is another difference
for example of the device

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that we've seen before
with the phone camera

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and with my digital camera.

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And you'll see that the
information is just not

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there in the phone camera,
because of the file size.

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It's just too small.

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But once again, I'm going
to say there is definitely

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a place for these very quick
and impulsive images, which

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you're seeing now for the use
of web designs, for example.

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I was having a really great
time walking around this lab,

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making a few images
which work better

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with a little bit of
cropping, and in fact, were

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used for the lab's website.

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So there is a place for
this kind of photography.

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But remember, the
quality is just not there

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and is not good enough
for a journal article

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and certainly not a cover.

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It might well be someday.

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The technology is constantly
changing with each iteration

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of the phone.

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So yes, it's a great
idea to practice

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walking around your lab,
creating these portraits.

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And certainly, it's
an interesting way

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of getting you to see.

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But in the end, you've
got to use your full frame

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digital camera with
the best resolution.

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Here's an example of where I
had absolutely no time at all

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to make a picture
for what I knew was

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going to be a grant submission.

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So this is a pretty,
pretty fast image

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that I made with my phone--
pretty awful, and part

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of some equipment that was
necessary in the research.

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Took the image,
straightened it out,

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then cropped it
like crazy, knowing

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that eventually the final image
was not going to be up close.

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It was a figure on the
first page of a submission.

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So I did crop it in.

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It doesn't look
brilliant right now.

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But in the next image, I
edited out certain pieces

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and created a laser light,
which was all illustrative,

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of course, not for real.

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And so this is
what I finally did.

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I inserted it in a figure
that we used for a page

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in the summation.

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This is the page that we
finally wound up with,

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replacing this image.

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The idea behind this is, showing
the two next to each other,

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I hope you agree that the
image that I quickly made

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on the right is more appealing.

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And it is taking up
real estate on the page.

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So why not make it into a
summary graphic as opposed

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to putting every single thing
you could think of in a graphic

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and make it unreadable.

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This is a way of using
very, very fast-made images

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in a submission.