March 6, 2010
Old Texas Highway 183
Fort Worth, Texas
Saturday Night on Belknap 01
Saturday Night on Belknap 02
Saturday Night on Belknap 03
Saturday Night on Belknap 04
Toolbox: MonoPhix, Best Camera, CameraBag (Lolo)
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Monochrome Camera
Version 1.0
Bottom line: Avoid
MonoCam
Monochrome Camera by TouchInside is a new app which saves images in monochrome. It has its own camera function or you can import images from your camera roll. I know it takes a lot of time, effort and coding skills to create any iPhone app, but with all that’s wrong with this one, I wonder how this ever got past beta stage.
February 18, 2010
Hurst, Texas
Protect This House
Toolbox: MonoPhix, FocalLab
Protect this house. Okay, I will.
No model release needed.
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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.
Some of my other camera apps. Page 4 on my iPhone
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.
Fort Worth, Texas
The Stockyards
January 9, 2010
The Stairwell
Toolbox: MonoPhix Lite
It’s winter in North Texas, but there were still leaves on the trees until a couple of weeks ago. The Stockyards were brisk and the winter shadows were long as we roamed Main and Exchange with our cameras, fighting daylight and the lingering Golden Hour.
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Recently, I wrote about The Best Free iPhoneography Apps: Camera Replacements. Now that you’ve shot your image, how are you going to process it? Here are nine great image editing apps and best of all, their price is free!
I realize that this list is not complete. There were several apps that I didn’t include for various reasons. In compiling this list, I found some apps that duplicated features of others. In those cases, I chose what I felt to be the app that did the job quickest, easiest and best. Also, there are great free apps being released all the time.
Some of these apps may be ad-supported, but none of them add a watermark to your images and all save at or really close to your iPhone’s full resolution, unlike many lite photo apps available. These are all full-featured apps and they produce good, if not outstanding effects. Again, for little more than bandwidth and real estate on your iPhone’s screen, there are some gems to be found in the photography section of the App Store. These apps should start you off with a well-rounded iPhoneography toolbox or enhance your existing iPhone “camera bag” — and all for free.
December 29, 2009
Fort Worth, Texas
"Isham Cemetery with a Dusting of Snow"
Toolbox: AutoStitch, AutoAdjust, MonoPhix
Ten minutes from downtown sits our neighborhood on the east side of Fort Worth. It’s one of the areas of the DFW Metroplex that still has a somewhat rural feel. On the weekends, you often see people riding their horses down the medians on John T. White Road. When I first moved to this area back in the mid-1990’s, it was still a mail rural route.
There’s an old cemetery across from a woodframe church near some new housing subdivisions. I’ve only seen evidence of one funeral there in the years I’ve lived here.
Today, we had our third snow of the season — freakishly winter-like for an area that should be sunny and in the 60’s this time of year. Driving past old Isham Cemetery, the gray sky and the light dusting of the snow over the open field of the old cemetery made it feel like winter.
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November, 2009
Fort Worth, Texas
"Column"
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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MonoPhix
Version 2.0
Bottom Line: Highly Recommended
MonoPhix 2.0 by UIC Phoenxsoftware is a very nice and much improved update to the previous versions. In addition to two new filters, the monochrome conversion filter has been completely retooled to produce much more adjustable, much better results.
