Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

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If you’re in or around the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex tomorrow, Saturday, July 31, 2010, check out one of the area’s first brick and mortar exhibits of iPhone photography.

intownmix is sponsoring the HipShootOut Exhibit here in Dallas tomorrow evening. This exhibit is part of a non-credit class previously offered at the University of Dallas, but submissions were open to all. I’m excited about this event right here in my own backyard. I’ll have three photos on display and I can’t wait to see the homegrown iPhoneography that Dallas-based photographer Ange Fitzgerald’s class created.

Proceeds from this event benefit local Dallas charities.

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One of my faves got a good update and a new icon yesterday. The ProCamera 2.8 update by daemgen.net was released yesterday and it is one of very few camera replacements apps that is fully iPhone 4 compatible on its own terms — in fact, as of this writing, I can only think of one other, Camera+.

Read on for a list of the updates and fixes in this new version. >>>

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Here’s a cool one. The September 2010 issue of Macworld features a cover shot of an iPhone 4… that was shot and post-processed using an iPhone 4!

Macworld contributing photographer, Peter Belanger, used basically the same rig he would have used to photograph the 4 with a Phase One P65+ digital camera. The main difference? He used tungsten lights because of the iPhone’s inability to sync with strobes.

To process the image, he used PhotoForge to remove a slight green cast from the image and Resize-Photo to bring the image to Macworld’s print specs.

Links to the Macworld cover are after the jump. >>>

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FILM LAB
Version 1.1
Price $0.99

Bottom Line: The 1.1 update has bug fixes and a ton of new filters that make for an exciting update!

Do you have FILM LAB yet? What are you waiting for? Really, just get it now. You’ll thank me after.

The 1.1 update just hit the App Store and it rocks! In addition to various, unspecified bug fixes, the image rotation issue seems to be fixed — that was one of few issues in my initial review. FILM LAB also supports resolutions up to and larger than the iPhone 4′s 5MP images. You may need to check FILM LAB’s settings. The default resolution is 3.2MP and may need to be changed for your device.

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Cydia screenshot on a jailbroken iPhone

This week, the Library of Congress ruled that jailbreaking your iPhone is a permitted fair use under the DMCA. There are many reasons to jailbreak an iPhone, among them the ability to run apps that have been rejected by the App Store or simply to unlock your iPhone to use with an unsupported carrier.

I had a jailbroken and unlocked 2G that I used for years on T-Mobile’s network here with great reception and great results. For a long time, Cydia was the only place to purchase Snapture and ClearCam — two of my favorite photo apps in their day. Using PDANet as a wireless modem, available only for iPhone in Cydia and other repositories, saved my cookies on more than one occasion when tethering wasn’t an option for iPhones. Now that it is and there’s an additional $20/month charge here simply for the privilege of tethering, does jailbreaking become a more attractive option?

Our new poll this week is now that you can legally jailbreak your iPhone to run unsupported apps like SnapTap or PDANet, will you? Is it worth the trouble and potential iOS instability to circumvent the restrictions and charges of Apple and AT&T? Vote below or head on over to the sidebar to vote. Let us know what you think and feel free to discuss in the comments section.

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[Press Release]

After the Mobile Photography Award 2010, Berlin-based EYE’EM continues their work with the launch of a new website: a hub dedicated to the mobile photography movement. The innovative website brings mobile photographers from around the world together to establish mobile photography as a new form of art.

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I’m still surprised at how many photo apps still are not fully iOS4 compatible. I’m even more surprised at the number of camera apps that still don’t fully work with the iPhone 4. There have been a lot of slow days on the App Store updates page. That said, yesterday was not one of them and there were some really cool updates released, including updates to Color Splash, Camera Plus Pro (the Camera Plus with video), GorillaCam, and Tiffen’s Photo fx.

We’re still tracking and updating iPhone 4 compatibility in our iPhone 4 Photo App Compatibility Feature.

Read on for more details about yesterday’s updates.

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ClearCam for iPhone is on sale for $0.99 – that’s half off the $1.99 it normally goes for and a huge $7 off what some of us paid for it when it was only available for jailbroken iPhones.

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