This is a pretty straight forward Decim8 session. I took a picture of some sidewalk chalks in their box from above and started running it through Decim8 using the Veth and Bunker filters alone and in tandem.
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The iPhone4 takes really great closeup shots. It has great depth of field and gets plenty of detail that looks almost like a macro lens at times. I took a picture of my son sleeping and put the image into Camera+ and used the Contessa filter at 100%.
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I took this shot from the top of the Calgary International Airport parkade. I was shooting images to feed into AutoStitch for some panoramas.

I looked down and saw these drivers standing in a circle talking so I got a few shots of them too. Later when I was looking through the pictures I noticed this one of the guy at the bottom approaching from the shadows. I realized that the angle was pretty good for a tilt-shift blur to make them look even smaller so I ran the image through TiltShift Generator, adjusted the contrast, brightness & saturation, added the tilt-shift blur and a bit of vignette.
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I took a some pictures of these clouds one evening and decided to Instagram one of them. I put it through Camera+ twice using the Vibrant and Lomographic filters at about 50% each pass.
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One day I was walking by this old apartment building with some co-workers and I stopped and said “just a sec, I want to Instagram those apartments.” That was the first time that I used Instagram as a verb, but now I think it all the time. I ended up not being able to get a decent picture that day, and at the time I was still shooting some pictures right in Instagram. I almost never do that anymore, pretty much everything is shot with the iPhone camera app, Camera+, or other special effect apps (Pro HDR, Photosynth, Synthcam, Hipstamatic) and then imported and cropped in Instagram. Sometimes I find Instagram cropping finicky and when I’m trying to be precise it takes several tries before it crops it the way you tell it it to. But cropping is very important, especially when you have a elements that you want perfectly centred or specifically cropped in or out. So sometimes I will crop an image as a square in PS Express or Camera+ before bringing it into Instagram now. Anyway, I shot the apartments again a few weeks ago and was able to get a better picture.
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Hello, my name is Brad Connell (@fauxjebus on twitter & instagram). I’m 28 Years old and I work as an Art Director at an advertising/design agency called WAX in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I got my iPhone4 last October and although I was the last person I know to get one, it was my first smartphone. Prior to that I was using a Samsung flip phone from the turn of the century and a Nikon Coolpix S6.
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