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

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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Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. Reading the recaps, though, there are two new gizmos this year that I find really intriguing. One of them is Polaroid’s new venture into instant digital photography, the SC1630. It’s basically a Polaroid-branded digital camera with an Android-based smartphone. Engadget.com had one of the best recaps of the new device that I’d read. The link and my thoughts on the SC1630 after the jump. >>>

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Here’s wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous 2012!

Thank you for letting me share with you my thoughts, opinions and musings throughout the year. As the art form grows in reach and acceptance, 2012 promises to be an even more interesting year.

For the coming year and beyond, I wish you success in your endeavors and the light you want for your photography.

Kinky Freidman gave me this toast. “May the best of the past be the worst of the future.”

Happy New Year!

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Here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, or whatever holiday you are celebrating at this time of year. I hope these are good times for you spent with family and friends. I hope the joy and spirit of the holidays stays with you all year long.

Happy Holidays!

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We’ve been doing some under the hood changes recently to the blog. Some of them you can see as tweaks to the social sharing buttons and minor improvements to the mobile version of the blog. Others are under the hood.

Any under-the-hood changes should not be noticeable to you (except for maybe a very, very small boost in page load speeds). If you are having any problems reading pages, commenting, or entering info in forms, please email me at lifeinlofiblog [at] gmail [dot] com.

We’ll be making a few more tweaks in the coming weeks — minor ones, but it should be blogging as usual and you shouldn’t really notice any difference. If there are any known issues during this time, I’ll post them in the comments to this post. Please let me know if you’re experiencing any problems with the blog.

As always, thank you for stopping in.

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My graphic design studio is usually steady with work, which enables me to strike a balance of sorts between work, blog, and life outside both. Recently, I’ve had over twice as many large projects as I normally would. For publications alone, I’ve designed over 300 pages and dozens of ads in the last five weeks — a pretty big feat especially considering that we’re essentially a one-man shop right now and that these were for a half-dozen extremely varied projects.

In the past few days, I’ve put the last two, including the largest, to bed. You’ll now hear and see a lot more from me on the blog and online. In the coming days, I’ll be playing catch up on some of the recent apps and updates that I’ve missed, as well as other iPhoneography-related news.

Thanks for sticking around. It’s good to be back.

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Hi, there, Life In LoFi readers! Just a quick update to let you know where your daily dose of lo-fi has gone.

Business at my graphic design studio is through the roof right now. We do a lot of magazine and publication work — each of which takes a long time especially for a small studio. Normally, we’ll do 1-2 per month. Right now, we’re working on four.

We’ve put two of these to bed and should have the rest sent to press within 1-3 weeks. Regular blog posts here on Life In LoFi should return to normal by then. New posts are always fed to our Twitter feed and often to our Facebook page. We’ll keep you updated.

As always, I thank you for reading and we’ll talk with you soon!

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When America entered the conflict in Vietnam, so, too, did its news teams. For the first time in our country’s history the true nature of war was being shown to our people. This forever changed the way we viewed war, as well as the power of the camera.

Technology (moving at such a steady clip as it does) has reached massive benchmarks. Perhaps leading this charge into centuries unknown is a surprising little tool we’ve all grown accustomed to carrying….

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Like so many others, I owe my career to Steve Jobs. Without his vision, I can’t even imagine what I’d be doing or what my life would be like right now.

I never met Steve Jobs. I don’t know what I would have said to him if I ever had. But, Steve has made a huge difference in the course of my life, far beyond the reach of the iPhone and this blog.

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“I really love the look of high end digital photography and commercially I wouldn’t shoot anything but. But I miss the imperfections of LoFi photography. I believe, however, that those wonderful surprises that the limitations of your equipment produce are far outweighed by the opportunity to capture in photography all the found moments that we all experience everyday.”

Words I said in my first post for my new blog, Life In LoFi. My camera of choice at the time was an iPhone 2G.

Two years. 1041 posts (including this one). 6186 comments. 3,890 Facebook followers. Over 286,084 unique visitors. Today is the two year anniversary of Life In LoFi. “Since 2009″ may not sound like much, but it’s an eternity in internet years.

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