Seen off Columbus Ave. in North Beach. I rarely shoot graffiti straight-on these days, but this particular piece is hard to frame/pano in one shot because it sits on a pointed corner and is blocked by a tree, 2 poles, and a parking meter.
Shot in default factory iPhone 3GS camera, color pops in Camera+, tiling in Collagraphy, once through WordPhoto, and a triptych in Diptic.
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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Marc Rimmer (of Canada apparently) is posting a Mobile-Photo-A-Day on his Tumblr blog. When asked about the process behind the photo above, Marc replied:
I almost exclusively use Camera+ on the iPhone 4. I originally got it for the different metering and focus points, so you can focus on a specific thing and not have the photo completely blow out or be underexposed. Soon after I picked it up I really got to love the fact that you can dial back the power/percentage on filters and a faux border is automatically applied to everything. I find other apps can be a little heavy on the filters sometimes, so the flexibility that camera+ gives you is fantastic.
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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Jose Manuel Holguín shot this parking garage using Hipstamatic on his iPhone4.
Found via the Objective Scenes Flickr Group.
Shot on my iPhone4 with TrueHDR and processed with Camera+. Then I missed my train.
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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Another great iPhone art piece by Lindsey Thompson, who’s “Rolling Stone” piece we featured last week. She describes the process behind “Strolling” here:
Yes, this one was achieved with Juxtaposer, based on 3 different images, the main image being the boy on the left, I cut out his silhouette from 2 other images I’d taken of him walking past me and layered them onto this image with Juxta, the final treatment was using Iris (poster effect > surface textures) and then a colour change through Phototreats, hope this helps
Found via the Objective Scenes Flickr Group.
I’ve told more than a few people that Hong Kong is “IG gold,” which is to say there’s no shortage of material worth capturing on film. Or in my case, a trusty iPhone4. This weekend I took my fair share. The sky was blue, the sun was out, and HK was working her magic. I hope I never get tired of pulling out my camera here.
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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“Lift Y’r Skinny Fists (Like Antennas to the Heavens)“, piece number 199 in my yearlong Daily App Experiment, captures Sutro Tower during the sunset. Although it has a very painted look, the piece was created with Camera+, Pic Smoother, and TrueHDR, with a few camera hacks along the way.
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While searching for images on Instagram that were tagged with #slowshutter, the awesome long exposure app that John Curley posted about last week, I came across these fantastic lightning photographs from Isaac Larson (@isaaclarson on the Instagramhole).
After pestering him to let us post the images, he sent us the nice big original photos along with some info on how how he used SlowShutter:
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Thanks for following along this week, and thanks, Doc, for asking me to stop by.
It’s been an interesting week in the sense that the pressure has been on to come up with something suitable for sharing here on OS. I really can’t imagine the creative tension that Doc has created for himself by committing to his DAILY appsperiment.
The process certainly has helped me understand the attraction of “365″ projects, where you take photos of something, usually yourself, every day for a year. There’s even an app for that, too, called Project 365. It encourages you to hold your own feet to the fire and take pictures every day, and I guess that’s a good thing. I take pictures every day, but knowing you’re going to have to share them puts the process in a different category.
Anyway, enough preamble. Today’s pic utilizes a couple of my favorite apps, and it was taken at one of my favorite places, the San Mateo coast of Northern California, just south of San Francisco. Continue reading
