iPhone camera apps

iPhoneography

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Taking photographs with your iPhone.

I use my iPhone extensively as a digital camera, at work where it grabs screens shots, copies documents and records jobs,

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and when walking and backpacking where is saves weight compared to a digital camera. It is the camera in my pocket for every occasion.

I have a selection of camera and imaging apps installed which add to the creativity of the iPhone camera these include.

  • Pro HDR
  • Camera+
  • Pano
  • 6X6
  • Photogene²

but I still regularly use the iPhone camera app, which makes a great point and shoot camera with HDR. (You can search the iTunes App store for any of the above.)

When Googling iPhone photography I came across this site and blog, iPhoneography, which has some great articles, app reviews and outragous iPhone accessories. It is worth following if you are interested in iPhone photography.

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Photogene2

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I used to take a lot of black and white photos, on film, using a manual camera (a Nikon FM2) which I then processed and printed myself. It was great fun and I could produce some interesting and satisfying results. I thought it might be interesting to produce some mono images on my iPhone. I have tried the B&W effects available in the Camera+ app but thought it could be better and then I came across Photogene² as a featured app on the iTunes store and decided to try it out.

Photogene² is primarily an image processing app for the iPhone with many options including a fully featured black and white section. The interface is exceptionally good with controls that expand, become semi-transparent or disappear as you edit your image making it very easy to manipulate the effect you want. I particularly liked the contrast and exposure effect on the mono image to make the photo look like it had been printed on hard, high contrast, grade 5 paper – a result I was keen to produce.

Below is the first image I have made using the app (if I forget about the others I just experimented with).

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The original image was made using Pro HDR – below is the starting image, with the colour saturation tweaked up a bit in the app, before saving.

Another feature of Photogene² is that it has a Black and White camera function, which displays in black and white as you frame the shot, to which you can add filters in real-time – I am looking forward to trying that out on some landscapes next time I go walking.

It looks like this is a good addition to my growing collections of camera and imaging apps on my iPhone digital camera.

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Things I like about iOS 5

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Following the issues of actually installing iOS 5 onto my iPhone 4 the upgrade has added extra functionality to the phone. The highlights for me are:

  • wireless syncing over our network to iTunes on my laptop
  • iCloud to back up my photograph to my laptop
  • I like the “draw down” notifications screen
  • the new Reminders app is useful particularly when using the notifications screen
  • formatting in email

    • I am off to Cornwall next week for a few days walking and camping so I will try out the upgraded Camera app then and comment on it once I have seen some results.

    Things against iOS 5

  • the Newstand is a non-starter for me
  • has it slowed down the typing speed?

    • Should you upgrade – yes – but look back at my post a out my upgrade experience before you do it – iOS 5 problems.

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    West Highland Way – The Train Back to Glasgow

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    Due to the Nevis Range being in the way the way back to Glasgow, by train, from Fort William requires us to go north to Spean Bridge and Tulloch first – a big detour. Hopefully the rain will clear from the windows so we can see the views.

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    in the station

    More wet blurry photos to come!

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    the stations are quite high on this line

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    lunch – venison pie and tea

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    the West Highland Way from the moving train – near Tyndrum

    We are now in a coffee bar, in Glasgow. Richard is hallucinating that the waitress looks like “Penny”. Time to go home.

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    West Highland Way Day 7 – Kinlochlen to Fort William

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    The day started with what is probably the best breakfast of the trip, it included fresh bread, scones, smoked salmon and a large selection of berries and fresh fruit. Richard’s West Highland cooked breakfast could barely fit on the plate.

    Having dropped down into Kinlochleven yesterday we had to climb back out this morning through the forest to the old military road.

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    above and below the Ben Nevis range

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    We were slower today than we had planned – so we got to Fort William too late to pass the “official finish line” and take photos. So we will finish this walk tomorrow.

    But we did pass the “old finish line”!

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