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

One of the features that the iPhone camera is missing is the ability to control exposure time. Although there are now several other apps that “trick” the iPhone’s sometimes cranky camera into giving you some control over shutter speed, Slow Shutter Cam by Cogitap is a great app that adds the ability to take long-exposure photos, similar to using the bulb or long exposure function on a film camera. You can use it to create interesting motion effects in-camera, create low-noise low light photographs, and create cool light trail photos that you can only do by leaving the shutter open for a long time. It does all this and saves at full-resolution.

It takes some time and experimentation to learn how to get the best results from all of Slow Shutter Cam’s features, but it’s worth it. With the right gear, the right settings and a tripod, you can do things with Slow Shutter Cam that few other apps can do.

Slow Shutter Cam is FREE for the next few hours in the App Store — a 24 hour reduction that started last night. That’s a discount of $1.99. Although it’s been discounted several times, this is the first time in well over a year that this app has been free. This discount will go away fairly quickly, so grab this one now if you don’t already have it.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation) and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

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Yesterday, we (and just about every other news source) reported that Facebook is buying the popular social photo network Instagram. Many Instagram users are concerned with the changes Facebook’s ownership will make and with the privacy concerns of sharing their photos using Facebook’s terms of service and with the possibility of Facebook using Instagram’s data for marketing purposes.

Personally, I’m not one of them. I’m not going to ditch Instagram over the Facebook buyout. I already make it easy enough for Big Brother to track me anywhere, so I feel like I might as well enjoy the tidbits I get in return. If you don’t share my view, iPhoneographer Dixon Hamby has shared with us some of his suggestions for extricating yourself from Instagram and also serves up his recommendation for an alternate social photo network.

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Breaking News: Mega-social network Facebook has purchased mega-social photo network Instagram for $1 billion dollars in cash and stock.

It reads like an April Fool’s Day story that I might have posted a few days ago, but Mark Zuckerberg just posted the announcement on his timeline about an hour ago as of this writing.

“I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook….

“We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.”

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lo-mob is one of iPhoneography’s earliest lo-fi retro photo apps and it’s still a great one. Created by retro camera aficionados, lo-mob’s well-rendered selection of old analog camera effects are still among the best and most accurately recreated available. It has over three dozen vintage, retro, and experimental photographic filters — all tweakable for endless variations.

lo-mob is FREE today, Monday April 9, only in the App Store. It’s normally $1.99 and well worth the purchase price. This giveaway has a few hours left in it so grab this great iPhone photo app now.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

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Big thanks to Jackson Mah for first posting this to Life In LoFi’s Facebook page this morning.

For a better view by Dutch Doscher

I hope you and yours had a pleasant holiday weekend. We’re back for another Faved showcase.

Here is this week’s selection of outstanding mobile photography, the Faved On Flickr iPhoneography showcase for April 9, 2012. This is just a small selection of the great images from the past week that were shared on Life In LoFi’s Flickr group. There is some brilliant photography this week, as well as several powerful abstracts. Click past the jump to see all of this week’s showcase. >>>

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Once again, Life In LoFi and the great folks at CanvasPop have teamed up for a great photo contest. Enter the SQUARE OFF Photo Contest for a chance to win a canvas from CanvasPop and a feature on Life In LoFi.

Voting ends tomorrow at midnight. These are the last two days to vote for your favorite images. One Grand Prize winner will receive a 20×20 CanvasPop canvas and will be featured on Life In LoFi and two Runners Up will receive a 12×12 CanvasPop canvas and a mention on Life In LoFi.

Vote for your favorite image from April 2-9. The final winners will be chosen by the judges by April 12.

Vote for your favorites now on Life In LoFi’s Facebook page. You can vote in the “Contests” tab.

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Here’s another $2.00 savings. Powerful image editor PhotoForge2 for iPhone and iPad is on sale for Easter weekend for only $0.99. This discount is for a very limited time.

PhotoForge2 is easy enough for beginners to start getting creative, yet very powerful. It’s an excellent app for iPhoneographers with any level of experience. Its user interface was redesigned a while back for iOS to keep the workflow as clutter-free as possible. It has nearly every adjustment you’ll need on your iOS device and it has both Layers and a History feature. It’s the preferred image editor for many an iPhoneographer.

PhotoForge2 is a Universal app, meaning it’ll work great on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.

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Infinicam is the sibling app of Nevercenter’s CameraBag it applies the high quality analog film effects one expects from Nevercenter. Unlike CameraBag, its interface has much more possible variations to apply to your photos.

Infinicam is FREE this weekend only — a savings of $1.99. This discount is for a very limited time only, so grab this one quickly.

I reviewed the app a while back and I still think it’s a great app that creates great results.

The effects are gorgeous. The film effects are well-rendered and look like the film styles they emulate. The colors (or lack of color), tones, hues and even film damage are all what you expect to see and are very well rendered.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later

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If you’re in or near San Francisco tonight, Thursday April 5th, ArtHaus features the world premier of the inaugural Mobile Photo Awards Exhibit. The exhibit features sixty images from Daniel Berman’s Mobile Photography Awards held late last year.

If you’re in the Los Angeles/Orange County area this weekend, a second edition of the show featuring the same works and more opens two days later on April 7th at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. The OCCCA gallery has been a friend to mobile photography in many ways. In addition to the sixty featured works, there will be eight projectors simultaneously showing 4 different slideshows of the complete shortlisted images from the Mobile Photo Awards’ 25 categories.

More info and a link to a thumbnail gallery after the jump. >>>

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spring by shonski32 / Sean Hayes

Happy Monday, everyone. Except to post some personal photos of our Texas Bluebonnets road trip, I stayed away from the internet on Sunday, April 1st. This year, there just seemed to be way too much April Foolery for me. However, I have to give big credit to Whole Foods whose April Fool’s suggestion was to change the “five second rule” to the “seven second rule.” I think that should be made official. I’m completely on board with that one.

No joke — here is this week’s selection of outstanding iPhone photography, the Faved On Flickr iPhone photography showcase for April 2, 2012. These are just a small number of the outstanding images submitted to LoFi’s Flickr group in the past week. Click past the jump for the rest of this week’s showcase. >>>

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