iPhone camera apps

Camera App Try Out

Yesterday shooting from the patio window, into a well lit scene, gave a good opportunity to shoot some comparison images using my favoured camera apps on my iPhone 4.

Clicking on the images will open the original full size images, so you can check the actual quality of the shots.


iPhone 4 – Apple Camera App (iOS 5)

Without HDR

iPhone 4 - Apple Camera App (iOS 5) no HDR

With HDR

iPhone 4 - Apple Camera App (iOS 5) with HDR

Camera+

The exposure was taken from towards the top of the tress

Camera+ exposure taken from towards the tops of the trees

below – applying the Camera+ “Clarify” filter

Camera+ applying the built in "Clarify" filter

Pro HDR

Pro HDR

below – with a little more colour saturation

Pro HDR with a little more colour saturation added

6×6

And for something different, retro square shots

6x6 Mono

6x6 Colour

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Bank Holiday Walk

I had a short walk out east of Newark on Bank Holiday Tuesday – the light was just right as I passed through Stapleford Woods.

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The above image was taken with Camera+, but the original was very dark in the foreground. I then used the Camera+ “Clarify” function to lighten the foreground without losing the sun burst.

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All images made with my iPhone 4, including post processing and cropping.

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A Walk in the Woods

A short walk in the woods yesterday.

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I set out early and took some extra breakfast with me – and boiled water on my meths stove for tea, having found a convenient fallen tree, in a quiet clearing, to sit on.

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I had to stand over the sapling, below, to get the frame I wanted and from that position I could not hold the iPhone steady enough, so I used the “stabiliser” finction in the Camera+ app to get a sharp image.

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Lincoln City Centre Photographs

On Friday evening, I went into Lincoln city centre, with a couple of friends to shoot some photos of the Christmas lights and anything else of interest we came across. Between them they had a Sony SLR, and two Nikons – I took my iPhone.

One of the apps I wanted to try out was 6×6, a camera app that takes square images. I know you can crop any photo you take with an iPhone to a square but this app forces you to create your image inside a square, something that photographers used to do when using medium format cameras with 6cm by 6cm film frames. 6×6 also has a setting to take only mono photos (no second colour image saved) – it gives a similar experience to when I used to shoot black and white film.

Lincoln Minster

A number of the following shots were taken on Steep Hill – the best street in the UK.

Steep Hill Lincoln

Brown's Pie Shop

The Pie Shop used by Lawrence of Arabia.

Kind

And the rectangle shot for comparison.

Kind

Another camera app I used was Pro HDR, when the app takes two images to make the final shot, it takes some interesting ghost images.

The Magna Carta

Steep Hill Lincoln

Stonebow Lincoln

And in colour…

Stonebow Lincoln

High Street Lincoln

Shadows

Richard

By the Witham

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