The introduction of a 5 megapixel camera to the iPhone 4 and the creation of a handful of photography apps have paved the way to every user becoming an iPhonetographer. While the milage for for each user may vary, everybody can do it and frankly, it’s a lot of fun.
Over the past couple of months I have come to LOVE using three different apps to create some pretty fantastic pictures. I’ve had several friends ask me how I was able to get the look of some of my pictures, so I thought I’d share them with you. Again, anybody can do this. It’s the apps that do all the work.
You’ll need three different apps to get started:
iPhone Camera – Free (comes with your iPhone)
Details: 5-megapixel still camera
TiltShiftGen – 99¢
Details: By adjusting various parameters (blur, color and vignette), it allows you to apply endless effects to your pictures.
Instagram – Free
Details: Snap/upload, edit and share with your friends. Comes with 14 different filters that make it easy for regular pictures to become works of art.
Now for the fun
Using the iPhone camera, I recently snapped this picture of my two year old son eating cake:
Using TiltShiftGen, I changed the color and added some focal depth using the blur settings:
Finally, using Instragram, I used the “Earlybird” filter to output this:
So easy. So fun. It’s literally a few adjustments, about 3 minutes and you get amazing results.
If you’re wondering what exact settings I used to get these results, the best thing to do is to download the apps and give it a try yourself. It really is as easy as I’m suggesting.
