Lost Phone...and some of my final shots from it...

ClassicPan~capture:Processing~ ImageBlender, PicGrunger

Judging by my past post a month ago, seems I am only getting to update my iPhone blog monthly. These are a few images I have made over the last couple weeks, BEFORE I LOST MY iPhone...yes that's right, I lost it last Thursday, and now have the iP5 on order, but I can tell you being without it is interesting. I feel as if I have gone back in time! So now I am waiting patiently for my new one to arrive. Until then no iPhone pics from me. I am still teaching using the iPad which is just fine for that and for processing. These images were all rescued from the cloud. Check out my iPhone classes and workshops with Horizon Photography Workshops or Capital Photography Center.

Camera+ ~ Capture: Processing~ Snapseed for crop...AutoPainter3..ImageBlender

 

And here are a few from my New Mexico Workshop in September. 

A friend said you need some colorful pottery on the ledge~

Finished image with inserted colorful item with painted in shadow for dimensionality.

Yesterday I posted a version of the opening shot here as an example of what the WordFoto app can do, I liked it and it was representative of the scene. I also shared it with my iPhoneography friends and a suggestion was made to add some colorful pottery to the ledge. So, always being open to suggestions I thought OK I am sure I have a file with some colorful pottery from New Mexico. I went into my camera roll and found an unprocessed shot below.

Unprocessed light image

I thought the light cover on the wall would work perfectly, as I really did not have just the right pot for the scene. I tried some baskets but they had the same colors as the wall and they did not work in my mind with the tiles on the wall below the ledge.










 So I quickly dropped in the light cover with Juxtaposer and re-posted the shot below.

Needs dimensionality and shadowing on light inserted.

Then I got the suggestion to add a drop shadow, well yes of course...that would make the image look "real" as the quick re-do did look rather "fake" due to its one dimensionality.  I had processed the original with some Dynamic Light Relief which added dimension to the original image: the quick light insert did not have. So I went back ran the insert through Dynamic Light Relief and re-blended just the light part back with the original light. Then I used PhotoForge to carefully paint in some shadow, and then blended it back with the original in Juxtaposer.  Ideally the best process would have been to put the light in the image first and process the whole thing at once, as it was hard to duplicate the exact amount of  DynamicLight Relief effect, and sharpness-levels adjustments, not to mention that I could not duplicate the word effect on the light as I had not saved the settings as a preset.

I do like the revised version...but also still like the original. The point and the concept of this blog post is...... that whatever you can imagine...you can create with the iPhone and all the awesome apps available! Have fun! (Not to mention that friends do have great ideas!) Now its beach time!

Words and Photos do go together! WordFoto~TypeDrawing

WordFoto: DynamicLight~Relief: Iris to Blend files: Crop'n'Frame for frame: Grungetastic for inner border

Today is a foggy, dreary day at the beach so I have been playing with some images I made in New Mexico that I thought might be fun to use with the WordFoto app. Resolution is good at 1928 x 2602. All the images here were made using the WordFoto app with the exception of the large shell image and that was made with TypeDrawing. The resolution on TypeDrawing is small and I only tried it to see how it functions. It is fun and has lots of great possibilities,  too bad the rez is very small. WordFoto has many choices of type, colors and sizes of the type, background colors etc. but randomly lays the type into your image. Once you type in the list of words you want to appear in your image you have no control over where they go. In TypeDrawing you draw your finger over the image and the words you have set into the program appear. Both have a purpose and function very differently.
The beach images I made last week while at the beach.

WordFoto: Focal Lab ~ blur: Juxtaposer blend and erase: : Grungetastic: Crop'n'Frame

WordFoto: Dynamic Light~Relief: Juxtaposer~selective blend: Crop'n'Frame: Grungetatstic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AutoPainter: WordFoto: Iris Blend

Madrid New Mexico...BracketMode IcamHDR

Many Apps Blended in Iris to get this look.

Madrid, New Mexico is like Ocean City, MD. meets the west..except its a very small place...but it does seem to draw the crowds of tourists. During the Steve Gottleib New Mexico Adventure photo tour, Madrid was one of the last stops we made. We all enjoyed lunch together and then Steve cut us loose to wander. I made the opening image outside the restaurant. He said he was a Marlboro Man back in the day! After lunch, Steve wanted to visit the old cemetery he discovered earlier in the week on his scout, so he and I drove out there...You gotta see this video I found on line of the Cemetery. Here's the link to the video it really says it all.
There is a second video clip on u-tube and if you haven't seen enough here is the second link.
Here are some iPhone shots I made while in the Cemetery...it is an amazing place..a real boot hill! All the iPhone images below were shot with BracketMode and then processed with iCamHDR, and framed in Crop'n'Frame.

Turquoise Mining Museum...BracketMode..TureHDR

This group of images were made in the dusty old west town of Cerillos in the Turquoise Mining Museum.  This was not the first time I was in Cerillos, I came across it when I made a turn off Rt 25 on to Waldo Canyon Road and made a 12 mile dirt road run into Cerillos a week before the Gottlieb group arrived. The town streets had signs saying special event today.  I drove up to the signs and asked about the event and I was told they were filming a movie. I turned around and headed out, but made note of the very old and interesting town. So when we headed here with the Gottlieb group, I was glad to return, except for the dust and wind. It really is an old west town! with one or two shops a couple homes and ruin. We stopped at the Cerillos Turquoise Mining Museum.  These shots were all made handheld with the iPhone in BracketMode and merged in TrueHDR.

Classical Gas Museum PicGrunger: BracletMode: True HDR

This is a parallel post to the post I made on my "Big Girl Camera" Blog, but these are the iPhone images I made there which will give you more of an idea about the place. All of these images were shot with the BracketMode App, merged with TrueHDR and Treated with PicGrunger for texture and border...no sharpening or other adjustments were made. Well with one exception, the string of Gas pumps was processed with AutoStitch as it is a seven shot image stitched together on the iPhone.

The Highlight of this second to last day in New Mexico was the Classical Gas Museum in Embudo, NM, which is located along the Rio Grande, halfway between Espanola and Taos. Johnnie Meier, the owner, is president of the Route 66 New Mexico Association and contributing editor to the Route 66 and American Roads magazines. He is a voice for Route 66 restoration and commemoration and is the major force behind a  project to restore old neon signs at motels and restaurants across the State of New Mexico. I made more shots with my iPhone there than I did with the "big" camera, but these are a few I did make with the "big" camera. The "Museum" is not what one would think of..instead it is an old storefront along highway 66 with rusting old pumps lined up outside along with an assortment of other found or collected things. Inside he has for sale among other memorabilia, reproduction signs and gas globes. It was a fun place to shoot!

Steve Gottlieb photographs Johnnie Meir (owner)

Oh and on this image I removed from the original image,  a current model car and van in the parking lot, with Touch ReTouch, the iPhone app that replicates Photoshop content aware and has a pretty good clone tool.

Now I have to get back to cleaning the windows at the beach house!

Return To Abiquiu....Old Photo Pro App

Captured with the Hipstamatic: Helga Viking Lens; BlacKeys B&W film: (I removed the date stamp with Touch Retouch)Ran the image through Old Photo Pro then added a small dark gray border in Grungetastic: Iris for levels adjustments: Then finished with Crop'n'Frame and Impression for signature.

Just home from the beach for a day or two and I am catching up on processing more of the New Mexico adventure with Steve Gottlieb iPhone photos. We stopped in Abiquiu. My second time there, this time we spent time with Napoleon Garcia and his partner Analinda. Napoleon is a one man tourist attraction and the only one in Abiquiu outside of Georgia O'Keeffe's house where you can book private tours. He has authored the book The Genizaro and the Artist. It is a story book of his time in service to O'Keeffe and of the area. He sells them from his front porch and on Amazon. ; - ) He was a real character. He allowed us to take photos of him while he was telling stories on his front porch.
I bought a book..and he gladly signed it for me.

I also made some images there of the landscape O'Keeffe loved,  an entry way and some skulls Napoleon had perched on a wooden bench as you walked up and on to his porch.

View of La Plaza Blanca

Tierra Amarilla..Lito's Ballroom...assorted apps...

AutoPainter:Iris Texture

I could have spent days in this little ghost of a town, but only had an hour!  I made shots with the big camera because I wanted some super shots with high res files so I only had a little time for iPhone shots. The town has those wonderful New Mexico colors faded by time. The buildings show their age and there are many abandoned ones, giving the photographer a world of opportunity for image making. 

BracketMode; TrueHDR; Iris

One of the abandoned buildings I found on the way out was Lito's Ballroom. Oh the site of this set my imagination going......what was it like "In the day?" Well I only had a few minutes to ponder and grab a shot or two, but the charm of this abandoned place still grabs my imagination of hot steamy nights, the sound of feet dancing on the floor, with Latin music playing and thick smoky air......how many people came out the door late at night after a charged evening .....

BracketMode:TrueHDR:ArtistaSketch layered with AutoPainter in Iris:Layered again with original:Grungetastic for inner border and Crop'n'Frame for frame. 

 

A little Imagination and the LensFlare App.

Its been a couple steamy hot days at the beach. In the late afternoon I have taken a little beach time with the iPhone.  I grabbed this shot below of a Seagull as I had the Hipstamatic loaded with the combo of Cano-Cafenol film and the Chucky lens. 

I was working on getting a few more little beach images to add to a previous collection of beach images. I loved the simplicity of the shot and it will work for my other collection, but I wanted to try and do more with it. So I created a flock of seagulls in Juxtaposer and arranged them in the image. Then I went into the App LensFlare and played around with different options of light effects and decided on this one. To finish the image I applied a border in PicGrunger and applied a newspaper filter. I also app'd it with ScratchCam, toning the image and adding some scratches...

The next image also has some LensFlare effect in it....LensFlare is a cool app! You can move the effect around in your image, you can shrink it and there are several types of flare effects you can manipulate. Overall I love the App, its fun and different. The rainbow below was added with LensFlare.

Dynamic light Orton IR effect.

The sun flare in the drivers window on this old truck I shot while in New Mexico was added in with the LensFlare App.