A challenge that I made especially for Babe<3
I got him the Canon Rebel DSLR camera for him for his birthday and I thought this would be a nice way for him to get to know it better(: I know the challenge is a little more “challenging” then most would be but I think it will be fun!
The challenge is to TAKE the picture everyday, not just find one a post it. Or to take them all in one day and stagger the posts, none the less, they would be CURRENT photos that you take for the purpose of the challenge not old photos you dig up that you have done! Be creative when you find something difficult! try it with us?
Also, you don’t need a DSLR to take amazing pictures! so will you join us?(:
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SIMPLIFYING Rick LePage, a photography-magazine editor based in Portland, Ore., recently set off on a drive across the United States with his daughter, Elizabeth, who had just graduated from college with photography-career aspirations. Naturally, they packed lots of fancy photography gear. And, to their surprise, it went mostly unused during their epic journey. Instagram turned out to be the best way of documenting sunsets, grain silos, drive-through liquor stores and state-border welcome signs. “I’m an old Polaroid guy, and still have 40 or 50 boxes of the film in a refrigerator,” said LePage. So one of the most appealing aspects of using Instagram for him “was the immediacy. I turn on the iPhone and just take a photo. With a digital camera, I would be fiddling with all the settings.” The other appealing aspect, said LePage, was being able to share the pictures with friends and family members without delay, instead of waiting for a hotel-room interlude to upload pictures to Flickr via a laptop. His daughter had the Instagram-based social networking nailed, he said. “I couldn’t believe how connected she was. Her number of followers grew over the course of the week.
Party colours
Using MobileMonet app
Bouncy colour
The MobileMonet app initially reduces your photo to a high contrast mono image and then allows you to paint back in the original colours. Being selective can often produce some surprisingly effective results.
Organising photo apps: a task too far?
Photo apps, to paraphrase a famous phrase, are like a box of chocolates. So many to choose from, some with delicious centres, others slightly bitter. So how exactly do you find the ones you really need amongst the cornucopia of apps you have amassed?
With so many of them clogging up my iPad and iPhones I decided it was time to bring order to chaos. So I sat down, made a list of all my apps, created a few rudimentary categories for them and attempted to file each app under them. I wish I had stuck to something more simple, like calculating the value of pi in my head while juggling a set of fine china, standing on one toe.
It was a task that seemed so straightforward. Some apps function as alternatives to Apple’s basic camera app, others provide editing functions for existing images, while still others add artistic effects. So creating categories like capture, processing and art fx should handle all those, right? Wrong.
Camera apps like Camera+, ProCamera and King Camera are promoted as primarily image capture apps yet feature extensive processing and editing options. Apps like Photoshop Express, PerfectlyClear and Photogene, categorised mainly as editing apps, also have image capture facilties in their toolkit.
Likewise, would you classify apps that provide painterly effests like MobileMonet and AutoPainterHD in the same folder as Interlacer, ColorSplash or TinyWorld?
Then there’s the can of worms containing the likes of Hipstamatic, ClassicTOY, PictureShow and Plastic Bullet. Categories like Toy cameras, fun photos or filter fx come to mind. But is it fair to call apps that can produce such creative effects as these ‘toys’?
Thus I bend to my task, my head alternatively spinning and throbbing. It may seem frivilous to some but anyone that considers themselves an iphoneographer needs to be able to find their favourite ans trusted photo apps quickly or miss a vital shot.
This is also a problem that’s not going to go away. With new apps appearing in the App Store each and every week the confusion will only grow unchecked, unless some action is taken to come up with a workable classification system. How would you handled it? How do you handle it now? I’d love to know.
Not an original iPhone image but LensFlare app has added a bright sun where none existed before!
© Richard Burton
‘Twas a dark and stormy night… Taken with Instagram on my iPhone 4.
I believe iphoneography has revolutionised photography. It has given anyone who owns an iphone the ability to create unique and interesting images using just their phone and a selection of apps, which can then be shared online, in print or right on their phone.
Just carrying the iPhone around the house can lead to unexpected photo opportunities. This shot of a simple light bulb was given and etherial glow when processed in Swankolab.
Richard Burton's personal voyage through the exciting new world of iphoneography
