Apeture Anecdotes: I Love IPhone Photography!

Apeture Anecdotes: I Love IPhone Photography!: A couple of weeks ago I pasted some photos on my facebook page that I had taken with my IPhone. The phone was a Christmas gif...

I Love IPhone Photography!

            A couple of weeks ago I pasted some photos on my facebook page that I had taken with my IPhone.  The phone was a Christmas gift so I wasn’t sure what to do with it at first until….. I found out it had an 8 megapixel camera!  As an avid lifelong photographer a new camera is always greeted with enthusiasm and this device was no different.

            The phone came in the mail the day before I was heading off on a three day, two night camping trip along the Florida Trail.  I had read in a magazine about some of the photo apps available for the IPhone and spent the drive down to Florida loading my phone up with various goodies. Two in particular have proven to be extremely useful.  The first is ‘AutoStitch’, an app for creating panorama images.  You take the photos and it stitches them together into wonderful all-encompassing images.  The second app is ‘PhotoForge’ which allows you to not only correct image problems but has a nice selection of special effects, textures and frames to enhance your photos.  I was thrilled with the photos I brought home from my trip.  Even enlarged into 8x10 prints, the results were very impressive.

            This early morning panorama of a wetland area was shot into the sun.  I took 7 photos and used AutoStitich to create the panorama.  I then opened the panorama image in PhotoForge and added the black frame.  I enlarged the image and printed it out at 16 inches wide and it still looked great.

Faith Chapel on Jekyll Island, Georgia is an architectural treasure complete with a large Tiffany window.  This images was a composite of over 30 photos stitched together.  I the used a vintage style filter and the applied the emulsion style frame.

           

These two images are only a small fraction of the truly creative images that can be produced on the IPhone. 

            Stay tuned in to find out how well a telephoto lens works and how another app can give the IPhone telephoto abilities!

Barbara Marie 
 www.BeachCottagePhotography.com