My son got married last weekend and it was the most beautiful day and magical evening under the stars. So here a few pics I took with my iphone, the original and in some of the photos I used various apps. Snapseed, Repix, Dramatic Black and White.
My beautiful daughter-in-law in her stunning gown.
One of the happiest days of my life.
There’s something about black and white photos, they can have a sense of drama or romance or grunge and can sometimes turn an ordinary iphone photo into something quite wonderful.
This is a photo of my future daughter in law taken on my iphone during her kitchen tea/bridal shower last Sunday. Even though she was very busy meeting and greeting guests I managed to get her to sit down for a few minutes while I composed this shot.
I straightened and cropped in Snapseed and used one of the black and white filters, then for a softer look I put it through several of the filters in Monovu until I found one that I felt looked good.
Another iphone photo of her standing in a doorway, I loved the way the sun was shining through her dress but there were distracting elements in the background. So after putting it through Snapseed for cropping and straightening I went to Repix and smudged and blurred the background then put it through Monovu once again until I found a filter I thought looked good.
The filter did produce a few distracting elements on her dress and arms but I removed them in Retouch, such a great app for cleaning up images.
Even though I take all of my photos on my iphone 4S, I do all of my post processing and editing on my ipad. I’m always amazed and astounded by people who can edit on their iphones, I just find the screen far too small especially for fine tuning images, but then again I’m a senior with eyesight that’s not the best for fine detailed work. I’m hoping Apple will make a larger phone this year, something similar to the Samsung Galaxy, although I think I might find that screen a bit too small as well.
Just another black and white shot. I took this photo last Spring and from memory I think I may have used Hipstamatic to take it.
An interesting article by AlyZen Moonshadow over on her blog about the correct definition of the type of iphoneography we do using our iphones, ipads and in Aly’s case a mix of both IOS and Android. Is it digital Mixed media, digital art, mobile art and in some instances collage? Check it out.
Waterlogue a fun new painting app just released in the app store. Quite a basic app with easy to use interface but I though it was a little pricey for what it is. But app whore that I am I bought it anyway.
This is a photo I took the other day and it just piqued my odd sense of humour. A garden bed planted with 4 x 2’s and I just pictured how freaked out the owners would be if they started to sprout.
So I put it through a couple of different filters in the Waterlogure app and here’s how it looks.
And another shot of fake flowers I took in a store using Hipstamatic and put through Waterlogue
I think the flower below was Hipstamatic and then I played around in Camera Bag after downloading some more of their filters.
The fun NEVER ends!
Every year I like to buy a calendar with interesting pictures, but by the time I get around to looking for one all the good ones are usually gone and all that's left are the daggy ones, you know the ones with pics of barely dressed models splayed over muscle cars, or Justin Beiber, or One Direction……..not really my cup of tea. So this year I decided to use my own images and have one printed.
A couple of things I’d do differently is have a white background instead of the patterned one I chose and maybe next time instead of one large image use several images on the one page.
This was my workflow for designing the calendar. I went through my camera roll on my ipad and chose 14 images. I then uploaded them to an app called Big Photo and increased the resolution to about 2000 x 2000 so they could be printed at a larger size.
I then sent them all to Dropbox and opened them up on my poor neglected laptop. It was just easier to organize the images in the calendar software on the laptop. I used Harvey Norman’s photo service here in Australia and opted to pick up the calendar in store rather than have it delivered, figured at this time of the year Australia Post would be overloaded and I didn't want it to get lost.
In case your wondering why 14 images as there are only 12 months in a year, one image for the front cover and one on the back, although there was a slight hiccup with the back image…..they printed it upside down! So that's a phone call tomorrow to see if that can be rectified.
