Category: Photography

Thanks to the readers comments and advice given in the iPhone 4 photos post I have started using some new photography applications in my iPhone. Until now the one that I like the most is Hipstamatic (it costs 1,99$), a very simple app that allows you to choose between several lenses and film rolls.

Lens selection screen.

Screen where you take photos.

Film roll selection screen.

The cross processing effect is quite cool if you don’t use it in excess. At the moment I am hooked to the app, so I use it in excess 😀 . One of the things that I still haven’t got the knack on is the framing, which is not accurately represented on the screen, although maybe that is part of the magic of simulating how old cameras worked. These are some of the pictures I’ve taken using Hipstamatic:

For many years I’ve been fighting the temptation to buy a smartphone, but I finally caved in to it and bought an iPhone 4. The main reason for resisting the temptation so much until now is because I am “afraid” of being permanently connected, I am afraid of losing the “freedom of not being connected”; including when I’m not at work or at home. To avoid this I’ve set up my own rules, for example: “not using Facebook from my iPhone”, and focusing only on using the iPhone mainly to “strengthen my hobbies”: taking photos and reading. Up until now the iPhone apps that I’ve used the most are: Camera, Email, Flickr, Photos, Photoshop Express, Runkeeper and Amazon Kindle.

Being able to take photos and retouch them instantly using Photoshop Express is awesome, even though they could have made it even better, Photoshop Express is quite limited. Let’s hope a Lightroom Express is made for the iPhone. The iPhone 4 camera has really impressed me, since I’ve had an iPhone I’ve not used my beloved Canon S90 much. Of course, it can’t compare to the quality of the S90 but it’s good enough for most of the pictures when I don’t feel like taking out my Nikon D90.

These are some of the best pictures that I’ve taken using my iPhone 4:

Any ideas, advice or recommended apps to take good photos using the iPhone? Until two days ago I didn’t know that just by touching the screen you could focus/calculate the light!

This is a selection of what I consider have been my best pictures of the year 2010. I think some of them are quite good, but I think I haven’t leveled up my skills too much in comparison to my best pictures in 2009. Maybe I have changed my style a bit, but I’m not quite sure.

The cameras that I have used the most have been my Nikon D90 with a Sigma 30mm F1.4 lens, and my new Canon S90.