Posted by Anne Witton on Saturday, May 5, 2012,
In :
Project
I've just finished a project to highlight how easy it is to waste water and to hopefully encourage people to think twice before they leave the tap running.
Posted by Anne Witton on Tuesday, March 13, 2012,
In :
Project
As Abby loves cooking and I love photography, I thought it would be good to do a project that combines the two. Abby had decided to make sesame snaps so this was the perfect opportunity for me to snap the process and create a visual recipe, dispensing with any of the boring details like quantities of ingredients and focusing instead on the aesthetic appeal of each stage.
Posted by Anne Witton on Friday, January 6, 2012,
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Project
Does the idyllic British seaside of 1970s childhood holidays still exist? Find out whether I was disappointed or delighted when I re-visited Scarborough armed with my iPhone and a head full of happy memories.
I downloaded this for free over the weekend, but it's now available on the app store for 69p. So what does it do and is it worth it?
Instamaton is a very basic app that lets you create a strip of photos like those that you would get in an old fashioned photo booth:
The good thing about the app is that it allows you to export a photo strip or a photo square depending on your preference. The bad thing about the app is that it has a tendency to crash and... Continue reading ...
Posted by Anne Witton on Tuesday, August 23, 2011,
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Project
As someone who has been touched by mental illness in the lives of my
family and friends and in my own life, I wanted to try and express what
it's like to feel trapped inside the house, a prisoner of your own mind
and emotions. I shot a series of 10 iPhone photos and added dymo label
captions, giving a glimpse into the state of mind of the sufferer.
I
chose a Polaroid format to express the idea of a captured instant and
muted the colours with a cross processing app to add a sense of
desp... Continue reading ...
One of the most impressive things about this app is the gorgeous user interface - it really is a pleasure to use and feels very different to lots of run-of-the-mill iPhoneography apps. It essentially offers 100 different quirkily-named filters / textures presented in themed packages ('Longing people' and 'Fantastic landscape' for example). It does, as the developer intended, all feel very poetic.
Posted by Anne Witton on Wednesday, August 10, 2011,
In :
Talks and podcasts
I really enjoy the free TED talks; If you haven't already discovered them yet, go to www.ted.com and take your pick from more than 900 talks on topics as diverse as poetry, primates, language and leadership. There's a free iPhone app too.
I really enjoyed listening to Julian Treasure speaking about - appropriately enough - listening:
"In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We
are losing our listening." In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure
shares five ways to ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Anne Witton on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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Gear
For a mere $249 (about £150), you can now buy a mount which enables you to use dSLR lenses on your iPhone: The listing on the Photojojo site claims that: "Ever since the iPhone camera was invented, it's aspired to be what it simply never quite could be: a dSLR."
Hmmm... has it? Or has it always been a pretty average mobile phone camera with the advantage that you have it with you wherever you go and you have the choice of thousands of apps to edit your snaps on the go.
It
seems there's a new photography app on the App Store every 2 minutes
and it's fair to say many of the offerings aren't that original. So the
question is - what has Magic Hour got that the others haven't? Answer - a
free filter market where you can upload filters you've created and
download hundreds of filters created by others.
Magic Hour
markets itself with the cute, if non-sensical, tagline, "for the person
who is sensitive than anyone ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Anne Witton on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
In :
Ramblings
It's immediate. The iPhone is always there for those
moments when you would never have thought to bring a camera. It's great
for exploring the everyday stuff of life. I tend not to use mine so much
for holidays, big events, impressive sunsets or macro (that's when the
dSLR comes out). I prefer to point my iPhone at the things that I notice
on my way in to work - people on the bus, run-down shop windows, an
interesting flight of stairs, an abstract pattern on the pavement...
I was really looking forward to getting my hands on this book and it
didn't disappoint. It's a really quick read, but there's enough in there
to inspire you and get the creative juices flowing. Stephanie starts
with a brief look at the basics of how to capture photos with an iPhone.
I suspect most people will just skip this bit as I did. Then she looks
at a few key apps for editing. It was interesting to find out the apps
that she rates and... Continue reading ...
