(5747,16,'2011-10-18 10:46:15','2011-10-18 10:46:15','We\'re really excited about this week\'s Meet The Developers (well let\'s be honest...we\'ve been excited about all of them...) but this week is particularly great as we simply love the ProCamera app! It\'s by far one of the most used on the TBL iPhones, so we were pleased as punch when Jens Daemgen took the time to answer our questions about the app itself and the team of developers behind this awesome camera replacement!\r\n\r\n<h4>How would you describe <a href=\"http://daemgen.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Daemgen.net</a> as a company, and what apps do you offer? </h4>\r\n\r\nDaemgen.net is a startup that\'s about to become grown-up. It all started with ProCamera, which was our first big app. It was first submitted to the App Store in December 2008. At this time the App Store was a little more \"difficult\" than it has become today. At the time of iOS 2.x there was no camera API at all. It was only possible to make a camera app by modifying SDK components with a technique called Runtime-Reflection and working with very high-level code. Apple did not forbid this technique since I didn\'t make use of any private APIs, which would have been forbidden. It took three months of approval time, but finally it was released on the App Store.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"321\" height=\"482\"  alt=\"ProCamera\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ProCamera1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAli, a good friend of mine, who is a Mac-\"Pro\" for as long as I have known him, started helping out with Marketing and building up the product after the first success in Switzerland. One of the biggest challenges was the time when iOS 3.0 was introduced. With that release Apple officially forbid modifying the camera components and thereby had forbidden third party camera apps. Confusingly, some new camera apps were still released on the App Store. But all our updates for iOS 3 were rejected in a row because we supposedly were using private APIs. All mails to Apple stayed unanswered. We joined in with a group of more than 20 camera app developers and wrote a petition to Apple pleading for a camera API and to allow our camera apps again to save our businesses.\r\n\r\nLuckily Apple had an open ear for us and realized the necessity for an official camera API which was then introduced with iOS 3.1 ...    \r\n    \r\nTo make a long story short - today we are a team of 5 people on the core-team plus a professional photographer and several freelancers. Recently, we invested lots of resources and energy in \"business development\". We realized that we needed to grow to keep up with the demanding App Store business and to be able to satisfy our customer’s wishes - and also to realize our vision for the future.\r\n\r\nRecently a second developer joined the ProCamera project. Soon the third will follow. Within the next few months we will have 5 developers working on ProCamera along with the rest of the team (if enough people buy ProCamera during Christmas time). Most of us work from the same location in Mannheim (Germany) or close by. Some are working remotely, e.g. from other places in Germany and one from Brisbane Australia.    \r\n\r\nBesides ProCamera we have our iCademy project. It\'s about mobile eLearning. Our first public app in this area is a free iPhone user manual and also a user manual for ProCamera. (<a href=\"www.icademy.eu\" target=\"_blank\">www.icademy.eu</a>)\r\n\r\nThere will also be another app in the area of iPhotography coming out this year. To be announced.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"481\"  alt=\"ProCamera\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ProCamera2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Can you tell us about your flagship app, ProHDR, and give us its story: when, how and why it was created? How widespread is it? </h4>\r\n\r\nYou\'ve got most of the story above...but as for why...I started creating this app because I have loved the iPhone from the first minute I had it in my hands. But honestly, the camera of the first generation iPhone was like \"giving you the idea of a camera” rather than actually “giving you a camera”. In good light situations it was producing amazing results, but as soon as it got darker the results were lousy. The Anti-Shake function was the main reason for building a camera app. It just made sense to me that the accelerometer of the iPhone could help finding the best moment for capturing sharper and blur-free photos. (In low light-situations the exposure time is way higher so shaky hands lead even more to blurry photos).\r\n\r\nSo the first ProCamera had Anti-Shake and you could tap anywhere on the screen to capture an image immediately (even if Anti-Shake was activated). Later we started calling this \"big photo button\" the \"Full-Screen-Trigger\". And version 1.0 had a self-timer. I was and am convinced that every camera needs a timer. These features are still at the core of all the functionality the app offers. Especially the option to capture an image immediately at any time - even if the self-timer or anti-shake is active - is still our \"sacred cow\". It made UI design a bit more challenging, but I think our UI lead designer has done a great job with the camera UI (which, by the way, we are still fine-tuning). To date, we have approximately 400,000 active users around the world.    \r\n\r\n<h4>What\'s your opinion about PhotoAppLink as an opensource project? </h4>\r\nI think PhotoAppLink is a great project! I really like the idea. We are currently evaluating the best way of integrating it in ProCamera.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"481\"  alt=\"ProCamera\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ProCamera3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What improvements will you be making to the app in the next update? </h4>\r\n\r\nThe next update will improve some aspects of the UI. The following updates will bring some bigger new features along with further fine-tuning. Early 2012 we will start focusing on improving the studios for post processing. \r\n\r\nSadly, we also need to invest some time and resources in finding a way to deal with app piracy. Especially in China, we have approximately 80-90% users that use a cracked version. We feel honored that so many people like and use ProCamera, but customers that pay for our product also help us to develop it further. We think it would be more fair to our paying customers if our \"cracked-app\" users would get on board and support us to make this app even better. 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(try to say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with a Gymbl Tripod Review…\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\n\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \n\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison below. The first shot was handheld, and the second with the Gymbl. See the difference?! \nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position…so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \n\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \n\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \n\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-4','','','2011-10-18 10:55:30','2011-10-18 10:55:30','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(5752,5,'2011-10-19 14:30:11','2011-10-19 14:30:11','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with The Beginners Lens Gymbl Tripod Review…\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\n\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \n\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly horizontally. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\n\n<center><p>...</p></center>\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - Easier to see now!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\n\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \n\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \n\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \n','Gymbl Tripod for Iphone - Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-autosave','','','2011-10-19 14:30:11','2011-10-19 14:30:11','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(5753,5,'2011-10-18 10:55:37','2011-10-18 10:55:37','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (try to say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with a Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison below. The first shot was handheld, and the second with the Gymbl. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position…so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-5','','','2011-10-18 10:55:37','2011-10-18 10:55:37','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(5754,5,'2011-10-18 10:57:35','2011-10-18 10:57:35','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (try to say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with a Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison below. The first shot was handheld, and the second with the Gymbl. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position…so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-6','','','2011-10-18 10:57:35','2011-10-18 10:57:35','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(5755,5,'2011-10-18 11:05:26','2011-10-18 11:05:26','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (try to say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with a Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! 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Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"209\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"209\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! 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Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! 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Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! 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Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! 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Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-12','','','2011-10-18 12:07:41','2011-10-18 12:07:41','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-12.html',0,'revision','',0),(5761,16,'2011-10-18 12:10:36','2011-10-18 12:10:36','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with The Beginners Lens Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! 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We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \n\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\n\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \n\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \n\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\n\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \n\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"\"><img style=\"float:left; margin 0px \"src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\">\n\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\n\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\n\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \n\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\n\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \n\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \n\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\n\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\n\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\n\nSlow Shutter Cam\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\n\nPhotoForge2\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\n\nCross Process\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\n\n\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \n\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \n\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \n\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \n\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-4','','','2011-10-18 12:20:24','2011-10-18 12:20:24','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(5771,16,'2011-10-18 12:21:24','2011-10-18 12:21:24','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \n\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\n\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \n\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \n\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\n\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \n\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 100px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography \" alt=\"\">\n\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\n\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\n\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \n\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\n\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \n\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \n\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\n\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\n\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\n\nSlow Shutter Cam\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\n\nPhotoForge2\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\n\nCross Process\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\n\n\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \n\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \n\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \n\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \n\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-5','','','2011-10-18 12:21:24','2011-10-18 12:21:24','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(5772,16,'2011-10-18 12:21:56','2011-10-18 12:21:56','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 50px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 50px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\">\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-6','','','2011-10-18 12:21:56','2011-10-18 12:21:56','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(5777,16,'2011-10-18 12:24:03','2011-10-18 12:24:03','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-11','','','2011-10-18 12:24:03','2011-10-18 12:24:03','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-11.html',0,'revision','',0),(5773,16,'2011-10-18 12:22:20','2011-10-18 12:22:20','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 50px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 100px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-7','','','2011-10-18 12:22:20','2011-10-18 12:22:20','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(5774,16,'2011-10-18 12:22:48','2011-10-18 12:22:48','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 10px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 100px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-8','','','2011-10-18 12:22:48','2011-10-18 12:22:48','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-8.html',0,'revision','',0),(5775,16,'2011-10-18 12:23:10','2011-10-18 12:23:10','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 10px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 100px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-9','','','2011-10-18 12:23:10','2011-10-18 12:23:10','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-9.html',0,'revision','',0),(5776,16,'2011-10-18 12:23:36','2011-10-18 12:23:36','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 100px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-10','','','2011-10-18 12:23:36','2011-10-18 12:23:36','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(5778,16,'2011-10-18 12:24:28','2011-10-18 12:24:28','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\nCheck out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-12','','','2011-10-18 12:24:28','2011-10-18 12:24:28','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-12.html',0,'revision','',0),(5779,16,'2011-10-18 12:25:11','2011-10-18 12:25:11','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 20px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-13','','','2011-10-18 12:25:11','2011-10-18 12:25:11','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-13.html',0,'revision','',0),(5780,16,'2011-10-18 12:25:35','2011-10-18 12:25:35','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; style=margin:0px 0px 0px 20px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-14','','','2011-10-18 12:25:35','2011-10-18 12:25:35','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(5781,16,'2011-10-18 12:25:57','2011-10-18 12:25:57','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; style=margin:0px 0px 0px 50px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-15','','','2011-10-18 12:25:57','2011-10-18 12:25:57','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-15.html',0,'revision','',0),(5784,16,'2011-10-18 12:29:44','2011-10-18 12:29:44','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; style=margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-18','','','2011-10-18 12:29:44','2011-10-18 12:29:44','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-18.html',0,'revision','',0),(5782,16,'2011-10-18 12:28:43','2011-10-18 12:28:43','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<center><img style=\"float:left; style=margin:0px 0px 0px 50px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"></center><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-16','','','2011-10-18 12:28:43','2011-10-18 12:28:43','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-16.html',0,'revision','',0),(5783,16,'2011-10-18 12:28:59','2011-10-18 12:28:59','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<center><img style=\"float:left; style=margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"></center><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-17','','','2011-10-18 12:28:59','2011-10-18 12:28:59','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-17.html',0,'revision','',0),(5786,16,'2011-10-18 12:31:26','2011-10-18 12:31:26','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 50px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. 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You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<center><img style=\"float:left; style=margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"></center><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-19','','','2011-10-18 12:30:16','2011-10-18 12:30:16','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-19.html',0,'revision','',0),(5787,16,'2011-10-18 12:38:00','2011-10-18 12:38:00','','cole5','','inherit','open','open','','cole5','','','2011-10-18 12:38:00','2011-10-18 12:38:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5788,16,'2011-10-18 12:31:45','2011-10-18 12:31:45','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 30px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\nShoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.\r\nCreate nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.\r\nShoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nSlow Shutter Cam\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\r\n\r\nPhotoForge2\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\r\n\r\nCross Process\r\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-21','','','2011-10-18 12:31:45','2011-10-18 12:31:45','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-21.html',0,'revision','',0),(5789,16,'2011-10-18 12:40:19','2011-10-18 12:40:19','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 30px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Shoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.</li>\r\n<li>Create nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.</li>\r\n<li>Shoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nHere\'s links to the apps: \r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\" title=\"Slow Shutter Cam\">Slow Shutter Cam</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\" title=\"Photo Forge 2\">PhotoForge2</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\" title=\"Cross Process\">Cross Process</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole1.jpg\"  ]\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.\r\n\r\nYou can check out more of Cole\'s work on his <a href=\"http://colerise.com\" title=\"Cole Rise\">website</a>, or follow him on Instagram, <a href=\"http://web.stagram.com/n/colerise/\" title=\"Cole Rise Instagram\">@Colerise</a>\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-22','','','2011-10-18 12:40:19','2011-10-18 12:40:19','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-22.html',0,'revision','',0),(5790,16,'2011-10-18 12:40:26','2011-10-18 12:40:26','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 30px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Shoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.</li>\r\n<li>Create nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.</li>\r\n<li>Shoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nHere\'s links to the apps: \r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\" title=\"Slow Shutter Cam\">Slow Shutter Cam</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\" title=\"Photo Forge 2\">PhotoForge2</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\" title=\"Cross Process\">Cross Process</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole1.jpg\"  ]\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.\r\n\r\nYou can check out more of Cole\'s work on his <a href=\"http://colerise.com\" title=\"Cole Rise\">website</a>, or follow him on Instagram, <a href=\"http://web.stagram.com/n/colerise/\" title=\"Cole Rise Instagram\">@Colerise</a>\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-23','','','2011-10-18 12:40:26','2011-10-18 12:40:26','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-23.html',0,'revision','',0),(5791,16,'2011-10-18 12:41:02','2011-10-18 12:41:02','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 30px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Shoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.</li>\r\n<li>Create nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.</li>\r\n<li>Shoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nHere\'s links to the apps: \r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\" title=\"Slow Shutter Cam\">Slow Shutter Cam</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\" title=\"Photo Forge 2\">PhotoForge2</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\" title=\"Cross Process\">Cross Process</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.\r\n\r\nYou can check out more of Cole\'s work on his <a href=\"http://colerise.com\" title=\"Cole Rise\">website</a>, or follow him on Instagram, <a href=\"http://web.stagram.com/n/colerise/\" title=\"Cole Rise Instagram\">@Colerise</a>\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-24','','','2011-10-18 12:41:02','2011-10-18 12:41:02','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-24.html',0,'revision','',0),(5792,16,'2011-11-03 08:00:31','2011-11-03 08:00:31','So you know how we\'ve been interviewing awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we\'re talking to Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"Jussi Ulkuniemi - Skwii Instagram handle\">@skwii</a>. Jussi\'s Instafeed really stood out to us - it\'s creative, interesting, and a little bit different to the norm, in a very good way! iPhoneography all the way from Finland people...get on board. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\r\n\r\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\r\n\r\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never guessed it would play such a big role in my life.\r\n\r\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iPhonegraphy is also a part of the reason  I got my current job as a graphic designer.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about iPhonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iPhonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. IPhonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 2\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>We see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\r\n\r\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range...stalk stalk! Ha!\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Your photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?</h4>\r\n\r\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n\r\nMy tip for other iPhonegraphers is to treat your iPhone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple...\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\r\nI currently have no ongoing iPhonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iPhonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.\r\n\r\nYou can check out Jussi\'s Keepsy gallery <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/gallery/skwii\" title=\"Skwii Keepsy Gallery\">here</a>, or perhaps you want to buy <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/cd1ebsJG\" title=\"Jussi\'s Keepsy Album\">his album?</a>  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 5\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi','','publish','open','open','','iphoneography-with-jussi-ulkuniemi','','','2011-11-03 08:53:23','2011-11-03 08:53:23','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?p=5792',0,'post','',0),(5793,16,'2011-10-18 12:41:37','2011-10-18 12:41:37','Hey folks, it\'s been a very busy few weeks for us here at TBL and as such it\'s been a week or so since we\'ve had a chance to continue with the iPhoneographers series - but we\'re back and let me tell ya, it\'s a good one! We first saw Cole Rise\'s work through Instagram, as he\'s one of the very popular Instagramers - and it turns out Cole is also a photographer by trade. So read on for Cole\'s interview...psssst...awesome tips for creative iPhoneography ahead! You\'ve been warned.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4> \r\n\r\nThe affair started when I was really young actually, with the family camera. We had an old Canon SLR with a rather long zoom lens that my parents kept in a wicker picnic basket in their closet. Everything about it held my attention, from the feel of the focus ring, to the little red numbers that came up when you half-pressed the button, to the tiny knobs and film cranks and the sound it made when you took a picture. It was my cardboard spaceship, so to speak. I\'d sit and play with it for hours, even if it didn\'t have any film.\r\n\r\nAs I got older, that grew into a hobby. I\'d wander either around the house or around town with my digital camera, committing arbitrary little bits of life to a 32MB card. It was my version of a journal. Since then, i’ve fallen hard for surrealist landscapes. I\'m basically still doing the same thing, though these days I\'m able to wander a bit farther. Between licensing and selling prints, and the odd gallery show, photography has turned into part time profession, partly funded by an internet company i started a few years back. Nerd by day, photographer by... well, it depends on the day. \r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you catch the iPhoneography bug? What makes the medium so special for you?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say my iPhoneography affliction is deeply rooted in many years of experimenting with mobile photography, which goes as far back as 2003 when early camera phones were just starting to get popular. Back then, phone cameras weren’t very taken seriously - no one expected to get prints out of them, or even cared enough to transfer them to their computers. They were just tiny digital memories that lived on your phone or shared through text messages. For me, they were a new way to make art. Hell, the resolutions were so low, the photos ended up looking more impressionistic than photorealistic anyway. But that was all we had, and i rather enjoyed the result. Since then, i\'ve celebrated every incremental improvement, from better resolutions, better color representation, to the first LED flashes.\r\n\r\n<em>Check out some of Cole\'s first mobile shots! </em>\r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 30px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold1.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 1\" alt=\"1\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold2.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile photography 2\" alt=\"2\"><img style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 5px\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/coleold3.png\" title=\"Cole Rise Mobile Photography 3\" alt=\"3\"><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nNaturally, when the iPhone was announced in 2007, i was pretty excited. I worked at Yahoo! Mobile at the time, which was working closely with Apple to provide stock and weather information, so i had the pleasure of playing with one under close guard at the Apple campus, before it was publicly available. The first time i saw the camera in action on that big, beautiful touchscreen, it was immediately apparent we were in for something big. Sure, there were a few phones with decent resolutions, but Apple’s camera implementation would bring a change in the general thinking of what a mobile photograph meant. It was smart, it made it easy to share and transfer, and the photos looked pretty darn great, to boot.\r\n\r\nI soon found myself caring more about the details i could capture, and the fidelity of the final photograph. Suddenly, mobile photos were something more. That\'s special to me because i\'ve watched the medium progress, and i feel privileged to witness it first hand.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>You have a very distinctive photography style, tell us a bit about your style and how you came to develop it. Do you feel it\'s important for aspiring photographers to develop their own style?</h4> \r\n\r\nA friend of mine once said \"People don\'t want to just see cool photos, they want to see how you view the world. They want perspective.\" I think that describes quite well what photographers strive to do - provide a perspective. For me, that perspective lies somewhere between what we cannot see beyond the fog and what we imagine it to be.\r\n\r\nWhen i think of style, i think of brand, and i think every serious photographer should work hard to establish one, just as a company would for a product. Consistency is important, but probably more so in your message than the image itself. One of the most rewarding aspects of photography is when someone can immediately recognize one of your photos without the byline. If people like what you’re about, and they can trust you’ll keep delivering, you can easily build a following. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers? Do you have any favorite apps and treatments?</h4> \r\n\r\nThere’s so many ways to get creative with an iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Here are three tricks that i’ve had success with:\r\n\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Shoot through your sweater. Any sort of knit fabric stretched over the lens plays with sunlight in such a satisfying way. This is also a great use for that scarf you hate.</li>\r\n<li>Create nifty light leaks with a carefully placed drop of water. Put it in that spot between your flash and your lens, and make sure your flash is on. Clear plastic also works, like sandwich bags or scotch tape.</li>\r\n<li>Shoot straight up in the rain with a the Slow Shutter Cam app. Again, make sure the flash is on, and that you’ve got the app set to “Light trails” mode. The water droplets rushing towards the lens looks like warp speed! Slow Shutter is also amazingly useful for your more obvious long-exposure iPhone shots.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAside from Slow Shutter I tend to use PhotoForge2 for it’s photoshop like control of the color curves, and Cross Process because it’s just generally awesome with what it outputs.\r\n\r\nHere\'s links to the apps: \r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\" title=\"Slow Shutter Cam\">Slow Shutter Cam</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge2/id435789422?mt=8\" title=\"Photo Forge 2\">PhotoForge2</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cross-process/id355754066?mt=8\" title=\"Cross Process\">Cross Process</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What do you envision for the future of iPhoneography for casual photographers? For professionals?</h4> \r\n\r\nI’d say I care as much about capturing something with my phone as i do my Hasselblad or DSLR. Why? Not because of the resolution or quality - my specialized equipment will always do it better. It’s because my phone is connected, and it’s the easiest way to immediately share where i am, what i’m doing, and how i feel about it. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that we’ll soon witness the demise of the specialized point and shoot camera, as mobile image sensors improve and people rely more on what’s already in their pocket. If you’ve been to a concert or show lately, the future is immediately evident with all those glowing screens. There will be smartphones, and there will be prosumer / professional cameras with interchangeable lenses, with a little gap in between. \r\n\r\nAnybody will be able to take crisp, high-fidelity photos, which is wonderful for casual photographers. The professionals on the other hand, will have to work a little harder to differentiate themselves from the masses. :)\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects.</h4> \r\n\r\nMy current project involves getting my hands on that new 8MP sensor in the iPhone 4S! Once that’s solved, I’m planning a 2600 mile drive from San Francisco to Colorado and back, which will take me through the salt flats in Utah at 3 in the morning. I’m curious to test what kind of night shots i can get.\r\n\r\nYou can check out more of Cole\'s work on his <a href=\"http://colerise.com\" title=\"Cole Rise\">website</a>, or follow him on Instagram, <a href=\"http://web.stagram.com/n/colerise/\" title=\"Cole Rise Instagram\">@Colerise</a>\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Cole Rise 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cole5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Cole Rise','','inherit','open','open','','5739-revision-25','','','2011-10-18 12:41:37','2011-10-18 12:41:37','',5739,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5739-revision-25.html',0,'revision','',0),(5794,16,'2011-10-18 10:19:54','2011-10-18 10:19:54','This week on Meet The Developers we\'re catching up with two MIT graduates, Yuanzhen Li and Michael Parker...the guys behind the fantastic True HDR app. Both Yuanzhen and Michael have extensive experience in computer science and with their combined backgrounds in software development its no wonder they ended up with the app development game! We\'re sure glad they did! Take it away guys...\r\n\r\n<h4>How would you describe Pictional, as a company, and what apps do you offer?</h4>\r\n\r\nWe\'re a small company creating apps related to images and photography. Right now, we have one app for iOS called True HDR, which lets users take better, more natural looking HDR photographs with their iOS devices, and we\'re currently working on other to-be-released apps as well. Our strength is in computational photography - that is, using algorithms to enable people to take better photos and do other cool things with those images. From a photographer\'s perspective, the iPhone is an incredible camera that has a powerful computer strapped to its back - it\'s our job to help people take advantage of that combination. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\"  alt=\"True HDR\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TrueHDR1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n \r\n<h4>How many developers do you have on your team? Do you all work from the same location or are you globally based?</h4>\r\n\r\nOur team has two developers, both based out of the same location in Boston, Massachusetts, US. Our backgrounds are in image processing and computational photography, as well as UI and front end programming. We\'re working on putting our years of experience to good use by creating photography apps for iOS devices! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"481\" height=\"317\"  alt=\"True HDR\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TrueHDR2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n \r\n<h4>Can you tell us about your flag ship app and give us its story: when, how and why it was created? Has it been well received?</h4>\r\n\r\nOur app True HDR lets people take beautiful high dynamic range (HDR) photos. The idea for the app was born in 2009 when the iPhone 3GS was shipped with a tap-to-focus feature, which lets you tap the screen to adjust the camera focus to that point in the image. This feature turned out to also allow for tap-to-expose, which adjusts exposure to the point where you tap. We thought this feature would allow us to build an app where users could take two pictures of the same scene, using different exposures, and the app would do the work of automatically aligning the two images and combining them to create one natural looking image which has a higher dynamic range and is much closer to what the scene looked like to the eye. We worked hard the next few months getting some computationally intensive code to fit within the memory constraints of a mobile device like the iPhone.  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"481\" height=\"317\"  alt=\"True HDR\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TrueHDR3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nThe app was born in November 2009, and it has sold steadily since then, with quite a number of updates, and with ups and downs. Our highest rankings have included some brief stints in the photography top 5, as well as a brief run in the top 100 paid apps on the app store. Therefore, we\'d describe the app as medium popular.  We are proud to have wonderful users who amaze us with the beautiful shots that they take with the app. One of the really nice aspects is getting email from users who tell us about their unique uses for True HDR; real estate photography (including indoor shots) has been a great one, and another is merging two photos that they\'ve made with other apps.   \r\n\r\n<h4>What\'s your opinion about PhotoAppLink as an opensource project?</h4>\r\n\r\nWe love PhotoAppLink! Full disclosure is that we are part of the initial group of apps participating in PhotoAppLink and know one of the developers behind that project.  We think the concept of easily moving photos between apps, almost like an integrated suite of tools, is a nice one. And PhotoAppLink also makes it easier for those who love using their iPhone for photography to find other high quality apps. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"481\" height=\"323\"  alt=\"True HDR\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TrueHDR4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What improvements will you be making to the app in the next update?</h4>\r\n\r\niOS 5 is the big news right now, and we\'re confident that the camera on the iPhone 4S will be outstanding. We\'re working on supporting iOS 5 and the new iPhone (True HDR update already submitted to Apple at the time of this interview) and taking advantage of the new features and improved performance. The new iPhone\'s higher color fidelity will likely be terrific for True HDR users, and we can\'t wait to get our hands on the 4S and start testing. We\'re also constantly working on improving the picture quality in TrueHDR for all users of the app, not just those on the latest and greatest hardware or iOS version.  Processing speed, quality of image, ease of sharing, and user control over the final image are among our highest priorities. It\'s hard work and a lot of fun working on this app, and we look forward to continuing to do so!! \r\n\r\n\r\n','Meet The Developers: Pictional – True HDR','','inherit','open','open','','5713-revision-10','','','2011-10-18 10:19:54','2011-10-18 10:19:54','',5713,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5713-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(5795,16,'2011-10-18 12:11:14','2011-10-18 12:11:14','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with The Beginners Lens Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-14','','','2011-10-18 12:11:14','2011-10-18 12:11:14','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(5796,16,'2011-10-18 10:46:53','2011-10-18 10:46:53','We\'re really excited about this week\'s Meet The Developers (well let\'s be honest...we\'ve been excited about all of them...) but this week is particularly great as we simply love the ProCamera app! It\'s by far one of the most used on the TBL iPhones, so we were pleased as punch when Jens Daemgen took the time to answer our questions about the app itself and the team of developers behind this awesome camera replacement!\r\n\r\n<h4>How would you describe <a href=\"http://daemgen.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Daemgen.net</a> as a company, and what apps do you offer? </h4>\r\n\r\nDaemgen.net is a startup that\'s about to become grown-up. It all started with ProCamera, which was our first big app. It was first submitted to the App Store in December 2008. At this time the App Store was a little more \"difficult\" than it has become today. At the time of iOS 2.x there was no camera API at all. It was only possible to make a camera app by modifying SDK components with a technique called Runtime-Reflection and working with very high-level code. Apple did not forbid this technique since I didn\'t make use of any private APIs, which would have been forbidden. It took three months of approval time, but finally it was released on the App Store.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"321\" height=\"482\"  alt=\"ProCamera\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ProCamera1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAli, a good friend of mine, who is a Mac-\"Pro\" for as long as I have known him, started helping out with Marketing and building up the product after the first success in Switzerland. One of the biggest challenges was the time when iOS 3.0 was introduced. With that release Apple officially forbid modifying the camera components and thereby had forbidden third party camera apps. Confusingly, some new camera apps were still released on the App Store. But all our updates for iOS 3 were rejected in a row because we supposedly were using private APIs. All mails to Apple stayed unanswered. We joined in with a group of more than 20 camera app developers and wrote a petition to Apple pleading for a camera API and to allow our camera apps again to save our businesses.\r\n\r\nLuckily Apple had an open ear for us and realized the necessity for an official camera API which was then introduced with iOS 3.1 ...    \r\n    \r\nTo make a long story short - today we are a team of 5 people on the core-team plus a professional photographer and several freelancers. Recently, we invested lots of resources and energy in \"business development\". We realized that we needed to grow to keep up with the demanding App Store business and to be able to satisfy our customer’s wishes - and also to realize our vision for the future.\r\n\r\nRecently a second developer joined the ProCamera project. Soon the third will follow. Within the next few months we will have 5 developers working on ProCamera along with the rest of the team (if enough people buy ProCamera during Christmas time). Most of us work from the same location in Mannheim (Germany) or close by. Some are working remotely, e.g. from other places in Germany and one from Brisbane Australia.    \r\n\r\nBesides ProCamera we have our iCademy project. It\'s about mobile eLearning. Our first public app in this area is a free iPhone user manual and also a user manual for ProCamera. (<a href=\"www.icademy.eu\" target=\"_blank\">www.icademy.eu</a>)\r\n\r\nThere will also be another app in the area of iPhotography coming out this year. To be announced.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"481\"  alt=\"ProCamera\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ProCamera2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Can you tell us about your flagship app, ProHDR, and give us its story: when, how and why it was created? How widespread is it? </h4>\r\n\r\nYou\'ve got most of the story above...but as for why...I started creating this app because I have loved the iPhone from the first minute I had it in my hands. But honestly, the camera of the first generation iPhone was like \"giving you the idea of a camera” rather than actually “giving you a camera”. In good light situations it was producing amazing results, but as soon as it got darker the results were lousy. The Anti-Shake function was the main reason for building a camera app. It just made sense to me that the accelerometer of the iPhone could help finding the best moment for capturing sharper and blur-free photos. (In low light-situations the exposure time is way higher so shaky hands lead even more to blurry photos).\r\n\r\nSo the first ProCamera had Anti-Shake and you could tap anywhere on the screen to capture an image immediately (even if Anti-Shake was activated). Later we started calling this \"big photo button\" the \"Full-Screen-Trigger\". And version 1.0 had a self-timer. I was and am convinced that every camera needs a timer. These features are still at the core of all the functionality the app offers. Especially the option to capture an image immediately at any time - even if the self-timer or anti-shake is active - is still our \"sacred cow\". It made UI design a bit more challenging, but I think our UI lead designer has done a great job with the camera UI (which, by the way, we are still fine-tuning). To date, we have approximately 400,000 active users around the world.    \r\n\r\n<h4>What\'s your opinion about PhotoAppLink as an opensource project? </h4>\r\nI think PhotoAppLink is a great project! I really like the idea. We are currently evaluating the best way of integrating it in ProCamera.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"481\"  alt=\"ProCamera\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ProCamera3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What improvements will you be making to the app in the next update? </h4>\r\n\r\nThe next update will improve some aspects of the UI. The following updates will bring some bigger new features along with further fine-tuning. Early 2012 we will start focusing on improving the studios for post processing. \r\n\r\nSadly, we also need to invest some time and resources in finding a way to deal with app piracy. Especially in China, we have approximately 80-90% users that use a cracked version. We feel honored that so many people like and use ProCamera, but customers that pay for our product also help us to develop it further. We think it would be more fair to our paying customers if our \"cracked-app\" users would get on board and support us to make this app even better. Wouldn\'t that be better for everyone?','Meet The Developers: Daemgen.net – ProCamera','','inherit','open','open','','5718-revision-7','','','2011-10-18 10:46:53','2011-10-18 10:46:53','',5718,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5718-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(5797,5,'2011-10-18 12:44:50','2011-10-18 12:44:50','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with The Beginners Lens Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-15','','','2011-10-18 12:44:50','2011-10-18 12:44:50','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-15.html',0,'revision','',0),(5798,16,'2011-10-18 13:38:05','2011-10-18 13:38:05','So you know how we\'ve been catching up with awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we catch up with Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"\">@skwii/a>. \n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\n\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\n\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\n\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never quessed it would play such a big role in my life.\n\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iphonegraphy is also a part of the reason why I got my current job.\n\nWhat I love about iphonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iphonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. Iphonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\n\n<h4>I see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\n\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range... :) stalk stalk!\n\nYour photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?\n\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \n\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\n\nMy tip for other iphonegraphers is to treat your iphone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple. :)\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\nI currently have no ongoing iphonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iphonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi ','','inherit','open','open','','5792-revision','','','2011-10-18 13:38:05','2011-10-18 13:38:05','',5792,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5792-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(5799,16,'2011-10-18 14:03:36','2011-10-18 14:03:36','','jussi1','','inherit','open','open','','jussi1','','','2011-10-18 14:03:36','2011-10-18 14:03:36','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5800,16,'2011-10-18 14:03:41','2011-10-18 14:03:41','','jussi2','','inherit','open','open','','jussi2','','','2011-10-18 14:03:41','2011-10-18 14:03:41','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5801,16,'2011-10-18 14:03:48','2011-10-18 14:03:48','','jussi3','','inherit','open','open','','jussi3','','','2011-10-18 14:03:48','2011-10-18 14:03:48','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5802,16,'2011-10-18 14:03:54','2011-10-18 14:03:54','','jussi4','','inherit','open','open','','jussi4','','','2011-10-18 14:03:54','2011-10-18 14:03:54','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5803,16,'2011-10-18 14:04:01','2011-10-18 14:04:01','','jussi5','','inherit','open','open','','jussi5','','','2011-10-18 14:04:01','2011-10-18 14:04:01','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5804,16,'2011-10-18 14:14:39','2011-10-18 14:14:39','So you know how we\'ve been catching up with awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we\'re talking to Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"Jussi Ulkuniemi - Skwii Instagram handle\">@skwii/a>. Jussi\'s Instafeed really stood out to us - it\'s creative, interesting, and a little bit different to the norm, in a very good way! \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\n\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\n\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\n\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never guessed it would play such a big role in my life.\n\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iPhonegraphy is also a part of the reason  I got my current job as a graphic designer.\n\nWhat I love about iPhonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iPhonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. IPhonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 2\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>We see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\n\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range... :) stalk stalk!\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Your photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?</h4>\n\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\n\nMy tip for other iPhonegraphers is to treat your iPhone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple. :)\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\nI currently have no ongoing iPhonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iPhonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.\n\nYou can check out Jussi\'s Keepsy gallery <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/gallery/skwii\" title=\"Skwii Keepsy Gallery\">here</a>, or perhaps you want to buy <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/cd1ebsJG\" title=\"Jussi\'s Keepsy Album\">his album?</a>  \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 5\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi ','','inherit','open','open','','5792-revision-2','','','2011-10-18 14:14:39','2011-10-18 14:14:39','',5792,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5792-revision-2.html',0,'revision','',0),(5806,16,'2011-10-18 14:18:09','2011-10-18 14:18:09','So you know how we\'ve been catching up with awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we\'re talking to Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"Jussi Ulkuniemi - Skwii Instagram handle\">@skwii</a>. Jussi\'s Instafeed really stood out to us - it\'s creative, interesting, and a little bit different to the norm, in a very good way! \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\n\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\n\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\n\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never guessed it would play such a big role in my life.\n\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iPhonegraphy is also a part of the reason  I got my current job as a graphic designer.\n\nWhat I love about iPhonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iPhonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. IPhonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 2\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>We see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\n\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range... :) stalk stalk!\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Your photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?</h4>\n\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\n\nMy tip for other iPhonegraphers is to treat your iPhone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple. :)\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\nI currently have no ongoing iPhonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iPhonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.\n\nYou can check out Jussi\'s Keepsy gallery <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/gallery/skwii\" title=\"Skwii Keepsy Gallery\">here</a>, or perhaps you want to buy <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/cd1ebsJG\" title=\"Jussi\'s Keepsy Album\">his album?</a>  \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 5\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi ','','inherit','open','open','','5792-revision-4','','','2011-10-18 14:18:09','2011-10-18 14:18:09','',5792,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5792-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(5805,16,'2011-10-18 14:14:56','2011-10-18 14:14:56','So you know how we\'ve been catching up with awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we\'re talking to Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"Jussi Ulkuniemi - Skwii Instagram handle\">@skwii/a>. Jussi\'s Instafeed really stood out to us - it\'s creative, interesting, and a little bit different to the norm, in a very good way! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\r\n\r\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\r\n\r\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never guessed it would play such a big role in my life.\r\n\r\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iPhonegraphy is also a part of the reason  I got my current job as a graphic designer.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about iPhonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iPhonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. IPhonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 2\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>We see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\r\n\r\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range... :) stalk stalk!\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Your photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?</h4>\r\n\r\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n\r\nMy tip for other iPhonegraphers is to treat your iPhone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple. :)\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\r\nI currently have no ongoing iPhonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iPhonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.\r\n\r\nYou can check out Jussi\'s Keepsy gallery <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/gallery/skwii\" title=\"Skwii Keepsy Gallery\">here</a>, or perhaps you want to buy <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/cd1ebsJG\" title=\"Jussi\'s Keepsy Album\">his album?</a>  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 5\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi ','','inherit','open','open','','5792-revision-3','','','2011-10-18 14:14:56','2011-10-18 14:14:56','',5792,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5792-revision-3.html',0,'revision','',0),(5807,16,'2011-10-18 14:21:25','2011-10-18 14:21:25','So you know how we\'ve been interviewing awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we\'re talking to Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"Jussi Ulkuniemi - Skwii Instagram handle\">@skwii</a>. Jussi\'s Instafeed really stood out to us - it\'s creative, interesting, and a little bit different to the norm, in a very good way! iPhoneography all the way from Finland people...get on board. \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\n\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\n\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\n\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never guessed it would play such a big role in my life.\n\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iPhonegraphy is also a part of the reason  I got my current job as a graphic designer.\n\nWhat I love about iPhonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iPhonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. IPhonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 2\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>We see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\n\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range...stalk stalk! Ha!\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>Your photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?</h4>\n\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\n\nMy tip for other iPhonegraphers is to treat your iPhone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple...\n\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\nI currently have no ongoing iPhonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iPhonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.\n\nYou can check out Jussi\'s Keepsy gallery <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/gallery/skwii\" title=\"Skwii Keepsy Gallery\">here</a>, or perhaps you want to buy <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/cd1ebsJG\" title=\"Jussi\'s Keepsy Album\">his album?</a>  \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 5\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi ','','inherit','open','open','','5792-revision-5','','','2011-10-18 14:21:25','2011-10-18 14:21:25','',5792,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5792-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(5808,16,'2011-10-18 14:23:51','2011-10-18 14:23:51','So you know how we\'ve been interviewing awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we\'re talking to Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"Jussi Ulkuniemi - Skwii Instagram handle\">@skwii</a>. Jussi\'s Instafeed really stood out to us - it\'s creative, interesting, and a little bit different to the norm, in a very good way! iPhoneography all the way from Finland people...get on board. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\r\n\r\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\r\n\r\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never guessed it would play such a big role in my life.\r\n\r\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iPhonegraphy is also a part of the reason  I got my current job as a graphic designer.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about iPhonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iPhonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. IPhonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 2\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>We see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\r\n\r\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range...stalk stalk! Ha!\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Your photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?</h4>\r\n\r\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n\r\nMy tip for other iPhonegraphers is to treat your iPhone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple...\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\r\nI currently have no ongoing iPhonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iPhonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.\r\n\r\nYou can check out Jussi\'s Keepsy gallery <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/gallery/skwii\" title=\"Skwii Keepsy Gallery\">here</a>, or perhaps you want to buy <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/cd1ebsJG\" title=\"Jussi\'s Keepsy Album\">his album?</a>  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 5\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi ','','inherit','open','open','','5792-revision-6','','','2011-10-18 14:23:51','2011-10-18 14:23:51','',5792,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5792-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(5809,16,'2011-10-18 14:27:31','2011-10-18 14:27:31','So you know how we\'ve been interviewing awesome iPhoneographers and Instagramers...well we\'re back with another instalment to the Instagram series! This week we\'re talking to Jussi Ulkuniemi aka <a href=\"http://www.web.stagram.com/n/skwii\" title=\"Jussi Ulkuniemi - Skwii Instagram handle\">@skwii</a>. Jussi\'s Instafeed really stood out to us - it\'s creative, interesting, and a little bit different to the norm, in a very good way! iPhoneography all the way from Finland people...get on board. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 1\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi5.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your background in photography?</h4>\r\n\r\nI\'m Jussi Ulkuniemi, a 19 year old to-be-artist of some kind, from Finland. The \"to-be\" part comes from a fact that I still don\'t know what I\'m about to do for the next ten years or so. It may be performing as a dancer or an actor, or possibly graphic design and photography. It\'s all about expression and that\'s what I\'m passionate about. Other than that I also love warm-hearted people, chili and garlic! Currently I\'m working as a Graphic Designer.\r\n\r\n<h4>How and when did you get involved in iPhoneography? What do you love about it?</h4>\r\n\r\nI got interested in taking pictures with my dear iphone 3GS almost instantly when I got it about two years ago. It was the fascination of apps like Hipstamatic and PictureShow that first stirred the passion, but it was after TiltShiftGen that my Camera Roll really blossomed. (DoF<3<3) Then came Instagram and blew it all sky-high. It was everyday learning of photgraphy, chatting with pros and shooting the rest of the day for the next 6 months straight for me...! I had always loved photography but I would have never guessed it would play such a big role in my life.\r\n\r\nToday I\'m equipped with about 30 photography apps of awesomeness and can clearly say the $$ I spent was not wasted. My iPhonegraphy is also a part of the reason  I got my current job as a graphic designer.\r\n\r\nWhat I love about iPhonegraphy is the way how you must simplify everything you see. Good iPhonegraphy is often something that stirs interest even if it\'s displayed in a size of a postage stamp. The other thing is the possibility to take pictures of the public on the street AKA street photography without people getting too nervous. IPhonegraphy is the easiest way to capture people in a normal, non-posing and cautious situations.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 2\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi1.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>We see from your Instagram profile you\'re shooting with an iPhone 3GS, which just shows it\'s the photographer not the camera...that said, do you find the 3GS camera limiting? Do you plan to upgrade to the 4GS?</h4>\r\n\r\nWell... There are times... a lot of times actually...! Especially the Finn- style loooong and dark winter. The iphone will shut itself in the cold pretty fast, not to mention the amount of grain and shutter speed... Now don\'t get me wrong here: I really love taking silhouettes, but mostly it\'s the only proper way to photograph in dim light... Argh! I\'ve loved my 3gs long and well, even done some own cases for it... But yes, can\'t wait to upgrade to the 4S!!! Maybe then I\'ll be able to have some more motion to my pics and maybe freeze a passerby at close range...stalk stalk! Ha!\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi2.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Your photos have a great mix of several effects with an emphasis on faded cool tones, interesting portraits and silhouettes. How would you describe your photography style? Where do you find shooting inspiration?</h4>\r\n\r\nThere are a lot of sources of inspirations to my photography, about as much as how many I\'m following in Instagram and more, but the things that make my photography style \"me\" are my cartoonish interests and the passion for modern art. I quess what I\'m aiming for is somehow avant-garde. Art for art\'s sake that is. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi3.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h4>What tips and tricks would you share with other iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n\r\nMy tip for other iPhonegraphers is to treat your iPhone like a real camera, concentrate and take deep breath when shooting. Use two hands for steadiness. Watch the lines and create compositions like a pro. Oh, and keep things simple...\r\n\r\n<h4>Tell us a little bit about your current and future iPhoneography projects, if any.</h4>\r\nI currently have no ongoing iPhonegraphy projects, the work and social life is keeping me too busy to really indulge myself into iPhonegraphy right now. But being busy has it\'s ups and downs. Everything that comes up these days are purely improv and on the go, fascinating bits of everyday life turned into art.\r\n\r\nYou can check out Jussi\'s Keepsy gallery <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/gallery/skwii\" title=\"Skwii Keepsy Gallery\">here</a>, or perhaps you want to buy <a href=\"http://www.keepsy.com/cd1ebsJG\" title=\"Jussi\'s Keepsy Album\">his album?</a>  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"Jussi 5\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jussi4.jpg\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>','iPhoneography with Instagramer Jussi Ulkuniemi ','','inherit','open','open','','5792-revision-7','','','2011-10-18 14:27:31','2011-10-18 14:27:31','',5792,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5792-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(5810,16,'2011-10-26 08:00:37','2011-10-26 08:00:37','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rooftops for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of websites for instagram...to enhance your Instagram experience and make life that little bit easier. Read: keep up with your Instagram feed while pretending you are hard at work.  \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. But there’s a few that offer extra little bits of awesome, and we think they’re definitely worth checking out.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\"><h4>Statigram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nStatigram is particularly cool as you can…no surprise here…get fun statistics for Instagram photos. Wanna know which photo had the most likes? Which photo filters triggered the most comments? Your posting habits? The reciprocal relationship of your followers? Statigram can tell you all of those things…this is the Instagram web browser for number crunchers and other statistical bods.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Statigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/statigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\"><h4>Cartagram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nCartagram offers a really neat photo-mosaic map view of the photos on Instagram. It’s essentially the world map according to Instagram! Zoom in and out from the map, search for a specific location around the world, or use your current location to see a selection of photos taken near you. Sure, there’s ways to do view photos around you in several other types of browsers, but this a pretty spiffy way to view them if you\'re a visual person, like myself. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! 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Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Instagram Websites ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-6','','','2011-10-18 16:01:38','2011-10-18 16:01:38','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(5823,16,'2011-10-18 16:01:45','2011-10-18 16:01:45','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rafters for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"#\" title=\"#\">LINK</a<a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of Instagram websites to enhance your Instagram experience. \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. 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Sure, there’s \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! 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If you’re a fan of iTunes scrolling album view then this web viewer is for you!  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\"  alt=\"Instagreat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagreat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>And a few fun ones thrown in for good measure…</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\"><h4>Pic A Fight</h4></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the virtual “who took it better”, a bit like the infamous \"who wore it better\" competition for photos…it’s essentially a head to head battle where you can vote on which photo you like best. Pic a Fight actually keeps track of who wins and loses and creates a leader board of all the best photos and photographers. Want to know the most evil part about this little browser? As you search through photographers you can actually send their photos to “Battle”. Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Instagram Websites ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-10','','','2011-10-18 16:02:58','2011-10-18 16:02:58','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(5825,16,'2011-10-18 16:02:30','2011-10-18 16:02:30','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rooftops for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"#\" title=\"#\">LINK</a<a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of Instagram websites to enhance your Instagram experience. \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. But there’s a few that offer extra little bits of awesome, and we think they’re definitely worth checking out.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\"><h4>Statigram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nStatigram is particularly cool as you can…no surprise here…get fun statistics for Instagram photos. Wanna know which photo had the most likes? Which photo filters triggered the most comments? Your posting habits? The reciprocal relationship of your followers? Statigram can tell you all of those things…this is the Instagram web browser for number crunchers and other statistical bods.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Statigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/statigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\"><h4>Cartagram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nCartagram offers a really neat photo-mosaic map view of the photos on Instagram. It’s essentially the world map according to Instagram! Zoom in and out from the map, search for a specific location around the world, or use your current location to see a selection of photos taken near you. Sure, there’s \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! It is Instagram simplicity at it’s best…clean, well-organized and easy to navigate. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Instagrid\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagrid.png\"]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\"><h4>Insta-Great!</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstead of browsing photos in a grid or other type of block viewer, Instagreat actually shows photos in a scrolling feed going from left to right. It is at first glance a popular photo viewer, but as you see a photo you like the look of, double clicking on that photo will bring up a secondary left to right scrolling feed of that Instagramer’s photos. It seems a little bit complicated at first, but actually as you get into viewing this way the stacking, scrolling bars seem to be quite intuitive. If you’re a fan of iTunes scrolling album view then this web viewer is for you!  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\"  alt=\"Instagreat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagreat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>And a few fun ones thrown in for good measure…</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\"><h4>Pic A Fight</h4></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the virtual “who took it better”, a bit like the infamous \"who wore it better\" competition for photos…it’s essentially a head to head battle where you can vote on which photo you like best. Pic a Fight actually keeps track of who wins and loses and creates a leader board of all the best photos and photographers. Want to know the most evil part about this little browser? As you search through photographers you can actually send their photos to “Battle”. Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Instagram Websites ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-9','','','2011-10-18 16:02:30','2011-10-18 16:02:30','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-9.html',0,'revision','',0),(5827,16,'2011-10-18 16:03:59','2011-10-18 16:03:59','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rooftops for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of Instagram websites to enhance your Instagram experience. \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. But there’s a few that offer extra little bits of awesome, and we think they’re definitely worth checking out.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\"><h4>Statigram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nStatigram is particularly cool as you can…no surprise here…get fun statistics for Instagram photos. Wanna know which photo had the most likes? Which photo filters triggered the most comments? Your posting habits? The reciprocal relationship of your followers? Statigram can tell you all of those things…this is the Instagram web browser for number crunchers and other statistical bods.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Statigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/statigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\"><h4>Cartagram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nCartagram offers a really neat photo-mosaic map view of the photos on Instagram. It’s essentially the world map according to Instagram! Zoom in and out from the map, search for a specific location around the world, or use your current location to see a selection of photos taken near you. Sure, there’s \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! It is Instagram simplicity at it’s best…clean, well-organized and easy to navigate. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Instagrid\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagrid.png\"]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\"><h4>Insta-Great!</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstead of browsing photos in a grid or other type of block viewer, Instagreat actually shows photos in a scrolling feed going from left to right. It is at first glance a popular photo viewer, but as you see a photo you like the look of, double clicking on that photo will bring up a secondary left to right scrolling feed of that Instagramer’s photos. It seems a little bit complicated at first, but actually as you get into viewing this way the stacking, scrolling bars seem to be quite intuitive. If you’re a fan of iTunes scrolling album view then this web viewer is for you!  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\"  alt=\"Instagreat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagreat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>And a few fun ones thrown in for good measure…</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\"><h4>Pic A Fight</h4></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the virtual “who took it better”, a bit like the infamous \"who wore it better\" competition for photos…it’s essentially a head to head battle where you can vote on which photo you like best. Pic a Fight actually keeps track of who wins and loses and creates a leader board of all the best photos and photographers. Want to know the most evil part about this little browser? As you search through photographers you can actually send their photos to “Battle”. Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Instagram Websites ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-11','','','2011-10-18 16:03:59','2011-10-18 16:03:59','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-11.html',0,'revision','',0),(5828,16,'2011-10-18 16:05:20','2011-10-18 16:05:20','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rooftops for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of Instagram websites to enhance your Instagram experience. \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. But there’s a few that offer extra little bits of awesome, and we think they’re definitely worth checking out.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\"><h4>Statigram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nStatigram is particularly cool as you can…no surprise here…get fun statistics for Instagram photos. Wanna know which photo had the most likes? Which photo filters triggered the most comments? Your posting habits? The reciprocal relationship of your followers? Statigram can tell you all of those things…this is the Instagram web browser for number crunchers and other statistical bods.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Statigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/statigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\"><h4>Cartagram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nCartagram offers a really neat photo-mosaic map view of the photos on Instagram. It’s essentially the world map according to Instagram! Zoom in and out from the map, search for a specific location around the world, or use your current location to see a selection of photos taken near you. Sure, there’s ways to do view photos around you in several other types of browsers, but this a pretty spiffy way to view them if you\'re a visual person, like myself. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! It is Instagram simplicity at it’s best…clean, well-organized and easy to navigate. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Instagrid\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagrid.png\"]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\"><h4>Insta-Great!</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstead of browsing photos in a grid or other type of block viewer, Instagreat actually shows photos in a scrolling feed going from left to right. It is at first glance a popular photo viewer, but as you see a photo you like the look of, double clicking on that photo will bring up a secondary left to right scrolling feed of that Instagramer’s photos. It seems a little bit complicated at first, but actually as you get into viewing this way the stacking, scrolling bars seem to be quite intuitive. If you’re a fan of iTunes scrolling album view then this web viewer is for you!  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\"  alt=\"Instagreat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagreat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>And a few fun ones thrown in for good measure…</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\"><h4>Pic A Fight</h4></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the virtual “who took it better”, a bit like the infamous \"who wore it better\" competition for photos…it’s essentially a head to head battle where you can vote on which photo you like best. Pic a Fight actually keeps track of who wins and loses and creates a leader board of all the best photos and photographers. Want to know the most evil part about this little browser? As you search through photographers you can actually send their photos to “Battle”. Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Instagram Websites ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-12','','','2011-10-18 16:05:20','2011-10-18 16:05:20','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-12.html',0,'revision','',0),(5829,16,'2011-10-18 16:05:20','2011-10-18 16:05:20','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rooftops for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of Instagram websites to enhance your Instagram experience. \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. But there’s a few that offer extra little bits of awesome, and we think they’re definitely worth checking out.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\"><h4>Statigram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nStatigram is particularly cool as you can…no surprise here…get fun statistics for Instagram photos. Wanna know which photo had the most likes? Which photo filters triggered the most comments? Your posting habits? The reciprocal relationship of your followers? Statigram can tell you all of those things…this is the Instagram web browser for number crunchers and other statistical bods.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Statigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/statigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\"><h4>Cartagram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nCartagram offers a really neat photo-mosaic map view of the photos on Instagram. It’s essentially the world map according to Instagram! Zoom in and out from the map, search for a specific location around the world, or use your current location to see a selection of photos taken near you. Sure, there’s ways to do view photos around you in several other types of browsers, but this a pretty spiffy way to view them if you\'re a visual person, like myself. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! It is Instagram simplicity at it’s best…clean, well-organized and easy to navigate. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Instagrid\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagrid.png\"]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\"><h4>Insta-Great!</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstead of browsing photos in a grid or other type of block viewer, Instagreat actually shows photos in a scrolling feed going from left to right. It is at first glance a popular photo viewer, but as you see a photo you like the look of, double clicking on that photo will bring up a secondary left to right scrolling feed of that Instagramer’s photos. It seems a little bit complicated at first, but actually as you get into viewing this way the stacking, scrolling bars seem to be quite intuitive. If you’re a fan of iTunes scrolling album view then this web viewer is for you!  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\"  alt=\"Instagreat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagreat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>And a few fun ones thrown in for good measure…</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\"><h4>Pic A Fight</h4></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the virtual “who took it better”, a bit like the infamous \"who wore it better\" competition for photos…it’s essentially a head to head battle where you can vote on which photo you like best. Pic a Fight actually keeps track of who wins and loses and creates a leader board of all the best photos and photographers. Want to know the most evil part about this little browser? As you search through photographers you can actually send their photos to “Battle”. Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Instagram Websites ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-13','','','2011-10-18 16:05:20','2011-10-18 16:05:20','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-13.html',0,'revision','',0),(5830,16,'2011-10-18 16:06:10','2011-10-18 16:06:10','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rooftops for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of Instagram websites to enhance your Instagram experience. \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. But there’s a few that offer extra little bits of awesome, and we think they’re definitely worth checking out.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\"><h4>Statigram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nStatigram is particularly cool as you can…no surprise here…get fun statistics for Instagram photos. Wanna know which photo had the most likes? Which photo filters triggered the most comments? Your posting habits? The reciprocal relationship of your followers? Statigram can tell you all of those things…this is the Instagram web browser for number crunchers and other statistical bods.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Statigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/statigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\"><h4>Cartagram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nCartagram offers a really neat photo-mosaic map view of the photos on Instagram. It’s essentially the world map according to Instagram! Zoom in and out from the map, search for a specific location around the world, or use your current location to see a selection of photos taken near you. Sure, there’s ways to do view photos around you in several other types of browsers, but this a pretty spiffy way to view them if you\'re a visual person, like myself. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! It is Instagram simplicity at it’s best…clean, well-organized and easy to navigate. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Instagrid\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagrid.png\"]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\"><h4>Insta-Great!</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstead of browsing photos in a grid or other type of block viewer, Instagreat actually shows photos in a scrolling feed going from left to right. It is at first glance a popular photo viewer, but as you see a photo you like the look of, double clicking on that photo will bring up a secondary left to right scrolling feed of that Instagramer’s photos. It seems a little bit complicated at first, but actually as you get into viewing this way the stacking, scrolling bars seem to be quite intuitive. If you’re a fan of iTunes scrolling album view then this web viewer is for you!  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\"  alt=\"Instagreat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagreat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>And a few fun ones thrown in for good measure…</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\"><h4>Pic A Fight</h4></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the virtual “who took it better”, a bit like the infamous \"who wore it better\" competition for photos…it’s essentially a head to head battle where you can vote on which photo you like best. Pic a Fight actually keeps track of who wins and loses and creates a leader board of all the best photos and photographers. Want to know the most evil part about this little browser? As you search through photographers you can actually send their photos to “Battle”. Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Instagram Websites ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-14','','','2011-10-18 16:06:10','2011-10-18 16:06:10','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(5831,16,'2011-10-18 16:09:37','2011-10-18 16:09:37','You all surely know how much we love Instagram here – we’ve practically been shouting it from the rooftops for the last few weeks. Not without good reason – we are promoting our latest eBook (hint: it\'s on the <a href=\"http://www.thebeginnerslens.com\" title=\"The Beginners Lens Home Page\">home page</a>), but you already knew that right? Anyway, back to Instagram – there is one little drawback to our beloved insta-polaroid app…there is (as of today) no official web interface from the developers at Instagram. All browsing and Instagram activities are done directly within the app. We’ve already covered a good selection of Instagram apps, so we thought it might also be useful to go through a selection of websites for instagram...to enhance your Instagram experience and make life that little bit easier. Read: keep up with your Instagram feed while pretending you are hard at work.  \r\n\r\nHere are a few popular Instagram web browsers and what we think is great about them. Most web browsers offer variations on the same features such as photo browsing, follow / unfollow, like, and searching. But there’s a few that offer extra little bits of awesome, and we think they’re definitely worth checking out.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\"><h4>Statigram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nStatigram is particularly cool as you can…no surprise here…get fun statistics for Instagram photos. Wanna know which photo had the most likes? Which photo filters triggered the most comments? Your posting habits? The reciprocal relationship of your followers? Statigram can tell you all of those things…this is the Instagram web browser for number crunchers and other statistical bods.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://statigr.am\" title=\"Statigram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Statigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/statigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p> \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\"><h4>Cartagram</h4></a>\r\n\r\nCartagram offers a really neat photo-mosaic map view of the photos on Instagram. It’s essentially the world map according to Instagram! Zoom in and out from the map, search for a specific location around the world, or use your current location to see a selection of photos taken near you. Sure, there’s ways to do view photos around you in several other types of browsers, but this a pretty spiffy way to view them if you\'re a visual person, like myself. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cartagr.am\" title=\"Cartagram\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\"  alt=\"Cartigram\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartigram.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\"><h4>Instagrid</h4></a>\r\n\r\nOk – this one is a little bit obvious, but Instagrid organizes your Instagram photos (and everyone else’s) into a grid! It is Instagram simplicity at it’s best…clean, well-organized and easy to navigate. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.instagrid.me\" title=\"Instagrid\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\"  alt=\"Instagrid\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagrid.png\"]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\"><h4>Insta-Great!</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstead of browsing photos in a grid or other type of block viewer, Instagreat actually shows photos in a scrolling feed going from left to right. It is at first glance a popular photo viewer, but as you see a photo you like the look of, double clicking on that photo will bring up a secondary left to right scrolling feed of that Instagramer’s photos. It seems a little bit complicated at first, but actually as you get into viewing this way the stacking, scrolling bars seem to be quite intuitive. If you’re a fan of iTunes scrolling album view then this web viewer is for you!  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instagre.at\" title=\"Instagreat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\"  alt=\"Instagreat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instagreat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>And a few fun ones thrown in for good measure…</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\"><h4>Pic A Fight</h4></a>\r\n\r\nThis is the virtual “who took it better”, a bit like the infamous \"who wore it better\" competition for photos…it’s essentially a head to head battle where you can vote on which photo you like best. Pic a Fight actually keeps track of who wins and loses and creates a leader board of all the best photos and photographers. Want to know the most evil part about this little browser? As you search through photographers you can actually send their photos to “Battle”. Muahahahahaha. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.picafight.com\" title=\"Pic A Fight\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\"  alt=\"Picafight\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/picafight.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\"><h4>Instacat</h4></a>\r\n\r\nInstacat is the virtual crazy cat lady living next door, and this nut job has got millions of cats! OK – we may have been a little harsh there, but don’t let the catty-ness of this site fool you, Instacat is actually a hashtag browser, and it’s not just limited to cats. If cats aren’t your thing, then just use the search field in the top right of the browser to find your preferred neurosis.  \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://instac.at\" title=\"Instacat\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\"  alt=\"Instacat\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/instacat.png\"  ]</a><p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','A Selection of Websites for Instagram ','','inherit','open','open','','5810-revision-15','','','2011-10-18 16:09:37','2011-10-18 16:09:37','',5810,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5810-revision-15.html',0,'revision','',0),(5832,5,'2011-10-18 13:08:34','2011-10-18 13:08:34','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with The Beginners Lens Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - Easier to see now!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-16','','','2011-10-18 13:08:34','2011-10-18 13:08:34','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-16.html',0,'revision','',0),(5833,5,'2011-10-15 07:20:25','2011-10-15 07:20:25','To continue our celebration of our latest eBook – the Go-To Guide for Instagram, today we’re posting about some of the Instagram apps you can use to supersize your Instagram experience. Now before you’re all “HUH? I thought Instagram WAS the app to use?”, and we say with a resounding “YES! It still is!”…but there’s a few apps that can improve the way you view your photos, help you find new followers, and just generally expand your Instagram fun, and as far as we’re concerned that’s pretty darned cool. \r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instabam/id437615875?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Instabam</a></h4> \r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instabam.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"485\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instabam.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOk, we love this app for the name alone…Insta-BAM! InstaBAM! Woo, it’s so much fun just to say it! Try it for yourself…emphasis on the BAM. We challenge you not to smile. Further to the awesome name, Instabam uses your location to find all of the photos that have been taken within a certain distance of your location. So check out the world around you through the eyes of Instagram. Oh yeah, and it’s FREE! \r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instaradar/id426910032?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">InstaRadar</a></h4>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/InstaRadar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"485\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/InstaRadar.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nInstaradar is a bit like InstaBAM but rather than show you photos via your location, you can use an interactive map to search, explore, and view Instagram photos via geo location. This is an awesome way to check out not only points around you, but places all over the world! Why not check out your next vacation spot on Instagram before you go? \r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instamap-real-time-instagram/id437617395?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Instamap</a></h4> \r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instamap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"485\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instamap.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nInstamap is essentially a browser for Instagram and like Instaradar it allows you to browse and view Instagram photos by location or geo tag. But what’s really cool about Instamap is that it’s a “real-time” browser, meaning you can load a location, or a feed and watch as photos from that location are uploaded, in real time. You can also view popular photos and your own stream in gallery mode. \r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instagallery-browse-instagram/id422065992?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Instagallery</a></h4> \r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instagallery.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"485\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instagallery.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nInstagallery is an Instagram browser, and gallery all in one! Not only can you browse and view photos full-size or thumbnail, but you can also create sets of your favorite photos. Instagallery has many of the same functions as the Instagram app itself, you can follow, like, search, with the added ability to email your own Instagram photos to friends. You can also hook up this useful app to your Apple TV via AirPlay to share photos or view slideshows. \r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instashow/id434563527?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Instashow</a></h4>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instashow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"485\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instashow.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nInstashow is a nifty little app that shows a live stream slideshow of the people you’re following, your photos, the photos you’ve liked, or show photos from a #hashtag. View your Instagram feed vertically, horizontally and with a variety of cool frames and tiles! \r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instadesk/id428652446?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\">InstaDesk</a></h4> \r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instadesk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Instadesk.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nInstadesk is an Instagram desktop client for Mac. Much like the (many) web-based Instagram clients, you can browse your own feed and those you are following. InstaDesk also has a cool social graph to help you find new people to follow. With all of the functionality of the Instagram app, you can keep up with your favourite “photo twitter” app straight from your desktop. Your boss will never know you’re surfing Instagram…\r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carousel/id437548184?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\">Carousel</a></h4> \r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Carousel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"665\" height=\"412\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Carousel.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLike InstaDesk, Carousel is a Mac desktop app made for viewing, liking, commenting, saving, and much much more… Carousel will appeal to the minimalist in everyone, it simply does what it says on the tin, and for that we’re grateful! Simple, easy, and slick Instagram operations in one useful Mac app! \r\n','A Selection of Great Instagram Apps','','inherit','open','open','','5663-revision-10','','','2011-10-15 07:20:25','2011-10-15 07:20:25','',5663,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5663-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(5834,5,'2011-10-15 07:18:59','2011-10-15 07:18:59','Whether you’re shooting with your DSLR or your iPhone, sunsets are definitely a popular photographic subject! Most people shoot sunsets when they are away on vacation or holiday, or when they are travelling, but don’t forget you can get some great sunset shots wherever you live! With a little bit of planning and our photography tips for shooting sunsets you’ll be shooting beautiful sunsets wherever you are. What makes a good sunset photograph is difficult to say, but for most it is the feeling that is evoked when they see it, whether it be a sense of tranquillity, or serenity but for most it’s the feeling that they could step right into that photo and feel instantly relaxed. So first off, remember that you’re trying to evoke a feeling with a sunset photo – keep that in mind and you’re off to a good start. \r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a title=\"The Last Day, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tripax/5309623252/\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Sunset1.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Last Day</em>\r\nPhoto by Marc Benslahdine</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Forward Planning</h4> \r\n\r\nMost people shoot sunsets spontaneously, and while this does often get good results, a bit of planning ahead can ensure you get some awesome shots. Take a look around you and find some places that you think might get nice shots. Look not only for places where you can see the sun track all the way down, but also places that may provide for elements in the foreground and middle ground of your shot. Look for interesting shapes, trees, buildings, etc to provide silhouettes for your photo. \r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a title=\"SEMEUR DE RÊVES - SOWER OF DREAMS - Bonne Année ! , on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/43057840@N00/5312423800/\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Sunset2.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>SEMEUR DE RÊVES - SOWER OF DREAMS - Bonne Année ! </em>\r\nPhoto by bleuet / Anne-Marie back slowly ;-)</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAlso consider what equipment you might need before hand, a tripod is always a great idea for sunset photos, but if you’re shooting with an iPhone a good sturdy rock or other support will do. If you’re shooting with your DSLR, be sure to take a couple of different lenses, a wide angle or a zoom lens with different focal lengths is ideal…just take what you have and make the most of it when you get there. \r\n\r\nMake note of what time the sun sets, and plan to be there about half an hour before, so you can get set up. It is usually the twenty minutes before, and twenty minutes after the sun disappears when the light is best for shooting…don’t stop shooting just because the sun is gone! \r\n\r\n<h4>Composition</h4>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a title=\"Andando..., on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/bombeador/4238718222/\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Sunset3.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andando...</em>\r\nPhoto by Eduardo Amorim</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou can use a variety of different objects as focal points for your shot, as we mentioned above silhouettes are a great point of interest, but don’t forget that the sun can also be a good focal point in an of itself. A silhouette could be anything from a boat on the water, a pier or people, to various parts of the landscape including mountains, trees, buildings, or islands. Don’t forget that clouds can also be part of the composition! \r\n\r\nUse the rule of thirds when you need to fall back on a few composition tricks to make the most of what you’re shooting, but on the other hand don’t be afraid to try something new while you shoot. Rules are made to be broken. \r\n\r\n<h4>Shooting</h4> \r\n\r\nTake lots of shots, from lots of different angles and focal points. In some cases you may be physically limited by the landscape, for instance if you’re shooting on the shore, but if you don’t have a zoom lens then you can physically walk closer and further away to get a different perspective. \r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a title=\"Square Sunset, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tripax/4929220497/\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Sunset4.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Square Sunset</em>\r\nPhoto by Marc Benslahdine</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\nShoot at different exposures. You can do this with both a DSLR or an iPhone – when using a DSLR try shooting in shutter priority mode and start with a very fast shutter moving slower and slower. As the shutter speed gets slower you will be more and more likely to need a tripod. If you’re shooting with an iPhone tap the viewfinder to set the exposure, to reset for a different exposure tap in a different place! Easy! \r\n\r\nOur last tip for shooting is to change your white balance out of “auto” into “cloudy” or “shade”. Both cloudy and shade will give you much warmer results, which is usually preferable when shooting the sun. If you leave your camera in auto white balance, you run the risk of altering that special warmth and glow you’re trying to achieve. If you’re shooting with an iPhone then why not try shooting in an app like Almost DSLR or editing your photo in an app like Photo Forge 2, where you’ll get good results by adjusting the white balance. \r\n\r\nFinally…if you don’t get good shots one night, try again the next night! It’s not an exact science, sometimes it comes together and other times it doesn’t…just have fun, you’re on vacation after all. \r\n','Photography Tips For Shooting Sunsets','','inherit','open','open','','5657-revision-9','','','2011-10-15 07:18:59','2011-10-15 07:18:59','',5657,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5657-revision-9.html',0,'revision','',0),(5835,16,'2011-10-19 08:01:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','Looking for an accessory to help you get great #panoramicphotos on your #iPhone?Try the Gymbl from @YOUBIQ http://tinyurl.com/5ra89b9','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-10-19 08:01:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=5835',0,'tweet','',0),(5836,5,'2011-10-19 07:42:55','2011-10-19 07:42:55','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with The Beginners Lens Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - Easier to see now!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-17','','','2011-10-19 07:42:55','2011-10-19 07:42:55','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-17.html',0,'revision','',0),(5837,5,'2011-10-19 08:07:33','2011-10-19 08:07:33','I recently took a gamble on the Gymbl and got great results! (say THAT 5 times fast). What were the results? Amazing panoramas and proof that the Gymbl is a sturdy bit of kit. Let’s take a closer look with The Beginners Lens Gymbl Tripod Review…\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\"  alt=\"Paris in October - With the Gymbl - Perfect Panorama!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-no-kinks.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\nI\'ve been putting in quite a bit of time in using the Gymbl, a tripod made specifically for iPhone panoramas, and let me tell you it’s been a real treat to use. Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - Easier to see now!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! 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Let me be frank, I’m a self-professed iPhoneography nut and I can’t resist a good Panorama. My favorite app for stitching panoramas together has got to be Autostitch, and I’ve been using it since it was released…but I’ve always had several issues with taking Panoramas on the iPhone - blown out skies, ghosting of moving subjects, unaligned photos, etc. But if I had to name the biggest issue I’ve had, it’s gotta be the fact that its very difficult to get good panoramic photos with a good foreground (in comparison to the rest of the photo). I like to compose panoramas with a nice, large foreground because it gives depth, perspective and a bit of oomph to the photo. But I found that was virtually impossible on the iPhone... until the Gymbl.\r\n\r\nTo explain that a little bit further, and be warned this gets a little bit technical but for those of you having the same problem you can relate! When you try to get a panorama with a large foreground, handheld or with a regular tripod, you invariably end up with ghosting and kinks on your photo. This is a parallax issue...put simply, a parallax is a displacement or distortion of the appearance of objects along the horizon or sight line. Parallax defects always appear in panoramas when the subject is too close to the camera (and that could be ranging from a few inches to a few meters, depending on the size of the subject).\r\nEnter the Gymbl. It\'s been engineered to help you get amazing panoramic shots without having to invite ghosts to your party. It’s not Halloween yet...  The Gymbl is simple to use whatever type of panorama you’re shooting, and in combination with any panorama apps, it just works. The Gymbl comes in 2 flavors: the regular Gymbl and the Gymbl Pro. The pro version gives you an additional panoramic head, which you can use with any tripod. The spare head is quite useful when you have nowhere to set up your small Gymbl tripod and you do not want to crouch in the street to take your shots! Just put the Gymbl head on a regular tripod, leveled up or down, compose and shoot. Simplicity at it’s best. \r\n\r\nLets check out the results! Take a look at the photo comparison. The first shot above was with the Gymbl, and the second shot below was handheld. See the difference?! \r\nI would say the hands down best feature of the Gymbl is the fact that it\'s built so that you can take horizontal, vertical or whatever-direction-you-want panoramas. But keep in mind that to shoot horizontal panoramas you still shoot with your phone in a vertical position… so you end up taking more photos to get the full view. Not a major problem, but for some this will be a drawback. For this particular photo, I have about 16 shots (it\'s HDR so there’s also 2 exposures for each shot) taken quickly in whatever direction. To be honest, I rather carelessly swiveled around the iPhone mounted on the Gymbl, just to take as much of the scene as I could. Stitched it in Autostitch. And voilà! Pretty darn impressive!! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - See the kinks?\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-only.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\n<center><p>...</p></center>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\"  alt=\"Paris in October - handheld - Easier to see now!\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gymbl-with-kinks-and-circles.jpg\"  titleoverlay=\"yes\"]\r\n\r\nSo although we’ve been totally singing the Gymbl’s praises, and we do love it, there are a few little drawbacks you should know about. First, I use a protection film on my iPhone and I had to remove it to use the Gymbl. To mount your phone on the Gymbl you have to slip your device in a tight case, and the film ads a layer of thickness, which makes it impossible to use with the case. Again, as we mentioned before the portrait constraint might be an issue, but on the whole it’s not really too much of a biggie, at least not for us. \r\n\r\nBefore we part I\'d like to give you a tip that works for panoramas in general, but that I remembered again while I was having fun with my Gymbl. When shooting panoramas, lock the exposure from shot to shot, to avoid having tone and color discrepancies in your final image. Also lock the focus, to avoid having some subjects (especially your foreground) half sharp/half blurry. Easy! \r\n\r\nSo there you have it! If you\'re into panoramic iPhoneography, the Gymbl is a must! Actually, it\'s the only tripod/head on the market - to my knowledge - that will allow you to take awesome panoramas without the parallax issues! AWESOME!  \r\n','Gymbl Tripod for Iphone - Review','','inherit','open','open','','5709-revision-19','','','2011-10-19 08:08:00','2011-10-19 08:08:00','',5709,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5709-revision-19.html',0,'revision','',0),(5839,16,'2011-10-20 08:02:21','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','A Selection of Great Instagram Apps - http://tinyurl.com/5t4o5ue','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-10-20 08:02:21','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=5839',0,'tweet','',0),(5840,16,'2011-10-21 08:00:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','We just reviewed @fxphotostudio #macphun #colorsplashstudio for Mac! A neat little color editing program!!  http://tinyurl.com/3rtzco6','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-10-21 08:00:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=5840',0,'tweet','',0),(5841,16,'2011-10-24 08:04:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','#Photography Tips For Shooting Sunsets with your #DSLR or #iphone!  http://tinyurl.com/3w4t7cw','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-10-24 08:04:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=5841',0,'tweet','',0),(5842,14,'2011-10-25 08:00:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','This week on Meet The Developers we chat with @Pictional the makers of #TrueHDR! http://tinyurl.com/43enbr5','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-10-25 08:00:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=5842',0,'tweet','',0),(5843,16,'2011-10-26 08:01:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','Looking for some cool websites to boost your @instagram experience. We\'ve put a fun little selection together for you! http://tinyurl.com/3hy4q7l','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-10-26 08:01:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=5843',0,'tweet','',0),(5844,16,'2011-10-27 08:01:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','Today we chat to @colerise, a #photographer and #iPhoneographer in the know! Be warned...awesome interview ahead! http://tinyurl.com/3kmbupw','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-10-27 08:01:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=5844',0,'tweet','',0),(5846,16,'2011-10-28 08:25:11','2011-10-28 08:25:11','','series1','','inherit','open','open','','series1','','','2011-10-28 08:25:11','2011-10-28 08:25:11','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5847,16,'2011-10-28 08:25:20','2011-10-28 08:25:20','','series2','','inherit','open','open','','series2','','','2011-10-28 08:25:20','2011-10-28 08:25:20','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5848,16,'2011-10-28 08:25:27','2011-10-28 08:25:27','','series3','','inherit','open','open','','series3','','','2011-10-28 08:25:27','2011-10-28 08:25:27','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series3.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5849,16,'2011-10-28 08:25:34','2011-10-28 08:25:34','','series4','','inherit','open','open','','series4','','','2011-10-28 08:25:34','2011-10-28 08:25:34','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series4.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5850,16,'2011-10-28 08:25:43','2011-10-28 08:25:43','','series5','','inherit','open','open','','series5','','','2011-10-28 08:25:43','2011-10-28 08:25:43','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series5.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5851,16,'2011-10-28 08:25:55','2011-10-28 08:25:55','','series6','','inherit','open','open','','series6','','','2011-10-28 08:25:55','2011-10-28 08:25:55','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series6.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5852,16,'2011-10-28 08:26:03','2011-10-28 08:26:03','','series7','','inherit','open','open','','series7','','','2011-10-28 08:26:03','2011-10-28 08:26:03','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series7.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5853,16,'2011-10-28 07:31:11','2011-10-28 07:31:11','I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\n\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \n\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\n\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \n\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \n\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\n\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\n\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\n\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\n\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\n\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \n\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \n\nd. Share your work! (Insert Hello Phoenix, and Dallas boarding)\n\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision','','','2011-10-28 07:31:11','2011-10-28 07:31:11','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(5854,16,'2011-10-28 09:58:16','2011-10-28 09:58:16','I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\n\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \n\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\" height=\"217\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\n\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \n\n\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \n\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\n\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\n\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\n\n\n\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\n\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\n\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \n\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \n\nd. Share your work! \n\n\n\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision-2','','','2011-10-28 09:58:16','2011-10-28 09:58:16','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision-2.html',0,'revision','',0),(5855,16,'2011-10-28 10:01:30','2011-10-28 10:01:30','I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\r\n\r\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \r\n\r\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\" height=\"217\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \r\n\r\n\r\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \r\n\r\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\r\n\r\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\r\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\r\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \r\n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \r\n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\r\n\r\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\r\n\r\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \r\n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\r\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\r\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\r\n\r\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \r\n\r\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \r\n\r\nd. Share your work! \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \r\n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision-3','','','2011-10-28 10:01:30','2011-10-28 10:01:30','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision-3.html',0,'revision','',0),(5858,16,'2011-10-28 10:03:16','2011-10-28 10:03:16','I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\r\n\r\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \r\n\r\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\" height=\"217\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \r\n\r\n\r\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \r\n\r\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\r\n\r\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\r\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\r\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \r\n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \r\n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\r\n\r\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\r\n\r\n[postgallery_image width=\"369\" id=\"0\" height=\"164\" undefined slidesetid=\"Karen\" animation=\"fade\" tween=\"linear\" /]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\r\n\r\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \r\n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\r\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\r\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\r\n\r\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \r\n\r\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \r\n\r\nd. Share your work! \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \r\n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision-6','','','2011-10-28 10:03:16','2011-10-28 10:03:16','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(5856,16,'2011-10-28 10:02:27','2011-10-28 10:02:27','[postgallery_image width=\"369\" id=\"0\" height=\"164\" undefined slidesetid=\"Karen\"   animation=\"fade\" tween=\"linear\"  timeout=\"7\"     /]I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\r\n\r\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \r\n\r\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\" height=\"217\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \r\n\r\n\r\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \r\n\r\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\r\n\r\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\r\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\r\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \r\n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \r\n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\r\n\r\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\r\n\r\n[postgallery_image width=\"369\" id=\"0\" height=\"164\" undefined slidesetid=\"Karen\"   animation=\"fade\" tween=\"linear\"       /]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\r\n\r\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \r\n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\r\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\r\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\r\n\r\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \r\n\r\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \r\n\r\nd. Share your work! \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \r\n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision-4','','','2011-10-28 10:02:27','2011-10-28 10:02:27','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(5857,16,'2011-10-28 10:02:35','2011-10-28 10:02:35','[postgallery_image width=\"369\" id=\"0\" height=\"164\" undefined slidesetid=\"Karen\"   animation=\"fade\" tween=\"linear\"  timeout=\"7\"     /]I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\r\n\r\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \r\n\r\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\" height=\"217\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \r\n\r\n\r\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \r\n\r\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\r\n\r\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\r\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\r\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \r\n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \r\n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\r\n\r\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\r\n\r\n[postgallery_image width=\"369\" id=\"0\" height=\"164\" undefined slidesetid=\"Karen\"   animation=\"fade\" tween=\"linear\"       /]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\r\n\r\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \r\n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\r\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\r\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\r\n\r\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \r\n\r\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \r\n\r\nd. Share your work! \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \r\n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision-5','','','2011-10-28 10:02:35','2011-10-28 10:02:35','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(5859,16,'2011-10-28 10:06:22','2011-10-28 10:06:22','I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\r\n\r\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \r\n\r\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\" height=\"217\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \r\n\r\n<img style=\"float:left\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series2.png\" title=\"Karen Messick 2\" alt=\"Karen Messick 2\">\r\n\r\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \r\n\r\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\r\n\r\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\r\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\r\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \r\n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \r\n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\r\n\r\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\r\n\r\n[postgallery_image width=\"369\" id=\"0\" height=\"164\" undefined slidesetid=\"Karen\" animation=\"fade\" tween=\"linear\" /]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\r\n\r\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \r\n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\r\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\r\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\r\n\r\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \r\n\r\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \r\n\r\nd. Share your work! \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \r\n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision-7','','','2011-10-28 10:06:22','2011-10-28 10:06:22','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(5860,16,'2011-10-28 10:10:00','2011-10-28 10:10:00','I recently made a road trip with my nephew from Baltimore to Phoenix with some great stops along the way. Since he was doing most of the driving I was able to make some shots through the windows of the car. It was early fall when we left Maryland and I made my first road shot.  My nephew said, I should make a road shot for every state we passed through. Perfect! I had already committed to writing an article on making series images on the iPhone and this was an idea that tied right into the article.\r\n\r\nGrowing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s I saw country roads transform into major highways as the American public fell in love with travel and the automobile became an every man’s way to handle the commute to work from sprawling suburbs, to take sightseeing vacations across America. As a child there was no greater joy than when my dad piled us into the car for a “DRIVE,” often to the Allegheny Mountains in fall or the ocean in summer. I was in a “Retro” mood and Iris had what I wanted in FX. \r\n\r\nWhen my nephew and I left Maryland the skies were grey. My first shot did not have any color going for it so that was one more reason to process the shot with monochrome FX in Iris. I was shooting with the app ClassicPan as it gave me a wide and narrow view of the road through the front windshield, which helped eliminate catching any car interior or exterior. (Bugs on the windshield did occasionally present a problem so every time we stopped for gas I cleaned them!) I really liked the retro feeling the FX in Iris allowed me to create. I finished the image by adding text from Phonto and borders in Snapseed.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"488\" height=\"217\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series1.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nAs we continued on our trip I realized the second shot I made, I did not process in exactly the same way and I did not like the result as much, so I went back and decided to write down all the steps to get the same effect for every shot I was going to process. This attention to recording slider levels gave me the ability to consistently create the series look I wanted in each image. With the iPhone and iPad on board it was easy to post the finished shots to Facebook as we traveled across the country. I had lots of great feedback from my friends as I toured and posted. One comment even asked about the app processing I was using! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"369 \" height=\"164\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series2.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"370 \" height=\"164\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series3.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nThe formula for these images is as follows: \r\n\r\n1. Shoot in ClassicPan:Film ~Vivid, no Sprockets\r\n\r\n2. Process in Iris: Make appropriate adjustments first with Shadow/Highlight\r\n                        Add FX ~ Retro adjust strength to 48% then apply\r\n                        Add FX ~ Vintage Print (by tabbing on the more key at the bottom of the       \r\n                        Iris FX page) adjust strength to 45% then apply and save to camera roll. \r\n3. Open the saved image in Phonto: Tap the image to bring up the font menu. Make the following selections: Type~ Georgia: Size ~ .68 Tilt~ None Color ~Red 184, Green 153, Blue 39, and Alpha .48 Then hit done and move the text box to the location in your image you desire.\r\n\r\n4. Frame in Snapseed: Open the saved image out of Phonto in Snapseed. Tap on Frames icon at the bottom of Snapseeds opening page, tap the star and select Frame choice #5. Select a frame width between 5 and 15 and an offset of 100%and save.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"369 \" height=\"164\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series4.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"369 \" height=\"164\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series5.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nHere are my General Tips on Creating a Series:\r\n\r\na. Use the same format for your images; for example you could choose formats that are: \r\n    Square~ Hipstamatic: Panoramic~ ClassicPan or Standard format~Camera Plus.\r\n    By using the same format every time you begin to build consistency in your images.\r\n    While not necessary in creating a series it is an idea to start your series.\r\n\r\nb. Use a consistent subject, processing  or theme. For example you could shoot a series of say Daisies and mix up the formats, square, standard and panoramic while keeping the processing similar, or you could shoot a series of shots with the same format, similar processing and different subjects with a similar theme as I did with the road shots here. \r\n\r\nc. Keep notes on your processing steps. You never know when a series will develop. (I understand how the flow of creativity just jumps from one app to another..and sometimes you just have to go with it.) Saving images along the way as each step is applied can also help you back track when necessary. Using app linking you do not get a path so be careful when jumping from app to app using linking. \r\n\r\nd. Share your work! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"436\" height=\"181\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series6.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\nI continued to use the same ideas and processes all the way back home in the airports as the series not only became a series, but the images told a story by combining text with the image! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"522\" height=\"232\"  alt=\"Karen Messick\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/series7.png\"  ]<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n','Creating A Photographic Series on the iPhone - On The Road with Karen Messick','','inherit','open','open','','5845-revision-8','','','2011-10-28 10:10:00','2011-10-28 10:10:00','',5845,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/5845-revision-8.html',0,'revision','',0);
