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

There is a lot of news from HipstaLand this weekend, including the chance to catch up on some long-deleted HipstaPaks, an immediate update to the Hipstamatic Disposable, and what could be the ultimate Hipstamatic Lens and Film guide.

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There’s so much great discounted and free stuff in the App Store right now, I need to post it here rather than flood your Facebook feeds where I would normally post most of these.

Kabaam, FX Photo Studio, Squara and others are on sale or FREE right now in the App Store. Click past the jump for more info and App Store links: >>>>

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TapShot is a new camera app from Two Teeth Technologies, the developer of the impressive and popular QuickPix. TapShot changes the way you interact with your iPhone’s camera. It’s a gesture-based app, rather than a button-based app.

TapShot also gives you an amazing amount of feature customization, allowing you to build the interface that works for you. Read more after the jump. >>>>

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Here’s a cool new app from Infoding.com, the developer of the popular Tiny Planets app. TwistCam ripples your photos. It creates a series of concentric circles, each turned at an angle. These work to shift the reality of your photo.

I played around with the app tonight and looked at some samples created by others online. TwistCam is an easy way to add cool-looking distortion effects.

Read more on the other side of the jump. >>>>

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iPhone 4 fitted with a POPA and an Olloclip. Photo by Kevin Buchanan

iPhoneographer Kevin Buchanan is an intersting and creative Fort Worther. I had been reading his blog FortWorthology for years before we finally met this year at a local showing of his iPhone photography. Kevin has also had some of his photos selected for our regular “Faved On Flickr” feature as well.

Kevin recently reviewed two accessories for iPhoneographers — the POPA shutter release and the popular Olloclip, both for the iPhone 4 and 4S. Click past the jump for my thoughts and for a link to the review on Kevin’s blog. >>>>

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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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The new King Camera 2.5 is the biggest update yet to this powerhouse all-in-one photo app. The full feature list is below. One new feature effects all previous owners of the app. King Camera is now a “Freemium” app — it is now permanently free as a web resolution app (that means low-resolution) with an in-app purchase to unlock high-resolution saves and remove the new iAds.

If you’re a previous owner of the app — version 2.05 or older, the new High-Res pack is automatically unlocked for you at no charge. Well, mostly….

Read on to find out more. >>>>

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Snapheal screenshot

A few days ago, I posted a preview of Snapheal, a new content-aware Mac app from MacPhun which claims to let you quickly and easily remove unwanted objects from your photos.

Snapheal for Mac is now available for download in the Mac App Store. I’ve had a chance to play around with the app. While it won’t fix everything you throw at it, Snapheal fixes a lot more than you’d think. It’s a very powerful tool and it’s very reasonably priced at under $20. Right now, Snapheal is introductory priced for only $9.99 for a limited time. Click past the jump for examples.

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Bringing back analog, one exposure at a time.

From the Synthetic team, Hipstamatic introduces the new D-Series iOS app, set to release this Thursday December 15th!  Hipstamatic’s Disposable camera makes it a snap to create and share a camera with your friends. From the first snap to the last, everyone shoots to one roll, and at the end photos are instantly exchanged to all of the camera’s contributors. You’ll never have to swap doubles or email from your friends phone again. Sharing a roll of film has never been this much fun. Users share a set of 24 exposers through a cloud sync’d camera creating a social sharing application to instantly connect and exchange with friends. The D-Series launch, marks Hipstamatic’s first ever FREE download and will launch with 3 in App Purchase Camera’s to create sharable analog images.

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Percolator is the Retro, coffee-inspired, modernist photo app that adds colorful, unique, geometric effects to your photos. I reviewed the original release here. I loved it then and subsequent releases have improved the app signficantly.

Percolator 2.0 has been “brewing” for a while. It’s the biggest update yet to the app. The update includes new “brews”, new controls, and some spiffy new animation. It’s a great, fun update packed with new features, but still retains the ease of use that made the previous versions great to work in.

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