1 Photo 30 Apps Number Five

Lo-Mob is a great little app that has wonderful Emulsions, Polaroids, Slides, and 6x6 Vintage edits. 

Lo-Mob. AE TTV Print











And one more for good measure.
'60s Square Emulsion

The original:

Friday Finds 7-26

I had a bit of a break from cyber space this week. It actually felt good. Last night I was thinking that I haven't been very present in the 'real' world for awhile and need to do some re-evaluating. (We'll see how long that lasts.)
My Friday find this week is two-fold. Linking up with Kim's Friday Finds.
#1. The Olloclip App. I've had an Olloclip for a quite awhile and use it periodically, mostly for macro shots. It's slid over the camera lens on your phone and is able to do fisheye and wide angle also. The great thing about shooting through the app is that the macro has a loupe view that zooms in a bit closer. Mind you, you are already nearly touching what you are shooting. After the shot you have the choice to adjust your photo, like stretch out a fisheye, etc.
#2. The Olloclip camera case. (I ordered mine from B&H.) It came in the mail this week. LOVE it. It is nice and sleek, almost like not having a case, so I make sure I have a good grip on it while pulling it from my pocket. (Dropped my phone on the concrete this spring and to replace the glass on a 5 is close to $300. Give me a break!) It has a flip corner that opens so you can slide on the Olloclip without removing the case. Be sure to check out how it clicks the shutter too. Pretty snazzy.
Here are shots from this morning, unedited.

Fisheye..

Same photo 'adjusted'

Insta pics of the Week 7-21

Instagram pics this week.
I learned how to use masking and brushes in iColorama this week. Which is what I did to the first 2 photos. Photoshop, I'm beginning to think I may not need you near as much as I thought.
My so-called 'original' was edited in Snapseed and a retrolux filter applied. Great for making wrinkles disappear.



You can guess this was done with the same original as the previous. I love to 'paint back in' after erasing in Repix. Then I did another image with edges in iColorama and blended them both in Blender. Perhaps a tutorial is in order.


I added 3 different 'lights' in Lenslight.
Such fun to play and play and play.

1 Photo 30 Apps Number Four

Using one photo, I'll edit it 30 times using different apps. By the time I get to the 30th I may be changing the title to 50 Apps.

Today's featured app is Modern Photo Editor Jr. by Jeffery Sun. It's a free app, at least at this time and easy to use.  

Diaz filter

Vibrancy +13 

Gamma -18

Sharpness 55

Brightness 21%

Vignette 25%

Original Photo

Check out the previous apps on the 1 Photo 30 Apps Tab.

Insta Pics of the Week

Some of my favorite iPhone shots this week. You can follow me on Instagram if you wish. Some time I'll have mine set to private because of spammers. If you find that when you visit, just ask, I'll add you as a follower. I try to post which apps I've used in the hashtags. If I don't, I won't remember later...
And... lately I've started using BluxPro camera to shoot with and really like it. I'll save that for later. I only used it on one of these shots however.
We are celebrating our 17th anniversary today and taking a mini trip to the big city of Amarillo. We'll get to see our best friends. Yeah!
Everyone, have a blessed Sunday...

1 Photo 30 Apps Number Three

The third in a series of iPhone edits. I'll be using the same photo and will process it in a different app each time.
Pic Grunger

Pic Grunger is the app of the day. 

Strength, 65%. 

Effect, Scratched

Style, Block Party

Border, On

Texture, Canvas

Original 

1 Photo 30 Apps Number Two

App number two in this series is Photo fx Ultra.
It really does offer a lot. And it should for $4.99. It's by Tiffen. It's their iPad version of the DFX Software. After revisiting this long forgotten app I plan to use it much more.

The original.

I went for the Special Effects Tab first, lower far right, and picked Color Infrared with these settings.

 You must click the top right 'save' icon to add additional effects. (Ususally that's where you go to save to your camera roll, but it also gives the option of adding effects. Again in the Special Effects but this time Pencil with these settings to show some color through.

Now choosing B/W Looks > Newspaper Old

Now switch to the Diffusion tab > High Contrast. And I'm happy.

UFOs

How about something pretty before I start on this?

Lightly edited in Lightroom. (lightened the shadows) Taken with iPhone5 HDR setting. 
I decided to clean out the notes on my phone today. (I also need to clean out my email and my closet.) the only reason I even started to do this was because the microphone all of a sudden was greyed out so I couldn't speak my notes in. (If you haven't tried this it's soooo awesome, speak your texts and anything else that has keyboard access. hmmm I need to see if this works on Instagram)
I found notes from 2009.  I guess that's when I got my first iPhone. I found a To Do list for August 20, 2009 and guess what? It may as well be today's date. 

TO DO

Phone case

Cream (let's just say this is hormone cream)

Bug spray. House. Yard 

Fertilizer Sutherlands  

Fertilize flowers  

Prime and touch up paint at work

Guess I won't delete this, just add it to the most current To Do list. 

Speaking of notes...

Early last year I had this bright idea. I went around to every room in the house and made a list of UFOs for each room on sticky notes and stuck them to the door frames. I was surprised that I had only 4-5 in each room. What is a UFO you ask? Why, an UnFinishedObject. I first learned about these in my quilting days. A project would get started and then end up in a box to be completed later, sometimes by the next generation. I acquired a lot of these over the years. I seldom sew these days but they are all labeled and stored in the closet.

(Snapseed edit)

Back to the sticky notes.

I could swear I took a photo of them because I planned on a blog post, but I've searched Lightroom to no avail. Also thought I had saved them, (I'm sure I did, but only found one still stuck to a large framed painting of poppies leaning behind a chair in the bedroom. The good news for the bedroom is that only one thing on the list gets carried over to this year. (the painting, but I've added painting the frame to the list.)

(Snapseed edit)

So I've redone my list of UFOs and mostly what's on the list is redoing wall decor and some new shutters or blinds.

I seem to have a hard time staying focused as the years go by. So I'll just add another class to my list to take in July. What is wrong with me?!?!?!?

Can I have the month off?

1 Photo 30 Apps Number One

The first in a series of iPhone edits. I'll be using the same photo and will process it in a different app each time.

First up, PicFX.

 This is one of my favorite apps. It has a ton of filters, from classics to bokeh and light leaks. They can all be rotated and the opacity lowered. You must click the Add Layer icon to stack effects.
The recipe is:
Vintage>Faded
Grunge>White Grunge rotated twice 60%
Black Grunge 60%
Urban>Lomo+ 40%
Original photo:

Friday Finds in ND

We took a last minute trip across the country to visit relatives in NDak. My aunt has collected a few hundred of this type of vase and has groupings by color around her house. And mentioned there were more in the basement... Oh my what a treasure. She sent a yellow home with me. 

There were very cool cigar boxes on a shelf.

And outside she had two of these awesome chairs.

Edits done in Vintique and Snapseed.

Trying to blog from the iPad this week and link up to Kim's Friday Finds. Not sure about linking on this so just go to kimklassen.com.

Is it a Photo or a Painting?

I have a new favorite app. Repix.
I have a deep love for texture-y painterly funky photos and this app makes it possible. This is what I've done the past 3 days.

My first attempt after watching Geri's tutorial here at the end of her interview with the maker of Repix, Ilkka If you like this type of editing you'll want to spring for the in app purchase of the master collection for $4.99. If you buy them onesie twosie it amounts to $11. It was soooo worth it to me. My DIL wants this on a canvas for her wall. that was worth the $5 alone. (Taken with my Canon 7D)

Second try: I found a photo of my hubby taking a photo of me taking a photo of him taking a photo of me.

This was too much fun! I had to find some more portrait pics. Fortunately I had imported my last photo shoot of Hallie to the iPad a few days ago so I found another I thought would work. (Canon 7D)

And a selfie I took at the Arboretum amongst the poppies and larkspur.

Tonight however, I went a step further. (iPhone)

Here is my before.

This is my first edit in Repix.

Hmmmmm, I decided to open it in Snapseed and play a bit with the Tuning adjustment. 

The results:

It perked it up quite nicely, but that wasn't enough for me. 

I wanted to try a Drama setting. The result:

I liked how this brightened up her face. 

But wait there's more. Retrolux: (without a light leak)

Then I reloaded the drama version and tried out a Grunge setting with the texture turned down:

It's hard to say which version is my favorite. I love them all. Now to try it out on some flowers.

Peony Beginnings

I love their tight little buds. Seems the insects do too. As a child, ours always had ants crawling all over them.

 iPhone shot with an Olloclip, Snapseed edit

Apps: Wood Camera, PictureFrames, and the Earlybird filter on Instagram.

Studio Makeover

One of the things on my To Do List for this year was to revamp what was originally my sewing room. I discovered a cool way to do before and after photos of rooms was to do a camera phone panorama. (We'll get into details later in this post, but I did use Photosynth on these.)

A. My green wall was full of faux finish experiments from 11 years ago including joint compound swiped over stencils. Time for white.
B. My bubble gum pink corner was a reading nook that I decided to turn into small photo shoot area. Time for white and new curtains. Used the trim to finish out around the rest of the ceiling. (Which doesn't show on the photo.)
C. Made a dream board (which is much fuller now). I hot glued upholstery-weight fabric to insulation board. Then attached industrial strength velcro to it and the closet door.
D. Hung 2 new shelves. The lower one holding some art supplies because the table gets sooooo cluttered.
E. Finally hung some of my photos and art on the walls.
F. General clean up and organization.
G. I still hope to recover the lamp shade and get rid of or switch out the chair to a smaller one.
For several weeks it stayed nice and clean. That was because I would just go in and look and go, ahhhhh..... Now it's a mess again. Perhaps today I will clean it a bit and get back to some messing in some paint.

Panoramas

As I said these were taken with Photosynth. The disadvantage with it as you can see is that they need cropping. That can also BE an advantage depending on your needs. Also I was able to nearly get a 360º circles worth. Here's an interesting article on Photosynth.

In the native iPhone camera app, it crops for you automatically. It also flashes move up or move down if it senses you're getting off track. Very nice feature. 

Last week we were able to fly our Bonanza to the the Texas coast and had the most amazing clouds to fly through. I hadn't thought of doing panoramas in the 'air' before. Quite addicting if the clouds are awesome.

It does have a little glare that I could take out in photoshop if I feel ambitious enough. But I just discovered this gem that I will be ordering today. A polarizing filter for my iPhone from Photojojo.

Perhaps I'll take some panos of every room in the house, just for recording sake. Perhaps a scrapbook page. hmmmm.