A shot of the phone booth at 6th and Market in San Francisco. Run through the wringer using Big Lens, Noir, and a bevy of other apps.
I started with a Hipstamatic shot, but considering how heavily edited this is, I probably could have used any old camera app.
I boosted details of the shot using Camera+‘s “Clarity” feature, then ran it through Noir for a heavily vignetted black and white look.
I used PS Express‘s “Noise Reduction” to smooth out the shot and applied a little “Sharpening” as well.
Big Lens is where the photo get’s it’s pop from. I selected the phone booth, part of the ground, and the person walking to stay in sharp focus, leaving everything else to appear out of focus. I created a heavily blurred image as well as a lightly blurred version while leaving the same objects in “focus”.
Then I used Filterstorm to apply parts of the heavily blurred image on top of parts of the lightly blurred image… basically I wanted objects to appear blurrier as they went further back.
