Sometimes a DSLR is just too intrusive. But the iPhone is always there.
Eat At Joe’s
One of my favorite subjects is neon. Day, night, vintage, new — it’s all good. A friend asked me to bartend a party at his house, and much to my surprise, there was a neon sign in his kitchen. I didn’t have my DSLR with me, but I did have my iPhone.
This was not processed, it’s just as the camera saw it.
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Bananana
ShakeItPhoto is an app that mimics the look of an old Polaroid. It does not have options for borders, effects, or anything else. Tap the shutter, get an image. The image “develops” slowly on the screen, and you can shake your phone to make it develop more quickly.
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Planet Galleria
This image was created using Photosynth and TinyPlanet. Photosynth was used to create this original image:
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Four Views Of Embarcadero
Diptic is a flexible way to assemble several photos into a single image. It has a lot of layouts, and it will output a high resolution image.
One thing I like to use Diptic for is to show alternate views of a single place, event, or concept. In this case, I was shooting the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco with Hipstamatic. The tile pattern and the sculpture are iconic and recognizable to anybody who has spent much time there. The escalator and the seated person were also in the area, but are not as immediately recognizable. By using Diptic to assemble all the images together, they all become part of the story and the viewer is helped to see the images as four parts of the same place.
I also use Diptic in conjunction with some other apps to make surreal images with interesting patterns. I’ll post about that later in the week.
Another Walk
1 Front Street, San Francisco
Hipstamatic is one of my favorite iPhone photo apps. It took me a while to get into it, since there are so many combinations of lenses and films to play with. I’ve settled on a few that I like, and mostly stick with those now.
Hipstamatic has one major drawback. It only takes input from the camera. You cannot take a photo with another app and then process it with Hipstamatic.
This image was made with the John S lens and Claunch film.
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Greeted By The Fog
I’ve been working in downtown San Francisco for over 12 years now, and I have been wanting to get this shot for most of that time. If there was fog, it was obscuring the entire Transamerica pyramid, or I couldn’t get out of the office to this vantage point, or I would get up there just in time to see the fog burn off.
One morning, it all came together. This was the first image I got of the scene, and I made it with my iPhone because it was in my hand. I then got my DLSR out of my backpack and got some additional images. However, this image, processed with Photoshop Mobile, was my favorite of all.