A Few Essential iPhone Photography Apps

There are lots of apps that can be used to make images.  Here are a few I have been playing with lately.

Made with iPhone, processed with FX PhotoStudio app.

Made with TtV camera app, Argus02

Made with iPhone Camera, processed with Instagram app.

Made with Hipstamatic App.

Made with Hipstamatic App.

Made with Nikon D80, processed with Lo-Mob app.

Made with iPhone, processed with TtV app, Brownie01.

Made with TtV Camera app, Rolleiflex02

Made with iPhone Camera and processed with PictureShow app.

Made with iPhone Camera and processed with  Instagram app.

Made with TtV Camera App, Minolta Filter.

Made with Nikon D300  & processed with Instagram App

Losing Oneself: Past the End of the Road

What does it mean to wander? To get lost? To get found? To live deliberately in both states: lost and found? In Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost she tells us:

"Movies are made out of darkness as well as light; it is the surpassingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that make it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without that darkness, there would only be a blur." (p. 175).

This seems an apt metaphor for what it means to wander without purpose and purposefully; to do so with certain aim and without conscious thought. Along the continuum of light and dark we stand ready to not know, to unlearn, to dream in darkness.

Once at Grand Central (Manhattan, 2010)

"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city--as one loses oneself in a forest-- that calls for quite a different schooling." - Walter Benjamin

To Lose Oneself in a City (Wall Street, NYC. 2010)

The Familiar Falling Away (Ringwood, NJ 2010)

"Lost really has two disparate meanings: Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing" (p. 22, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit).

The Unfamiliar Appearing (Ringwood, NJ, 2010)

The Space Between (Yuma, California, 2010)

"Once I loved a man who was a lot like the desert, and before that I loved the desert. It wasn't particular things but the space between them, that abundance of absence, that is the desert's invitation" (p. 129, A Field Guide To Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit).

Out in the Desert (Yuma, California, 2010)

Terrible Things Happened in that House (South Dakota, 2010)

"In dreams nothing is lost. Childhood homes, the dead, lost toys all appear with a vividness your waking mind could not achieve. Nothing is lost but yourself, wanderer in a terrain where even the most familiar places aren't quite themselves and open onto the impossible" (p.182, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit).

Flâneur (Warwick, NY 2010)

Exploring Photography Apps: A Few Examples

In this post I want to highlight a few photography apps that I have been playing with:

• Wordfoto App
• 100Cameras App
• Hipstamatic App
• uSketch App
• PhotoTropedelic Ap
• CameraBag App
• Lo-Mod App

Most of the images I altered were ones that I originally made using a Nikon camera (D80 and D300).  I then altered the images using apps.  The only exception are images tagged Hipstamtic App.  These images were taken using an iPhone and the Hipstamatic App.  This app changes the iPhone into a plastic camera.

I would recommend all of these apps.

"Interior"(2011). Taken with iPhone using the Hipstamtic App.

"Kara" (2011). Altered using the Lo-Mob App.

"Lane" (2011).  Altered using the Lo-Mob App.

"In the Moment" (2010). Altered using Lo-Mob App.

"Finding Eden" (2011).  Altered using Lo-Mob App.

"Homeless in New York" (2009). Altered using uSketch App

"The Proposal" (2010). Altered using 100Cameras App.

"The Proposal" (2010). Altered using PhotoTropedelic App.

"The Constancy of Waves" (2010). Altered using 100Cameras App.

"Mark" (2011). Altered using Lo-Mob App.

At the Beach (2009). Altered using CameraBag App.

Harry Teaching (2010).  Image altered with WordFoto App

Reservoir II (2011). Taken with iPhone using the Hipstamtic App.

This is an animoto film I made using the images made during the last few days.