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    Entries in iphone (30)

    Thursday
    31Dec2009

    A (late) recap on the first quarter of my Project 365

    DateThursday, December 31, 2009 at 3:22PM | in

    I started this project in mid September and I haven't posted much about it here. I decided it would be fun to take a photo a day with my iPhone and I've been doing it ever since. For some reason I started doing them in black & white and I just kept going, so it's looking like it'll consist entirely in black & white photographs.

    I'm taking, editing, and uploading all from the iPhone, which makes it easy and a lot of fun. Although I have to admit some days it's been difficult, especially when I've been locked in the office all day, drive home at night, and by the time I have time to think it's already late. Some days I've just posted whatever is in front of me at the time, but others I've been able to get great shots.

    Anyway, I just wanted to post this mostly to remind myself that I've been at it for over 3 months. It should be an interesting bunch of shots at the end of 1 year.

    If you're interested, I'm posting the daily photographs here and they're also in a flickr set.

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    Sunday
    13Dec2009

    Finally uploaded a series of iPhone photographs

    DateSunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:42PM | in

    I've been wanting to do this for a while but just hadn't gotten around to it. Today I just picked a few of my favourite iPhone photographs and created a new gallery on my site here.

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    Wednesday
    16Sep2009

    Project 365 - Day 1

    DateWednesday, September 16, 2009 at 9:31PM | in

     

    Today I decided to start a Project 365. I started a new blog using Posterous where I'll be posting a daily photograph taken and edited in my iPhone. I don't know exactly why I decided to do it, as nothing really happened to make me think about it or anything. I wanted to check out Posterous and for some reason thought this would be a good idea for it. I set it up to automatically post to my Flickr photostream and my Twitter account.

    I've read about this type of project from other sites in the past. I think the first was Photojojo a long time ago, it sounded interesting and I actually toyed with the idea of it for a while, but nothing really came of it. At the time I had a Sony Ericsson phone and it just wasn't as much fun as a camera. Now I love my iPhone and I'm a bit obsessed with using it for photography and have been posting my iPhone photographs regularly, so it's time to just go for it. Inspiration also came from Chase Jarvis, a commercial photographer that has a really interesting and inspirational blog and is an avid iPhone-photographer.

    The photo above is day 1. Today. I was at work and just grabbed this magnetic thing and shot it quickly to get something up. Not really good, but if I'm posting a photo a day for a year it's pretty much a given that some will be crap, which is actually kind of liberating.

    My Project 365 blog is here. We'll see where this goes.

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    Friday
    11Sep2009

    iPhone App Review - Spica

    DateFriday, September 11, 2009 at 12:10AM | in

    large-iconI only recently discovered Spica Super Monochrome and so far I'm loving it. Yes, it does only one thing, but it does it well. It turns your images into very high contrast black & white photographs. That's it. Yes, it's a one-trick-pony, but lately I very much favor apps that do one thing very well over those that try to cram a lot of functions into it and end up doing a mediocre job of all.

    Spica is so simple to use that there's not much to say about it. Just launch the app and either take a photo or pick one from your library and Spica will turn it into a high contrast black & white and save the new version back to your library at full resolution (at least on my iPhone 3GS). You won't get a prompt though, it'll automatically save the processed image.

    The results are usually really good, but of course it depends largely on the original image. Night shots and wet floors look particularly cool, while skin tones tend to look a bit on the darker side and don't seem natural. It's a matter of playing with it to see what works best. Spica also seems to add grain to the photograph, which I tend to like in black & white images.

    I have to give kudos to the developers of Spica Super Monochrome, as it does the 2 things every photography iPhone app should do:

    1. Saves at full resolution.
    2. Allows you to apply the effect to an existing image.

    As of today (13 Sep 09), the app is US$0.99 and at that price totally worth it.

    A few examples below, and more can be found in the developer's site here.

    iPhone photograph edited with Spica 1

    iPhone photograph edited with Spica 2iPhone photograph edited with Spica 3

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    Wednesday
    19Aug2009

    iPhone photos: Buddhist Centre

    DateWednesday, August 19, 2009 at 3:44PM | in

    I've been pretty busy lately and haven't had time to post anything to my blog. I've been working on a new design for my People of the Globe website (no link because I'm posting this from my iPhone, but link is on the top right).
    Anyway, I'll post here when it's finally finished. Meanwhile I wanted to get somehing out and I'm pretty happy with these shots. They're from a day trip to the Buddhist Centre in Wollongong, Australia. I think it's the biggest one in the southern hemisphere and it has many great photo opportunities. The photographs below we're taken with the iPhone using ShakeItPhoto.

      

      

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    Tuesday
    18Aug2009

    A gripe with some iPhone app developers

    DateTuesday, August 18, 2009 at 12:11AM | in

    iphone-photo-app-low-resolutionRegular readers will no doubt know that I enjoy taking photographs with my iPhone. I've reviewed and recommended a few apps that I use on a regular basis, and will continue to do so as I find new ones. You could even call it a bit of an obsession. I'm sure I've spent more money on photography apps than on any other, and I'm perfectly happy about that. The iPhone is a great toy, and as others that are also into iPhone photography say, it could very well be your best camera as it's the one that's always with you. Many of the apps are great and truly enhance what you can do with the little camera.

    However, I have a major complaint. Since the iPhone 3GS was released with a whooping 3 Megapixels, very few apps have been updated to save back edited photographs at full resolution. This, to me, is unacceptable. Yes, I know that extra megapixel doesn't mean much and more megapixels doesn't equal better quality, but still. Maybe it's just me, but I find it really frustrating to take a photograph at 2048x1536 (3GS full resolution) and then get it saved at 1600x1200 or lower once I apply an effect. I know editing photographs is memory intensive and can cause apps to crash, but if some developers have done it successfully there's no excuse. Developers need to keep up with technology and since it's been over 2 months since the iPhone 3GS was launched, I find myself no longer using apps that don't save at full resolution. I've been thinking of just deleting them from my iPhone as I have way too many anyway as it is.

    Let this post serve as a call to all developers of photography iPhone apps. Update your apps to take advantage of the full capabilities of the current iPhone or risk falling into oblivion.

    As I was writing this I just checked if there were any updates and I'm very happy to say that Photogene (one of my favourites) was updated yesterday to support the 3GS full resolution. So credit to the developers.

    UPDATE: Photo FX by Tiffen also saves at full iPhone 3GS resolution.

    UPDATE 2: Finally, after a very, very long time, CameraBag now saves at full res. I'm using it again quite often.

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    Wednesday
    12Aug2009

    iPhone photo: Snowboarding

    DateWednesday, August 12, 2009 at 8:44PM | in
    I went snowboarding this weekend for the first time. It was a lot of fun, although I fell way too many times and my entire body is sore. Definitely have to do it again soon. Hopefully this season. Anyway, this photo shows the newbie run I did in the back, a guy drinking Coronas in the snow (which it seems I was the only one who found that bizarre and amusing), and one if the friends I went with. For reference, I was the only Mexican surrounded by Australians and a couple of Brits, and Coronas are supposed to be had at the beach, or at least in sunny weather. In the snow, drink Heineken.

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