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Simply B&W from developer Mr. B. Ware is a simple, easy to use monochrome conversion app you can use to make black & white photos that pop. It’s FREE right now in the App Store, down from $0.99. Grab it now. This discount is for a very limited time only — through this Sunday.

I’ve featured Simply B&W in My Camera Bag post — it’s an excellent app that’s  a staple in my tool box. This universal app — works natively on both iPhone and iPad — supports a maximum resolution of 3264×3264 pixels.

This discount is to celebrate the anniversary of Mr. B. Ware. Mr. B. Ware’s Pixel It app is also free until Sunday. From the developer’s Twitter stream, “One year ago today I started work on my first iOS app and MrBWare was started. Thanks for all the support this past year.”

If you don’t already have it, it’s still highly recommended for a dollar. For free, Simply B&W is an essential download.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

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Here is the second in our series of interviews with the winners of the Mobile Photography Awards. (Life In LoFi is a media partner of the MPA). We recently caught up with Souichi Forusho.

Giuseppe Capozzo won the ScratchCam category with his colorful and playful “You, Too”. In the iPhoneography community, he’s better known as krapoz. You may have seen his work in some of our Faved On Flickr showcases last year. We caught up with krapoz recently after the MPA awards announcement. Click past the jump to learn more about krapoz and to read what he has to say. It’s a great read.

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Hipstamatic’s 235 update hit the App Store this afternoon and they delivered on not one but two highly sought after features: tap-to-focus (only in the zoomed-in view) and the ability to save fave combos of lens/film/flash.

With the update you’ll note that the zoomed-in (aka fullscreen) view now features a textured overlay reminiscent of looking through a dirty plastic lens. Don’t worry, this won’t show up on your photos. When you tap and hold on a spot to focus the overlay rotates, simulating the experience of manually focusing through a physical lens. Traditionalist fans argued against the idea of selective focus, pointing out it wasn’t available in the original Hipstamatic. But Synthetic’s implementation feels in line with the spirit of the plastic Hipstamatic, if not the real limitations.

Adding a favorite combination is as simple as tapping the little star underneath the viewfinder while using the setup you want to preserve. Accessing stored faves is done through the same star icon, which allows you to scroll between visual representations of your various setups.

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Fisheye Camera
Version reviewed: 2.8
Price: $0.99

Bottom Line: The image quality — or lack of — is reason enough to avoid Fisheye Camera.

The only reason I’m reviewing Fisheye Camera by Zhong is because it’s now number 23 in the Top Paid iPhone Photo apps. This is a horrible photo app that I wouldn’t ordinarily want to draw attention to, even negative. This is one of the worst apps I’ve ever reviewed and is only as high as it is on the charts because of possible App Store shill reviews.

I recommend that you avoid this app. Read past the jump to find out why. >>>

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In December, the winners of the Mobile Photography Awards were announced (Life In LoFi is a media partner of the MPA). Among the winners was the abstract industrial “Image pic #35″ by Japan’s Souichi Furusho.

You’ve probably seen a lot of Souichi’s work displayed in Life In LoFi’s Faved On Flickr showcases often. His photography is simple yet stunning. He caught everyone’s attention with his stark use of light and shadow. Recently, he has been creating incredible abstract dreamscapes with his photography.

We finally caught up with Souichi. Here’s the Life In LoFi interview. >>>

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Montreal is a great city with a thriving arts scene. That includes iPhoneography. It’s home to several prominent iPhoneographers. If you’re in or around Montreal this weekend, be sure to catch the opening of the latest iPhone photography exhibit there, Unlock, featuring works from Miss Pixels, Beckibecko, and Gérard Godin.

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Apple recently announced an improved iBooks targeted at broadening the reach of eBooks. As an incentive to fill out the iBookstore, Apple also released the great eBook publishing app iBooks Author for Mac OS free of charge. It’s a pretty cool app that you can use to easily create multimedia eBooks.

Thinking of using the iBookstore to self-publish? Many iPhoneographers already self-publish printed photobooks of their works through Blurb and MagCloud. Some are also publishing eBook versions for electronic distribution.

iBooks Author is either the savior of publishing or the the Devil himself. It depends on whose blog post you read. In my opinion, it’s pretty awesome, but there are a few things iPhoneographers need to know before you use it to self-publish through Apple and any other channels. >>>

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17-01-12- La tête dans les étoiles by marisan67 / marie sanchez

Here’s this week’s edition of our regular Sunday showcase, Faved On Flickr. Every Sunday, I select about two dozen outstanding images from the more than 1,000 photos submitted each week to Life In LoFi‘s group on Flickr. If you’re new to this blog, this is our weekly showcase of photography that is shot and processed (or in some cases created) solely on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

There is some great iPhone photography on display in this week’s showcase. Click past the jump for this week’s gallery. >>>

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Since posting screenshots of my iPhone 4S on my most recent “My Camera Bag” page, I’ve had several requests about the Blueprint background wallpaper I use on my iPhone. While not iPhoneography-related, I’m sharing it here.

On your iPhone, simply tap and hold on the image above to save it straight to your camera roll at full size. Or, on your desktop or laptop, right-click to save it to your computer. Email it to yourself and save it to your iPhone. The file is full size at 640×960 pixels and should look great as the background on any iPhone or iPod Touch.

According to Beautiful Pixels, the Blueprint wallpaper was created by Brad Hellyar. They’ve also got several other really cool wallpapers to download here.

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AnalogColor is the new iPhone version to Pentacom’s popular desktop app for Mac and Windows, ToyCamera AnalogColor. It creates analog-like photos and simulates cross-processing.

The new iPhone version has hit the App Store with a resounding “meh.” It’s difficult for me to get excited about this app because of all that’s missing from it — basic features that are in the desktop version (and other iPhone photo apps) but not in the iPhone version. Even the developer hints that this 1.0 release was rushed out before it was really ready.

That’s too bad. The app has potential and could be pretty good in a few updates.

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