{"id":2568,"date":"2010-03-18T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:30:08","slug":"iphone-camera-and-apps-equals-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/iphone-camera-and-apps-equals-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone camera and apps equals fun."},"content":{"rendered":"

It may come as a shock to some people, the fact that I am pumping up the tyres of the iPhone camera, given my previous rants and raves on other parts of the interwebs. But rest assured, this isn’t a flip flop that Mayor Quimby\u00a0 would be proud of. To me, the iPhone is the single best gadget I have ever owned. I love the gadget part of it. What it can’t do, with the help of the gazillion apps out there for it, is limited only by your imagination. But<\/span>, as a mobile (cell for our US and other over seas visitors) phone, it is bloody terrible. I wont go into that here, as I have said previously, I have had many a tanty in other forums.<\/p>\n

Onto the fun part. The camera and the amazing apps. At 3 megapixels, you aren’t going to be able to make a poster sized print out of the shots you take, but anything up to A4 will look pretty damned good. The selective auto focus is a great addition on the 3GS. But, what really makes it shine are all the apps at the iTunes App store. And there is a metric bucket load of them. Here are a few that I recommend.<\/p>\n

Photoshop.com Mobile (Free)<\/a> – Photoshop on the iPhone. It is pretty basic, but can get you out of trouble if you need to tweak exposure, saturation, contrast and many others. It also has a handy crop tool. A really great free app.<\/p>\n

Mobile Fotos (A$5.99)<\/a> – If you use Flickr and have an iPhone, this is virtually a must have. It will let you upload a photo, Geotag it, add it to groups and sets and loads more. Really worth the cost.<\/p>\n

Gorillacam (Free)<\/a> – This one is like the Swiss Army knife of camera apps. Bought to you by the people who make the Gorillapod flexible tripods.<\/p>\n

Morelomo (Free)<\/a> – If you love the Lomo look, go no further than this little app. Will take a digital imagine out of the iPhone and turn it into something from yesteryear.<\/p>\n

Polarize (free)<\/a> – Another retro type app. As the name suggests, this one turns the digital imagine into a Polaroid picture. Now shake it.<\/p>\n

PerfectlyClear (A$3.99)<\/a> – This one really surprised me. An auto correcting app, it does an amazing job on some of my photos. Sometimes, too amazing. Watch the over sharpening.<\/p>\n

TiltShift generator (A$1.19)<\/a> – No need for a tiltshift lens on the iPhone, this will do it for you. And it does a great job.<\/p>\n

And here are but a few examples of what some of these apps can do.<\/p>\n

\"32\/365\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"31\/365\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"25\/365\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"18\/365\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, if you have an iPhone and enjoy photography, you can certainly make some pretty snazzy images from the little pocket rocket, you just need to add steroids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may come as a shock to some people, the fact that I am pumping up the tyres of the iPhone camera, given my previous rants and raves on other parts of the interwebs. But rest assured, this isn’t a flip flop that Mayor Quimby\u00a0 would be proud of. To me, the iPhone is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,180,536,610,689,811,851,1108],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-camera","tag-iphone","tag-lomo-app","tag-morelomo-app","tag-perfectly-clear-app","tag-photoshop-app","tag-tiltshift-gen-app"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-Fq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}