5.20.2011

The Post About My 5 Favorite Apps for iPhone Photography

My family's never really been camera people. My mother only now is using a film point and shoot manufactured by KimoraLeeYamaguchi or something Asianesque like that.

Disclaimer: This is not me excusing the absence of second-born photographs.

However, the nurturing took hold and I was never the one posing the group and capturing the moment. Until now.

And there are 2 factors:
1. Konrad, the Nikon SLR camera.
2. Bugs, the iPhone.

I'm particularly obsessed with Bugs, so I thought I'd share my favorite photography apps. 

Camera+ really is revolutionary with bells and whistles and such. Whether you're Annie Leibowitz or my mom, you'll love it. Take your pics straight from the app and adjust exposure, ISO, and focus. It includes the delightful feature of a "photo flashlight" which lets you see how scary the flash will be first and then adjust. You can tweak based on scene and add FX effects all within the app. And then export it to all kinds of places like your library, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and email. If you only get one app - this is the one.
**$1.99**


Sometimes a photo is great, but it's greater when it gets a caption. Right across its face. With Labelbox, you pick your tape, pick your words and save. Also send to many of your social media hangouts.
**FREE**

Diptic lets you tell a story with your photos by creating collages in all types of layouts. The above photo was to tell the story of what Camera+ could do with a photo taken on a Blackberry.
This collage tells of a story of serving folks who survived the wrath of a deadly tornado. Plus, I threw in a lovely label for good measure.
**$1.99**

Sometimes you want what you can see, not what your lens can see. That's where Photosynth excels. Shoot wraparound panoramas and then easily publish to Facebook or your website. I look forward to using it when I'm in prettier places. Like outside. For now, all you get is my 3 cups, my favorite printer and all the scissors I hoard.
**FREE**  

5. Instagram
Instagram is ideal for photos and for socializing. Sort of like tailgating or the DMV. Take a pic, filter, and add to your feed. You can also send directly to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr or email. Some of my favorites to follow are @carynorton, @jasminestar, @karlaarcher, and @shannonsteele. Feel free to take a gander at the Jamie's Rabbits feed. It's truly riveting.
**FREE**

5 Bonus Apps I Hug and Squeeze:
Flickr: Great manager of your online library. 

Color Effects: Do you wish your picture of a red rose only showed that rose in color? You're in luck.

Hipstamatic: I'm 10% 60-year-old hipster so I adore the app that takes your photos back in time to analog.

TiltShiftGen: I'm 65% 12-year-old girlie girl. So having an app that makes it appear as though I took them from a Hello Kitty toy camera is winning.

Half Tone: I know the bulk of you are moms or pale geeky guys. For you boys, here's to you. This app conjured up this of my godson:

Finally, learn even more about taking your iPhone to the next photography level with my favorite mecca of knowledge: iPhoneography.

So...what did I leave off the list?

For the record: I'm 25% highly functioning, mature adult.

{images: Jamie}

15 comments:

  1. I've recently started using the camera a lot more on my iPhone, so I'm really happy to see a collection of the various apps that are out there to make things look pretty. :) Thanks!

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  2. cc: I'm all about what can make things pretty - which is why I collect tubes of mascara.

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  3. I only just this week downloaded Instamatic, so I'm going to have to see how I like it! So far, so good. I'm going to check the others out!

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  4. K @ GS: I shall find you & you!

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  5. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I've been admiring all of your special effects lately, and have been jealous in general of everyone's cool camera apps. I'm going to download several of these today.

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  6. Why do iPhones get all the cool apps?

    I will admit to being a bit more envious of Konrad than Bugs. But my point and shoot takes pretty good pictures and it is green which makes me smile.

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  7. R: What you will find is that it used to take 2 seconds to take a photo and post on FB and now it will take 23 minutes because you can't live without the quote bubble.

    M: Konrad is quite cool. He would be cooler if he was green. I am not racist.

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  8. R: What you will find is that it used to take 2 seconds to take a photo and post on FB and now it will take 23 minutes because you can't live without the quote bubble.

    M: Konrad is quite cool. He would be cooler if he was green. I am not racist.

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  9. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I've been admiring all of your special effects lately, and have been jealous in general of everyone's cool camera apps. I'm going to download several of these today.

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  10. I'm all about what can make things pretty - which is why I collect tubes of mascara.

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  11. I shall find you & you!

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  12. What you will find is that it used to take 2 seconds to take a photo
    and post on FB and now it will take 23 minutes because you can't live
    without the quote bubble.

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  13. Konrad is quite cool. He would be cooler if he was green. I am not racist.

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  14. As if I didn't have enough reasons to get an iPhone, curses!!!  :)

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  15. Do it. Buy it. Be unable to actually make calls on it and don't care.

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