Flowers and Cameras

I have recently posted a few photos of my Crocus that I took with my iPhone. The above photo was also taken with my iPhone with the help of the Best Camera App. iPhone photos can amazing but sometimes you need to use a real camera, in this case a Nikon D200 and a 50mm F1.8 lens. If you own a DSLR you should really consider getting a 50mm lens.



My Crocus bulbs are starting to fade now but my Violets are going like gang busters.

Disney-iPhone-Hipstamatic App.

It is no secret that I love the camera on the iPhone. I have the iPhone 3G and I have a fair amount of photo apps. Just before we went to Florida for Christmas I got the Hipstamatic App after reading a blog post about a New York Times photographer Damon Winter using it for war photos in Afghanistan. At first, I was not crazy about this app. Changing the lens and the film in this app gets you a variety of analog film looks and funky boarders to your iPhone photos. Besides the lens and film variety, the camera shows you a small square viewfinder and it randomly crops the square from the area the camera sees. This is unsettling at first but with the random film and lens changing and cropping you get some crazy looking photos and after a while it started to grow on me. I normally use The Best Camera App which is completely editable and controlled. I always tell my classes that you have to make friends with your camera so I decided to make friends with this app. I was surprised to find that while in FL I took over 400 photos with the Hipstamatic App. I uploaded them to a Shutterfly Share site if you want to view all of the photos. These 90 photos shown here are some of my favorites.

Worm's Eye/Bird's Eye View

I am constantly trying to get student photographers to shoot from a different perspective. I once found a short little article in Popular Photography that suggested the Worm's Eye View and the Bird's Eye View as a way to alter your perspective. So this morning I took these photos with my trusty iPhone and The Best Camera App.


I hope you enjoy some different perspectives on my planter boxes.

Clouds

We had some awesome clouds come through today. Photos from my humble iPhone 3G and The Best Camera App. I say humble only because the new new iPhone 4 was announced today. I'm feeling good about my iPhone.











The ending turned out beautiful.

Cartographer or Photographer-I have both

Jackson can draw maps from memory.


Jalen loves to take photos.

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Another Best Camera App version.

If you have an iPhone you really should give the Best Camera App a try. The filters are easy to use and as you can see two minutes can make a huge difference in your photos.

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Wrong Camera

Came home last night after work to find Jackson practicing his dunking abilities. We have two basketball goals at our house, one set at 10' and the other set to 6'6". Jackson can almost dunk with a basketball on the short goal, if he could just palm the ball.

Well I could almost get a great photo if I could just control the shutter lag of the iPhone. I liked this shot anyway. I am reading Within The Frame by David duChemin and he says to express you vision. This is my vision of Jackson coming in for the dunk. Photo edited in The Best Camera and then I dumped the resolution down using Photogene.

Quiet Light

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Last snow shot of the day. Kinda reminds me of some photos by John Sexton from his book Quiet Light. He would wait and take photos just before all the light was gone. Now he uses 4X5 film and I am hacking away with the iPhone and a couple of Apps ( Best Camera and Photogene). Thought I would share this and let you go find John Sexton for yourself. Enjoy his images.

Alabama State Line

This morning we started our road trip to Disney World. We had to stop at the state line for Jackson. The kids decided to call the Hogs just to let everyone in the state know we were on the way.

Montgomery Christmas

Monday we moved over to Memphis for the Montgomery family Christmas. I couldn't resist these table decorations with the artificial candles. I did take family photos with my family as well but with a real camera and not my phone.

Sloop Christmas

Sunday afternoon we came to Southaven and celebrated Christmas with Julie's family. We had the Sloop traditional Christmas dinner of Taco Salad. I really thought that was a weird choice when we were dating but now it is a welcome tradition. This photo is of Julie and her sister Joana and her parents Jerry and Linda.

Freezing at the Soccer Fields

I am currently waiting for faculty members to come and get photos made so I am blogging some old photos.

Jalen and Josie both play soccer and love it. Usually in the Searcy soccer world you bake in the fall soccer season and you freeze in the spring soccer season. This year we have frozen a couple of weekends in the fall. I'm predicting that if it doesn't stop raining soon we might be playing water polo on the spring instead of soccer.

The Best Camera App

I have been using The Best Camera App for the last week or so and you can check out my page on The Best Camera web page. The Best Camera App was developed by Chase Jarvis. If you use an iPhone, go buy The Best Camera App today.