Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

Image MashUp
Version 1.0

Bottom Line: Frustrating to use and low-res output. Not worth it.

Image Mash-up

Image Mash-up by Gu.Dist brings Photoshop-style Layers editing to the iPhone. It’s a noble effort and a big undertaking to bring this type of editing to the iPhone. Unfortunately, Image Mash-up falls way short on many levels. The execution is difficult and frustrating and the output is super low resolution, 320×480 pixels.

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If you’re in or around the Bay Area this weekend, be sure to drop by the opening of Pixels at an Exhibition at Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley, California. The list of finalists has been posted and this looks to be quite an exhibition. The exhibit features works of dozens of iphoneographers from around the globe including Dixon Hamby, Dominique Jost, Valerie Ardini and some guy called Marty (three of my photos were selected!)

The opening is this Saturday from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. We’ll be there and follow up with our impressions of the exhibition and the scope of the work.

Giorgi Gallery
2911 Claremont Blvd.
Berkeley, CA.
www.giorgigallery.com

Details at iphontography.org.

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Fort Worth, Texas
January 27, 2010

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Marsha

Express

LUH

Toolbox: Format126, TiltShift Generator, Perfectly Clear

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While we’re all basking in the new Apple iPad’s warm fuzzy glow today, I thought I’d serve up this classic link from holga blog that I found back in November.

The article contains some good tips to help see things differently. I think the key to a lot of these tips is simply to take time, clear your head, to be more aware of your surroundings. It’s not a how-to article, but more of a change of mind-set article. From personal experience, I’ve found myself recognizing a potential moment and rather than forcing the photo, simply waiting for the photo to come to me.

Zen photography….

Read the entire article on holga blog here >>>

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I was recently interviewed by John Meadows for the On the Log podcast. In “Episode 89: Less is More”, we discuss iPhoneography and using the iPhone with some recent apps to capture the look of old analog photography. It was a fun discussion and I think it’s an interesting interview. Plus, you get to find out whether or not this Texan talks with a twang.

Click here for the podcast On the Log, Episode 89: Less is More >>>

iPhoneography by John Meadows

John took the above photo with CameraBag.

Here’s the link to John’s site, On the Log >>>

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I didn’t create these. The bakery artisans at Central Market in Fort Worth did. They really are artists and dessert is their palette. Other than the wine department and the cheese section (Central Market is the only place you can get fresh cheese curds in DFW), the Dessert Department is my favorite in the market. Okay, really it’s called the bakery, but that’s what they the place where they make the bread. The Dessert Department is where dreams lined with tiny cream puffs are made.

My dream is to someday walk into Central Market’s bakery and say “I’ll take them all.”

Just Desserts

Toolbox: TiltShift Generator

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ClassicPan — Vintage Panoramic Camera
Version 1.0.1

The Bottom Line: Good potential for novel photos, but version 1.0 needs some fixes.

ClassicPan

I like shooting landscape images and I like shooting with a wide aspect ratio. To me, a good panorama is a single frame right out of life’s big movie. Camera HD, a straightforward yet versatile aspect ratio app, landed on my main camera page the day it was released and has stayed there ever since.

ClassicPAN is a vintage-style panoramic camera app from misskiwi. While the iPhone’s camera normally shoots photos with a 4:3 aspect ratio, ClassicPan stores images to your camera roll in 9:4 panorama format. Like Camera HD, this is achieved by cropping the top and bottom of the frame, resulting in a “fixed lens” type of pano without any of the wide-angle distortion.

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Photoshop.com App

The latest version of Photoshop.com Mobile has just been released. We reviewed the app previously and, for the most part, this update builds on all that was good about the first release.

The new 1.1.0.21 update adds several tools which should have been included in the first release. Straighten, Sharpen and Contrast tools are now included, as well as several new borders. The Sharpen and Contrast tools work like the other adjustment tools in PS Mobile, with a finger swipe across the screen. The Straighten tool uses a two-finger gesture to rotate the image to an onscreen grid. All three tools are pretty straightforward and easy to use.

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This updated Camera Bag post will also go in the navbar above. I wanted to share the evolution of my iPhone. You can read my original Camera Bag post here.

Some of my other camera apps. Page 4 on my iPhone

The best camera is the one that’s with you and the one that’s with me nearly all the time is my first generation 8 GB iPhone 2G.

I don’t use one app exclusively to shoot with. I have several and try to match up the image with the app. One of the features that makes the iPhone camera unique is the availability of thousands of photography-related apps. For less than the cost of a DVD, you can basically get a whole new camera experience.

iPhone apps are constantly being created, updated and improved. Since I first wrote my original Camera Bag post, several new apps have been released and several apps have been improved to the point where they have leapfrogged ahead as far as functionality and performance.

I find myself shooting with many different apps than the first time I wrote about my iPhone’s camera bag. Here’s my updated toolbox — the go-to apps I’m currently using.

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Fort Worth, Texas
January 14, 2010

Isham Cemetery in the Golden Hour

Toolbox: AutoStitch

Texas photographers joke that our Golden Hour — the time before and after sunset (or sunrise) is really the Golden 12 Minutes. Luck had me at the cemetery at that perfect time of day when the shadows were long and the setting sun cast a beautiful golden wash over the North Texas winter landscape.

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