Posts Tagged ‘CameraKit’
iPhoneography: Two Theaters: The Castro Gate
17
02 2010
iPhoneography: SFO in monochrome – Trains
San Francisco, California
January, 2010
Toolbox: Gorillacam, CameraKit, Format126, Vint B&W
Three trains in San Francisco.
People going somewhere. People going nowhere. People moving or waiting to move.
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11
02 2010
My iPhone Camera Bag updated
This updated Camera Bag post will also go in the navbar above. I wanted to share the evolution of my iPhone. You can read my original Camera Bag post here.
The best camera is the one that’s with you and the one that’s with me nearly all the time is my first generation 8 GB iPhone 2G.
I don’t use one app exclusively to shoot with. I have several and try to match up the image with the app. One of the features that makes the iPhone camera unique is the availability of thousands of photography-related apps. For less than the cost of a DVD, you can basically get a whole new camera experience.
iPhone apps are constantly being created, updated and improved. Since I first wrote my original Camera Bag post, several new apps have been released and several apps have been improved to the point where they have leapfrogged ahead as far as functionality and performance.
I find myself shooting with many different apps than the first time I wrote about my iPhone’s camera bag. Here’s my updated toolbox — the go-to apps I’m currently using.
22
01 2010
iPhoneography: Two Theaters: The Planets
Cinemark IMAX Theater
Dallas, Texas
January 14, 2010
Toolbox: Perfectly Clear, CameraKit
The lobby of the Cinemark IMAX Theatre in Dallas is breathtaking. The tall ceilings house a steampunk-like installation piece of the planets. The theme, I suppose, is “the world of the movies” but once I get past the theatrically lit orbs and the odes to classic films, I always think of the brilliant musical classic by Gustav Holst whenever I’m waiting to see a film on the multi-story screen.
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19
01 2010
iPhone App Review: CameraKit, and on sale for 50% off
CameraKit by Tetsuya Chiba is on sale for $0.99 USD for a limited time — that’s 50% off. Even at its regular price, this is a worthwhile purchase.
CameraKit is a camera and post-processing app that acts almost as a digital darkroom on your iPhone. You can load images from your iPhone’s entire photo library, which is how I use it. None of its features are unique, but here they are nicely packaged, well implemented, simple to use, and make it easy to experiment.
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12 2009
iPhoneography: Column
November, 2009
Fort Worth, Texas
Toolbox: Zoom Lens, MonoPhix, CameraKit
My girlfriend and I have a very pleasant Sunday morning coffee ritual. Some days, it involves simply lounging around the bed, reading and sharing news stories from our iPhones. Most of the time, weather permitting, we go out to one of the many Starbucks in our city. My beverage of choice is the Grande Latte with an extra shot. The baristas call it a “triple,” I prefer to call it by its long name, hoping to avoid any confusion.
On this Sunday, we went to a Starbucks that we usually don’t go to. It was near the Apple Store, so we thought we’d multitask. The day started cool and cloudy and went cold and gray from there. The newly placed holiday wreaths swung about in the wind. The sky became more progressively gray, sucking the color out of just about everything. For a moment, it felt like winter in North Texas.
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22
12 2009
iPhoneography: Room Zero
November 18, 2009
Today was my every-five-week hair day. When you have a hairline like mine (or lack of), it’s really more difficult to keep it looking good, in spite of the reduced amount of source material to maintain.
Sonia, another stylist, wasn’t in today, but the door to her room was ajar and the lights were off. From inside, this new machine sat silently blinking and lights were spinning. It was very Star Trek in its appearance (the J.J. Abrams movie, not the 60′s TV show). Some sort of Electro-something-something device. All I knew was that the lights were blinking and pretty. I snuck in, got my photo, and just as quickly snuck back out of Room Zero.
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Toolbox: Camera Genius, ColorKit, FocalLab















