Man, the month of August sure went by fast. In fact, it feels like the shortest month I’ve ever experienced. I wonder why that is. Anyway, I present you with a bunch of photos all shot with my iPhone 3GS — one picture every day, all in landscape and all of them completely untouched straight from the camera roll. Enjoy. If that’s even remotely possible. In the voice of the late & great Marlon Brando: Lighten up, it’s a celebration!

Link:
My August 2010 Flickr set at Flickr.com

I’m going to treat you just the same, starting with this post. First up, a photo app called Camera+. Developed by pro photographer Lisa Bettany of Mostly Lisa fame. She wrote a post on her blog about the app. First up, three pics I took with Camera+;



These are straight from the iPhone with no additional editing. Other pics from my Camera+ set (including the 3 above) are available in full size at Flickr. You can take photos inside the app and you can import already existing photos from your camera roll — a feature sorely missing in the inferior photo app Hipstamatic. I even use the app as a time killer digging up older pics from the camera roll when on the subway editing away just to see what I can come up with.

When done editing you can save the pic back to the camera roll or easily upload it to Flickr/Facebook/Twitter. If I decide to do another year of my 365 Project (photo of the day) I’m sure I’ll use Camera+ a lot. This year I can’t since I decided to only use the “raw” pics from the iPhone camera. The included effects are to numerous to mention here, check out the links at the end of this post for more info. Lisa made a promo video for Camera+;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Links:
Camera+ | Site | App Store
Mosly Lisa | Blog

Imagine that. I actually took a photo each and every day during this past month. Not only that — I also uploaded all of them to the Flickr photo sharing site for the whole world to see. I mentioned earlier in another post that the quality and the ‘artistry’ of the photos themselves were not that important — it’s the fact that I’ve set out to accomplish something, following through and enjoying the process that matters. It’s a challenge, easy as that.

All the photos were taken with my iPhone 3GS. Some people find it hard to take sharp pictures with no blur when shooting with the iPhone. It’s not hard at all – in fact, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. First off, the picture is taken when you let go of the shutter button, not when you press it down. This is how you should do it; put your finger on the shutter button, frame your shot and chose a focus area (you can brighten a shot by focusing in a dark area), hold the iPhone as steady as humanly possible and let go of the shutter button. Boom, instant iPhone photo skill improvement!

Oh my, this post is getting a bit longer than I expected. On to the last part. How did I go about making this post? Well, the Flickr gallery is generated via the WordPress plugin FancyFlickr and the nice effect that expands the photos and darkens the blog background is non other than the legendary Lightbox 2 plugin. There you go! I might change to another plugin in the future, there’s always better stuff out there that I have to try.

February, here I come…

Links:
FancyFlickr
Lightbox 2
My January 2010 Flickr set at Flickr.com