Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

Sion Fullana, Greg Schmigel, MissPixels and Marco La Civita, invited photographers to the inaugural eyephoneography show

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Linking the digital world back to the physical one and supporting an emerging way of taking and sharing pictures that tell unique stories: this is the goal of eyephoneography. The first exhibit of this initiative will be launched next September in Spain aiming to promote mobile photography by offering various interaction opportunities for photographers and their audiences.

This initial show features the work of four international iPhoneographers: Greg Schmigel, Marco La Civita, Miss Pixels, and Sion Fullana.

eyephonography #1 opens September 17, 2010 at The Hub in Madrid, Spain. You can visit eyephoneography.com and follow us via RSS, the project’s Facebook page or Twitter @eyephoneography.

I’ve reprinted the most recent press release in it’s entirety below. It’s a long but interesting read with good history and insights from the four selected iPhoneographers.

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Yup. That’s us!

Many of you already know this by now, but Glyn Evans (who publishes the iPhoneography blog) and I have teamed up to create and publish iPhoneography, the World’s First iPhone Photography Magazine. Our first issue will be published this Summer.

Both he and I feel that this is the logical progression for our knowledge, talents and resources. iPhoneography magazine is a project that he and I have been planning for months. I’m excited to be working together with Glyn and I’m really excited about the new and extended features that the magazine will give us the time, the layout and the medium to present.

As the art of iPhoneography grows, Glyn, myself and others felt there is a need both within and outside of the community for a magazine. We hope to pull together the iPhoneography community in a greater way than an exclusive online presence can. We hope to broaden the appeal of iPhoneography to both those who have iPhones and haven’t fully explored the capabilities of their cameras and to those who love photography and aren’t aware of the art an iPhone can create.

You are part of an incredibly creative community. I’m continually amazed at the level of work you create. We are all at the forefront of a democratization, if you will, of photography. iPhoneography magazine hopes to share, inform, educate and inspire all levels of iPhoneographers.

The iPhoneography blog and Life in Lofi are key components in the success of this community. Glyn and I aren’t going to be gutting our blogs for the sake of the magazine. The blogs and the magazine will work in tandem. We are taking the magazine to places we can’t easily go with the blogs. The blogs are and will remain essential resources for timely information, reviews, breaking news and iPhoneography showcases.

We’ll be rolling out information and other elements in the coming weeks. I’m very happy to be partnering with Glyn on this project. I’m excited about working with the colleagues we have lined up. And I’m honored to be part of this very talented and creative community.

Glyn and I are already working on our first three issues. We’ve got some cool stuff planned! We’re going to give you one hell of a magazine….

Below the jump is the official press release announcing the magazine. In the weeks to come, you’ll be hearing more about some of the features of iPhoneography magazine.

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Description from the AppStore: With Tilt-Shift-Focus you can easily edit photos to create fake miniatures, enhance or change the depth of field and focus area of your picture, or precisely soften details. Fake miniature and depth of field can improve the visual and artistic quality of your photographs and you can do all that with just a few taps in the Tilt-Shift-Focus editor.

Features:

• select one or take a new photo
• edit and adjust with 4 different blur-tools
• smooth transitions between blurred and focused areas
• tilt-shift effects on the go
• quick miniature effect
• cool zooming effect
• contrast enhancement for stronger miniature effect

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First off the interface is much more clunkier and positioning the linear position was much more fiddlier than TiltShift Generator.  Whilst the app has the option to increase contrast, unlike TiltShift Generator there are no other tweaks available.  The biggest disappointment with this app, was its out put size, that whilst not low res, was not full res either, saving on my iPhone 3G at a disappointing 1024 x 768 pixels.

Above: My "Toy Boat" photo processed with Tilt Shift Focus.

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Over all this app was disappointing and has some way to go to challenge TiltShift Generator, so for now if you want that tilt and shift effect, then I would recommend TiltShift Generator.

Tilt Shift Focus is $0.99 USD in the App Store.

App Store link: Tilt Shift Focus

Recently, I announced iQuikSplash and wrote a mini review of the app, giving it my worst ever score, 0 stars.

The developer of the app posted the following comment…

“The app was created to splash a color. Not an object. The app selectively highlights shades of the color you selected, in this case red. In case of a photo like yours here, you will need to use the “Area Quiksplash” function (added in Version 1.2) – where you can define the area you want to splash, but there is no need to be accurate, since the app will do the selection for you. Version 1.2 should be out in a day or so.

“As for needing to rotate after loading a photo, that is requirement from Apple, the photo picker is not allowed to be shown in landscape mode (The app was rejected because of displaying the picker in landscape mode). I may switch the app to work in Portrait in the future if it bothers most users.”

In response to my rating, version 1.2 was released recently with following new features/enhancements.

Read the rest of Glyn’s full review here on iPhoneography.com. >>>

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Glyn Evans is the publisher of The iPhoneography Blog and has given me permission to post a link to his review here on Life In Lo-Fi.

Glyn Evans recently reviewed the app Straighten Image by appingo on his blog iPhoneography.com.

I was amazed at just how quick, easy and simple this app was to use, but the most interesting thing, and more importantly omitted from the AppStore description, is the save photos are upscaled, and so on my iPhone 3G, were saved at full-res.  Now I’m not sure if this app saves at full-res on the iPhone 3GS, so if anyone has an iPhone 3GS and this, then maybe they could comment on the resolution.

Read Glyn’s full review here on iPhonoegraphy.com. Read my thoughts below, after the jump.

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PhotoTropedelic

PhotoTropedelic
Version 1.0

Bottom Line: A  good app for a groovy wayback effect

Yes, I invoked Austin Powers in my Bottom Line recommendation. Honestly, when I heard about this app from a friend of mine, my first thought was “Cool! A Peter Max app!” Either way, PhotoTropedelic by Larry Weinberg is a fun app which produces effects unlike anything else currently in the App Store.

One of the things that I like about this app is that it can also produce artwork that’s vector-based PDF (although getting there is a little kludgy), allowing you to output to any size, or to rasterize in Photoshop to convert to any resolution.

Glyn Evans from iPhoneography.com put the app through its paces. An update has already been submitted to Apple fixing the watermark issue mentioned in his review. The app goes for $1.99 USD.

Click here to read Glyn’s review on iPhoneography.com >>>

App Store link: PhotoTropedelic

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Glyn Evans is the publisher of iPhoneography.com and has given me permission to post a link to his review here on Life In Lo-Fi.

TOUCHUP STUDIO

TOUCHUP STUDIO
Version 1.0

Bottom Line: A promising looking app that gets a big thumbs up.

TOUCHUP STUDIO by Studio Mint is a versatile image editing app for iPhone with several good effects and filters and a unique interface to implement them. TOUCHUP lets you work with images in a new and fun way. By selecting an effect, you can apply it by either smudging or shaking it into your image. The app doesn’t seem to be a replacement for Photogene, PhotoForge or Perfect Photo. It can create unique effects and image manipulations for your photos. I’m intrigued by the shake and/or smudge interface. It appears to be worth a look.

Glyn Evans has a full review of the app at iPhoneography.com. Click here to read his review.

TOUCHUP STUDIO is $1.99 USD in the App Store.

App Store link: TOUCHUP STUDIO

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Glyn Evans is the Publisher of iPhoneography blog, www.iPhoneography.com

ShowTime - Video Recorder

ShowTime – Video Recorder
Version 2.0

If your iPhone is not one of the sexy new 3GS models, one of the features you are probably missing in your camera is the ability to record video. For along time, there have been options such as Cycorder available for jailbroken iPhones, but this is not an option for the majority of iPhone owners.

We are starting to see some new apps which bring limited video capabilities to older iPhones. Glyn Evans reviews one of the new ones, ShowTime – Video Recorder by Polar Bear Farm. You may want to pass on this app for now.

Click here to read Glyn’s review on iPhoneography.com

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Glyn Evans runs iPhoneography.com and has given me permission to post a link to his review here on LifeInLoFi.com.