“Five years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage at Macworld Expo and unveiled the iPhone. At the time, it seemed like a big deal. In hindsight, it seems even bigger.”
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New Animoto iPhone app coming soon
Exciting news via an email: “Animoto is launching an entirely new iPhone app.”
Seems like there’s a lot happening in the arena of apps for making mini-movies, automagically, from your photos and video clips. I’ve been a fan of Animoto for a while now (it’s among my list of the top 100 iPhone photography apps), but now there’s also HighlightCam and Flixlab.
It’s free. It’s weekly. And it’s all about apps, tutorials, and gizmos to turn the iPhone, iPad, and iPod into marvels of fun and creativity.
“On the whole, these new features look useful but not groundbreaking. The Lock Screen access and new shutter button features will go a long way to making the iPhone more like a real camera. The ability to make new folders, and Photo Stream are huge time savers for photo management. But the other features being rolled out are already available through third-party apps, so their usefulness depends on how you use your camera. Habitual Instagram and Hipstamatic users may not even notice they’re there.”
From a Macworld rundown of the iOS 5 camera and photo features
100 really great iPhone photography apps
Here it is—my list of the 100 best iPhoneography apps.
In writing my book, Create Great iPhone Photos, and then posting an app a day for my 100 Photo Apps project, I’ve spent a lot of time researching iPhone photography apps for everything from image editing to retro effects to panoramas. With the book, in particular, I did a lot of testing of apps, trying them out in all sorts of situations (just check out my video where I go body surfing with my iPhone), and I also researched what other iPhone photography enthusiasts were listing as their favorite, go-to apps.
Of course, iPhone photography just keeps getting better, thanks to the developers of apps like Hipstamatic, ShakeItPhoto, and many others, and so I hope to revise the list (or maybe come out with new versions) as other awesome apps are developed.
What’s missing in this list? View the comments for this post: Please post in the comments.
Also, I plan to post some additional lists, too, like my own top ten among these apps, and also lists for apps in various categories (black-and-white, replacement cameras, and so forth).
So here’s my take on the 100 best iPhone photography apps (in the order I posted them in my 100 Photo Apps project).
Volume button for the shutter, grid lines, etc. It’s a useful rundown.
Wired: What will iOS 5 bring for photographers?
Wired has an excellent rundown on the new iOS and what it’ll mean for iPhoneography.
As the article says, “IOS 5 adds plenty of new features to the iPhone, but one group of users who will be particularly happy with the new operating system will be photographers.”
Some of the highlights:
- “The headline feature is that you can now use the volume switch to fire the shutter.”
- Simple image processing, like red-eye removal and other quick fixes.
- With iOS 5, you can arrange images into folders on the device, not just on your computer, the article says.
- “Another feature which may cause lost sales to developers of alternative camera apps is shooting direct from the lock screen. When the phone is locked, double-tap the home button and a camera icon will appear. This will take you to a restricted version of the Camera app, allowing you to snap pictures but denying access to photos already taken (including the ones you just took).”
And there’s more, too, like Photo Stream, for syncing photos between devices.
“I wonder if Apple will open this up to third parties,” writes Charles Sorrel. “Imagine if the wireless Eye-Fi SD cards could use Photo Stream. You’d be able to take pictures on your regular camera and they’d immediately be backed up and sent to all your devices.”
“New features in the Camera and Photos apps give you instant access to the camera right from the lock screen, and you can use the volume-up button to quickly snap a photo. Optional grid lines help line up your shot and a simple tap locks focus and exposure on one subject. The new Photos app lets you crop, rotate, enhance and remove red-eye, and organize your photos into albums right on your device to share them on the go.”
I’m really liking the work of Edgar Cuevas, like this image, Candle Vigil. Really atmospheric work. Check him out at iPhone Film Lab.
Source iphonefilmlab
Another tilt-shift/blur app
Yes, there’s another tilt-shift app, for generating those lovely background blurs and toy-miniature effects, and Glyn Evans at the iPhoneography blog has a rundown of its features and some opinions on it. He says the app, Digital Focus, will “give TiltShift Generator a run for its money.”
I love TiltShift Generator, and I’ll stick with it for now, but I’ll probably give Digital Focus a try and see how it stacks up against some of the other blur apps, like Focusoid and BlurFX.
