“Visitors take a picturesque ferry across the bay from the airport on the leeward side of the base to the main camp where the prison is held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Star security reporter Michelle Shephard snapped these iPhone Hipstamatic photos this weekend covering the Sept. 11 trials.”
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“I learned to appreciate the artistic side of photography, and I learned that Instagram is about much more than altered photos.”
Anick Jesdanun of the Associated Press
In this article about warming up to Instagram
That’s the gist of this article.
New York Times labels iPhone photo as “cellphone photo, altered by a popular app”
That seems like an odd thing to include in a caption.
I mean, the Times published Damon Winter’s Hipstamatic images of Afghanistan, and it did so on the front page, without any indication whatsoever (in the print edition, at least) that they were taken with an iPhone or Hipstamatic. So why is the Times labeling the photo of Central Mountain High school in this story (also on B13 in the print edition) as a “cellphone photo, altered by a popular app”?
The photo is by Will Yurman.
Very cool image, and more evidence of the masses getting their photojournalism from (amateur) mobile phone photos.
CNN iReport and Mashable team up for Instagram project
Photo collages can be lots of fun, and so CNN’s iReport project teamed up with Mashable to ask readers to submit photo collages and post them to Instagram. As Mashable notes:
After viewing a number of inventive collages, we chose some of the best to feature in the gallery below. In the captions, you’ll find what makes up each collage, including what editing and collage-creation apps participants used and what some think of the mobile image-sharing boom.
