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The word “iPhoneography” and why one label is important

As the popularity of the iPhone grows and more users discover the greatness of the iPhone camera, I’m seeing more and more influential pundits try to invent and popularize a word for iPhone photography. Recently, I’ve seen “iPhonography”, “iPhotography”, “iPhonetography”, “Mobile Photography” and many others. They all try to label a new art form that was so perfectly named years ago by Glyn Evans. We have a word for this emerging art form. It’s called “iPhoneography.”

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Photo App Focus: OlloCorrect – A great new tool for fixing lens distortion

One of the most popular accessories for the iPhone camera are the combination Wide Angle/Macro and Fisheye lens kits. With the exception of the iPro Lens System by Schneider Optics, all of the wide angle lenses create optical lens distortion. OlloCorrect is a new utility that quickly compensates for this distortion and fixes it. If you shoot with a clip-on wide angle lens, you need this utility.

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Tip: iPhone screen brightness and image editing

When using your iPhone everyday, many of us have the device’s Auto-Brightness turned on to help the screen compensate for optimal viewing under the varied lighting situations we find ourselves in all the time. This works great for most uses but the variances in screen brightness can really mess with image editing. Here’s a tip I’ve been using for years to help get better results when trying to do more precise photo edits on my iPhone.

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Outside The Frame: “Heads” by Maddy McCoy

Great photos tell a story. This is Life In LoFi’s new weekly feature, Outside The Frame. It’s the story of one photograph (or a series) of an iPhoneographer in their own words. It’s less of a how-to and more of a why. It’s the stories of the iPhoneography we see, told by the artist who created it. For this first edition, I selected “Heads”, a sometimes unnerving series by Maddy McCoy.

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