This is the second part of my “It’s all about the limitations” series. Be sure to read the first part before reading this one. You can find it over here. I forgot to mention this in my previous post, but I post iPhone photos to my Posterous every now and then. So if you’re interested in iPhone photography, you might like it.
The photo above is processed with the Best Camera app. I wrote a blog post about that particular app a while ago.
I’d like to add two other apps. I absolutely love SwankoLab and, to a lesser extent, Hipstamatic.
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I love my iPhone 3G. It’s the first (smart)phone I still enjoy after almost two years of usage. When I just got it, I didn’t think I would use the camera that much. I mean, the resolution is sucky, the sensor is crappy and the lens, well, don’t get me started on that one.
To my surprise, I kind of enjoy all its limitations. I know I have to be picky about what to expose properly (if such a thing is even possible), and I know I can’t get the same dynamic range as any DSLR. But that’s part of the fun. I try to make most of my other photos technically perfect in terms of sharpness, exposure, focus and depth of field. The iPhone forces me to look in a different way than I do normally while photographing, and I think that’s an interesting experience.
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Howdyho people. It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been learning my ass of for several exams, of which I completed the last one yesterday. It was tough but I think I successfully completed them. Anyway, here’s a post about photos on the iPhone.
When I first got my iPhone 3G, about a year ago, I wasn’t really impressed by the build-in camera. Well, I’m still not impressed by the camera (mainly due to the lack of autofocus and some sort of exposure compensation), but there are several apps that make photography with the iPhone a lot of fun.
I mainly used  CameraBag. It had some great presets but was pretty slow and gave very little control on the outcome. Also, I needed several apps to do what I wanted: take a picture, edit it -sometimes in more than one app- and post it on the internet.
I wasn’t the only one who got frustrated by this so photographer Chase Jarvis created the Best Camera app that could do everything; take a photo, edit it and publish it. I’ve been using Chase’s app since it was released a couple of weeks ago, and I love it. If you’ve got an iPhone and haven’t tried it yet, go buy it now, it’s worth the price.
Especially the ‘share’ option is great; with just a few clicks (or rather ‘strokes’) the app uploads your picture to the bestc.am website (check out my bestc.am profile over here), email, Twitter and Facebook.
Oh, and by the way, it’s possible to stack the same effect. So if you want more contrast, just press the ‘contrast’ button a couple of times.
This entry was written by , posted on October 31, 2009 at 12:11, filed under Misc, Twitter, iPhone and tagged app, iPhone, Misc. Leave a comment over here.
