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If you’re in or around the San Francisco Bay area this Thursday evening July 8, iPhone photographer Knox Bronson (who curates Pixels at an Exhibition) is giving an interesting presentation on iPhone photography, art, and apps at the Stockton Street Apple Store. Knox is one of the biggest proponents of iPhoneography as an art form and has done a lot of work to help expose the art of the iPhone in brick and mortar gallery setting, including the world’s first gallery show devoted to iPhone photography.

Click here for more information about this presentation.

Seating for this event is limited.

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The recent EYE’EM Exhibition at the Schlechtriem Brothers Gallery in Berlin Mitte has closed, but not before generating a lot of press and excitement.

While several iPhoneographers who had works selected for display were able to attend, many of us were unable to get to the gallery to see this exhibit in person. EYE’EM have posted a great retrospective of the show, the gallery and the attendees on their blog.

3000+ submissions, 144 shortlists, 14 runner-ups, 1 winner…later, we are even more convinced that mobile photography, as a medium, has the potential to conquer the global art scene and make it as an independent art form. EYE’EM started as a blog a couple of months ago and we are absolutely amazed to which level YOU guys have pushed this movement so far! Therefore a big thank you from our side. WE believe that this is just the beginning! To give you, especially those of you who couldn’t come to Berlin, an idea of what happened at our exhibition

Click here for the full retrospective of the EYE’EM Exhibition in Berlin. >>>

EYE’EM will be making a big announcement in the coming days. Life In LoFi will keep you posted on any breaking news and events.

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If you’ve upgraded from a previous iPhone to the iPhone 4, in addition to the many new features and updates of the new camera, you may have noticed a slightly larger field of view (FOV) with the iPhone 4. This means the iPhone 4 is capable of wide angle shots that are just a little bit, well… wider.

We compare the old and the new FOV on the iPhone camera after the jump. >>>

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Many iPhoneographers — myself included — upload and display images on Flickr. More iPhone photographs end up online than in print — one of the reasons why I’ll sometimes give a pass to a photo app that doesn’t support full resolution. Other than sharing images with a close network of family and friends, many of us post to the Flickr community in an effort to have our images seen by a broader segment of the photography community. Basically, Flickr can be a great place to show.

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iPhoneographer Ramona Gillentine

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When I’m asked whose iPhoneography I like, I direct people to the sidebar here on Life In LoFi. The photographers in the sidebar represent artists whose work continually blows me away. In addition to widely known iPhoneographers, there are also many there whose work moved or amazed me when I discovered it. This series on LoFi is to introduce you to the photographers who are linked in the sidebar and to give you a little more insight to the people and their work.

This edition features iPhoneographer Ramona Gillentine.

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While the iPhone 3G can run the new iOS 4, it’s older, slower CPU is unable to take advantage of all of the new features. Some iPhone users are opting to stay with iPhone OS 3.1.3 until they upgrade to a new iPhone. If you have an original iPhone 2G, you have no choice. The new iOS 4 won’t even run on your hardware.

If you choose not to upgrade, soon you’ll be experiencing app updates that are OS 4.0 only. What do you do? Should you upgrade when iTunes or App Store show updates or should you just ignore the updates?

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July 1, 2010 — Still kind of slow with the photo app updates. There were only a few photo app updates today, although I am excited about the Lux Deluxe update that came out today (the iPhone version of the game of Risk).

The big updates of the day come from Takayuki Fukatsu, the developer of TiltShift Generator. Several of his other apps got updates for iPhone 4 today, OldCamera, SepiaCamera and the popular ToyCamera. All three have been updated for iPhone 4, including full 5MP output capability.

Updates for the Classic Camera series from misskiwi have been submitted to the App Store, but still haven’t been released yet. And we’re still waiting on the new Hipstamatic 160 update with the great new features and bug fixes. Full resolution prints on the iPhone 4 and the flash/flash feature sounds really cool! It’s still in review and hasn’t streeted yet. Really. I just checked.

Go to Life In LoFi’s iPhone 4 Photo App Compatibility Page to see our entire list of photo apps and how well they work on the iPhone 4.

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Contest Internazionale di Fotografia con iPhone

International Photo Contest for iPhone

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Do you still believe that the camera makes the photographer? The i.Phoneography Exhibition believes in the creative power of the gaze, in a new way to describe contemporaneity. Organized by Arteaparte, The i.Phoneography Exhibition is the first Italian contest of photographs taken and edited with an iPhone. This is a language for images that becomes an art laboratory, and that involves a growing number of iPhoneographers from all around the world.

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Some random thoughts and a short review. Not enough for full blog posts, but each warrants some level of discussion. A Thursday edition of Musings….

• I love my new iPhone 4. Its greatness transcends the cellphone suck that is AT&T in my neighborhood (making calls downstairs is an exercise in dropped calls — more bars in more places, except my house). I’ve had it almost one week and I’ve made phone calls, run apps, edited images, tested a lot of apps, checked in on Foursquare, downloaded data. All throughout, the new phone has shined. The only thing I really haven’t done yet is to go on a shoot with my new camera. I’ve taken snapshots… and they’re gorgeous. I want to see what this phone has behind the lens. I really want to take Four out for a shoot.
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  ColorShadow screenshot

  ColorShadow [App Store link] by Hokuson is a pretty cool app. Colorshadow is an app that does variations of one effect, but does it very well. Basically, it converts your image to a stark monochrome and then layers a color gradient over the parts of the image that aren’t white. Because of the stark contrast, it works best when your source image has a simple background that contrasts from the subject. The effects are retro in an early ’70′s Ironside or a ’90′s original iPod commercial kind of way. It’s not a camera — doesn’t even give you the option. It loads images from your camera roll and saves them out at up to your iPhone’s full resolution (including 5MP on the iPhone 4) or a smaller webready size — nice! It’s really easy to use. The effect is very retro and kinda funky. ColorShadow is a good app. I like it. It’s $1.99 in the App Store.
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• If you upgraded your iPhone this time, what do you plan to do with your old iPhone? I’m keeping mine as a spare camera…. I’m keeping my old 2G for those times when I want to shoot digital lofi, not app lofi into my images. The new iPhone 4 camera is really nice. It has excellent clarity, fantastic color and saturation, and a lot less noise than the older cameras. It improves on all the image qualities that made the older iPhones unique — the noise, the color, the overall tint and saturation. The new iPhone 4 is almost a real camera. Its pictures are bright and crisp without needing to run them through a DRC app first. The old iPhone 2G and 3G are true digital “toy” cameras. As mobile phone cameras improve, I suspect that the old iPhones’ value as digital toy cameras — both monetarily and from a iPhoneography standpoint — will only increase and become sought after.
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