Category Archives: iPhone camera fun
ingredients:
iPhone + built-in camera + ps mobile (photo fx, pixel perfect will work, too)
OR best camera
shakeit photo
total time: about 2 minutes
The original shot, taken with my iPhone’s built in camera with light from a west-facing window. Ideally, I would have been standing at a north-facing window, but I live in a townhome and all of our windows face west or east, so I improvised. Note: I held my phone slightly higher than eye-level and aimed it down at a slight angle.
Ideally, I prefer snapshots of myself to be overexposed by two stops, just to wash out some of the telltale signs of my 40ish years and sun-worship lifestyle. I can’t control exposure on my iPhone camera, but I have an app. Here’s the original shot run through PS Mobile with the exposure dialed up one full stop (I know, I just said I prefer two stops; keep reading):
Ideally, I prefer portraits shot nearly wide-open, careful to keep the focus on the eyes so they remain tack-sharp. I can’t control f-stops on my iPhone, so in this case, I used the “vignette/blur” setting in PS Mobile to sort of mimic my preferences. This setting adds some saturation kick, too:
Ideally, I would have achieved the whole look in ShakeIt Photo. When ShakeIt Photo came on scene last year, it brought with it a whole new experience in camera fun to my world. ShakeIt will add about a full stop of overexposure and a little bit of saturation kick, and of course randomly selects a fun square frame:
Ideally, I wouldn’t have saturated the color twice; and ideally, I would have brushed my lipgloss on with a little more care to keep it straight if I had known this was going to turn into an experiment and land on my blog; and ideally, the end result would be in black & white, so the deal-breaker of the over-saturation of colors would ultimately be rendered a moot point:
But for building a profile pic in two minutes on an iPhone with a couple of fun apps, I can certainly live with slightly less than ideal.
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December 23, 2009 - 4:47 pm
Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2009 - 5:00 pm
That is the greatest holiday card I have ever seen! Nice job.
Looks like the bug on your blog is fixed. The photos aren’t disappearing for me anymore.
December 23, 2009 - 10:30 pm
Merry Christmas doll! Great fam pix!
December 27, 2009 - 1:34 am
LOVE IT!…what a great card, the kids are just growing up so fast, tell them to slow down…the card was just adorable, all the way down to “LEXI” 
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October 9, 2009 - 10:49 am
love it! It is my fav way to entertain Dash too! Thanks for turning me on to the Shake-It app!
October 9, 2009 - 7:44 pm
“fun at starbucks with a kid and an iphone”
Don’t forget the coffee!
I love the last pic in particular.
October 11, 2009 - 4:36 am
Is this the same iphone that quit on you in front of the Capital on Sept 12th? Just thought I would check out your site. Happy to have met you by chance. I will be happy to send the pictures that I took on the Mall that historic day. I am an artist as well, but my work is in wood. Your pictures look great. talk to you soon. JE Parris from Texas
November 5, 2009 - 7:34 pm
one and the same, JP!
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August 29, 2009 - 3:24 pm
those blackberries and peaches are phenomenal! what gorgeous photos!
August 29, 2009 - 3:32 pm
Yummmmmmmm.
August 30, 2009 - 11:59 am
Got to love the shake-it app!
I got this app for my iPhone and now I can’t put it down…
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July 7, 2009 - 5:51 pm
What app is it? Have you tried CardStar? It is an app that holds all of your discount barcodes for grocery stores, best buy, etc. so you don’t have all of the cards in your wallet or on your keychain.
July 7, 2009 - 8:24 pm
I need to change the color of links on my blog because they’re not showing up clearly enough, sorry about that. I haven’t had this much fun with a camera since my brother gave me a Canon Snappy for my 10th birthday. ! no joke.
no, I haven’t tried CardStar but thanks for the tip! how does that work when you have to scan your grocery card or library card before purchase/check-out? do you look up the number and then punch them in? no worries, I’ll just go to itunes and check it out. thanks also for the tip last weekend; I love that I can be anywhere in the world and cartoon text you and POOF your response comes seconds later.
July 8, 2009 - 12:27 pm
CardStar FREE completely replaces all those keychain cards! wow!
July 8, 2009 - 1:40 pm
Once I looked really close, I saw the different colored text. It is pretty hard to see however. CardStar is pretty nice, the only problem I have had is it does not work with my screen cover.
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