Little harmonica man. #biglens #iphone (Taken with instagram)
Canopy. on Flickr.
Triple Threat. on Flickr.
iPhonelomo of the day: Triple Threat. #slowshutter #DXP #iphoneography
Life As It Should Be. on Flickr.
Dino grabbed this hat, put it in, and took off running through the aisles - laughing the entire time!
It was a beautiful day today. As I jumped on my Vespa, I couldn’t wait to enjoy the fresh air and the weekend.
First Prints From Hipstamatic
I got my first prints from Hipstamatic today. After shooting with the app for over a year and loving the look of the photos it gives, I decided it was time to try their printing service
Let’s just say that I will definitely be using their print service again. The packaging is great and the prints are beautiful. The photos are printed on Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper that really brings out the beauty of the images created by the Hipstamatic app. The paper is a lighter weight (thinner) than traditional prints from a lab, but in my opinion, it doesn’t effect the visual quality of the image. I have tried many other ways to print the photos taken with the app and this is definitely the best way I have tried and it is also very convenient.
“Using ‘Tacky’ Photo Effects Effectively”
I am the first to admit that I like editing/enhancing a lot of my photos. The goal is usually to create a mood or bring a little more life to the mood that already exists. In general, I would not use the x-ray tool like I did above. On the other hand, I don’t like to limit myself by saying I would never use an effect…though this effect is almost in that category. The trick is to know when something works creatively to make the image better. I liked the original image that I had to work with and was really just working to achieve the proper color for the sky to contrast the trees. In the end, I decided I wanted to make something even more interesting out of the image and make it something that jumped off the screen - I wanted white trees. Luckily there wasn’t a lot of color in this image so the X-ray effect was able to quickly give me the white trees I wanted and inverted the cloud and sky color. The only problem was that it made the moon turn black, which was too much for me. I cloned it out and used Juxtaposer (all editing is being done on an iPad) to add the original moon back to the photo in the original color.
Tip: Never completely rule out an effect that you think is useless or distasteful, because you never know when it may actually work for you. I’ll probably skip over this effect for a long time before I ever use it again, but I am glad I gave it a shot for this image.
PS: Click on the photo to get a larger version to download. It looks great as an iPad lock screen or wallpaper on a widescreen computer display.
Dino’s first outdoor ride on his quad.
It took him a little while to figure out how to push the “go” button all the way in, but once he got it, he had fun.
I just purchased the iSupr8 app and wanted to give it a test. Overall, I like the app. It plays off of the idea that Hipstatic uses for photos and has a small viewfinder as if you were looking through a Super8 camera. I like that I can shoot and quickly and render later. The render (or develop as they call it) takes a while for longer clips, so it isn’t something that is useful for fast turnaround on sending a clip, but most would use a stylized look for that anyway. Overall, I would recommend it
Photography, Videos & Ramblings of Tony Cece.
