Have you ever looked up a nice big full moon and thought “That thing is huge! I’ve gotta get a pic.” only to find that it barely even shows up on your mobile phone’s camera? I became pretty obsessed with trying to find a way to shoot the moon, experimenting with long exposures and the camera’s built in zoom. I was finally able to get this great shot of the the moon by putting my iPhone camera up to the true of a friend’s telescope. After going through the process, I totally see the value of this telescope adapter project on Kickstarter. Can’t wait to get mine!
After about an hour of taking a pic, moving the telescope, taking another pic, I finally got the shot above. I was so happy with this one shot, the only good one out of about 40, that I decided to use it as the basis for a full week’s worth of appsperiments.
Daily App Experiment #107 was created with the 3D photo app. I love how perfectly the moon works as a skin for this dissected sphere model.
Daily App Experiment #108 was created with Halftone, for a cool pop art effect.
Daily App Experiment #109 is where things get a little silly. I used an app called DoodleBooth to deface the moon.
Daily App Experiment #110 was created with the amazing Decim8 app, which has a plethora of options for destroying images.
Daily App Experiment #111 uses Phoster to create a more poster-esque design. I used one of the Phoster layouts that happened to have a circle in it, which the moon fit nicely into.
Daily App Experiment #112 was created with Invader Cam, which works similar to several of the ASCII art apps, but with video game sprites. I thought it was rather fitting.
Daily App Experiment #113 was created with the iDroste app, which can be used to create an infinitely spiraling patter out of any image.
Daily App Experiment #114 was created by taking a bunch of camera apps (Percolator, Phototropedelic, etc) and layering them all with DXP.
Daily App Experiment #164 was created a few months later and is sort of a supercut of all the Lunar Appsperiments that were spliced together with Interlacer.
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This is the coolest web page I have seen today. (iPad renders it well)