iPhone photography & Photo Apps

I’ve been having a lot of fun shooting pics with my iphone & then tweaking them & sharing them on Instagram, Flickr & Facebook; the apps available today allow you to have a lot of fun with the camera on your iphone &  really makes your iphone “the best camera”  - in my opinion, the “best camera” is the camera you have on you at the time you need to capture that special moment, & my iphone is ALWAYS on me.  (I am writing this blog entry & uploading pics using my iPhone !)

Lets have a look at some of the photography apps I have on my iphone:

My favorite app to shoot & edit with is Camera+.  This camera app has the ability to separate the focus & metering, which comes in handy sometimes.  It also has a bunch of filters that can easily enhance your pics, JBS calls this the “handsome app”

Here is an evening shot I ran through the polarize & clarity filters on Camera+

Other apps worth mentioning are Pro HDR,  Diptic & Autostitch

If you are using iphone4, the built in camera app has HDR, “ High Dynamic Range“, which basically takes 2 photos at different exposure levels & blends them together, so you get the whole “dynamic range” of light in your photo.  Pro HDR is a step up from the built in iphone camera app & you can fine tune the effects to your liking.

Here is a pic of a sunset shot using Pro HDR (2 shots blended) & then run through Camera+’s polarize filter.  Nice huh?

Now, Diptic is a fun app, if you ever wondering how you can make a mini collage of pics, diptic is what I use to make pics like this:

Diptic is A LOT OF FUN.

Here is another example of Camera+ ‘s XPRO C-41 filter, a shot I took on the train from Guangzhou last week; first, without the filter:

Now with the  filter:

WOWS!!

Another app that I must mention here is Autostitch Panorama.

This app can stitch together a few pics & create fantastic panorama shots, the above shot was taken on a flight recently, 6 photos stitched together.

Other apps like Filterstorm, offers more tools to edit your photos, almost like photoshop.

With all these photo apps available for your iphone / ipad, you can have a lot of fun using them together to make creative pics & tell a story…

Check out my Flickr / instagram photostream & let me know what you think.  I’d also like to know how you shoot & tweak your pics on your iphone, drop me a comment & let me know!

Happy shooting!