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Yesterday was Boing Boing International Meetup Day. I stopped by the Orbit Room to check out the local get together and meet cool Boing Boing readers. Lots of folks brought cool gadgets AND I got to meet Douglas Rushkoff (who coined the term Generation X), but I also got a chance to take some neat picture of the globes that happened to be scattered around the bar.

Today’s appsperiment, “Global Meet Up“, was originally taken on my iPhone 4 using an app called Synth-Cam. Synth-Cam was created by Marc Levoy, a Stanford Professor, to replicate the look of a shallow depth of field you can find on a nice SLR camera. It does this by taking multiple photos while slightly moving the camera, then overlaying those images so that a specific area remains crisp while other parts blur (depending on their position in relation to the object in “focus”). I like to leave my iPhone stationary (preferably on a tripod) while using SynthCam so that stationary objects remain crisp while moving objects blur around them.

For final the final color effect I used Color Splash, an app that allows you to select certain areas of a color photograph and turn them into black and white. If you like this, check out more of my SynthCam images here.
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