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All elements shot with an iPhone6 using SlowshutterCam app.
Edited on iPad with Snapseed, Leonardo, Phototoaster and Mextures apps.
To learn more about creative photography processes and art on an iPhone you might be interested in my book co-written with Bob Weil:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1937538184/spea06-20#cust...
and website: www.iphoneographycentral.com
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It was just a pair of weeks ago, i do often have a walk at the seaside near Venice during spring and summer weekend, so this was a perfect occasion. We are about 10-15 km away from the ancient centre of Venice, the job season for bathhouses in the neighborhood is not started yet. So it was a perfect situation to catch a picture of desolation and anxious feelings at the same time, cloudy weather was the perfect plus for this moment.
So I used the native iPhone camera app, shoot directly in 1:1 mode to compose with more precision, waiting for my friends become so small near the horizon, exactly in the middle. Then I put the image on Instagram [my name there is Luca27379] with a soft elaboration in contrast and a bit of sepia tone.
iPhone EXIF Data:
f 2.2
1/964 sec
iso 32
lens 4mm (39mm in full frame format)
Austin, Texas, ATX, TX. East Austin, Mueller Austin, RMMA, garden, public art, double exposure, Diana Photo App. Pollen Grain and Wigwam sculptures by Chris Levack.
Apps Used:Slow shutter cam + icolorama + stackables + Ps Express+iwatermark
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All elements shot with an iPhone6.
Edited on iPad with the following apps:
Leonardo, Procreate and PhotoshopTouch
To learn more about creative photography processes and art on an iPhone you might be interested in my book co-written with Bob Weil:
www.amazon.com/The-Art-iPhone-Photography-Creating/dp/193...
and website: www.iphoneographycentral.com
FotoMuse iPhone app test with my LakeSide Sunset photo
iTunes Link: itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?i...
Apps Used:
Distressed FX
Mextures
FocalLab
Repix
iResize
Over
Backstory:
It starts with a not so new suitcase which shouts to me from a window display at the local vintage shop. I'm driving down Main Street. It's raining. I see it. I hear it. I want it. I circle back around the block, park the car, and make a dash for the door. Closed. What? How could this be? It's 10:30 am on a Friday. The locked door proves it is true. I slide over and take a closer look through the glass. It's the one. I dart back to the door and take a moment to read the store hours. Relief pours over me much like the rain. Friday 12-5pm. There is hope, smiling. I run errands and return precisely at noon. I'm in. The shop is charming. The clerk smiles. She knows. Her first sale of the day is imminent. I am sure of it. Surprisingly, a second suitcase peeks from under a musty pile of magazines and half a stack of silk scarves. This one needs me more than the shouting one. I have no choice. It happens. I leave with not one but two suitcases.
And this is how the creative process works for me. Moments after arriving home, I scramble to set up the tripod and connect the remote shutter to the iPhone. Click, click, and click. A storytelling image reveals proof that inspiration comes in all shapes, sizes, and more often than not when we least expect.
No one said it would be easy to reach redemption...
Five Points Park.
Chinatown, New York
Taken with a 3Gs iPhone using Hipstamatic app (John S + Float) and processed with CameraBag app.
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The morning after Thanksgiving Thursday, I had been googling for how to actually use the Stackables editing app. The interface and mechanism of using is so different from editing apps with which I was familiar.
Yes there are layers, and there is some rudimentary masking. But it was quite different looking from Snapseed which I've been using for a bit on and off.
Google is our friend of course and I found a blog in which the writer calls Stackables his favorite "grunge" app. By that, he means he uses it to add textures and colors in various layers.
This put it in perspective for me.
It's not like Snapseed where one can edit brightness, contrast, detail, etc.
But one can add in separate layers, textures and effects, and change blend modes from Normal to Overlay to Soft Light, basically all the blend modes one would see in Photoshop.
Getting a BFP (Big Freakin Phone), the iPhone 7 Plus, gives more screen real estate to see what one is doing. I don't have an iPad which would probably make more sense when using these apps.
This image started out being shot mid afternoon with the iphone, to catch the slanting light and barred shadows falling across the window and lamp (one of my favorite things in our house). This original image can be seen in the first comment box below.
The iphone's native aspect ration is 4:3 (I know, really?)
The image was opened in Snapseed and cropped to 3:2 which to my eye, suited the subject better. Because I would be adding "grunge," I figured I'd better make the image have less contrast. And Snapseed has great tools with which to accomplish this.
Each time I made changes, I'd export the altered image back to the iphone's gallery/albums. I'll talk about this more later.
Also in the first comment box below is the altered image from Snapseed that I imported into Stackables. It's been over a week now since working on this image, and the app was so new to me that I'm afraid I don't remember all the things that were done. Again after a significant change in the image's "look," I exported back to the gallery. Honestly, I do that more now that I've had more experience, but I did do it a few times that first day.
After adding various layers of tints and textures and playing with many different blend modes, it got pretty much to what we see here.
I've discovered that the AirDrop feature on my iPhone automatically notices my Mac computer. All I need to do is select which images I want to go to the computer, press the Share icon with which even fuddy duddies like me are now familiar, and send them via the AirDrop.
If I had been smart enough to save various iterations of travels through Snapseed and Stackables, once in the computer, I can open as many as I want as layers in one Photoshop document, do things with each layer, and mask and slide to my heart's content.
See, I told you there would be more later about the benefit of saving separate images as one goes.
But I really learned this after playing with this image.
It's been long enough that I couldn't remember what I had done in Ps with this image so opened it again.
It turns out all I had done in Ps was enhance contrast of mid tones using luminosity channels, and masking that effect from the center of the image, and adding a violet tint filter to provide contrast to the warmth of most of the tones, and masking so that only certain areas were influenced.
And there we have it. Since this image, I've been exporting from the editing apps after a significant change, so that eventually, quite a few different versions of each image are then imported back to the computer where they might be combined in Ps. This lends the ability to have a texture in one portion of an image, a green tone in another, a blue somewhere else, combining in ways that are more selective than what these phone and tablet apps can easily do.
What I think is pretty cool, is that some of these images I'm creating remind me of paintings I'd wanted to create decades ago when I thought I wanted to be an art major.
- hss!
Mountain Lake, nestled south of and below the summit of...
DeKalb County (Stonecrest ), Georgia, USA.
29 September 2023.
▶ More photos: here.
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📷 Photographer's notes:
👎 On 12 October 2023, the administrator for the Flickr group North Georgia Mountains rejected this image AND summarily banned me from the group.
— however —
🏆 On 2 October 2023, Flickr selected this image for inclusion in its daily Explore feature (229th of 500 chosen).
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Settings: 74 mm | 1/320 sec | ƒ/8.0 | ISO 400.
— Focus stack: 4 images.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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