Bought myself a new Holga – this one is army green, so now I get about the neighbourhood with a hot pink Holga on one shoulder and a green one on the other! Quite a sight!!
First images out of the new Holga – some shots and some double exposure experiments.
Not the best of shooting – forgot that I had black and white film loaded, so I’ll need to re-trace my footsteps to re-shoot the playground images, and didn’t realise how easily the ‘Bulb’ slider could be knocked – some over exposed stuff in the mix!!
Anyway – off and rolling, nice light leaks, great vignetting – love the uniqueness of each Holga – a happy photographer!!
Tilt Shift is an interesting little app. Surprisingly simple, the opening screen offers 2 choices take a photo or select one from your camera roll/Album.
The ‘Album’ button takes one to the Camera Roll – where tilt shift effects can be applied to any photo you have already taken. Edited or newly shot photos go into the camera roll.
The camera button takes one to this screen …
Instructions at the ready – I like that in a new app, easy to navigate!
There are 2 tilt shift effects, radial and linear.
Linear examples from the local skate park …
And radial, same location …
The difference in effect is easier to see when you look at these 2 self portraits …
The app also provides editing options:
– Vignette
– Blur strength (example …)
– Saturation
-Contrast
– Brightness
My images were ‘as they came’ so the default settings are quite bright and light!
I have wanted to play with a tilt shift lens or lend baby on my DSLR, so this little app is fun to explore. Not sure its a top of the pops one really though??
That’s it for this review, enjoy Tilt Shift, and hopefully I will see you tomorrow!
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Photocat is a funky looking new photography app.
Home screen is cute, easy to use and easy to see in bright sunlight …
The ‘edit’ button allows one to pick up previous images from the camera roll and other collections.
The ‘collage’ button allows up to 9 images from the camera roll (+) to be selected and collaged.
The FX camera has 10 filters to add to images snapped. My examples from Colebrook Park (memorial to Aboriginal children taken from their families and homes up until the late 1970s) …
A range of filters were applied and I am impressed by the quality. One can set ‘high resolution’ in the settings section – a good idea before one goes shooting.
I love Instagram and its extras – the only thing Photocat doesn’t have (all in one app, rather than 4!!) is the ability to post to Instagram. Mind you, FaceBook, Twitter and flickr can all be enabled (settings area again).
An ‘element store’ button enable the purchase of classic frames, fantast frames, collage frames, collage backgrounds and effects. With these installed one would find Photocat rivals the Instagram family!
Overall – love this one, another keeper!!
That’s it for this review, enjoy Photocat and hopefully I will see you tomorrow!
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LUMO is designed by 99centbrains with the intention of enabling the photographer to add brilliant bursts of colour to one’s photos.
The home screen opens up to a choice of 3 cameras.
It also has an instruction overlay that is somewhat hard to remove …
Once you have selected a camera, you can choose between adding the effect to an existing photo or taking your own. For the purposes of this review, I took my own shots, but I suspect it might be more funt o play with adding some excitement to the shots in your camera roll.
Camera one produces images that look like this …
Camera 2 adds an odd light flare to the bottom right …
And my favourite, Camera 3 produces some strange effects …
Bit Holga-ish I thought.
Well, that’s it for LUMO. Hope you enjoy it and look forward to seeing you in the next instalment!
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DMD or Dermander is the next app under review in my AppsApril process. DMD is a panorama creating app.
The ‘Create’ button opens with a simple screen – HDR (additional $0.99) auto/off flash and a nifty yin and yang sign . Basically you hold the phone vertically and move the signs toward each other to create your panorama. Simple Start and Finish and its done! Nothing particularly novel so far …
The gallery looks nice …
With geotagging, share button and notes option. I like this!!
Even better, when one goes into the photos to view them on one’s phone, the view pans across the image and back again! Love this!!!
Just tried popping these 3 examples in as a slide show – wonder how that will work!
Summary – pretty usual in most ways other than the Ken Burns/panning display effect on one’s phone. If you don’t have an iPhone 5 with the nice panorama option built in, this may be worth considering.
That’s it for this post, trust you’ll enjoy DMD and hopefully I’ll catch you next time!
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Instructions at the ready – I like that in a new app, easy to navigate!
There are 2 tilt shift effects, radial and linear.
Linear examples from the local skate park …
– Saturation
-Contrast
– Brightness
My images were ‘as they came’ so the default settings are quite bright and light!
I have wanted to play with a tilt shift lens or lend baby on my DSLR, so this little app is fun to explore. Not sure its a top of the pops one really though??
That’s it for this review, enjoy Tilt Shift, and hopefully I will see you tomorrow!
Thanks for coming over!!
The ‘edit’ button allows one to pick up previous images from the camera roll and other collections.
The ‘collage’ button allows up to 9 images from the camera roll (+) to be selected and collaged.
The FX camera has 10 filters to add to images snapped. My examples from Colebrook Park (memorial to Aboriginal children taken from their families and homes up until the late 1970s) …
It also has an instruction overlay that is somewhat hard to remove …
Once you have selected a camera, you can choose between adding the effect to an existing photo or taking your own. For the purposes of this review, I took my own shots, but I suspect it might be more funt o play with adding some excitement to the shots in your camera roll.
Camera one produces images that look like this …
And my favourite, Camera 3 produces some strange effects …
The ‘Create’ button opens with a simple screen – HDR (additional $0.99) auto/off flash and a nifty yin and yang sign . Basically you hold the phone vertically and move the signs toward each other to create your panorama. Simple Start and Finish and its done! Nothing particularly novel so far …
The gallery looks nice …
With geotagging, share button and notes option. I like this!!
Even better, when one goes into the photos to view them on one’s phone, the view pans across the image and back again! Love this!!!
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