Video: Using ArtStudio with your iPhone photos
I stumbled on this video at a blog post by Traci Bautista, author of the book “Doodles Unleashed.”
Posts tagged iphoneography
From Macworld: “So what makes Tinrocket’s Percolator hold a special place of honor on my photo-app-saturated phone? After all, it doesn’t make the camera take better pictures, make shooting images faster, or provide better photo-editing capabilities. All this special effects app does is… add circles to your photos. Yep, circles. Lots of ‘em: Little ones, big ones, different colored ones. But it’s all in a really cool retro interface with an appealing coffee motif.”
The app is in my list of the 100 best iPhoneography apps.
Video: Adorama Photography TV takes a look at iPhone photography accessories
It’s a useful rundown of some handy accessories.
Fox News discovers iPhoneography
“Strangely enough, in the great digital-imaging frontier that has passed Kodak by, consumers are increasingly prey to crippling nostalgias of their own. The hip adopters of digital photography have gone retro. One of the biggest photo apps on the iPhone is Hipstamatic – a program that uses filters and faux-aging features such as film scratches and waterspots to simulate the look of the Kodak-era snapshot: something imperfect, unrepeatable and historically contingent. Such imperfections should be central to photography, which is, after all, devoted to capturing the fleeting character of human perception in a single, irreducible instant.”
Writer Chris Lehmann, writing in In These Times
From a short essay, “A Hipstamatic Moment,” dealing with Kodak’s bankruptcy and how “we still crave the instant nostalgia that was once the company’s hallmark.”
This sounds like fun. It’s scheduled for Tuesday, February 21, and they’ll be talking about photo filters.
Kickstarter project: The AQUA TEK S is a battery-powered underwater iPhone case
Looks rugged, that’s for sure. Here’s the deal: “The AQUA TEK S is the first ever battery powered, solar charged, rugged under water iPhone 4/4S case made with technology enthusiast and adrenaline junkies in mind. Whether you’re skiing a black diamond slope, fly fishing at your favorite lake, snorkeling an epic reef or kicking it back poolside, the AQUA TEK S can take your iPhone to places where no iPhone has gone before…. Waterproof up to 20 feet and designed to withstand drops, falls and accidental spills, the outer shell is made from tough Poly-carbonate materials with rubber grips for added protection.”
Also: “The AQUA TEK S’ built in battery and solar charger gives users peace of mind about running out of power while hiking, skiing, camping and lounging. Easily charge and sync the iPhone in the AQUA TEK S by opening the thumb screw and attaching a micro USB to the connector.”
Plastic Bullet is available as a Macintosh app at the Mac App Store
That’s cool—and part of the trend of apps moving from the iPhone to the desktop. (I wrote about that about a year ago.) The Mac app costs $4.99. Check it out.
The iPhone/iPad version of Plastic Bullet is part of my list of the 100 best iPhone photography apps.
Like lots of iPhoneographers, I’d love to be able to control the shutter-speed and ISO on my iPhone camera. Well, now you can—sort of—with two terrific apps, Mattebox and NightCap.
I learned about Mattebox recently when a friend, photographer and poet Jorn Ake, told me about it; it’s notable for taking as its inspiration the legendary Konica Hexar camera. I’m fond of Konicas—my SLR as a kid was a Konica—and so I had to have Mattebox.
I haven’t actually got to use it much yet, but then I saw Marty Yawnick’s post about a new version. Well, the post—and the comments after it (from the developer of both Mattebox and another app, NightCap)—provide lots of insidery technical info about what you can do with these apps, how they let you control shutter-speed on the iPhone, and other details.
I’m also happy to see the developer of Mattebox, Ben Syverson, is also the developer of the offbeat art/photography app Satromizer, which I included in both my list of the top 100 iPhone photography apps and my book, Create Great iPhone Photos.
