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A camera doesn’t need a lens. You can use a light-proof box with a tiny hole at one end. Congratulations! You’ve got a pinhole camera.

Pinhole camera effects are popular in lo-fi and retro iPhone photo apps. Camera+ has even tried to perfect it in the last two app updates.

Click past the jump for Smashing Magazine’s gallery of analog pinhole photography. >>>

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I was cleaning out old bookmarks today and ran across this link. In case you missed it a few months ago, Digital Photo ran a basic but great piece “7 Composition Questions To Ask Before You Click The Shutter” by William Sawalich with several tips to help with better composition. Sometimes, it’s easy just to point and shoot. This posts gives you several tools — questions to ask to help you approach your shot differently. It’s a highly recommended read for beginners and has great reminders for those of us who have been shooting a while. I’m keeping this bookmark.

[We] take that creative stuff for granted. It’s actually just as important—no, it’s more important than the technical settings. We need to work at being creative. We should be challenging ourselves to make better, more interesting compositions….

Click here to read the entire post on dpmag.com. >>>

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On our Twitter feed , we post breaking announcements of new blog posts, app sales and freebies, news, retweets of awesome iPhoneography and the occasional very candid musings about apps that we don’t (or won’t) cover on the blog.

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I deal with photo apps and app developers on a daily basis. While most developers I believe have a genuine desire to put the best app out there, I really like seeing the developers who are truly passionate about their apps. These are developers who are accessible. They are involved in the community. They are actively part of the dialog. They listen to feedback — good and bad — and use it to improve their apps. Their apps are more than a digital product. Their apps are their “child”.

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Nox Dineen's Cameramatic Filter Grid

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Do you use Cameramatic? It’s an excellent, square frame format camera app that not only renders great retro analog film effects, but also allows you to import images from your photo library. It comes with a pretty impressive collection of filters.

iPhoneographer Nox Dineen has created a Cameramatic Filter Grid, making it easy to browse and view the filters included in Cameramatic’s Standard Equipment and the optional Cross Processing Pack. Nox opted not to include the optional Color Toning Pack, saying “The color toning pack is missing, it just doesn’t strike me as worth paying extra for.

“I figured I’d pass it along since you’ve commented repeatedly on what a great app it is and I thought perhaps seeing the 30+ filters might help demonstrate the point.”

Click here for the Cameramatic Filter Grid.

If you don’t already have Cameramatic, I highly recommend it. Cameramatic is currently available for $1.99 in the App Store. It works on any iPhone or iPod Touch 4th Gen running iOS 4.0 or higher.

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Big thanks to Nox Dineen for sharing her link. You can check out her blog here.

Warm Up by Jaime Ferryros

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Mashable seems to have really embraced iPhoneography (or iPhotography as they call it). They often post stories about iPhoneography and post galleries of images shot and processed on an iPhone.

Mashable’s latest iPhoneography post is the gallery “10 Stunning iPhone Sports Photographs” and features photography from Alexander Kesselaar, Jaime Ferryros, T.S. Elliot, Jamie Pachomski, Dave Weekes — names you might remember from our own Faved on Flickr galleries — as well as several others.

It’s a gallery of 11 great iPhone photographs given the exposure and validation of Mashable’s huge online readership. Click here for the entire gallery on Mashable.com.

Congratulations to all ten iPhoneographers selected!

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A big thank you to Stacy Anderson for the heads up on this one.

Photo courtesy of Tragically Hipstamatic Blog

A while back, we posted a link for making your iPhone 4 look like a Leica M8 camera. In case you missed it, Tragically Hipstamatic blog recently posted a similar method for skinning your iPhone 4 to look like a “Hipstamatic 185″ case. It’s a cool project and pretty easy to make. You’ll need an Xacto knife, a small OLFA knife or some other fine utility knife.

Tragically Hipstamatic writes in a January 2, 2011 post:

My iPhone 4 is a camera that I sometimes use to make phone calls, and with that in mind I endeavoured to make my iPhone look like the camera I use the most: the Hipstamatic.

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While I love random mode of photo app Decim8, the effects are also user selectable. Greg Mills has created an effects grid showing what each basic effect does in the app. Of course, random mode applies effects on effects, but having a basic idea of what to expect from each setting can help you use the app with more control.

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Did you get one of the Toda-Seiko mobile phone lenses for your iPhone? Those are the ones available from GIZMON, USBFever, and Photojojo store. The Photojojo lenses are pretty cool with glass optics that stick magnetically to your iPhone. Unfortunately, the steel rings do not stick well to the glass case of an iPhone 4.

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Can I shoot this or not? Can I sell it if I shoot it? What are my rights as a photographer? What rights do you have as a property owner? What are protections do you have simply because you’re in a public area?

These are questions that as iPhoneographers we face every time we take a photo. Today’s cool link “Top 10 Misconceptions about Photography and the Law” is a post by Martha Blanchfield and the content comes from Carolyn Wright, who manages the well-respected PhotoAttorney.com.

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