Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

Level 3

Toolbox: Trusight Pro, TiltShift Generator, FocalLab

DFW International Airport
May 1, 2010

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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

The New iPad from Apple

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In about 20 hours from the time of this writing, the world changes. You are here to see it.

Tomorrow morning, Apple’s iPad will be unleashed to the world. I truly believe that the iPad will change in a very big way how we receive content and information. I believe the iPad will create new industries, rescue old ones that are embracing the new slates, and be a nail or two in the coffin of others that can’t or won’t adapt.

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Rear View Mirror

Toolbox: Perfectly Clear, TiltShift Generator

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On I-30. This was a perfect Spring evening and we were driving from Fort Worth to Dallas with the sunset in my rear view mirror.

They say I shouldn’t drive and text. They said nothing about drivin’ and shootin’.

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March 7, 2010
Oscar Night
Dallas, Texas

Diner

Toolbox: Vint B&W, TiltShift Generator

Another image in this series, “Nighthawk“, also appears through March as part of my exclusive Featured iPhontographer series on Pixels at an Exhibition.

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Fort Worth, Texas
January 27, 2010

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Marsha

Express

LUH

Toolbox: Format126, TiltShift Generator, Perfectly Clear

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I didn’t create these. The bakery artisans at Central Market in Fort Worth did. They really are artists and dessert is their palette. Other than the wine department and the cheese section (Central Market is the only place you can get fresh cheese curds in DFW), the Dessert Department is my favorite in the market. Okay, really it’s called the bakery, but that’s what they the place where they make the bread. The Dessert Department is where dreams lined with tiny cream puffs are made.

My dream is to someday walk into Central Market’s bakery and say “I’ll take them all.”

Just Desserts

Toolbox: TiltShift Generator

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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.

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