Mobile Art Monday No. 28

Hipstamatic may be the best quick photo effect app there is in app-land. I often forget to use it. Sometimes I'll find a subject and a lens and filter combo that just work and then a take a million photos. That's what happened in the sunflower field last week. As a result I decided to do '31 days of Hipstamatic Sunflowers' on Instagram. I am sharing those on Facebook also.

Ok, I didn't take a million photos but I ended up with 357 shots on my phone, of which 259 were Hipsta shots. And that was just Monday. I went back on Wednesday and took more.

My first favorite combo I'll feature today is with Ina's 1982 film and the Tejas lens. It makes great blue skies and gorgeous sunflowers. Here are just a few.

On Wednesday I went prepared for some selfies but wasn't anticipating such high humidity. Oh well, I've had worse 'bad hair' days. Hipstamatic doesn't have a timer that I know of so when you use a remote you have about a half second to hide it.

 Here are a few bloopers.

This one makes me laugh!

And my gear for the day.

Have a great Monday!

App Happy Daffodils

It's App Happy Wednesday over at Barb's blog. Come join us and see what everyone's doing with there mobile apps this week!

It's spring here for sure so I've been shooting my daffodils. First two are unedited shots… (iPhone6+)

Since I discovered shooting this perspective of my house, I always try to get a shot when the daffys are blooming every year. This time it gets a Hipstamatic flair. Dream Canvas film and Tejas lens.

Stackables (with no texture). How about that! I can actually edit in Stackables and resist adding texture to my image.

Two in Waterlogue.

I hope you're finding a little spring in your life. We had about three days and now its rainy and dreary again. I'm going to 'hole up' in my studio and paint my blues away today!

App Happy Wednesday Aug 27

It's App Happy Wednesday it seems like everyday could be App Happy for me. I really must get back to a little Photoshop before I forget what I know.
But in the meantime we are h'APP'y!

This week I set up a little still life with a branch from my Pink Snowberry bush at work. This is the first year it has looked really good. I brought it home to Texas about three years ago from a nursery in South Dakota where my dad and step mom live. (In the back seat on our plane no less. It was a rather large container but I made room.) I'd never heard of one before and wasn't sure how it would do here in the heat. But it was planted on the east side of the building and I'm sure that helped. 

I took several close ups hoping to do a collage of nine, but some weren't good enough.

I used PictureFrames app to make the collage.

I opened it in Snapseed to make basic edits and get an over all lighter look. 

The background of the top right photo was a little dark compared to the rest so I also used the Selective Adjust to brighten just the background. 

I will probably do more edits on this later. 

Some of the singles were edited in various apps. 

Snapseed Retrolux Filter

Retrolux, then back into Drama.

Stackables, 8 layers, three of which were not texture layers. And five texture layers.

In this screen shot you can see some of my layers. I love how you can drag the layers to rearrange them. In layer 9 I desaturated and added contrast and adjusted the gamma a bit for a black and white version. You can also save your formula to try on another photo. (I sure wish Snapseed did this).

Of course I whipped out Hipstamatic and shot a few too.

Bette XL Lens, Dream Canvas Film

Tinto 1884 Lens, D-Type Plate Film

Tejas Lens, Ina's 1982 Film

Jimmy Lens, Kodot Grizzled Film

Ray Mark II Lens, Blanko 일 Film 

This is a real favorite of mine. It gives an antique feel complete with texture.

Lowy Lens, Robusta Film

Sometimes it's just hard to know when to stop...

Join us over at Keeping With The Times for more mobile edits.

Hipsta Sunflowers

I found the best field of sunflowers with my Hipstamatic App.

I love using Hipstamatic. I have more lenses and film than I know what to do with. I bought some new packs a couple weeks ago and still haven't figured out all the combinations but I have saved a new favorite. Lowy lens and Robusta film. great color, sharpness and a little grunge.

Dream Canvas is certainly a favorite film. Here I've paired it with the Tejas lens on the next three.

The same flowers with Dream Canvas and the Bettie XL lens.

Ray Mark II lens and the Blanko 일 film.

And back to the first, Lowy and Robusta.

Another shot in the house with Ray MarkII with Blanko 일 film. Notice the texture is going sideways and the photo 2 back is up and down. I'll bet I had my camera turned sideways for one of them. Sometimes the dream canvas will change if you change the orientation of your camera also. Sometimes this works and sometimes I can't get it to.

You can save favorite combinations by… 

going to your Hipsta Gallery, 

double tap on the photo so it will flip and show you the info on the back side. 

Tap the lower center icon (camera),

You can now add it as A New Favorite Setting,

or tap Match Settings to take a photo right now using the same film and lens. I think the match settings is pretty cool. I use that a lot now.

Do you use the Hipstamatic app on your phone?

Linking up with Friday Finds…a little early.

Hipsta Peonies

Once in awhile I am reminded to use the great Hipstagram app on my phone. I have a few favorite combinations saved, so it makes it easy if I know the look I'm going for. Sometimes its a surprise.
I was glad I remembered to shoot some of my peonies with the Hipstamatic Camera as I played with set ups this past week. I really like the way they turned out.
It all started with this shot…

Bette XL lens and Dream Canvas film. This is my most favorite combination for a soft pastel look.

Bette XL lens and Dream Canvas film. A different perspective.

Bette XL lens and Ina's 1982 film, (bright)

Tejas lens and Dream Canvas film. The Tejas lens is another favorite with nearly any film.

Bette XL lens and Dream Canvas film. If you rotate your 'camera' to shoot the light leaks and borders will be in a different orientation. You'll just need to rotate your photo afterwards.

Bette XL lens and Dream Canvas film. Notice how different these last two look with the same lens and film. The lighting was different too and I believe that made a difference.

Tejas lens and Dream Canvas film. Rhonna Designs word art.

Melodie lens and Ina's 1982 film.

Tejas lens and Kodot XGrizzled film. I love the skinny grungy white edge of this XGrizzled film.
The peonies are nearing their finale but I'll have lots of proof they were here.