Top 10 Best Free iPhone Photography Apps

by admin

From: http://www.voiceable.org/

Apple’s iPhone 4 has been dominating Flickr for a while now. Indeed, this signifies that the device is used by millions to take photographs with. So, in light of this, we’ve made a list of the top 10 best iPhone photography apps.

10. Camera Zoom 2

Camera Zoom 2 allows users to zoom in and out upon taking images in real-time via a simple slider feature. Other notable features include:

• Tap anywhere to take pictures
• Anti-shake
• 1~30 seconds timer
• Up to 5x digital zoom
• Tap to focus
• Double-tap to expose
• Auto-adjusts photo to best quality
• Camera roll preview

9. Perfect Photo

Perfect Photo is… well, perfect for beginners who want to take pictures via simplistic interface. Other features for this application include:

• 28 editing tools & effects to improve one’s pictures
• RED EYE removal and SPOT healing tools
• Retina support
• Save pictures to a designated Photo Album
• Share pictures via Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr and E-mail
• Print Pictures directly from Perfect Photo

8. CameraBag

CameraBag will let users enhance their photos using several classic camera and film simulations. Some of the camera styles include are:

• Helga – Square-format toy camera with washed-out highlights and old-school vignetting
• Colorcross – Hazy, chemical color-swapping straight from the darkroom
• Instant – No need to shake this instant-developing film
• Magazine – Rich tones for glossy pages
• 1974 – Your father’s camera: faded, tinted, and hip
• Lolo – Shoot from the hip and take life as it comes with vibrant, colorful shots

7. PhotoForge

PhotoForge is a photographer’s dream application. It allows users to enhance their images via powerful tools. Additionally, PhotoForge lets users manipulate images, retouching them, effects, and color correction, a painter’s tool and much more. If you’re looking to create original artwork, or just editing photos on your iPhone, then you can’t beat PhotoForge’s quality. Its key features include:

• Load photos from your camera and your photo albums
• Start painting from a blank canvas
• Edit in portrait or landscape mode
• Hide the toolbars in full screen mode
• Resume previous sessions if interrupted
• Unlimited undo and redo options allow you to revert your editing mistakes
• Users can also save to 4 different output sizes; 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1600×1200

6. MonoPhix

This photography application for the iPhone gives vintage black & white package that gives users the opportunity to have ultimate control over the intensity within images. Some of its notable features include:

• Intuitive wooden interface
• Direct preview of your changes
• Two sliders allowing you to set the intensity of dark and light tones separately
• Users can custom color your monochrome picture to any desire color

5. Photogene

This app is all about editing your photos stored on the iPhone, whilst maintaining an enjoyable way to do it. Features of Photogene include:

• Crop and straighten
• Sharpen
• Full set of color adjustments (including levels)
• Correct underexposed photos and add a spark to washed-out ones
• Apply one of our artistic filters such as sepia or posterize
• Add text bubbles of different styles, colors and fonts
• Add frames in various shapes and colors, including shadows and glows

4. Camera Plus

Camera Plus is primarily for users who, upon take images, want to edit it on the fly. This app grants jut that, with its notable features including:

• Automatic saving of your photos and videos for uninterrupted capture
• Best digital camera zoom in real-time up to 5x on your iPhone 4
• Use of the dual cameras for both photos and videos
• Makes use of the flash on your iPhone 4 to take better quality pictures
• Anti-Shake

3. Photo FX

Photo FX features a slew of editing options, including 76 filters which contains 878 presets, that are then organized into 8 different filter groups. Other features are:

• Choose from 76 filters organized into 8 different filter groups
• Select from a total of 878 presets
• Try one of the 62 different color or black and white film looks
• Add realistic diffusion to photos using a library of 50 interesting textures
• Create natural lighting effects using 117 different patterns
• Choose from 27 grain presets to simulate popular motion picture film stocks

2. Comic Touch

Not in the mood to edit photos in a serious manner; rather, looking for an app which does the exact opposite? Comic Touch allows users to, for example, add balloons to give your photos a bit of creativity. Other features include:

• Add captions to describe the scene or give the photo a title
• Use the PhotoBooth-style warping effects to add some fun
• Turn people into caricatures of themselves or give them bizarre expressions

1. Adobe Photoshop Express

When it comes to Adobe, ultimately the company delivers quality. On the PC, they give users quality image editing and photography programs in the form of Adobe Photoshop and they’ve managed to create a polished port onto the iPhone. Some of its notable features are:

• Crop, Straighten, Rotate, and Flip
• Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black and White, and Contrast
• Effects include vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, and Soft Black and White
• Filters include Sketch, Soft Focus, and Sharpen

20 Shockingly Great iPhone Photographs

By Justin
From http://itthing.com/

The iPhone is now officially the most-used camera in the world, according to Flickr, and it’s camera gets better in every version. Entire subcultures of “iPhoneographers” have formed, and now there are people who shoot professional-quality images with their iPhones, and those who are obsessed with vintage photography who use the popular Hipstamatic and Instagram apps. There are now even iPhone-only photography competitions and clubs!

Here are fantastic iPhone photos to get your mind going about all the crazy things that are possible when you focus on the art, not on the equipment. (credit appears below photos)




By ZeHak





By Justin Lowery



By Sarah

By Greg Schmigel

By Ian Bramham

By Catastrophic Plan on Flickr

By D. Ingraham

By Doctor Popular on Flickr

By Marianne S. on Flickr

By Joshua Ewing on Flickr

By Ryan Tastad
All of these photographers have managed to utilize the great photography apps on the iPhone, paired with it’s always-present nature, to make great images. It’s so true that, as they say, “The best camera is the one you have with you.”

Meanwhile in Norway

From: http://i.imgur.com/

Now Even You Can Be An Expert DSLR Photographer

by Dylan Schenker

from http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/

So you’ve finally decided to pony up the money and make the transition from your trusty point-and-shoot to a shiny new DSLR. Sure, those point-and-shoot photos look fine on Facebook, but if you’re going to make the transition to Flickr, you’ll want something with a little bit more versatility. Of course, DSLRs have automatic settings too, but hey, you spent all this money on a fancy camera, might as well learn to use the damn thing. But here’s the kicker, now you’ve got to contend with figuring out how to set the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focus exactly right to get the optimal picture. It can be confusing enough to make the most confident snapper cower away to the automatic settings (not that we’ve ever been there or anything…).

A new website called CameraSim, however, seeks to quell those concerns with a simulated guide to shooting photos with a DSLR. The simple interface offers a viewfinder that mimics that of a typical camera, with the portrait of a young girl in a park holding a spinning pinwheel. The portrait includes a lot of bright colors that would be perfect for a vibrant photograph. The simple settings let the user play around with the lighting, distance, focal length and of course the ISO, aperture and shutter speed. By divesting the settings from the case of the camera, it lets users more comfortably toy with them while getting a larger representation of what the photo would look like after it’s been snapped. It defaults to shutter priority and also allows for aperture priority and manual, letting novices ween themselves from the automatic settings one frame at a time.

The website also includes a guide to each of the important settings and clearly defines them, making it accessible for photographers of any level.

Have you ever seen a photo move? Artists develop amazing cinemagraphs that take 'stills' to the next level

By Daniel Bates

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

It is, in their own words, ‘something more than a photo but less than a video’.

Two artists have created a new way to to record your special moments - pictures with movement.

The ‘cinemagraphs’ look like still photos but actually feature a subtle area of movement designed to grab your eye and keep you looking. The effect is slightly eerie - but utterly captivating.

Hair-raising: Cinemagraphs may look like stills, but they feature a subtle area of movement designed to grab your eye. These animated photos are the work of Jamie Beck (pictured) and her fellow artist Kevin Burg

Turning a page: The cinemagraphs work by using GIFs, a type of picture format similar to a JPEG which has been around since the invention of home computers but has come into its own with broadband internet

In one shot of a crowded square, bodies are frozen in time, but one man quietly turns the pages of his newspaper.

Another photo of a restaurant terrace is brought to life by the reflection of a taxi going past in the window.

And a picture of photographer Jamie Beck, one of the two behind the project, leaps off the screen when her hair starts to blow in a breeze.

Miss Beck has worked with motion graphics artist Kevin Burg to make the cinemagraphs by using GIFs, a type of picture format similar to a JPEG which has been around since the invention of home computers.

Only now with broadband internet are they bringing it to life with a startling effect.

‘Our cinemagraphs are a way of adding motion to a still image,’ Miss Beck said.

Not as simple as they look: The more complex animated photos take the artists an entire day to pull together

In most cases she shoots the photos and Mr Burg adds on motion-graphics over several hours of painstaking editing.

The more complex ones take an entire day to pull together.

New York-based Miss Beck told The Atlantic magazine: ‘There's something magical about a still photograph - a captured moment in time - that can simultaneously exist outside the fraction of a second the shutter captures.

‘We feel there are many exciting applications for this type of moving image.

‘There's movement in everything and by capturing that plus the great things about a still photograph you get to experience what a video has to offer without the time commitment a video requires.’

She added that sharing websites such as Tumblr have been essential for helping them publish their work and getting them an audience.

To see more of the artists' cinemagraphs look here: http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/gif

Eerie effect: Cinemagraphs are calming to watch as only one area moves - and they are silent

5 Things Girls Do To Look Better In Facebook Pictures

From: http://blog.rounds.com/

Remember the days of AOL chat rooms, when you could pretend to be anyone at all and no one would ever know? Nowadays it’s hard to hide your real identity, what with Facebook and all. So what’s an ugly girl to do to ensure that people won’t run screaming from her profile?

Here’s a list of the 5 best tips, tricks and cheats that ugly girls use to make themselves look somewhat normal in their facebook pictures:

1. Only Show Your Face

Ever heard the term Butterface? Everything looks good…but her face. Well, occasionally, the opposite can occur and when it does it’s not pretty. Actually, the face is pretty…

which is why they hide their flabby fannies:

2. Showcase Your Special Talent

…so that no one has to see your hideously deformed face. Um, is she twirling that baton with her crotch? See, I am no longer even remotely curious about what her face looks like. I do wonder how she trained her ass to eat that leotard, though.

3. Dim The Lights

Sure, when you can’t see the horrible acne scars, moldy teeth, and greasy unwashed hair they look great.

…but it’s a whole different story in day light.

4. Work That “Myspace Angle”

See, all the photography-savvy girls know that a good angle will hide practically any flaw. Which is why when you see a hottie in a picture like this…

She actually looks like this….

Sorry to burst that bubble.

5. Get Creative

Occasionally, you get a girl so atrocious that none of these other tricks work. That’s where the real creativity comes in…

Have you been fooled by one of these tricks? Share your story!

25 Examples of Breathtaking Nature Photography

smashinghub.com — This collection included the scenes on this earth, sunset, places etc. Photographer has given the examples of beauty of this earth and they purely focus on the nature beauty. —

Click here for these fabulous Photos: http://smashinghub.com/

Unbelievable and Outstanding Photos of Li Wei

From: http://smashinghub.com/

Li Wei is an outstanding artist from Beijing China. His gravity defying photos have been attention-grabbing the world, capturing impossible looking moments of apparent extreme danger. You will find each photo hanging on in dangerous situation. He has done this unbelievable and impossible scaffolding with Photoshop to create photos.
Here's a collection of some of Wei's most outstanding photos.