INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (4319,14,'2011-07-31 03:39:50','2011-07-31 03:39:50','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nPHOTO TOASTER offers useful photo presets that can turn your ordinary snaps into something beautiful and worth-sharing.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Saycheezzz.com</li>\n<li>Easily edit photos in either Quick Matik and Pro Matik modes </li>>\n<li>Comes with built-in camera and boasts of 4x full-resolution digital zoom </li>\n<li>Fast full-res and medium-res burst modes</li>\n<li>Save photos to the app’s Photo Desk or to your iPhone’s Camera Roll</li>\n<li>Allows geotagging and has EXIF data access</li>\n<li>Send edited photos via email or share it over to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox</li>\n<li>Shoots HD videos</li>\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Well-labelled controls</li>\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\n<li>Has broad range of photo editing features</li>\n<li>Focus and exposure modes work very well</li>\n<li>Features Exposure Lock that enables you to set and lock the exposure </li>\n<li>Saves photo revisions in stacks</li>\n<li>Great support from developers</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Long delay between shots</li>\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nKING CAMERA will please anyone of all skill levels – may it be beginners or advanced iPhoneographers – with its wide range of features.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]KING CAMERA does not seem a newbie at all with its impressive set of features. While not perfect, it still offers a lot that can satisfy the needs of every iPhoneographer.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\nKING CAMERA is one of the most full-featured all-in-one camera apps out there for the iPhone. It builds on the strengths of other powerful apps like Camera+ and ProCamera, while still offering a bunch of cool features.\n\nThe built-in camera app provides a number of tools that can make your shooting very convenient for you. You can adjust the focus and exposure. You can quickly capture multiple shots in a second via full-res or medium-res burst mode. There is also time lapse and stop animation features. Camera shake won’t also be much of a problem since this app also has an anti-shake feature. If you have large fingers, you won’t be able to miss pressing the huge shutter button at the bottom.  \n\nOne laudable feature of KING CAMERA is Photo Desk. This is where all your captured photos are stored and edited images organized in Stacks. With Stacks, every version of the photo you are working on is saved, thus allowing you with much flexibility to edit and experiment. \n\nWhen it comes to editing, KING CAMERA has something to offer for both the novice and the pro. QuickMatik, as the name implies, is good for quick photo fixes with its good lineup of presets comparable to the best photo apps out there. ProMatik serves a full-fledged photo editor as it offers a wide range of editing controls.\n \nThere’s an issue though – the time lag between shots which will surely be of major concern to most. Good thing the developers have been already working to address this issue.\n\nKING CAMERA may still not be a king yet in the photo editing game as still has a long way to go in beating the best apps out there, but with the continuous effort of the developers to improve the app (rather than completely deserting it), we will likely see more from it in the future and that’s really something to look forward to. We’re excited!\n\n \n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','King Camera - A Solid Can-Do-It-All Photo-Editing App','','inherit','open','open','','4310-revision-6','','','2011-07-31 03:39:50','2011-07-31 03:39:50','',4310,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4310-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(4317,14,'2011-07-31 03:37:05','2011-07-31 03:37:05','','KingCamera','','inherit','open','open','','kingcamera','','','2011-07-31 03:37:05','2011-07-31 03:37:05','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4318,14,'2011-07-31 03:37:11','2011-07-31 03:37:11','','KingCamera-Logo','','inherit','open','open','','kingcamera-logo','','','2011-07-31 03:37:11','2011-07-31 03:37:11','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4320,14,'2011-07-31 03:43:10','2011-07-31 03:43:10','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nPHOTO TOASTER offers useful photo presets that can turn your ordinary snaps into something beautiful and worth-sharing.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Saycheezzz.com</li>\n<li>Easily edit photos in either Quick Matik and Pro Matik modes </li>\n<li>Comes with built-in camera and boasts of 4x full-resolution digital zoom </li>\n<li>Fast full-res and medium-res burst modes</li>\n<li>Save photos to the app’s Photo Desk or to your iPhone’s Camera Roll</li>\n<li>Allows geotagging and has EXIF data access</li>\n<li>One tap sharing of edited photos via email or share it over to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox</li>\n<li>Shoots HD videos</li>\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Well-labelled controls</li>\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\n<li>Has broad range of photo editing features</li>\n<li>Focus and exposure modes work very well</li>\n<li>Features Exposure Lock that enables you to set and lock the exposure </li>\n<li>Saves photo revisions in stacks</li>\n<li>Great support from developers</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Long delay between shots</li>\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nKING CAMERA will please anyone of all skill levels – may it be beginners or advanced iPhoneographers – with its wide range of features.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]KING CAMERA does not seem a newbie at all with its impressive set of features. While not perfect, it still offers a lot that can satisfy the needs of every iPhoneographer.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\nKING CAMERA is one of the most full-featured all-in-one camera apps out there for the iPhone. It builds on the strengths of other powerful apps like Camera+ and ProCamera, while still offering a bunch of cool features.\n\nThe built-in camera app provides a number of tools that can make your shooting very convenient. You can adjust the focus and exposure. You can quickly capture multiple shots in a second via full-res or medium-res burst mode. There is also time lapse and stop animation features. Camera shake won’t also be much of a problem since this app also has an anti-shake feature. If you have large fingers, you won’t be able to miss pressing the huge shutter button at the bottom.  \n\nAnother laudable feature of KING CAMERA is Photo Desk. This is where all your captured photos are stored and edited images organized in Stacks. With Stacks, every version of the photo you are working on is saved, thus allowing you with much flexibility to edit and experiment. \n\nWhen it comes to editing, KING CAMERA has something to offer for both the novice and the pro. QuickMatik, as the name implies, is good for quick photo fixes with its good lineup of presets comparable to the best photo apps out there. ProMatik serves a full-fledged photo editor as it offers a wide range of editing controls.\n \nThere’s an issue though – the time lag between shots which will surely be of major concern to most. Good thing the developers have been already working to address this issue.\n\nKING CAMERA may still not be a king yet in the photo editing game as still has a long way to go in beating the best apps out there, but with the continuous effort of the developers to improve the app (rather than completely deserting it), we will likely see more from it in the future and that’s really something to look forward to. We’re excited!\n\n \n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','King Camera - A Solid Can-Do-It-All Photo-Editing App','','inherit','open','open','','4310-revision-7','','','2011-07-31 03:43:10','2011-07-31 03:43:10','',4310,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4310-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(4321,14,'2011-07-31 03:49:24','2011-07-31 03:49:24','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nKING CAMERA is fully loaded with great features that makes it a worthwhile companion for shooting photos - and videos too!</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Saycheezzz.com</li>\n<li>Easily edit photos in either Quick Matik and Pro Matik modes </li>\n<li>Comes with built-in camera and boasts of 4x full-resolution digital zoom </li>\n<li>Fast full-res and medium-res burst modes</li>\n<li>Save photos to the app’s Photo Desk or to your iPhone’s Camera Roll</li>\n<li>Allows geotagging and has EXIF data access</li>\n<li>One tap sharing of edited photos via email or share it over to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox</li>\n<li>Shoots HD videos</li>\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Well-labelled controls</li>\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\n<li>Has broad range of photo editing features</li>\n<li>Focus and exposure modes work very well</li>\n<li>Features Exposure Lock that enables you to set and lock the exposure </li>\n<li>Saves photo revisions in stacks</li>\n<li>Great support from developers</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Long delay between shots</li>\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nKING CAMERA will please anyone of all skill levels – may it be beginners or advanced iPhoneographers – with its wide range of features.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]KING CAMERA does not seem a newbie at all with its impressive set of features. While not perfect, it still offers a lot that can satisfy the needs of every iPhoneographer.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\nKING CAMERA is one of the most full-featured all-in-one camera apps out there for the iPhone. It builds on the strengths of other powerful apps like Camera+ and ProCamera, while still offering a bunch of cool features.\n\nThe built-in camera app provides a number of tools that can make your shooting very convenient. You can adjust the focus and exposure. You can quickly capture multiple shots in a second via full-res or medium-res burst mode. There is also time lapse and stop animation features. Camera shake won’t also be much of a problem since this app also has an anti-shake feature. If you have large fingers, you won’t be able to miss pressing the huge shutter button at the bottom.  \n\nAnother laudable feature of KING CAMERA is Photo Desk. This is where all your captured photos are stored and edited images organized in Stacks. With Stacks, every version of the photo you are working on is saved, thus allowing you with much flexibility to edit and experiment. \n\nWhen it comes to editing, KING CAMERA has something to offer for both the novice and the pro. QuickMatik, as the name implies, is good for quick photo fixes with its good lineup of presets comparable to the best photo apps out there. ProMatik serves a full-fledged photo editor as it offers a wide range of editing controls.\n \nThere’s an issue though – the time lag between shots which will surely be of major concern to most. Good thing the developers have been already working to address this issue.\n\nKING CAMERA may still not be a king yet in the photo editing game as still has a long way to go in beating the best apps out there, but with the continuous effort of the developers to improve the app (rather than completely deserting it), we will likely see more from it in the future and that’s really something to look forward to. We’re excited!\n\n \n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','King Camera - A Solid Can-Do-It-All Photo-Editing App','','inherit','open','open','','4310-revision-8','','','2011-07-31 03:49:24','2011-07-31 03:49:24','',4310,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4310-revision-8.html',0,'revision','',0),(4334,16,'2011-08-01 10:36:41','2011-08-01 10:36:41','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nKING CAMERA is fully loaded with great features that makes it a worthwhile companion for shooting photos - and videos too!</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Saycheezzz.com</li>\n<li>Easily edit photos in either Quick Matik and Pro Matik modes </li>\n<li>Comes with built-in camera and boasts of 4x full-resolution digital zoom </li>\n<li>Fast full-res and medium-res burst modes</li>\n<li>Save photos to the app’s Photo Desk or to your iPhone’s Camera Roll</li>\n<li>Allows geotagging and has EXIF data access</li>\n<li>One tap sharing of edited photos via email or share it over to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox</li>\n<li>Shoots HD videos</li>\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Well-labelled controls</li>\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\n<li>Has broad range of photo editing features</li>\n<li>Focus and exposure modes work very well</li>\n<li>Features Exposure Lock that enables you to set and lock the exposure </li>\n<li>Saves photo revisions in stacks</li>\n<li>Great support from developers</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Long delay between shots</li>\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nKING CAMERA will please anyone of all skill levels – may it be beginners or advanced iPhoneographers – with its wide range of features.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]KING CAMERA does not seem a newbie at all with its impressive set of features. While not perfect, it still offers a lot that can satisfy the needs of every iPhoneographer.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\nKING CAMERA is one of the most full-featured all-in-one camera apps out there for the iPhone. It builds on the strengths of other powerful apps like Camera+ and ProCamera, while still offering a bunch of cool features.\n\nThe built-in camera app provides a number of tools that can make your shooting very convenient. You can adjust the focus and exposure. You can quickly capture multiple shots in a second via full-res or medium-res burst mode. There is also time lapse and stop animation features. Camera shake won’t also be much of a problem since this app also has an anti-shake feature. If you have large fingers, you won’t be able to miss pressing the huge shutter button at the bottom.  \n\nAnother laudable feature of KING CAMERA is Photo Desk. This is where all your captured photos are stored and edited images organized in Stacks. With Stacks, every version of the photo you are working on is saved, thus allowing you with much flexibility to edit and experiment. \n\nWhen it comes to editing, KING CAMERA has something to offer for both the novice and the pro. QuickMatik, as the name implies, is good for quick photo fixes with its good lineup of presets comparable to the best photo apps out there. ProMatik serves a full-fledged photo editor as it offers a wide range of editing controls.\n \nThere’s an issue though – the time lag between shots which will surely be of major concern to most. Good thing the developers have been already working to address this issue.\n\nKING CAMERA may still not be a king yet in the photo editing game as still has a long way to go in beating the best apps out there, but with the continuous effort of the developers to improve the app (rather than completely deserting it), we will likely see more from it in the future and that’s really something to look forward to. We’re excited!\n\n \n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','King Camera - A Really Solid Do It All Editing App ','','inherit','open','open','','4310-revision-9','','','2011-08-01 10:36:41','2011-08-01 10:36:41','',4310,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4310-revision-9.html',0,'revision','',0),(4322,16,'2011-08-01 08:55:32','2011-08-01 08:55:32','We\'re back with the second instalment to our new series of interviews with iPhoneographers from around the globe! Today we\'re introducing Miss Pixels, an iPhoneographer, graphic designer and illustrator from Quebec, Canada. Her iPhotos have reached viewers far and wide and she\'s had kudos from Wired Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as being featured in recent publication \"Create Great iPhone Photos\". So without further adieu, let\'s get to the good stuff!  \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels1.jpg\" ]\n<h4>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography.</h4>\nI am a freelance illustrator and art director. Since I have a bachelor\'s degree in Visual Arts and Graphic Design, I have always been inclined to trying out new technologies, especially when these technologies enable me to create. In 2009, I bought my first iPhone and it was love at first sight: I had finally found a medium combining my passion for technology with my thirst for creativity!\n<h4>What does iPhoneography mean to you? How is it different from regular photography?</h4>\nI had a few traditional photography university courses, but this medium didn\'t really fit with my upbeat personality; I also had trouble being spontaneous while using it and was intimidated by its technical aspects. Contrary to traditional photography, iPhoneography allows me to be spontaneous wherever I am and whatever the occasion, without having to worry about my technique since this device has limitations. In short, I quickly abandoned all the more traditional cameras to concentrate on this new medium, which is the only one I bring when travelling.\n<h4>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h4>\nDo I have an iPhoneography style? Yes. My color palette is by definition very expressive and gets people\'s attention. Moreover, I tend to overuse the numerical noise and the grain in an exponential way. My iPhoneographies are also featured in themed series. I think all these elements contribute to my uniqueness, making my pictures different from those taken with conventional mobile devices. If I had to put a label on my style, I would have to call it \"Vivacity 2.0\"!\n<h4>Do you think it\'s important to have an iphoneography style?</h4>\nI believe an artist has by definition a style, as he does a personality. It\'s what enables him to propel his creativity field with such strength. The main difference between an artist and an amateur is his ability to create signature visual concepts in a unique language.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels.jpg\" ]\n<h4>What would you recommend a beginner iphoneographer do to easily get into the move and learn the craft?</h4>\nAs many might concur, joining the social media movement is by far the best way to integrate the iPhoneography community. Attending events and taking part in conversations with people sharing your interests will definitely generate reactions and bring attention to your work.\n<h4>What specific tips and tricks (3 to 4), would you share with wannabe iphoneographers? The apps you use and in what combination, if you use several apps to get what you want with one photo? For instance, do you shoot, edit and share with the same app or with different apps or with just one app? In any case, please say why.</h4>\nTip 1 – Always ask yourself whether or not your image is quality worthy of the best before posting it online. The image might seem interesting to you due to the context it was taken in, but might not be of interest to others. For example, it takes great humility to recognize that your cat\'s picture, as cute as it may be, might not entertain someone who has seen 800 pictures just like it. Your main challenge will be to make your cat\'s picture unique and original!\n\nTip 2 – The basics apps I use are <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">FX Photo Studio</a>, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift-generator-fake-miniature/id327716311?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">TiltShif</a>t and <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge/id314173066?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoForge</a>. What I like best about FX Photo Studio is the fact that I can save my multi-filter recipe, thus making sure the images in my series have the same graphic signature.\n\nTip 3 – When I want to put emphasis on a certain effect, I process the image several times in the same app, saving the image and then reopening it again. A simple but effective way of doubling or tripling the desired effect!\n\nCheck out more of Miss Pixels’ iPhoneography at <a href=\"http://www.misspixels.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MissPixels</a>.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels2.jpg\" ]','iPhoneography with Miss Pixels','','inherit','open','open','','4286-revision-5','','','2011-08-01 08:55:32','2011-08-01 08:55:32','',4286,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4286-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(4324,16,'2011-08-01 09:00:43','2011-08-01 09:00:43','We\'re back with the second instalment to our new series of interviews with iPhoneographers from around the globe! Today we\'re introducing Miss Pixels, an iPhoneographer, graphic designer and illustrator from Quebec, Canada. Her iPhotos have reached viewers far and wide and she\'s had kudos from Wired Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as being featured in recent publication \"Create Great iPhone Photos\". So without further adieu, let\'s get to the good stuff!  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels1.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography.</h4>\r\nI am a freelance illustrator and art director. Since I have a bachelor\'s degree in Visual Arts and Graphic Design, I have always been inclined to trying out new technologies, especially when these technologies enable me to create. In 2009, I bought my first iPhone and it was love at first sight: I had finally found a medium combining my passion for technology with my thirst for creativity!\r\n<h4>What does iPhoneography mean to you? How is it different from regular photography?</h4>\r\nI had a few traditional photography courses at university, but this medium didn\'t really fit with my upbeat personality; I also had trouble being spontaneous while using it and was intimidated by its technical aspects. Contrary to traditional photography, iPhoneography allows me to be spontaneous wherever I am and whatever the occasion, without having to worry about my technique since this device does have limitations. In short, I quickly abandoned all the more traditional cameras to concentrate on this new medium, which is the only one I bring when travelling.\r\n<h4>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h4>\r\nDo I have an iPhoneography style? Yes. My color palette is by definition very expressive and gets people\'s attention. Moreover, I tend to overuse the numerical noise and the grain in an exponential way. My iPhoneo photos are also featured in themed series\'. I think all these elements contribute to my uniqueness, making my pictures different from those taken with conventional mobile devices. If I had to put a label on my style, I would have to call it \"Vivacity 2.0\"!\r\n<h4>Do you think it\'s important to have an iPhoneography style?</h4>\r\nI believe an artist has by definition a style, as he does a personality. It\'s what enables him to propel his creativity field with such strength. The main difference between an artist and an amateur is his ability to create signature visual concepts in a unique language.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h4>\r\nAs many might concur, joining the social media movement is by far the best way to integrate into the iPhoneography community. Attending events and taking part in conversations with people sharing your interests will definitely generate reactions and bring attention to your work.\r\n<h4>What tips could you share with budding iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Always ask yourself whether or not your image is quality worthy of the best before posting it online. The image might seem interesting to you due to the context it was taken in, but might not be of interest to others. For example, it takes great humility to recognize that your cat\'s picture, as cute as it may be, might not entertain someone who has seen 800 pictures just like it. Your main challenge will be to make your cat\'s picture unique and original!</li>\r\n<li>The basics apps I use are <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">FX Photo Studio</a>, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift-generator-fake-miniature/id327716311?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">TiltShif</a>t and <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge/id314173066?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoForge</a>. What I like best about FX Photo Studio is the fact that I can save my multi-filter recipe, thus making sure the images in my series have the same graphic signature.</li>\r\n<li>When I want to put emphasis on a certain effect, I process the image several times in the same app, saving the image and then reopening it again. A simple but effective way of doubling or tripling the desired effect!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nCheck out more of Miss Pixels’ iPhoneography at <a href=\"http://www.misspixels.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MissPixels</a>.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels2.jpg\" ]','iPhoneography with Miss Pixels','','inherit','open','open','','4286-revision-7','','','2011-08-01 09:00:43','2011-08-01 09:00:43','',4286,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4286-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(4323,16,'2011-08-01 08:56:32','2011-08-01 08:56:32','We\'re back with the second instalment to our new series of interviews with iPhoneographers from around the globe! Today we\'re introducing Miss Pixels, an iPhoneographer, graphic designer and illustrator from Quebec, Canada. Her iPhotos have reached viewers far and wide and she\'s had kudos from Wired Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as being featured in recent publication \"Create Great iPhone Photos\". So without further adieu, let\'s get to the good stuff!  \n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels1.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\n<h4>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography.</h4>\nI am a freelance illustrator and art director. Since I have a bachelor\'s degree in Visual Arts and Graphic Design, I have always been inclined to trying out new technologies, especially when these technologies enable me to create. In 2009, I bought my first iPhone and it was love at first sight: I had finally found a medium combining my passion for technology with my thirst for creativity!\n<h4>What does iPhoneography mean to you? How is it different from regular photography?</h4>\nI had a few traditional photography university courses, but this medium didn\'t really fit with my upbeat personality; I also had trouble being spontaneous while using it and was intimidated by its technical aspects. Contrary to traditional photography, iPhoneography allows me to be spontaneous wherever I am and whatever the occasion, without having to worry about my technique since this device has limitations. In short, I quickly abandoned all the more traditional cameras to concentrate on this new medium, which is the only one I bring when travelling.\n<h4>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h4>\nDo I have an iPhoneography style? Yes. My color palette is by definition very expressive and gets people\'s attention. Moreover, I tend to overuse the numerical noise and the grain in an exponential way. My iPhoneographies are also featured in themed series. I think all these elements contribute to my uniqueness, making my pictures different from those taken with conventional mobile devices. If I had to put a label on my style, I would have to call it \"Vivacity 2.0\"!\n<h4>Do you think it\'s important to have an iphoneography style?</h4>\nI believe an artist has by definition a style, as he does a personality. It\'s what enables him to propel his creativity field with such strength. The main difference between an artist and an amateur is his ability to create signature visual concepts in a unique language.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels.jpg\" ]\n<h4>What would you recommend a beginner iphoneographer do to easily get into the move and learn the craft?</h4>\nAs many might concur, joining the social media movement is by far the best way to integrate the iPhoneography community. Attending events and taking part in conversations with people sharing your interests will definitely generate reactions and bring attention to your work.\n<h4>What specific tips and tricks (3 to 4), would you share with wannabe iphoneographers? The apps you use and in what combination, if you use several apps to get what you want with one photo? For instance, do you shoot, edit and share with the same app or with different apps or with just one app? In any case, please say why.</h4>\nTip 1 – Always ask yourself whether or not your image is quality worthy of the best before posting it online. The image might seem interesting to you due to the context it was taken in, but might not be of interest to others. For example, it takes great humility to recognize that your cat\'s picture, as cute as it may be, might not entertain someone who has seen 800 pictures just like it. Your main challenge will be to make your cat\'s picture unique and original!\n\nTip 2 – The basics apps I use are <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">FX Photo Studio</a>, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift-generator-fake-miniature/id327716311?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">TiltShif</a>t and <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge/id314173066?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoForge</a>. What I like best about FX Photo Studio is the fact that I can save my multi-filter recipe, thus making sure the images in my series have the same graphic signature.\n\nTip 3 – When I want to put emphasis on a certain effect, I process the image several times in the same app, saving the image and then reopening it again. A simple but effective way of doubling or tripling the desired effect!\n\nCheck out more of Miss Pixels’ iPhoneography at <a href=\"http://www.misspixels.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MissPixels</a>.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels2.jpg\" ]','iPhoneography with Miss Pixels','','inherit','open','open','','4286-revision-6','','','2011-08-01 08:56:32','2011-08-01 08:56:32','',4286,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4286-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(4325,14,'2011-08-01 09:03:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','The second instalment of our series of interviews with iPhoneographers. Say hello to @misspixels http://tinyurl.com/3sh78kz','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-08-01 09:03:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=4325',0,'tweet','',0),(4326,16,'2011-08-01 09:03:15','2011-08-01 09:03:15','We\'re back with the second instalment to our new series of interviews with iPhoneographers from around the globe! Today we\'re introducing Miss Pixels, an iPhoneographer, graphic designer and illustrator from Quebec, Canada. Her iPhotos have reached viewers far and wide and she\'s had kudos from Wired Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as being featured in recent publication \"Create Great iPhone Photos\". So without further adieu, let\'s get to the good stuff!  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels1.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography.</h4>\r\nI am a freelance illustrator and art director. Since I have a bachelor\'s degree in Visual Arts and Graphic Design, I have always been inclined to trying out new technologies, especially when these technologies enable me to create. In 2009, I bought my first iPhone and it was love at first sight: I had finally found a medium combining my passion for technology with my thirst for creativity!\r\n<h4>What does iPhoneography mean to you? How is it different from regular photography?</h4>\r\nI had a few traditional photography courses at university, but this medium didn\'t really fit with my upbeat personality; I also had trouble being spontaneous while using it and was intimidated by its technical aspects. Contrary to traditional photography, iPhoneography allows me to be spontaneous wherever I am and whatever the occasion, without having to worry about my technique since this device does have limitations. In short, I quickly abandoned all the more traditional cameras to concentrate on this new medium, which is the only one I bring when travelling.\r\n<h4>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h4>\r\nDo I have an iPhoneography style? Yes. My color palette is by definition very expressive and gets people\'s attention. Moreover, I tend to overuse the numerical noise and the grain in an exponential way. My iPhoneo photos are also featured in themed series\'. I think all these elements contribute to my uniqueness, making my pictures different from those taken with conventional mobile devices. If I had to put a label on my style, I would have to call it \"Vivacity 2.0\"!\r\n<h4>Do you think it\'s important to have an iPhoneography style?</h4>\r\nI believe an artist has by definition a style, as he does a personality. It\'s what enables him to propel his creativity field with such strength. The main difference between an artist and an amateur is his ability to create signature visual concepts in a unique language.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h4>\r\nAs many might concur, joining the social media movement is by far the best way to integrate into the iPhoneography community. Attending events and taking part in conversations with people sharing your interests will definitely generate reactions and bring attention to your work.\r\n<h4>What tips could you share with budding iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Always ask yourself whether or not your image is quality worthy of the best before posting it online. The image might seem interesting to you due to the context it was taken in, but might not be of interest to others. For example, it takes great humility to recognize that your cat\'s picture, as cute as it may be, might not entertain someone who has seen 800 pictures just like it. Your main challenge will be to make your cat\'s picture unique and original!</li>\r\n<li>The basics apps I use are <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">FX Photo Studio</a>, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift-generator-fake-miniature/id327716311?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">TiltShif</a>t and <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge/id314173066?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoForge</a>. What I like best about FX Photo Studio is the fact that I can save my multi-filter recipe, thus making sure the images in my series have the same graphic signature.</li>\r\n<li>When I want to put emphasis on a certain effect, I process the image several times in the same app, saving the image and then reopening it again. A simple but effective way of doubling or tripling the desired effect!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nCheck out more of Miss Pixels’ iPhoneography at <a href=\"http://www.misspixels.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MissPixels</a>.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels2.jpg\" ]','iPhoneography with Miss Pixels','','inherit','open','open','','4286-revision-8','','','2011-08-01 09:03:15','2011-08-01 09:03:15','',4286,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4286-revision-8.html',0,'revision','',0),(4327,16,'2011-07-31 01:50:00','2011-07-31 01:50:00','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER offers useful photo presets that can turn your ordinary snaps into something beautiful and worth-sharing.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\r\n<li>With ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\r\n<li>Category image editing options such as Lighting, FX, Vigneting, and Borders</li>\r\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Resulting photos can be shared to others via email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\r\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Renders photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited </li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Does not offer something new</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER comes in handy for beginners who want to edit photos in a snap.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results. It’s good and all that but it’s not innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of global presets for that. What’s more is that this app gives results in a flash.\r\n\r\nHowever, contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing,” a closer look tells us that it is not refreshing at all. This is not to say though as if this app is nothing short of worthless. It is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not come off as something very revolutionary or game-changing. But there’s still time though for the developer to further improve the app – who knows, it gets better from what it is now today.\r\n\r\nThis app is good for people who have not have much photo editing apps in their arsenal but for those who have tons already, it might not be a good decision to purchase this. There are other apps there like Kings Camera and PhotoForge2 that offer unique features. It won’t hurt though to try this especially if you have two bucks to spare.\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"3.5 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Toaster – An All-In-One Photo Editor For The Newbies','','inherit','open','open','','4295-revision-13','','','2011-07-31 01:50:00','2011-07-31 01:50:00','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-revision-13.html',0,'revision','',0),(4328,16,'2011-08-01 11:56:53','2011-08-01 11:56:53','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\n\nPHOTO TOASTER offers lots of useful photo presets that will help turn your ordinary snaps into something worth-sharing. It\'s straight-forward workflow and interface make it a great starting place for beginner iPhoneographers, or those who just like an easy-to-use app. It\'s good...but we\'re not sure it\'s GREAT.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\n<li>Ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\n<li>Editing options labelled by category, such as Lighting, FX, Vignetting, and Borders</li>\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\n<li>Share photos easily through email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\n<li>Renders photos quickly</li>\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Doesn\'t offer anything new</li>\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n Anyone\n\nPHOTO TOASTER is a handy app for beginners and those who want to edit photos in a snap.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results, but sadly it\'s not that innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of good presets to get the job done. The results are really quick - you\'ll see your edits in a flash, as it were. \n\nBut contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing”, a closer look tells us that it is not really a fresh approach at all. Don\'t get us wrong - this app isn\'t completely worthless, it is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not offer any game-changing options. But heck, maybe the developers are already working on something great for the updates? Ahem. \n\nThis app is a good choice for those just starting out in iPhone photography, or who may not already have a ton of photo editing apps in their arsenal. If you\'ve got a few bucks to spare then try this out...but if you\'re an app addict with tons of photo editing suites, you could probably give this one a miss. There are better choices out there - such as Kings Camera or PhotoForge2 that offer superior editing and unique features. \n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"3 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Photo Toaster App Review – Good All-In-One App For Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','4295-autosave','','','2011-08-01 11:56:53','2011-08-01 11:56:53','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(4329,16,'2011-08-01 09:49:27','2011-08-01 09:49:27','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER offers useful photo presets that can turn your ordinary snaps into something beautiful and worth-sharing.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\r\n<li>With ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\r\n<li>Category image editing options such as Lighting, FX, Vigneting, and Borders</li>\r\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Resulting photos can be shared to others via email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\r\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Renders photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited </li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Does not offer something new</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER comes in handy for beginners who want to edit photos in a snap.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results. It’s good and all that but it’s not innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of global presets for that. What’s more is that this app gives results in a flash.\r\n\r\nHowever, contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing,” a closer look tells us that it is not refreshing at all. This is not to say though as if this app is nothing short of worthless. It is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not come off as something very revolutionary or game-changing. But there’s still time though for the developer to further improve the app – who knows, it gets better from what it is now today.\r\n\r\nThis app is good for people who have not have much photo editing apps in their arsenal but for those who have tons already, it might not be a good decision to purchase this. There are other apps there like Kings Camera and PhotoForge2 that offer unique features. It won’t hurt though to try this especially if you have two bucks to spare.\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"3.5 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Toaster – An All-In-One Photo Editor For The Newbies','','inherit','open','open','','4295-revision-14','','','2011-08-01 09:49:27','2011-08-01 09:49:27','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(4332,16,'2011-08-01 10:30:10','2011-08-01 10:30:10','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER offers lots of useful photo presets that will help turn your ordinary snaps into something worth-sharing. It\'s straight-forward workflow and interface make it a great starting place for beginner iPhoneographers, or those who just like an easy-to-use app.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\r\n<li>Ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\r\n<li>Editing options labelled by category, such as Lighting, FX, Vignetting, and Borders</li>\r\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Share photos easily through email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\r\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Renders photos quickly</li>\r\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Doesn\'t offer anything new</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER is a handy app for beginners and those who want to edit photos in a snap.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results, but sadly it\'s not that innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of good presets to get the job done. The results are really quick - you\'ll see your edits in a flash, as it were. \r\n\r\nBut contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing”, a closer look tells us that it is not really a fresh approach at all. Don\'t get us wrong - this app isn\'t completely worthless, it is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not offer any game-changing options. But heck, maybe the developers are already working on something great for the updates? Ahem. \r\n\r\nThis app is a good choice for those just starting out in iPhone photography, or who may not already have a ton of photo editing apps in their arsenal. If you\'ve got a few bucks to spare then try this out...but if you\'re an app addict with tons of photo editing suites, you could probably give this one a miss. There are better choices out there - such as Kings Camera or PhotoForge2 that offer superior editing and unique features. \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"3 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Toaster – Great All-In-One For Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','4295-revision-17','','','2011-08-01 10:30:10','2011-08-01 10:30:10','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-revision-17.html',0,'revision','',0),(4330,16,'2011-08-01 10:27:58','2011-08-01 10:27:58','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER offers lots of useful photo presets that will help turn your ordinary snaps into something worth-sharing. It\'s straight-forward workflow and interface make it a great starting place for beginner iPhoneographers, or those who just like an easy-to-use app.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\r\n<li>Ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\r\n<li>Editing options labelled by category, such as Lighting, FX, Vignetting, and Borders</li>\r\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Share photos easily through email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\r\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Renders photos quickly</li>\r\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Doesn\'t offer anything new</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER is a handy app for beginners and those who want to edit photos in a snap.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results, but sadly it\'s not that innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of good presets to get the job done. The results are really quick - you\'ll see your edits in a flash, as it were. \r\n\r\nBut contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing”, a closer look tells us that it is not really a fresh approach at all. Don\'t get us wrong - this app isn\'t completely worthless, it is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not offer any game-changing options. But heck, maybe the developers are already working on something great for the updates? Ahem. \r\n\r\nThis app is a good choice for those just starting out in iPhone photography, or who may not already have a ton of photo editing apps in their arsenal. If you\'ve got a few bucks to spare then try this out...but if you\'re an app addict with tons of photo editing suites, you could probably give this one a miss. There are better choices out there - such as Kings Camera or PhotoForge2 that offer superior editing and unique features. \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"3.5 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Toaster – Great All-In-One For Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','4295-revision-15','','','2011-08-01 10:27:58','2011-08-01 10:27:58','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-revision-15.html',0,'revision','',0),(4331,16,'2011-08-01 10:28:55','2011-08-01 10:28:55','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER offers lots of useful photo presets that will help turn your ordinary snaps into something worth-sharing. It\'s straight-forward workflow and interface make it a great starting place for beginner iPhoneographers, or those who just like an easy-to-use app.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\r\n<li>Ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\r\n<li>Editing options labelled by category, such as Lighting, FX, Vignetting, and Borders</li>\r\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Share photos easily through email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\r\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Renders photos quickly</li>\r\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Doesn\'t offer anything new</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER is a handy app for beginners and those who want to edit photos in a snap.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results, but sadly it\'s not that innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of good presets to get the job done. The results are really quick - you\'ll see your edits in a flash, as it were. \r\n\r\nBut contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing”, a closer look tells us that it is not really a fresh approach at all. Don\'t get us wrong - this app isn\'t completely worthless, it is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not offer any game-changing options. But heck, maybe the developers are already working on something great for the updates? Ahem. \r\n\r\nThis app is a good choice for those just starting out in iPhone photography, or who may not already have a ton of photo editing apps in their arsenal. If you\'ve got a few bucks to spare then try this out...but if you\'re an app addict with tons of photo editing suites, you could probably give this one a miss. There are better choices out there - such as Kings Camera or PhotoForge2 that offer superior editing and unique features. \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"3.5 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Toaster – Great All-In-One For Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','4295-revision-16','','','2011-08-01 10:28:55','2011-08-01 10:28:55','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-revision-16.html',0,'revision','',0),(4977,16,'2011-08-01 16:42:11','2011-08-01 16:42:11','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AutoStitch.png\"><img title=\"AutoStitch\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AutoStitch.png\" alt=\"AutoStitch\" width=\"200\" height=\"375\" /></a></td>\r\n<td>AUTOSTITCH lets you shoot multiple images and stitch them together into seamless iPhone panoramas. How cool is that?</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Created by Cloudburst Research</li>\r\n	<li>Stitch 2 or more images for a panorama</li>\r\n	<li>Resolution and image size can be customized</li>\r\n	<li>Manual and automatic cropping</li>\r\n	<li>Share instantly via email or Facebook</li>\r\n	<li>Costs US $1.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Tidy layout</li>\r\n	<li>Intuitive interface</li>\r\n	<li>Can also process photos which were not taken with the iPhone</li>\r\n	<li>Users can create iPhone panoramas from images with horizontal or vertical orientation</li>\r\n	<li>Stitching photos is very simple</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Ghosting can occur</li>\r\n	<li>Some stitched areas may be blurred</li>\r\n	<li>Does not have its own camera app</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nAUTOSTITCH is perfect for beginners who want to turn their daily snaps into good-looking iPhone panoramas and wide-angle shots. Advanced photo editing programs such as Photoshop or other Panoramic iPhone apps are recommended for pro users, as the very basic features of the Autostitch app will likely leave them wanting more.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]AUTOSTITCH is arguably the best image stitching application for the iPhone. It gets the job done...with flying colors![/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nDo not be fooled by the simplicity of the AUTOSTITCH iPhone app. It is probably one of the most basic apps out there, but it is also one of the most useful.\r\n\r\nWith AUTOSTITCH you\'re no longer restricted by the limited capabilities of the iPhone camera, you don\'t even need to take a few steps back so you can capture the whole scene. Just launch the app, shoot 2 or more photos of the subject, stitch them together using the app, and you’re good to go! The entire process is very straightforward, thus it gives users the chance to spend more time shooting and less time tinkering to get panoramic results. If that’s not easy, then we don’t know what is.\r\n\r\nAUTOSTITCH does have a few shortcomings, particularly a bit of ghosting and blurring can occur when stitching together. But if the photo is viewed on online or at a relatively small size, the effect is hardly noticeable. It would have also been great if AUTOSTITCH had been equipped with an in-app camera so users do not have to go through the camera app for shooting photos then into AutoStitch to render them, but perhaps they\'ll add that in a future update.\r\n\r\nUltimately for just two bucks, considering the many pros of the AUTOSTITCH app, it’s money well-spent!\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for AutoStitch\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give AutoStitch 4 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.ephotozine.com/article/autostitch-panorama-iphone-app-review-16081\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">ePHOTOzine</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This app is really simple and takes no time at all to create brilliant panoramic images and easily shared on Facebook. A must for those who want to take larger pictures with their iPhone.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.cultofmac.com/review-easily-create-gorgeous-panoramic-photos-on-your-iphone-with-autostitch/35455\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">CultOfMac</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, I have to say I really love all the picture goodness you can cram into one photo with Autostitch. This nifty little app makes it dead simple to create captivating panoramic shots.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://gigaom.com/apple/autostitch-create-panoramas-with-your-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">GigaOM</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Frankly, I’m amazed at how great a job this little $2 app does. If you’re at all interested in panoramic photos, it’s well worth a look.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','AutoStitch – Make Creative iPhone Panoramas','','inherit','open','open','','4145-revision-14','','','2011-08-01 16:42:11','2011-08-01 16:42:11','',4145,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4145-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(4333,16,'2011-08-01 10:32:58','2011-08-01 10:32:58','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER offers lots of useful photo presets that will help turn your ordinary snaps into something worth-sharing. It\'s straight-forward workflow and interface make it a great starting place for beginner iPhoneographers, or those who just like an easy-to-use app. It\'s good...but we\'re not sure it\'s GREAT.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\r\n<li>Ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\r\n<li>Editing options labelled by category, such as Lighting, FX, Vignetting, and Borders</li>\r\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Share photos easily through email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\r\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Renders photos quickly</li>\r\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Doesn\'t offer anything new</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER is a handy app for beginners and those who want to edit photos in a snap.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results, but sadly it\'s not that innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of good presets to get the job done. The results are really quick - you\'ll see your edits in a flash, as it were. \r\n\r\nBut contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing”, a closer look tells us that it is not really a fresh approach at all. Don\'t get us wrong - this app isn\'t completely worthless, it is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not offer any game-changing options. But heck, maybe the developers are already working on something great for the updates? Ahem. \r\n\r\nThis app is a good choice for those just starting out in iPhone photography, or who may not already have a ton of photo editing apps in their arsenal. If you\'ve got a few bucks to spare then try this out...but if you\'re an app addict with tons of photo editing suites, you could probably give this one a miss. There are better choices out there - such as Kings Camera or PhotoForge2 that offer superior editing and unique features. \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"3 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Toaster – Good All-In-One App For Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','4295-revision-18','','','2011-08-01 10:32:58','2011-08-01 10:32:58','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-revision-18.html',0,'revision','',0),(4335,16,'2011-08-01 11:31:37','2011-08-01 11:31:37','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nThe KING CAMERA app is fully loaded with great features that make it a worthwhile companion for shooting iPhone photos - and videos too!</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Saycheezzz.com</li>\n<li>Easily edit photos in either Quick Matik and Pro Matik modes </li>\n<li>Comes with built-in camera and boasts 4x full-resolution digital zoom </li>\n<li>Fast full-res and medium-res burst modes</li>\n<li>Save photos to the app’s Photo Desk or to your iPhone’s Camera Roll</li>\n<li>Allows geotagging and has EXIF data access</li>\n<li>One tap sharing of edited photos via email or Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or Dropbox</li>\n<li>Shoots HD videos</li>\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Well-labelled controls</li>\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\n<li>Has broad range of photo editing features</li>\n<li>Focus and exposure modes work very well</li>\n<li>Exposure Lock allows you to set and lock the exposure</li>\n<li>Saves photo revisions in stacks</li>\n<li>Great support from developers</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n	<li>Long delay between shots</li>\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nKING CAMERA is a great iPhone photo editing app for all skill levels – whether you\'re just staring out or you\'ve got a lot of practice under your belt – King Camera\'s wide range of features will suit all iPhoneographers. \n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]KING CAMERA is clearly a well-thought out and useful app with an impressive set of features. While it\'s not perfect (what app is?), it does have a lot to offer and is sure to be a great addition to any iPhoneographers app library![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\nThe KING CAMERA app is one of the best full-featured all-in-one iPhone camera apps available now. It\'s definitely on par with other powerful apps like Camera+ and ProCamera, and builds on those apps by offering additional and useful in-app features.\n\nThe built-in camera app provides a number of tools that can make shooting really convenient. You can adjust the focus and exposure, as well as set the exposure lock. Capturing multiple shots is speedy and customizable using full-res or medium-res burst mode. The time lapse and stop animation features are also very impressive! Camera shake? No problem, with KING CAMERA\'s anti-shake feature. The full-screen shutter button will also come in handy for those who are all thumbs. \n\nNotably, one of the best features of the KING CAMERA app is the Photo Desk. This is where all of your photos are stored, and edited images are organized in Stacks. A Stack is simply a way of storing photos that means every version or edit you make is saved in the stack, giving you with flexibility to edit and experiment with the security of knowing your edits are saved. \n\nWhen it comes to editing, the KING CAMERA app has something to offer for both the novice and the pro. QuickMatik, as the name implies, is good for quick photo fixes with its hefty lineup of presets comparable to the all the best editing suites around. ProMatik serves as a full-fledged photo editor offering a wider range of editing controls, and scope to work in more detail.\n \nThere\'s one small issue with KING CAMERA, and we would be remiss not to tell you about it – the time lag between shots is likely to be of major concern to most, as it\'s just simply far too long. But hey, good thing we\'ve been told the developers are already working to address this issue so there should be a significant update coming soon. \n\nKING CAMERA may not be king of the photo editing game yet...there\'s still a few out there that beat it, but with the continuous effort of the developers to keep on top of the game, we\'re sure this app is going to remain one of the top apps, for a long time! \n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','King Camera App - A Really Solid Do It All Photo Editor','','inherit','open','open','','4310-autosave','','','2011-08-01 11:31:37','2011-08-01 11:31:37','',4310,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4310-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(4336,16,'2011-08-01 10:37:16','2011-08-01 10:37:16','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nKING CAMERA is fully loaded with great features that makes it a worthwhile companion for shooting iPhone photos - and videos too!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by Saycheezzz.com</li>\r\n<li>Easily edit photos in either Quick Matik and Pro Matik modes </li>\r\n<li>Comes with built-in camera and boasts of 4x full-resolution digital zoom </li>\r\n<li>Fast full-res and medium-res burst modes</li>\r\n<li>Save photos to the app’s Photo Desk or to your iPhone’s Camera Roll</li>\r\n<li>Allows geotagging and has EXIF data access</li>\r\n<li>One tap sharing of edited photos via email or share it over to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox</li>\r\n<li>Shoots HD videos</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Well-labelled controls</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Has broad range of photo editing features</li>\r\n<li>Focus and exposure modes work very well</li>\r\n<li>Features Exposure Lock that enables you to set and lock the exposure </li>\r\n<li>Saves photo revisions in stacks</li>\r\n<li>Great support from developers</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Long delay between shots</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nKING CAMERA will please anyone of all skill levels – may it be beginners or advanced iPhoneographers – with its wide range of features.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]KING CAMERA does not seem a newbie at all with its impressive set of features. While not perfect, it still offers a lot that can satisfy the needs of every iPhoneographer.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nKING CAMERA is one of the most full-featured all-in-one camera apps out there for the iPhone. It builds on the strengths of other powerful apps like Camera+ and ProCamera, while still offering a bunch of cool features.\r\n\r\nThe built-in camera app provides a number of tools that can make your shooting very convenient. You can adjust the focus and exposure. You can quickly capture multiple shots in a second via full-res or medium-res burst mode. There is also time lapse and stop animation features. Camera shake won’t also be much of a problem since this app also has an anti-shake feature. If you have large fingers, you won’t be able to miss pressing the huge shutter button at the bottom.  \r\n\r\nAnother laudable feature of KING CAMERA is Photo Desk. This is where all your captured photos are stored and edited images organized in Stacks. With Stacks, every version of the photo you are working on is saved, thus allowing you with much flexibility to edit and experiment. \r\n\r\nWhen it comes to editing, KING CAMERA has something to offer for both the novice and the pro. QuickMatik, as the name implies, is good for quick photo fixes with its good lineup of presets comparable to the best photo apps out there. ProMatik serves a full-fledged photo editor as it offers a wide range of editing controls.\r\n \r\nThere’s an issue though – the time lag between shots which will surely be of major concern to most. Good thing the developers have been already working to address this issue.\r\n\r\nKING CAMERA may still not be a king yet in the photo editing game as still has a long way to go in beating the best apps out there, but with the continuous effort of the developers to improve the app (rather than completely deserting it), we will likely see more from it in the future and that’s really something to look forward to. We’re excited!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','King Camera - A Really Solid Do It All Photo Editing App ','','inherit','open','open','','4310-revision-10','','','2011-08-01 10:37:16','2011-08-01 10:37:16','',4310,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4310-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(4337,16,'2011-08-01 10:39:31','2011-08-01 10:39:31','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nKING CAMERA is fully loaded with great features that makes it a worthwhile companion for shooting iPhone photos - and videos too!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by Saycheezzz.com</li>\r\n<li>Easily edit photos in either Quick Matik and Pro Matik modes </li>\r\n<li>Comes with built-in camera and boasts 4x full-resolution digital zoom </li>\r\n<li>Fast full-res and medium-res burst modes</li>\r\n<li>Save photos to the app’s Photo Desk or to your iPhone’s Camera Roll</li>\r\n<li>Allows geotagging and has EXIF data access</li>\r\n<li>One tap sharing of edited photos via email or Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or Dropbox</li>\r\n<li>Shoots HD videos</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Well-labelled controls</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Has broad range of photo editing features</li>\r\n<li>Focus and exposure modes work very well</li>\r\n<li>Exposure Lock allows you to set and lock the exposure</li>\r\n<li>Saves photo revisions in stacks</li>\r\n<li>Great support from developers</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Long delay between shots</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nKING CAMERA will please anyone of all skill levels – may it be beginners or advanced iPhoneographers – with its wide range of features.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]KING CAMERA does not seem a newbie at all with its impressive set of features. While not perfect, it still offers a lot that can satisfy the needs of every iPhoneographer.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nKING CAMERA is one of the most full-featured all-in-one camera apps out there for the iPhone. It builds on the strengths of other powerful apps like Camera+ and ProCamera, while still offering a bunch of cool features.\r\n\r\nThe built-in camera app provides a number of tools that can make your shooting very convenient. You can adjust the focus and exposure. You can quickly capture multiple shots in a second via full-res or medium-res burst mode. There is also time lapse and stop animation features. Camera shake won’t also be much of a problem since this app also has an anti-shake feature. If you have large fingers, you won’t be able to miss pressing the huge shutter button at the bottom.  \r\n\r\nAnother laudable feature of KING CAMERA is Photo Desk. This is where all your captured photos are stored and edited images organized in Stacks. With Stacks, every version of the photo you are working on is saved, thus allowing you with much flexibility to edit and experiment. \r\n\r\nWhen it comes to editing, KING CAMERA has something to offer for both the novice and the pro. QuickMatik, as the name implies, is good for quick photo fixes with its good lineup of presets comparable to the best photo apps out there. ProMatik serves a full-fledged photo editor as it offers a wide range of editing controls.\r\n \r\nThere’s an issue though – the time lag between shots which will surely be of major concern to most. Good thing the developers have been already working to address this issue.\r\n\r\nKING CAMERA may still not be a king yet in the photo editing game as still has a long way to go in beating the best apps out there, but with the continuous effort of the developers to improve the app (rather than completely deserting it), we will likely see more from it in the future and that’s really something to look forward to. We’re excited!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','King Camera - A Really Solid Do It All Photo Editing App ','','inherit','open','open','','4310-revision-11','','','2011-08-01 10:39:31','2011-08-01 10:39:31','',4310,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4310-revision-11.html',0,'revision','',0),(4338,16,'2011-08-01 10:33:31','2011-08-01 10:33:31','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\"><img title=\"PhotoToaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster.png\" alt=\"Photo Toaster\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PhotoToaster-Logo.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"56\" alt=\"Photo Toaster App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER offers lots of useful photo presets that will help turn your ordinary snaps into something worth-sharing. It\'s straight-forward workflow and interface make it a great starting place for beginner iPhoneographers, or those who just like an easy-to-use app. It\'s good...but we\'re not sure it\'s GREAT.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Developed by East Coast Pixels, Inc.</li>\r\n<li>Ready-to-use global presets for quick photo editing</li>\r\n<li>Editing options labelled by category, such as Lighting, FX, Vignetting, and Borders</li>\r\n<li>Tweak photos in an instant</li>\r\n<li>Share photos easily through email, SMS, Facebook, and Tumbler</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Flexible user interface</li>\r\n<li>Editing options are very accessible</li>\r\n<li>Straight-forward and smooth workflow</li>\r\n<li>Lots of tweaking options to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Renders photos quickly</li>\r\n<li>Automatically saves a backup copy of the original photo being edited</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Doesn\'t offer anything new</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nPHOTO TOASTER is a handy app for beginners and those who want to edit photos in a snap.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TOASTER is a good photo editing app that can give pleasing results, but sadly it\'s not that innovative.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\nPHOTO TOASTER can do almost everything – from basic lighting adjustments, color corrections, modifying of sharpness, contrast, and saturation, and addition of borders. If you want to improve the overall look of an image with just a single tap, there are a handful of good presets to get the job done. The results are really quick - you\'ll see your edits in a flash, as it were. \r\n\r\nBut contrary to the developer’s claim that this app is a “fresh approach to mobile editing”, a closer look tells us that it is not really a fresh approach at all. Don\'t get us wrong - this app isn\'t completely worthless, it is just somewhat disappointing that a new photo-editing app like this does not offer any game-changing options. But heck, maybe the developers are already working on something great for the updates? Ahem. \r\n\r\nThis app is a good choice for those just starting out in iPhone photography, or who may not already have a ton of photo editing apps in their arsenal. If you\'ve got a few bucks to spare then try this out...but if you\'re an app addict with tons of photo editing suites, you could probably give this one a miss. There are better choices out there - such as Kings Camera or PhotoForge2 that offer superior editing and unique features. \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"3 Flash Rating for Photo Toaster\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Toaster 3 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/20/photo-toaster-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Photo Toaster gives iPhone users nothing new, fresh or groundbreaking: the app is good and it does its work well and this alone can suffice to justify the purchase.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/quickadvice-photo-toaster\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is truly a powerful photo editor and gives you complete control of how your images appear. The best part is that it does all of this fast.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/19/new-universal-app-phototoaster.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“PhotoToaster is a great little app, that offers something for everyone, whether it\'s creating stunning results quickly and easily with just 1-click, or tweaking your photos to your hearts content with the advanced controls.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Toaster – Good All-In-One App For Beginners','','inherit','open','open','','4295-revision-19','','','2011-08-01 10:33:31','2011-08-01 10:33:31','',4295,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4295-revision-19.html',0,'revision','',0),(3356,16,'2011-06-13 14:11:00','2011-06-13 14:11:00','OK so the iPhone doesn’t hold a candle to a DSLR in terms of “proper photography” with only 5 megapixels, a small sensor, and no manual controls. BUT despite its’ many limitations, amateur snappers, enthusiasts, and even pro photogs are embracing the iPhone as a useful part of their kit. iPhone photography is definitely on the rise, and in many cases, the iPhone is replacing the every day point &amp; shoot, hands down, for simply being more convenient.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Collaboration between an iphone 4 and canon g10 by HanaP227, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/30289012@N04/4796388844/\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iPhoneography.jpg\"]</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Collaboration between an iPhone 4 and Canon g10</em>\r\nPhoto by HanaP227</p>\r\nThe iPhone camera, (4 in particular) does have many strengths and it performs really well in many different shooting conditions. When you are looking for decent quality, with lots of features, convenience, photo management, and connectivity, the iPhone will surely be ranked at the top. So not only can you shoot with your iPhone but  you can also use apps to enhance the image, and share it instantly to your friends via Facebook and other sites. It’s qualities like these that make the iPhone stand head and shoulders above other smartphones, and certainly above the basic point &amp; shoot which in many cases does only that, point, and shoot.\r\n<h4>iPhone Photography Applications</h4>\r\nThere are absolutely tons of photography applications available from the App Store that make iPhone photography more exciting and fun. They add new dimension to your shooting experience helping you to achieve great images that are occasionally on par with what a dedicated camera can produce. And what’s better is you can produce these images without photo-editing programs - everything is in the palm of your hand!\r\n\r\nThere are all kinds of apps available – those that function as a replacement for the built-in Camera app, those that help you improve your photos with post-processing apps, and those that are designed to improve the aesthetic appeal of pictures. Whether you are an advanced photographer or just starting out there’s an app for that. Heh, see what we did there?\r\n\r\n<h4>Some of the top iPhone apps for photography are:</h4>\r\n[two_columns  ] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252?mt=8\">Instagram</a> </li>\r\n<li> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipstamatic/id342115564?mt=8&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D2\">Hipstamatic</a> </li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camerabag/id291176178?mt=8\">CameraBag</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/classicinsta-free/id406898059?mt=8\">ClassicINSTA – Free</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/retro-camera-plus/id403503545?mt=8\">Retro Camera Plus</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shakeitphoto/id302926603?mt=8\">ShakeItPhoto</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/idarkroom/id411843682?mt=8\">iDarkroom</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pictureshow/id324243655?mt=8\">PictureShow</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/classictoy/id360555240?mt=8\">ClassicTOY</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocketbooth/id385145330?mt=8\">Pocketbooth</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n[/two_columns] [two_columns_last  ] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photogene/id287273856?mt=8\">Photogene</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift/id299782692?mt=8\">TiltShift</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/100-cameras-in-1/id408481287?mt=8\">100 Cameras in 1</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8\">Adobe Photoshop Express</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photopad-by-zagg/id364758617?mt=8\">PhotoPad by ZAGG</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\">FX Photo Studio</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camera-genius/id304169579?mt=8\">Camera Genius</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/procamera/id300216827?mt=8\">ProCamera</a>,</li>\r\n<li> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/image-blender/id414544492?mt=8\">Image Blender</a></li>\r\n<li>...plus many many more!!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/two_columns_last]\r\n\r\n<h4>Notable iPhone Photographers</h4>\r\nRegarded as one of the best iPhone photographers today, <a href=\"http://www.chasejarvis.com/\">Chase Jarvis</a> is a professional photographer and videographer who has recently written a book about iPhone photography titled The Best Camera Is The One That\'s With You: iPhone Photography.\r\n\r\nWhat is impressive about Jarvis’s work is the fact that he works within the limitations of the iPhone using them to produce interesting images. Many of his photos look great even with imperfect focus, noise, blur, and incorrect exposure. Talk about getting the best out of the camera you have!\r\n\r\nAnother name that has been creating a buzz in the iPhone photography field is Greg Schmigel. A respected street photographer, Schmigel runs the website <a href=\"http://justwhatisee.com/\">Just What I See</a> where he showcases a handful of his inspiring works captured using his iPhone. There is some really incredible not-to-be missed photos there!\r\n\r\nFor those of you who already own an iPhone – spend some time getting to know your iPhone camera it’s a tiny, yet incredibly powerful little gadget. And for those of you who have yet to get onboard the iPhone train – all aboard – the train’s leaving the station without you! Oh and I think you left your point &amp; shoot at home!','Explore The World of iPhone Photography','','publish','open','open','','explore-the-world-of-iphone-photography-3','','','2011-06-13 14:29:41','2011-06-13 14:29:41','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?p=3356',0,'post','',2),(4548,16,'2011-08-05 09:45:54','2011-08-05 09:45:54','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\"><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPRO HDR proudly brings high dynamic range (HDR) photography right to your fingertips...anytime, anywhere. No need to painstakingly shoot multiple photos, transfer them to the computer, manually align and tonemap them - do it all on your iPhone.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by eyeApps LLC</li>\r\n<li>Automatic and Manual HDR modes</li>\r\n<li>Quickly aligns full-size photos</li>\r\n<li>Photo Library support</li>\r\n<li>Save images at 3 or 5 megapixels</li>\r\n<li>Share HDR outputs through email</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Clean and easy-to-navigate interface</li>\r\n<li>Option to shoot single HDR photo or multiple shots to be combined into one HDR photo</li>\r\n<li>Customizable exposure settings</li>\r\n<li>Alignment is very good</li>\r\n<li>Accessible tutorial on HDR</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<liShooting and processing time is a tad slow</li>\r\n<liNot integrated to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR is for anyone who wants to try out HDR photography on the iPhone! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, this app is a must-have as it vastly improves the quality of your shots, even those taken in low-light. Advanced users may still prefer to process HDR photos using Adobe Photoshop for more flexibility but if you’re into HDR on-the-move, this app will surely come in handy. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]Arguably, PRO HDR is by far the most intelligent and flexible HDR photo app in the market today.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR has hit the nail on the head when it comes to what users really want from an app - something that offers several options for different shooting circumstances while delivering good results.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR, iPhoneographers have two shooting options: Automatic HDR and Manual HDR. If you\'re in a hurry or want to avoid taking multiple shots, just choose Auto HDR and all you have to do is to tap on the screen and PRO HDR will do the rest. If you want to flex your creativity, try out the Manual HDR mode which enables you to choose the brightness and darkness for each of the HDR images you capture.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR you\'ve also got the freedom to adjust settings such as saturation, brightness, contrast, and tint to get a better output unlike other HDR apps where the final photo is as unchangeable – what you shoot is what you get (good or bad).\r\n\r\nThis app is also pretty darn clever...PRO HDR prompts you to take a photo of a dark part and bright part of a scene. Then it will automatically “align” the pictures and blend them together. The result is an HDR photo that is much closer to what the eye sees, but that the iPhone camera could not possibly see with such a small sensor.\r\n\r\nThe only real drawback here is that you might be waiting awhile for the shots to process...the rendering stage is quite lengthy to be frank. But hey, what can we say? Results like this take a bit of time. While the results are not likely to be as what a DSLR could offer, they are still way above what a regular camera phone can deliver. With Pro HDR and iPhone 4’s built-in HDR function, you\'ll blow away any smartphone competition by a mile. \r\n\r\nIt is a pity that the developers haven\'t integrated sharing photos to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr especially now that online photo sharing is a major trend, but ultimately we can live with this oversight as we\'re pretty sure it will be included in the next update. How could they not include it? \r\n\r\nOverall, this is a fantastic go-to app for creating HDR photos on the iPHone. At $1.99, we think it\'s money <em>very</em> well spent.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Pro HDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Pro HDR 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/1/8/iphone-app-review-pro-hdr-by-robert-barr.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“The bottom line is I am in love with this application… For $1.99 I would say everyone that has any interest whatsoever should download this Application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/pro-hdr-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR has more options and generally takes a better picture than the built in camera HDR, but it does sacrifice a bit of speed and convenience in the process.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://photofocus.com/2010/08/31/pro-hdr-for-iphone-mini-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">PhotoFocus</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR won’t eliminate the need for a DSLR and tripod for serious HDR shooters, but if you just want to have some fun with your iPhone, this app provides a bunch of it for $1.99.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Pro HDR – Shoot Stunning HDR Photos On The iPhone','','inherit','open','open','','4392-revision-10','','','2011-08-05 09:45:54','2011-08-05 09:45:54','',4392,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4392-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(4549,16,'2011-08-15 08:00:10','2011-08-15 08:00:10','Family portraits…they are a changin’! Gone are the days that we are getting the whole family together dressed in their Sunday best to sit still for three hours while little Jimmy turns his head another 20° to the left, and then another 30° back to the right. As photographic trends are changing most families are opting for more casual, personality-driven photos that really represent the individuality and style of the family.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a title=\"My Brother and his family, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/68961023@N00/3137073154/\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/family.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>My Brother & His Family</em>\r\nPhoto by Sandra Rouse</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3>Here’s a few ideas to make your family portraits a little bit more modern:</h3>\r\n<h3>Shoot Inside Your Home</h3>\r\nHome is where the heart is right? More and more families are having their photos taken at home to show the family in their own surroundings. This is also a great way to get casual, comfortable photos of your family “in their element”. Just find a nice place in your house, or even outside in the yard or garden. Natural lighting is important for casual family photographs, and photos taken indoors by a window with good light with give a soft, “homely” feel.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a title=\"Family, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelswiet/5793919249/\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"440\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/family3.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Family</em>\r\nPhoto by Michael Sweet</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3>Be Candid</h3>\r\nWe already know that families are moving away from the stiffly posed photos of yesteryear and opting for more candid, “real” photos. Try to plan activities for the whole family to get involved in, creating a fun, relaxed scenario. Opt for places that are meaningful to the family, and interact with each other in a comfortable, casual, light-hearted manor. Someone in the family is sure to know a good joke!\r\n<h3>Dress Casually</h3>\r\nIt’s become a little bit more modern to dress the family in casual, everyday clothing that is complimentary rather than all family members wearing the same thing. That’s not to say you should let everyone choose their own clothes, as your young son might turn up in his Superman pajamas and your daughter in her favorite princess dress, but allowing each family member a little bit of individuality in their clothing will mean they are ultimately more comfortable and at ease in the photograph. Try coordinating clothes with a few common elements or colors for a polished, “together” feel.\r\n<h3>Use The Environment</h3>\r\nThe environment around your house or your city is a great backdrop for casual family photos. Urban environments provide interest and quirky style, where outdoor environments provide a softer, more natural style. If you opt for a cityscape look for interesting stairwells, brick walls, train tracks, secret passages, and fun sculptures to set up your photo. If you’re going for an outdoor shoot in natural surroundings, open grassy fields, interesting trees, sandy or rocky beaches and small hills to climb make great backdrops. Also think about bringing a few props, maybe a parasol, hats, sunglasses, or something small to sit on – a few simple props will go a long way!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><a title=\"Wandering Boys, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/43431420@N07/5618012822/\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/family2.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wandering Boys</em>\r\nPhoto by Yaggi Photography</p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGetting modern, casual family photographs doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. With a little bit of planning and creativity, you can get great shots that reflect your family’s style and individuality. Finally, work with a photographer that whom you feel comfortable and at ease with, and show them the type of photos you would like before committing!','Get Fantastic Family Photos','','publish','open','open','','get-fantastic-family-photos','','','2011-08-24 10:47:06','2011-08-24 10:47:06','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?p=4549',0,'post','',0),(4550,16,'2011-08-06 10:54:14','2011-08-06 10:54:14','Family portraits…they are a changin’! Gone are the days that we are getting the whole family together dressed in their Sunday best to sit still for three hours while little Jimmy turns his head another 20° to the left, and then another 30° back to the right. As photographic trends are changing most families are opting for more casual, personality-driven photos that really represent the individuality and style of the family.  \n\n<h3>Here’s a few ideas to make your family portraits a little bit more modern:</h3> \n<Shoot Inside Your Home \n\nHome is where the heart is right? More and more families are having their photos taken at home to show the family in their own surroundings. This is also a great way to get casual, comfortable photos of your family “in their element”. Just find a nice place in your house, or even outside in the yard or garden. Natural lighting is important for casual family photographs, and photos taken indoors by a window with good light with give a soft, “homely” feel. \n\nBe Candid \n\nWe already know that families are moving away from the stiffly posed photos of yesteryear and opting for more candid, “real” photos. Try to plan activities for the whole family to get involved in, creating a fun, relaxed scenario. Opt for places that are meaningful to the family, and interact with each other in a comfortable, casual, light-hearted manor. Someone in the family is sure to know a good joke! \n\nDress Casually \n\nIt’s become a little bit more modern to dress the family in casual, everyday clothing that is complimentary rather than all family members wearing the same thing. That’s not to say you should let everyone choose their own clothes, as your young son might turn up in his Superman pajamas and your daughter in her favorite princess dress, but allowing each family member a little bit of individuality in their clothing will mean they are ultimately more comfortable and at ease in the photograph. Try coordinating clothes with a few common elements or colors for a polished, “together” feel. \n\nUse The Environment \n\nThe environment around your house or your city is a great backdrop for casual family photos. Urban environments provide interest and quirky style, where outdoor environments provide a softer, more natural style. If you opt for a cityscape look for interesting stairwells, brick walls, train tracks, secret passages, and fun sculptures to set up your photo. If you’re going for an outdoor shoot in natural surroundings, open grassy fields, interesting trees, sandy or rocky beaches and small hills to climb make great backdrops. Also think about bringing a few props, maybe a parasol, hats, sunglasses, or something small to sit on – a few simple props will go a long way! \n\nGetting modern, casual family photographs doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. With a little bit of planning and creativity, you can get great shots that reflect your family’s style and individuality. Finally, work with a photographer that whom you feel comfortable and at ease with, and show them the type of photos you would like before committing! \n','Get Fantastic Family Photos ','','inherit','open','open','','4549-revision','','','2011-08-06 10:54:14','2011-08-06 10:54:14','',4549,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4549-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(4551,16,'2011-08-06 10:55:14','2011-08-06 10:55:14','Family portraits…they are a changin’! Gone are the days that we are getting the whole family together dressed in their Sunday best to sit still for three hours while little Jimmy turns his head another 20° to the left, and then another 30° back to the right. 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Try coordinating clothes with a few common elements or colors for a polished, “together” feel. \n\n<Use The Environment \n\nThe environment around your house or your city is a great backdrop for casual family photos. Urban environments provide interest and quirky style, where outdoor environments provide a softer, more natural style. If you opt for a cityscape look for interesting stairwells, brick walls, train tracks, secret passages, and fun sculptures to set up your photo. If you’re going for an outdoor shoot in natural surroundings, open grassy fields, interesting trees, sandy or rocky beaches and small hills to climb make great backdrops. Also think about bringing a few props, maybe a parasol, hats, sunglasses, or something small to sit on – a few simple props will go a long way! \n\nGetting modern, casual family photographs doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. With a little bit of planning and creativity, you can get great shots that reflect your family’s style and individuality. Finally, work with a photographer that whom you feel comfortable and at ease with, and show them the type of photos you would like before committing! \n','Get Fantastic Family Photos ','','inherit','open','open','','4549-revision-2','','','2011-08-06 10:55:14','2011-08-06 10:55:14','',4549,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4549-revision-2.html',0,'revision','',0),(4546,16,'2011-08-06 10:49:26','2011-08-06 10:49:26','There is something beautiful and incredibly engaging about photos that have been shot in natural light. The natural light of the sun can create stunning colors spanning the whole spectral range, something that just can’t be achieved with artificial lighting. Learning to harness the power and light of the sun in your photographs is a fantastic technique for taking your photography to the next level. \nPlaying with natural light in your photographs will likely take a bit of practice and of course, experimentation. You will need to learn how your camera handles natural light, and begin to understand what settings work best for you. But we’ve put together a few digital photography tips to get you started shooting in natural light. \n\n<h3>How The Time of Day and The Weather Affects Your Photos</h3> \n\nThe time of day and where the sun is physically in the sky will have a huge affect on the photos you take, and additionally where the shadows are in your photos. It’s been said that the optimum time for shooting with natural light is during the “Golden Hours” ie as the sun rises and sets. This is of course a really great starting point as you’re likely to get great natural lighting without harsh overhead shadows. \n\nDepending on your subject, it’s certainly worth experimenting with other times of day as well –for instance, people don’t often photograph well in harsh overhead sun as it causes unsightly shadows on the face and chin. But other subjects like landscapes or buildings may be just fine in overhead light. Further to that the shadows created at that time of day may add something spectacular to your shot. The point here is to start thinking about where the sun is in relation to your subject and how it will affect your photo. \n\nThe weather can also affect the light in your photos in both positive and negative ways. Although most photographers just starting out tend to think that a bright sunny day is best for getting good photos, a cloudy day may actually create a beautiful mood to your image. Cloud cover naturally diffuses the light from the sun, giving your photo dimension without casting difficult shadows.  \n\n<h3>Using Shadows To Create A Mood In Your Photos</h3> \n\nYou already know that shadows can give a photo dimension and become part of the subject of your photograph. But did you know that shadows also create a “mood” in your photo. A photo that is heavy with shadows, where there is more shadow than light creates a dark, intense, or even ominous mood. Whereas a photo that uses light shadowing can make the image come alive in a more three-dimensional way. When looking at a scene to photograph take into consideration the surroundings and how you could use those surroundings with the natural light on that day to “create a mood”. \n\n<h3>Using Natural Light for Indoor Photos</h3> \n\nAlthough it may seem like using the natural light in your photos is a technique that is best practiced with outdoor shooting, you can also use natural light to your advantage when shooting inside. Using the natural light from a nearby window can create dramatic effects. Just think of yourself as a cat – they always seem to find the natural light, wherever it is. Use that light to your advantage, and practice with reflecting the light and bouncing it with a reflector, a mirror, or even a piece of white foam board to move the light it around your subject. \n\nThere are so many ways to use the natural light available to you in your photographs. Practice with different techniques to discover what works best for you, and your photography style. When you begin to think about using the light to your advantage you’ll begin to see photography in a “new light”. Pun intended. \n','Photography Tips For Shooting In Natural Light ','','inherit','open','open','','4545-revision','','','2011-08-06 10:49:26','2011-08-06 10:49:26','',4545,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4545-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(4547,16,'2011-08-06 10:52:08','2011-08-06 10:52:08','There is something beautiful and incredibly engaging about photos that have been shot in natural light. The natural light of the sun can create stunning colors spanning the whole spectral range, something that just can’t be achieved with artificial lighting. Learning to harness the power and light of the sun in your photographs is a fantastic technique for taking your photography to the next level. \r\nPlaying with natural light in your photographs will likely take a bit of practice and of course, experimentation. You will need to learn how your camera handles natural light, and begin to understand what settings work best for you. But we’ve put together a few digital photography tips to get you started shooting in natural light. \r\n\r\n<h3>How The Time of Day and The Weather Affects Your Photos</h3> \r\n\r\nThe time of day and where the sun is physically in the sky will have a huge affect on the photos you take, and additionally where the shadows are in your photos. It’s been said that the optimum time for shooting with natural light is during the “Golden Hours” ie as the sun rises and sets. This is of course a really great starting point as you’re likely to get great natural lighting without harsh overhead shadows. \r\n\r\nDepending on your subject, it’s certainly worth experimenting with other times of day as well –for instance, people don’t often photograph well in harsh overhead sun as it causes unsightly shadows on the face and chin. But other subjects like landscapes or buildings may be just fine in overhead light. Further to that the shadows created at that time of day may add something spectacular to your shot. The point here is to start thinking about where the sun is in relation to your subject and how it will affect your photo. \r\n\r\nThe weather can also affect the light in your photos in both positive and negative ways. Although most photographers just starting out tend to think that a bright sunny day is best for getting good photos, a cloudy day may actually create a beautiful mood to your image. Cloud cover naturally diffuses the light from the sun, giving your photo dimension without casting difficult shadows.  \r\n\r\n<h3>Using Shadows To Create A Mood In Your Photos</h3> \r\n\r\nYou already know that shadows can give a photo dimension and become part of the subject of your photograph. But did you know that shadows also create a “mood” in your photo. A photo that is heavy with shadows, where there is more shadow than light creates a dark, intense, or even ominous mood. Whereas a photo that uses light shadowing can make the image come alive in a more three-dimensional way. When looking at a scene to photograph take into consideration the surroundings and how you could use those surroundings with the natural light on that day to “create a mood”. \r\n\r\n<h3>Using Natural Light for Indoor Photos</h3> \r\n\r\nAlthough it may seem like using the natural light in your photos is a technique that is best practiced with outdoor shooting, you can also use natural light to your advantage when shooting inside. Using the natural light from a nearby window can create dramatic effects. Just think of yourself as a cat – they always seem to find the natural light, wherever it is. 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The natural light of the sun can create stunning colors spanning the whole spectral range, something that just can’t be achieved with artificial lighting. Learning to harness the power and light of the sun in your photographs is a fantastic technique for taking your photography to the next level. \r\nPlaying with natural light in your photographs will likely take a bit of practice and of course, experimentation. You will need to learn how your camera handles natural light, and begin to understand what settings work best for you. But we’ve put together a few digital photography tips to get you started shooting in natural light. \r\n\r\n<h3>How The Time of Day and The Weather Affects Your Photos</h3> \r\n\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<div><a title=\"My most commented image... Amazing Rays of Sunset!, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kamoteus/2070209030\" target=\"_blank\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Golden-hour.jpg\"]</a></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>My most commented image... Amazing Rays of Sunset!</em>\r\nPhoto by Kamoteus</p>\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\n\r\nThe time of day and where the sun is physically in the sky will have a huge affect on the photos you take, and additionally where the shadows are in your photos. It’s been said that the optimum time for shooting with natural light is during the “Golden Hours” ie as the sun rises and sets. This is of course a really great starting point as you’re likely to get great natural lighting without harsh overhead shadows. \r\n\r\nDepending on your subject, it’s certainly worth experimenting with other times of day as well –for instance, people don’t often photograph well in harsh overhead sun as it causes unsightly shadows on the face and chin. But other subjects like landscapes or buildings may be just fine in overhead light. Further to that the shadows created at that time of day may add something spectacular to your shot. The point here is to start thinking about where the sun is in relation to your subject and how it will affect your photo. \r\n\r\nThe weather can also affect the light in your photos in both positive and negative ways. Although most photographers just starting out tend to think that a bright sunny day is best for getting good photos, a cloudy day may actually create a beautiful mood to your image. 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There are basic editing tools available and some fun filters too. And the bonus? It’s reasonably priced!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by MacPhun LLC</li>\r\n<li>Comes with Retina display support</li>\r\n<li>22 different editing tools and photo effects</li>\r\n<li>Red Eye Reduction and Spot Healing features</li>\r\n<li>Share photos to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter</li>\r\n<li>Sharing files via Documents folder</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$0.99\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>New and improved user interface design</li>\r\n<li>Almost all results are just a single tap away</li>\r\n<li>Fun filters available</li>\r\n<li>Essential editing options get the job done</li>\r\n<li>Reliable image processing</li>\r\n<li>Many sharing and saving options</li>\r\n<li>Cheap</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Runs slow in previewing  changes</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPERFECT PHOTO is for anyone who simply wants to edit iPhone photos on the move. Beginners will love how easy-to-use this app is while the pros will not really miss some handy tools from their trusty companion Photoshop.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]If you’re looking for an iPhone app dedicated for quick fixes, PERFECT PHOTO should be a candidate. Price vs. Feature? It’s definitely a bang-for-your-buck![/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nThe developer of PERFECT PHOTO claims that the app is the “easiest way to improve your photos on iPhone” and… we agree.\r\nPERFECT PHOTO took an inspiration from some professional photo editing tools and brought it the iPhone. It offers editing options like cropping, rotating, balancing, sharpening, and flipping. You can also change a photo’s gamma and contrast. While it may sound basic to some, these editing tools work very well.\r\n\r\nRed eye removal and spot healing are the new editing features included in the recent upgrade of the app – PERFECT PHOTO 2.0. The two upgrades make it very easy for the user to fix the photo with red eye, skin blemishes, zits, etc. All the user needs to do is point the round cursor at the desired spot, adjust the size of the cursor by moving the slider located at the bottom, and tap Apply. And there you go. Really, it works like a charm!\r\n\r\nYou can also spice up the photo more by adding a photo filter. There are just currently six (6) photo filters available. Nothing fluff and pointless filters, the available ones are the really good ones. When you’re good to go, you can share the photo over at Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, and Mail or you can save it to your Photo Album, Documents, or Clipboard.\r\n\r\nPERFECT PHOTO also makes sure that users get to edit photos in the easiest way possible. With the improved user interface that came from the upgrade, pretty much all the editing work is a breeze. There aren’t too much buttons found, just those useful ones to ensure uncluttered interface.\r\n\r\nThe only minor shortcoming of this app is perhaps on the time it takes when you get to preview the edits made. It takes few seconds to preview especially if you adjust the preview image quality to High. \r\n\r\nBut overall, if you want a very able, convenient, and affordable photo editing app on the iPhone, PERFECT PHOTO should be your best choice. It comes in a very affordable price tag as it only costs under a dollar.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Perfect Photo App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Perfect Photo App 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>APP REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.tipb.com/2010/12/01/perfect-photo-iphone-brings-red-eye-removal-spot-healing/\">TipB</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“You can say goodbye devilish red eyes and blemishes with Perfect Photo 2.0 for iPhone…Perfect photo has recently become my favorite photo editing application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/perfect-photo-review/#ixzz1UAayqPnu\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148Apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Its success stems from something quite obvious – it offers exactly what you want without throwing in countless filters that, while fun, are ultimately frivolous. For those people who want to simply take photos and edit them on the move through the same app, this is ideal.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/11/sneak-preview-fantastic-update-coming-perfect-photo-grab-price-increase\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Perfect Photo is already a good multi-tool photo editing app. But the update coming next week will make it a must-own app, whether you’re a novice or an experienced iPhoneographer.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Perfect Photo – Excellent Well-Rounded App','','inherit','open','open','','4538-revision-4','','','2011-08-06 09:11:18','2011-08-06 09:11:18','',4538,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4538-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(4541,14,'2011-08-06 09:10:35','2011-08-06 09:10:35','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\"><img title=\"PerfectPhoto\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\" width=\"472\" height=\"344\" alt=\"Perfect Photo\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\" alt=\"PerfectPhoto App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPERFECT PHOTO, brought to you by the same developer that crafted FX Photo Studio, is user-friendly app that offers a convenient way to touch up images taken by an iPhone 4. There are basic editing tools available and some fun filters too. And the bonus? It’s reasonably priced!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by MacPhun LLC</li>\r\n<li>Comes with Retina display support</li>\r\n<li>22 different editing tools and photo effects</li>\r\n<li>Red Eye Reduction and Spot Healing features</li>\r\n<li>Share photos to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter</li>\r\n<li>Sharing files via Documents folder</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$0.99\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>New and improved user interface design</li>\r\n<li>Almost all results are just a single tap away</li>\r\n<li>Fun filters available</li>\r\n<li>Essential editing options get the job done</li>\r\n<li>Reliable image processing</li>\r\n<li>Many sharing and saving options</li>\r\n<li>Cheap</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Runs slow in previewing  changes</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPERFECT PHOTO is for anyone who simply wants to edit iPhone photos on the move. Beginners will love how easy-to-use this app is while the pros will not really miss some handy tools from their trusty companion Photoshop.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]If you’re looking for an iPhone app dedicated for quick fixes, PERFECT PHOTO should be a candidate. Price vs. Feature? It’s definitely a bang-for-your-buck![/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nThe developer of PERFECT PHOTO claims that the app is the “easiest way to improve your photos on iPhone” and… we agree.\r\nPERFECT PHOTO took an inspiration from some professional photo editing tools and brought it the iPhone. It offers editing options like cropping, rotating, balancing, sharpening, and flipping. You can also change a photo’s gamma and contrast. While it may sound basic to some, these editing tools work very well.\r\n\r\nRed eye removal and spot healing are the new editing features included in the recent upgrade of the app – PERFECT PHOTO 2.0. The two upgrades make it very easy for the user to fix the photo with red eye, skin blemishes, zits, etc. All the user needs to do is point the round cursor at the desired spot, adjust the size of the cursor by moving the slider located at the bottom, and tap Apply. And there you go. Really, it works like a charm!\r\n\r\nYou can also spice up the photo more by adding a photo filter. There are just currently six (6) photo filters available. Nothing fluff and pointless filters, the available ones are the really good ones. When you’re good to go, you can share the photo over at Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, and Mail or you can save it to your Photo Album, Documents, or Clipboard.\r\n\r\nPERFECT PHOTO also makes sure that users get to edit photos in the easiest way possible. With the improved user interface that came from the upgrade, pretty much all the editing work is a breeze. There aren’t too much buttons found, just those useful ones to ensure uncluttered interface.\r\n\r\nThe only minor shortcoming of this app is perhaps on the time it takes when you get to preview the edits made. It takes few seconds to preview especially if you adjust the preview image quality to High. \r\n\r\nBut overall, if you want a very able, convenient, and affordable photo editing app on the iPhone, PERFECT PHOTO should be your best choice. It comes in a very affordable price tag as it only costs under a dollar.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Perfect Photo App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Perfect Photo App 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>APP REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.tipb.com/2010/12/01/perfect-photo-iphone-brings-red-eye-removal-spot-healing/\">TipB</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“You can say goodbye devilish red eyes and blemishes with Perfect Photo 2.0 for iPhone…Perfect photo has recently become my favorite photo editing application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/perfect-photo-review/#ixzz1UAayqPnu\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148Apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Its success stems from something quite obvious – it offers exactly what you want without throwing in countless filters that, while fun, are ultimately frivolous. For those people who want to simply take photos and edit them on the move through the same app, this is ideal.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/11/sneak-preview-fantastic-update-coming-perfect-photo-grab-price-increase\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Perfect Photo is already a good multi-tool photo editing app. But the update coming next week will make it a must-own app, whether you’re a novice or an experienced iPhoneographer.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Perfect Photo – Excellent Well-Rounded App','','inherit','open','open','','4538-revision-3','','','2011-08-06 09:10:35','2011-08-06 09:10:35','',4538,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4538-revision-3.html',0,'revision','',0),(4540,14,'2011-08-06 09:10:07','2011-08-06 09:10:07','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\"><img title=\"PerfectPhoto\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\n\nPERFECT PHOTO, brought to you by the same developer that crafted FX Photo Studio, is user-friendly app that offers a convenient way to touch up images taken by an iPhone 4. There are basic editing tools available and some fun filters too. And the bonus? It’s reasonably priced!</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by MacPhun LLC</li>\n<li>Comes with Retina display support</li>\n<li>22 different editing tools and photo effects</li>\n<li>Red Eye Reduction and Spot Healing features</li>\n<li>Share photos to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter</li>\n<li>Sharing files via Documents folder</li>\n<li>Costs US$0.99\n\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>New and improved user interface design</li>\n<li>Almost all results are just a single tap away</li>\n<li>Fun filters available</li>\n<li>Essential editing options get the job done</li>\n<li>Reliable image processing</li>\n<li>Many sharing and saving options</li>\n<li>Cheap</li>\n\n\n\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Runs slow in previewing  changes</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nPERFECT PHOTO is for anyone who simply wants to edit iPhone photos on the move. Beginners will love how easy-to-use this app is while the pros will not really miss some handy tools from their trusty companion Photoshop.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]If you’re looking for an iPhone app dedicated for quick fixes, PERFECT PHOTO should be a candidate. Price vs. Feature? It’s definitely a bang-for-your-buck![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nThe developer of PERFECT PHOTO claims that the app is the “easiest way to improve your photos on iPhone” and… we agree.\nPERFECT PHOTO took an inspiration from some professional photo editing tools and brought it the iPhone. It offers editing options like cropping, rotating, balancing, sharpening, and flipping. You can also change a photo’s gamma and contrast. While it may sound basic to some, these editing tools work very well.\n\nRed eye removal and spot healing are the new editing features included in the recent upgrade of the app – PERFECT PHOTO 2.0. The two upgrades make it very easy for the user to fix the photo with red eye, skin blemishes, zits, etc. All the user needs to do is point the round cursor at the desired spot, adjust the size of the cursor by moving the slider located at the bottom, and tap Apply. And there you go. Really, it works like a charm!\n\nYou can also spice up the photo more by adding a photo filter. There are just currently six (6) photo filters available. Nothing fluff and pointless filters, the available ones are the really good ones. When you’re good to go, you can share the photo over at Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, and Mail or you can save it to your Photo Album, Documents, or Clipboard.\n\nPERFECT PHOTO also makes sure that users get to edit photos in the easiest way possible. With the improved user interface that came from the upgrade, pretty much all the editing work is a breeze. There aren’t too much buttons found, just those useful ones to ensure uncluttered interface.\n\nThe only minor shortcoming of this app is perhaps on the time it takes when you get to preview the edits made. It takes few seconds to preview especially if you adjust the preview image quality to High. \n\nBut overall, if you want a very able, convenient, and affordable photo editing app on the iPhone, PERFECT PHOTO should be your best choice. It comes in a very affordable price tag as it only costs under a dollar.\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Perfect Photo App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Perfect Photo App 4.5 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>APP REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.tipb.com/2010/12/01/perfect-photo-iphone-brings-red-eye-removal-spot-healing/\">TipB</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“You can say goodbye devilish red eyes and blemishes with Perfect Photo 2.0 for iPhone…Perfect photo has recently become my favorite photo editing application.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/perfect-photo-review/#ixzz1UAayqPnu\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148Apps</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Its success stems from something quite obvious – it offers exactly what you want without throwing in countless filters that, while fun, are ultimately frivolous. For those people who want to simply take photos and edit them on the move through the same app, this is ideal.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/11/sneak-preview-fantastic-update-coming-perfect-photo-grab-price-increase\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Perfect Photo is already a good multi-tool photo editing app. But the update coming next week will make it a must-own app, whether you’re a novice or an experienced iPhoneographer.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Perfect Photo – Excellent Well-Rounded App','','inherit','open','open','','4538-revision-2','','','2011-08-06 09:10:07','2011-08-06 09:10:07','',4538,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4538-revision-2.html',0,'revision','',0),(4539,14,'2011-08-06 09:00:18','2011-08-06 09:00:18','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\"><img title=\"PerfectPhoto\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\" width=\"472\" height=\"344<a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png\"><img src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto-376x275.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"PerfectPhoto\" width=\"376\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4537\" /></a>\" alt=\"PerfectPhoto\"></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"PerfectPhoto\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto-Logo.png\" alt=\"PerfectPhoto App Logo\" />\n\nPERFECT PHOTO, brought to you by the same developer that crafted FX Photo Studio, is user-friendly app that offers a convenient way to touch up images taken by an iPhone 4. There are basic editing tools available and some fun filters too. And the bonus? It’s reasonably priced!</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by MacPhun LLC</li>\n<li>Comes with Retina display support</li>\n<li>22 different editing tools and photo effects</li>\n<li>Red Eye Reduction and Spot Healing features</li>\n<li>Share photos to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter</li>\n<li>Sharing files via Documents folder</li>\n<li>Costs US$0.99\n\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>New and improved user interface design</li>\n<li>Almost all results are just a single tap away</li>\n<li>Fun filters available</li>\n<li>Essential editing options get the job done</li>\n<li>Reliable image processing</li>\n<li>Many sharing and saving options</li>\n<li>Cheap</li>\n\n\n\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Runs slow in previewing  changes</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nPERFECT PHOTO is for anyone who simply wants to edit iPhone photos on the move. Beginners will love how easy-to-use this app is while the pros will not really miss some handy tools from their trusty companion Photoshop.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]If you’re looking for an iPhone app dedicated for quick fixes, PERFECT PHOTO should be a candidate. Price vs. Feature? It’s definitely a bang-for-your-buck![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nThe developer of PERFECT PHOTO claims that the app is the “easiest way to improve your photos on iPhone” and… we agree.\nPERFECT PHOTO took an inspiration from some professional photo editing tools and brought it the iPhone. It offers editing options like cropping, rotating, balancing, sharpening, and flipping. You can also change a photo’s gamma and contrast. While it may sound basic to some, these editing tools work very well.\n\nRed eye removal and spot healing are the new editing features included in the recent upgrade of the app – PERFECT PHOTO 2.0. The two upgrades make it very easy for the user to fix the photo with red eye, skin blemishes, zits, etc. All the user needs to do is point the round cursor at the desired spot, adjust the size of the cursor by moving the slider located at the bottom, and tap Apply. And there you go. Really, it works like a charm!\n\nYou can also spice up the photo more by adding a photo filter. There are just currently six (6) photo filters available. Nothing fluff and pointless filters, the available ones are the really good ones. When you’re good to go, you can share the photo over at Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, and Mail or you can save it to your Photo Album, Documents, or Clipboard.\n\nPERFECT PHOTO also makes sure that users get to edit photos in the easiest way possible. With the improved user interface that came from the upgrade, pretty much all the editing work is a breeze. There aren’t too much buttons found, just those useful ones to ensure uncluttered interface.\n\nThe only minor shortcoming of this app is perhaps on the time it takes when you get to preview the edits made. It takes few seconds to preview especially if you adjust the preview image quality to High. \n\nBut overall, if you want a very able, convenient, and affordable photo editing app on the iPhone, PERFECT PHOTO should be your best choice. It comes in a very affordable price tag as it only costs under a dollar.\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Perfect Photo App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Perfect Photo App 4.5 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>APP REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.tipb.com/2010/12/01/perfect-photo-iphone-brings-red-eye-removal-spot-healing/\">TipB</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“You can say goodbye devilish red eyes and blemishes with Perfect Photo 2.0 for iPhone…Perfect photo has recently become my favorite photo editing application.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/perfect-photo-review/#ixzz1UAayqPnu\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148Apps</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Its success stems from something quite obvious – it offers exactly what you want without throwing in countless filters that, while fun, are ultimately frivolous. For those people who want to simply take photos and edit them on the move through the same app, this is ideal.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/11/sneak-preview-fantastic-update-coming-perfect-photo-grab-price-increase\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Perfect Photo is already a good multi-tool photo editing app. But the update coming next week will make it a must-own app, whether you’re a novice or an experienced iPhoneographer.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Perfect Photo – Excellent Well-Rounded App','','inherit','open','open','','4538-revision','','','2011-08-06 09:00:18','2011-08-06 09:00:18','',4538,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4538-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(3969,16,'2011-07-20 08:02:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ok','Photo Sharing Takes Over The World... http://tinyurl.com/6xqfg46','','publish','open','open','','','','','2011-07-20 08:02:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?post_type=tweet&p=3969',0,'tweet','',0),(4343,14,'2011-08-01 15:32:30','2011-08-01 15:32:30','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nShoot yourselves back to the 70’s and experience the fun of using an old school plastic camera through the iPhone with the HIPSTAMATIC app.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>>\n<li>Share “printed”photos to Facebook, Flickr, or Tumblr</li>\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Interface looks beautiful</li>\n<li>Great quality of vintage filters </li>\n<li>Simulates an old camera nicely</li>\n<li>Different combo setting for lenses, flash, and films gives user a great deal of flexibility</li>\n<li>Processes photos in a flash</li>\n<li>Very engaging to use</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Photos not captured using the app cannot be edited</li>\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the app</li>\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\n<li>A bit of lag between shots</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nKING CAMERA is a great iPhone photo editing app for all skill levels – whether you\'re just staring out or you\'ve got a lot of practice under your belt – King Camera\'s wide range of features will suit all iPhoneographers. \n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC did not make the crossing over of analogue cameras to its digital counterpart through the iPhone just a reality… it is a success![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/31/app-review-king-camera-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/\">LifeInLofi</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall, King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0. While it won’t single-handedly replace an arsenal of photo apps, it’s powerful enough to be a go-to app for many users.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/06/03/king-camera-review-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you’re looking for a valid replacement to the native iPhone app and also a very comprehensive processing utility, King Camera is a new excellent choice.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2011/6/13/app-review-king-camera-part-2-the-photo-desk.html\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Overall King Camera is a nice app, but not a great app. Yes, it has features not yet found in it competitors, like stacks on the Photo Desk and time-lapse in the camera module, but the quick fixes are not as good as those in the current number 1 camera replacement app, Camera+.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Hipstamatic – Bring the Retro Back!','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision','','','2011-08-01 15:32:30','2011-08-01 15:32:30','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(4344,14,'2011-08-01 16:00:42','2011-08-01 16:00:42','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nShoot yourselves back to the 70’s and experience the fun of using an old school plastic camera through the iPhone with the HIPSTAMATIC app.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>>\n<li>Share “printed”photos to Facebook, Flickr, or Tumblr</li>\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Interface looks beautiful</li>\n<li>Great quality of vintage filters </li>\n<li>Simulates an old camera nicely</li>\n<li>Different combo setting for lenses, flash, and films gives user a great deal of flexibility</li>\n<li>Processes photos in a flash</li>\n<li>Very engaging to use</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Photos not captured using the app cannot be edited</li>\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the app</li>\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\n<li>A bit of lag between shots</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nHIPSTAMATIC is for anyone who wants to experience the fun of shooting digital photos as if they are shooting with a retro camera used in the yesteryears.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC did not make the crossing over of analogue cameras to its digital counterpart through the iPhone just a reality… it is a success![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nThere are lots of apps out there that are similar to HIPSTAMATIC but what sets it apart from others is its ability to let the users feel that they are not holding an iPhone but an old plastic camera. The classic black styling of the camera, buttons, and all the nitty-gritty aspects were brilliantly planned and executed. The icing of the cake? The stunning vintage photos which you can really be proud of sharing to your family and friends!\n\nJust a few drawbacks though. Some may feel that the app isn’t very intuitive to use perhaps because of its attempt to simulate an old camera, which also takes time to get used to. The viewfinder is also small, thus making it a bit difficult to compose a shot. Moreover, the app does not process those shots taken using another app. \n\nBut maybe, that’s the whole point of this app. You experience the fun as well as the challenge of using vintage cameras in a stylized iPhone camera. Considering how enjoyable to use this app is and how impressive the processed photos are, we would be more than willing to take the good with the bad. HIPSTAMATIC definitely comes highly recommended!\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/review-hipstamatic\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“While those who really want the fun reminder of yesteryear could easily pick up a cheap analog camera in a second hand shop, I suppose most will see two bucks for the app as being the better option. The bottom line is that if you like the app based on its description, you’ll love using it.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=355058&expand=false\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">MacWorld</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Synthetic clearly spent a lot of time creating a unique app that doesn’t just produce nice results—it’s engaging and fun to use before you ever see the finished product.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appmodo.com/9676/hipstamatic-review-for-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appmodo</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Hipstamatic for iPhone comes highly recommended to photography enthusiasts of all ages. It is a fun application that will surely bring any dull Kodak moment to life.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Hipstamatic – Bring the Retro Back!','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision-2','','','2011-08-01 16:00:42','2011-08-01 16:00:42','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision-2.html',0,'revision','',0),(4346,14,'2011-08-01 16:08:01','2011-08-01 16:08:01','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nTake yourself back to the 70s and experience the fun of using an old school plastic camera through the iPhone with the HIPSTAMATIC app.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>>\n<li>Share “printed”photos to Facebook, Flickr, or Tumblr</li>\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Interface looks beautiful</li>\n<li>Great quality of vintage filters </li>\n<li>Simulates an old camera nicely</li>\n<li>Different combo settins for lenses, flash, and films give user a great deal of flexibility</li>\n<li>Processes photos in a flash</li>\n<li>Very engaging to use</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Photos not captured using the app cannot be edited</li>\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the app</li>\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\n<li>A bit of lag between shots</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nHIPSTAMATIC is for anyone who wants to experience the joy of shooting digital photos as if they are shooting with a retro camera used in the yesteryears.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC did not make the crossing over of analogue cameras to its digital counterpart through the iPhone just a reality… it is a success![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nThere are lots of apps out there that are similar to HIPSTAMATIC but what sets it apart from others is its ability to let the users feel that they are not holding an iPhone but an old plastic camera. The classic black styling of the camera, buttons, and all the nitty-gritty aspects were brilliantly planned and executed. The icing of the cake? The stunning vintage photos which you can really be proud of sharing to your family and friends!\n\nJust a few drawbacks though. Some may feel that the app isn’t very intuitive to use perhaps because of its attempt to simulate an old camera, which also takes time to get used to. The viewfinder is also small, thus making it a bit difficult to compose a shot. Moreover, the app does not process those shots taken using another app. \n\nBut maybe, that’s the whole point of this app. You experience the fun as well as the challenge of using vintage cameras in a stylized iPhone camera. Considering how enjoyable to use this app is and how impressive the processed photos are, we would be more than willing to take the good with the bad. HIPSTAMATIC definitely comes highly recommended!\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/review-hipstamatic\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“While those who really want the fun reminder of yesteryear could easily pick up a cheap analog camera in a second hand shop, I suppose most will see two bucks for the app as being the better option. The bottom line is that if you like the app based on its description, you’ll love using it.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=355058&expand=false\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">MacWorld</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Synthetic clearly spent a lot of time creating a unique app that doesn’t just produce nice results—it’s engaging and fun to use before you ever see the finished product.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appmodo.com/9676/hipstamatic-review-for-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appmodo</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Hipstamatic for iPhone comes highly recommended to photography enthusiasts of all ages. It is a fun application that will surely bring any dull Kodak moment to life.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Hipstamatic – Bring the Retro Back!','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision-3','','','2011-08-01 16:08:01','2011-08-01 16:08:01','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision-3.html',0,'revision','',0),(4345,16,'2011-08-01 15:26:05','2011-08-01 15:26:05','We\'re back with the second instalment to our new series of interviews with iPhoneographers from around the globe! Today we\'re introducing Miss Pixels, an iPhoneographer, graphic designer and illustrator from Quebec, Canada. Her iPhotos have reached viewers far and wide and she\'s had kudos from Wired Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as being featured in recent publication \"Create Great iPhone Photos\". So without further adieu, let\'s get to the good stuff!  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels1.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography.</h4>\r\nI am a freelance illustrator and art director. Since I have a bachelor\'s degree in Visual Arts and Graphic Design, I have always been inclined to trying out new technologies, especially when these technologies enable me to create. In 2009, I bought my first iPhone and it was love at first sight: I had finally found a medium combining my passion for technology with my thirst for creativity!\r\n<h4>What does iPhoneography mean to you? How is it different from regular photography?</h4>\r\nI had a few traditional photography courses at university, but this medium didn\'t really fit with my upbeat personality; I also had trouble being spontaneous while using it and was intimidated by its technical aspects. Contrary to traditional photography, iPhoneography allows me to be spontaneous wherever I am and whatever the occasion, without having to worry about my technique since this device does have limitations. In short, I quickly abandoned all the more traditional cameras to concentrate on this new medium, which is the only one I bring when travelling.\r\n<h4>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h4>\r\nDo I have an iPhoneography style? Yes. My color palette is by definition very expressive and gets people\'s attention. Moreover, I tend to overuse the numerical noise and the grain in an exponential way. My iPhone photos are also featured in themed series\'. I think all these elements contribute to my uniqueness, making my pictures different from those taken with conventional mobile devices. If I had to put a label on my style, I would have to call it \"Vivacity 2.0\"!\r\n<h4>Do you think it\'s important to have an iPhoneography style?</h4>\r\nI believe an artist has by definition a style, as he does a personality. It\'s what enables him to propel his creativity field with such strength. The main difference between an artist and an amateur is his ability to create signature visual concepts in a unique language.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h4>\r\nAs many might concur, joining the social media movement is by far the best way to integrate into the iPhoneography community. Attending events and taking part in conversations with people sharing your interests will definitely generate reactions and bring attention to your work.\r\n<h4>What tips could you share with budding iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Always ask yourself whether or not your image is quality worthy of the best before posting it online. The image might seem interesting to you due to the context it was taken in, but might not be of interest to others. For example, it takes great humility to recognize that your cat\'s picture, as cute as it may be, might not entertain someone who has seen 800 pictures just like it. Your main challenge will be to make your cat\'s picture unique and original!</li>\r\n<li>The basics apps I use are <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">FX Photo Studio</a>, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift-generator-fake-miniature/id327716311?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">TiltShif</a>t and <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge/id314173066?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoForge</a>. What I like best about FX Photo Studio is the fact that I can save my multi-filter recipe, thus making sure the images in my series have the same graphic signature.</li>\r\n<li>When I want to put emphasis on a certain effect, I process the image several times in the same app, saving the image and then reopening it again. A simple but effective way of doubling or tripling the desired effect!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nCheck out more of Miss Pixels’ iPhoneography at <a href=\"http://www.misspixels.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MissPixels</a>.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels2.jpg\" ]','iPhoneography with Miss Pixels','','inherit','open','open','','4286-revision-10','','','2011-08-01 15:26:05','2011-08-01 15:26:05','',4286,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4286-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(4347,14,'2011-08-01 16:10:52','2011-08-01 16:10:52','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\"><img title=\"KingCamera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera.jpg\" alt=\"King Camera\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" /></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nTake yourself back to the 70s and experience the fun of using an old school plastic camera through the iPhone with the HIPSTAMATIC app.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>>\n<li>Share “printed”photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twor Tumblr</li>\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Interface looks beautiful</li>\n<li>Great quality of vintage filters </li>\n<li>Simulates an old camera nicely</li>\n<li>Different combo settins for lenses, flash, and films give user a great deal of flexibility</li>\n<li>Processes photos in a flash</li>\n<li>Very engaging to use</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Photos not captured using the app cannot be edited</li>\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the app</li>\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\n<li>A bit of lag between shots</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nHIPSTAMATIC is for anyone who wants to experience the joy of shooting digital photos as if they are shooting with a retro camera used in the yesteryears.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC did not make the crossing over of analogue cameras to its digital counterpart through the iPhone just a reality… it is a success![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nThere are lots of apps out there that are similar to HIPSTAMATIC but what sets it apart from others is its ability to let the users feel that they are not holding an iPhone but an old plastic camera. The classic black styling of the camera, buttons, and all the nitty-gritty aspects were brilliantly planned and executed. The icing of the cake? The stunning vintage photos which you can really be proud of sharing to your family and friends!\n\nJust a few drawbacks though. Some may feel that the app isn’t very intuitive to use perhaps because of its attempt to simulate an old camera, which also takes time to get used to. The viewfinder is also small, thus making it a bit difficult to compose a shot. Moreover, the app does not process those shots taken using another app. \n\nBut maybe, that’s the whole point of this app. You experience the fun as well as the challenge of using vintage cameras in a stylized iPhone camera. Considering how enjoyable to use this app is and how impressive the processed photos are, we would be more than willing to take the good with the bad. HIPSTAMATIC definitely comes highly recommended!\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/review-hipstamatic\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“While those who really want the fun reminder of yesteryear could easily pick up a cheap analog camera in a second hand shop, I suppose most will see two bucks for the app as being the better option. The bottom line is that if you like the app based on its description, you’ll love using it.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=355058&expand=false\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">MacWorld</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Synthetic clearly spent a lot of time creating a unique app that doesn’t just produce nice results—it’s engaging and fun to use before you ever see the finished product.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appmodo.com/9676/hipstamatic-review-for-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appmodo</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Hipstamatic for iPhone comes highly recommended to photography enthusiasts of all ages. It is a fun application that will surely bring any dull Kodak moment to life.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Hipstamatic – Bring the Retro Back!','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision-4','','','2011-08-01 16:10:52','2011-08-01 16:10:52','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(4351,14,'2011-08-01 16:28:51','2011-08-01 16:28:51','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\"><img title=\"Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\" alt=\"Hipstamatic\"></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KingCamera-Logo.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"King Camera App Logo\" />\n\nTake yourself back to the 70s and experience the fun of using an old school plastic camera through the iPhone with the HIPSTAMATIC app.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>>\n<li>Share “printed”photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, or Tumblr</li>\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Interface looks beautiful</li>\n<li>Great quality of vintage filters </li>\n<li>Simulates an old camera nicely</li>\n<li>Different combo settins for lenses, flash, and films give user a great deal of flexibility</li>\n<li>Processes photos in a flash</li>\n<li>Very engaging to use</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Photos not captured using the app cannot be edited</li>\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the app</li>\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\n<li>A bit of lag between shots</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nHIPSTAMATIC is for anyone who wants to experience the joy of shooting digital photos as if they are shooting with a retro camera used in the yesteryears.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC did not make the crossing over of analogue cameras to its digital counterpart through the iPhone just a reality… it is a success![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nThere are lots of apps out there that are similar to HIPSTAMATIC but what sets it apart from others is its ability to let the users feel that they are not holding an iPhone but an old plastic camera. The classic black styling of the camera, buttons, and all the nitty-gritty aspects were brilliantly planned and executed. The icing of the cake? The stunning vintage photos which you can really be proud of sharing to your family and friends!\n\nJust a few drawbacks though. Some may feel that the app isn’t very intuitive to use perhaps because of its attempt to simulate an old camera, which also takes time to get used to. The viewfinder is also small, thus making it a bit difficult to compose a shot. Moreover, the app does not process those shots taken using another app. \n\nBut maybe, that’s the whole point of this app. You experience the fun as well as the challenge of using vintage cameras in a stylized iPhone camera. Considering how enjoyable to use this app is and how impressive the processed photos are, we would be more than willing to take the good with the bad. HIPSTAMATIC definitely comes highly recommended!\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for King Camera\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give King Camera 4 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/review-hipstamatic\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“While those who really want the fun reminder of yesteryear could easily pick up a cheap analog camera in a second hand shop, I suppose most will see two bucks for the app as being the better option. The bottom line is that if you like the app based on its description, you’ll love using it.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=355058&expand=false\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">MacWorld</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Synthetic clearly spent a lot of time creating a unique app that doesn’t just produce nice results—it’s engaging and fun to use before you ever see the finished product.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appmodo.com/9676/hipstamatic-review-for-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appmodo</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Hipstamatic for iPhone comes highly recommended to photography enthusiasts of all ages. It is a fun application that will surely bring any dull Kodak moment to life.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Hipstamatic – Bring the Retro Back!','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision-5','','','2011-08-01 16:28:51','2011-08-01 16:28:51','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(4348,16,'2011-08-01 16:04:21','2011-08-01 16:04:21','We\'re back with the second instalment to our new series of interviews with iPhoneographers from around the globe! Today we\'re introducing Miss Pixels, an iPhoneographer, graphic designer and illustrator from Quebec, Canada. Her iPhotos have reached viewers far and wide and she\'s had kudos from Wired Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as being featured in recent publication \"Create Great iPhone Photos\". So without further adieu, let\'s get to the good stuff!  \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels1.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography.</h4>\r\nI am a freelance illustrator and art director. Since I have a bachelor\'s degree in Visual Arts and Graphic Design, I have always been inclined to trying out new technologies, especially when these technologies enable me to create. In 2009, I bought my first iPhone and it was love at first sight: I had finally found a medium combining my passion for technology with my thirst for creativity!\r\n<h4>What does iPhoneography mean to you? How is it different from regular photography?</h4>\r\nI had a few traditional photography courses at university, but this medium didn\'t really fit with my upbeat personality; I also had trouble being spontaneous while using it and was intimidated by its technical aspects. Contrary to traditional photography, iPhoneography allows me to be spontaneous wherever I am and whatever the occasion, without having to worry about my technique since this device does have limitations. In short, I quickly abandoned all the more traditional cameras to concentrate on this new medium, which is the only one I bring when travelling.\r\n<h4>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h4>\r\nDo I have an iPhoneography style? Yes. My color palette is by definition very expressive and gets people\'s attention. Moreover, I tend to overuse the numerical noise and the grain in an exponential way. My iPhone photos are also featured in themed series\'. I think all these elements contribute to my uniqueness, making my pictures different from those taken with conventional mobile devices. If I had to put a label on my style, I would have to call it \"Vivacity 2.0\"!\r\n<h4>Do you think it\'s important to have an iPhoneography style?</h4>\r\nI believe an artist has by definition a style, as he does a personality. It\'s what enables him to propel his creativity field with such strength. The main difference between an artist and an amateur is his ability to create signature visual concepts in a unique language.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels.jpg\" ]<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h4>\r\nAs many might concur, joining the social media movement is by far the best way to integrate into the iPhoneography community. Attending events and taking part in conversations with people sharing your interests will definitely generate reactions and bring attention to your work.\r\n<h4>What tips could you share with budding iPhoneographers?</h4>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Always ask yourself whether or not your image is quality worthy of the best before posting it online. The image might seem interesting to you due to the context it was taken in, but might not be of interest to others. For example, it takes great humility to recognize that your cat\'s picture, as cute as it may be, might not entertain someone who has seen 800 pictures just like it. Your main challenge will be to make your cat\'s picture unique and original!</li>\r\n<li>The basic apps I use are <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">FX Photo Studio</a>, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift-generator-fake-miniature/id327716311?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">TiltShif</a>t and <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge/id314173066?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoForge</a>. What I like best about FX Photo Studio is the fact that I can save my multi-filter recipe, thus making sure the images in my series have the same graphic signature.</li>\r\n<li>When I want to put emphasis on a certain effect, I process the image several times in the same app, saving the image and then reopening it again. A simple but effective way of doubling or tripling the desired effect!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nCheck out more of Miss Pixels’ iPhoneography at <a href=\"http://www.misspixels.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MissPixels</a>.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"499\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Miss Pixels\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MissPixels2.jpg\" ]','iPhoneography with Miss Pixels','','inherit','open','open','','4286-revision-11','','','2011-08-01 16:04:21','2011-08-01 16:04:21','',4286,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4286-revision-11.html',0,'revision','',0),(4349,14,'2011-08-01 16:21:45','2011-08-01 16:21:45','','Hipstamatic','','inherit','open','open','','hipstamatic','','','2011-08-01 16:21:45','2011-08-01 16:21:45','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4350,14,'2011-08-01 16:21:51','2011-08-01 16:21:51','','Hipstamatic-Logo','','inherit','open','open','','hipstamatic-logo','','','2011-08-01 16:21:51','2011-08-01 16:21:51','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic-Logo.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(4352,14,'2011-08-01 16:36:53','2011-08-01 16:36:53','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\"><img title=\"Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Hipstamatic\"></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Hipstamatic App Logo\" />\n\nTake yourself back to the 70s and experience the fun of using an old school plastic camera through the iPhone with the HIPSTAMATIC app.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>>\n<li>Share “printed”photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, or Tumblr</li>\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Interface looks beautiful</li>\n<li>Great quality of vintage filters </li>\n<li>Simulates an old camera nicely</li>\n<li>Different combo settins for lenses, flash, and films give user a great deal of flexibility</li>\n<li>Processes photos in a flash</li>\n<li>Very engaging to use</li>\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Photos not captured using the app cannot be edited</li>\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the app</li>\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\n<li>A bit of lag between shots</li>\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nHIPSTAMATIC is for anyone who wants to experience the joy of shooting digital photos as if they are shooting with a retro camera used in the yesteryears.\n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC did not make the crossing over of analogue cameras to its digital counterpart through the iPhone just a reality… it is a success![/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nThere are lots of apps out there that are similar to HIPSTAMATIC but what sets it apart from others is its ability to let the users feel that they are not holding an iPhone but an old plastic camera. The classic black styling of the camera, buttons, and all the nitty-gritty aspects were brilliantly planned and executed. The icing of the cake? The stunning vintage photos which you can really be proud of sharing to your family and friends!\n\nJust a few drawbacks though. Some may feel that the app isn’t very intuitive to use perhaps because of its attempt to simulate an old camera, which also takes time to get used to. The viewfinder is also small, thus making it a bit difficult to compose a shot. Moreover, the app does not process those shots taken using another app. \n\nBut maybe, that’s the whole point of this app. You experience the fun as well as the challenge of using vintage cameras in a stylized iPhone camera. Considering how enjoyable to use this app is and how impressive the processed photos are, we would be more than willing to take the good with the bad. HIPSTAMATIC definitely comes highly recommended!\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give  4.5 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/review-hipstamatic\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“While those who really want the fun reminder of yesteryear could easily pick up a cheap analog camera in a second hand shop, I suppose most will see two bucks for the app as being the better option. The bottom line is that if you like the app based on its description, you’ll love using it.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=355058&expand=false\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">MacWorld</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Synthetic clearly spent a lot of time creating a unique app that doesn’t just produce nice results—it’s engaging and fun to use before you ever see the finished product.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appmodo.com/9676/hipstamatic-review-for-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appmodo</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Hipstamatic for iPhone comes highly recommended to photography enthusiasts of all ages. It is a fun application that will surely bring any dull Kodak moment to life.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Hipstamatic – Bring the Retro Back!','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision-6','','','2011-08-01 16:36:53','2011-08-01 16:36:53','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(4353,14,'2011-08-01 16:37:00','2011-08-01 16:37:00','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\"><img title=\"Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Hipstamatic\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Hipstamatic App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nTake yourself back to the 70s and experience the fun of using an old school plastic camera through the iPhone with the HIPSTAMATIC app.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\r\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\r\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>>\r\n<li>Share “printed”photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, or Tumblr</li>\r\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Interface looks beautiful</li>\r\n<li>Great quality of vintage filters </li>\r\n<li>Simulates an old camera nicely</li>\r\n<li>Different combo settins for lenses, flash, and films give user a great deal of flexibility</li>\r\n<li>Processes photos in a flash</li>\r\n<li>Very engaging to use</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Photos not captured using the app cannot be edited</li>\r\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the app</li>\r\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\r\n<li>A bit of lag between shots</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nHIPSTAMATIC is for anyone who wants to experience the joy of shooting digital photos as if they are shooting with a retro camera used in the yesteryears.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC did not make the crossing over of analogue cameras to its digital counterpart through the iPhone just a reality… it is a success![/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nThere are lots of apps out there that are similar to HIPSTAMATIC but what sets it apart from others is its ability to let the users feel that they are not holding an iPhone but an old plastic camera. The classic black styling of the camera, buttons, and all the nitty-gritty aspects were brilliantly planned and executed. The icing of the cake? The stunning vintage photos which you can really be proud of sharing to your family and friends!\r\n\r\nJust a few drawbacks though. Some may feel that the app isn’t very intuitive to use perhaps because of its attempt to simulate an old camera, which also takes time to get used to. The viewfinder is also small, thus making it a bit difficult to compose a shot. Moreover, the app does not process those shots taken using another app. \r\n\r\nBut maybe, that’s the whole point of this app. You experience the fun as well as the challenge of using vintage cameras in a stylized iPhone camera. Considering how enjoyable to use this app is and how impressive the processed photos are, we would be more than willing to take the good with the bad. HIPSTAMATIC definitely comes highly recommended!\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Hipstamatic 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/review-hipstamatic\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“While those who really want the fun reminder of yesteryear could easily pick up a cheap analog camera in a second hand shop, I suppose most will see two bucks for the app as being the better option. The bottom line is that if you like the app based on its description, you’ll love using it.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=355058&expand=false\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">MacWorld</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Synthetic clearly spent a lot of time creating a unique app that doesn’t just produce nice results—it’s engaging and fun to use before you ever see the finished product.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appmodo.com/9676/hipstamatic-review-for-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appmodo</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Hipstamatic for iPhone comes highly recommended to photography enthusiasts of all ages. It is a fun application that will surely bring any dull Kodak moment to life.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Hipstamatic – Bring the Retro Back!','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision-7','','','2011-08-01 16:37:00','2011-08-01 16:37:00','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(3385,16,'2011-06-13 15:04:08','2011-06-13 15:04:08','','montager','','inherit','open','open','','montager','','','2011-06-13 15:04:08','2011-06-13 15:04:08','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/montager.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(3387,16,'2011-06-13 15:07:36','2011-06-13 15:07:36','','montagerlogo','','inherit','open','open','','montagerlogo','','','2011-06-13 15:07:36','2011-06-13 15:07:36','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/montagerlogo.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4536,14,'2011-08-06 08:43:56','2011-08-06 08:43:56','','PerfectPhoto-Logo','','inherit','open','open','','perfectphoto-logo','','','2011-08-06 08:43:56','2011-08-06 08:43:56','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto-Logo.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4537,14,'2011-08-06 08:44:11','2011-08-06 08:44:11','','PerfectPhoto','','inherit','open','open','','perfectphoto','','','2011-08-06 08:44:11','2011-08-06 08:44:11','',4538,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PerfectPhoto.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4535,16,'2011-08-05 09:17:44','2011-08-05 09:17:44','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\"><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPRO HDR proudly brings high dynamic range (HDR) photography right to your fingertips...anytime, anywhere. No need to painstakingly shoot multiple photos, transfer them to the computer, manually align and tonemap them - do it all on your iPhone.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by eyeApps LLC</li>\r\n<li>Automatic and Manual HDR modes</li>\r\n<li>Quickly aligns full-size photos</li>\r\n<li>Photo Library support</li>\r\n<li>Save images at 3 or 5 megapixels</li>\r\n<li>Share HDR outputs through email</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Clean and easy-to-navigate interface</li>\r\n<li>Option to shoot single HDR photo or multiple shots to be combined into one HDR photo</li>\r\n<li>Customizable exposure settings</li>\r\n<li>Alignment is very good</li>\r\n<li>Accessible tutorial on HDR</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<liShooting and processing time is a tad slow</li>\r\n<liNot integrated to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR is for anyone who wants to try out HDR photography on the iPhone! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, this app is a must-have as it vastly improves the quality of your shots, even those taken in low-light. Advanced users may still prefer to process HDR photos using Adobe Photoshop for more flexibility but if you’re into HDR on-the-move, this app will surely come in handy. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]Arguably, PRO HDR is by far the most intelligent and flexible HDR photo app in the market today.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR has hit the nail on the head when it comes to what users really want from an app - something that offers several options for different shooting circumstances while delivering good results.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR, iPhoneographers have two shooting options: Automatic HDR and Manual HDR. If you\'re in a hurry or want to avoid taking multiple shots, just choose Auto HDR and all you have to do is to tap on the screen and PRO HDR will do the rest. If you want to flex your creativity, try out the Manual HDR mode which enables you to choose the brightness and darkness for each of the HDR images you capture.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR you\'ve also got the freedom to adjust settings such as saturation, brightness, contrast, and tint to get a better output unlike other HDR apps where the final photo is as unchangeable – what you shoot is what you get (good or bad).\r\n\r\nThis app is also pretty darn clever...PRO HDR prompts you to take a photo of a dark part and bright part of a scene. Then it will automatically “align” the pictures and blend them together. The result is an HDR photo that is much closer to what the eye sees, but that the iPhone camera could not possibly see with such a small sensor.\r\n\r\nThe only real drawback here is that you might be waiting awhile for the shots to process...the rendering stage is quite lengthy to be frank. But hey, what can we say? Results like this take a bit of time. While the results are not likely to be as what a DSLR could offer, they are still way above what a regular camera phone can deliver. With Pro HDR and iPhone 4’s built-in HDR function, you\'ll blow away any smartphone competition by a mile. \r\n\r\nIt is a pity that the developers haven\'t integrated sharing photos to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr especially now that online photo sharing is a major trend, but ultimately we can live with this oversight as we\'re pretty sure it will be included in the next update. How could they not include it? \r\n\r\nOverall, this is a fantastic go-to app for creating HDR photos on the iPHone. At $1.99, we think it\'s money <em>very</em> well spent.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Pro HDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Pro HDR 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/1/8/iphone-app-review-pro-hdr-by-robert-barr.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“The bottom line is I am in love with this application… For $1.99 I would say everyone that has any interest whatsoever should download this Application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/pro-hdr-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR has more options and generally takes a better picture than the built in camera HDR, but it does sacrifice a bit of speed and convenience in the process.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://photofocus.com/2010/08/31/pro-hdr-for-iphone-mini-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">PhotoFocus</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR won’t eliminate the need for a DSLR and tripod for serious HDR shooters, but if you just want to have some fun with your iPhone, this app provides a bunch of it for $1.99.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Pro HDR – Shoot Stunning HDR Photos On The iPhone','','inherit','open','open','','4392-revision-9','','','2011-08-05 09:17:44','2011-08-05 09:17:44','',4392,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4392-revision-9.html',0,'revision','',0),(4534,16,'2011-08-05 09:17:00','2011-08-05 09:17:00','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\"><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPRO HDR proudly brings high dynamic range (HDR) photography right to your fingertips...anytime, anywhere. No need to painstakingly shoot multiple photos, transfer them to the computer, manually align and tonemap them - do it all on your iPhone.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by eyeApps LLC</li>\r\n<li>Automatic and Manual HDR modes</li>\r\n<li>Quickly aligns full-size photos</li>\r\n<li>Photo Library support</li>\r\n<li>Save images at 3 or 5 megapixels</li>\r\n<li>Share HDR outputs through email</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Clean and easy-to-navigate interface</li>\r\n<li>Option to shoot single HDR photo or multiple shots to be combined into one HDR photo</li>\r\n<li>Customizable exposure settings</li>\r\n<li>Alignment is very good</li>\r\n<li>Accessible tutorial on HDR</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<liShooting and processing time is a tad slow</li>\r\n<liNot integrated to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR is for anyone who wants to try out HDR photography on the iPhone! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, this app is a must-have as it vastly improves the quality of your shots, even those taken in low-light. Advanced users may still prefer to process HDR photos using Adobe Photoshop for more flexibility but if you’re into HDR on-the-move, this app will surely come in handy. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]Arguably, PRO HDR is by far the most intelligent and flexible HDR photo app in the market today.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR has hit the nail on the head when it comes to what users really want from an app - something that offers several options for different shooting circumstances while delivering good results.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR, iPhoneographers have two shooting options: Automatic HDR and Manual HDR. If you\'re in a hurry or want to avoid taking multiple shots, just choose Auto HDR and all you have to do is to tap on the screen and PRO HDR will do the rest. If you want to flex your creativity, try out the Manual HDR mode which enables you to choose the brightness and darkness for each of the HDR images you capture.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR you\'ve also got the freedom to adjust settings such as saturation, brightness, contrast, and tint to get a better output unlike other HDR apps where the final photo is as unchangeable – what you shoot is what you get (good or bad).\r\n\r\nThis app is also pretty darn clever...PRO HDR prompts you to take a photo of a dark part and bright part of a scene. Then it will automatically “align” the pictures and blend them together. The result is an HDR photo that is much closer to what the eye sees, but that the iPhone camera could not possibly see with such a small sensor.\r\n\r\nThe only real drawback here is that you might be waiting awhile for the shots to process...the rendering stage is quite lengthy to be frank. But hey, what can we say? Results like this take a bit of time. While the results are not likely to be as what a DSLR could offer, they are still way above what a regular camera phone can deliver. With Pro HDR and iPhone 4’s built-in HDR function, you\'ll blow away any smartphone competition by a mile. \r\n\r\nIt is a pity that the developers haven\'t integrated sharing photos to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr especially now that online photo sharing is a major trend, but ultimately we can live with this oversight as we\'re pretty sure it will be included in the next update. How could they not include it? \r\n\r\nOverall, this is a fantastic go-to app for creating HDR photos on the iPHone. At $1.99, we think it\'s money <em>very</em> well spent.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Pro HDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Pro HDR 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/1/8/iphone-app-review-pro-hdr-by-robert-barr.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“The bottom line is I am in love with this application… For $1.99 I would say everyone that has any interest whatsoever should download this Application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/pro-hdr-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR has more options and generally takes a better picture than the built in camera HDR, but it does sacrifice a bit of speed and convenience in the process.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://photofocus.com/2010/08/31/pro-hdr-for-iphone-mini-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">PhotoFocus</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR won’t eliminate the need for a DSLR and tripod for serious HDR shooters, but if you just want to have some fun with your iPhone, this app provides a bunch of it for $1.99.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Pro HDR – Shoot Stunning HDR Photos On The iPhone','','inherit','open','open','','4392-revision-8','','','2011-08-05 09:17:00','2011-08-05 09:17:00','',4392,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4392-revision-8.html',0,'revision','',0),(4533,16,'2011-08-05 09:16:40','2011-08-05 09:16:40','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\"><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPRO HDR proudly brings high dynamic range (HDR) photography right to your fingertips...anytime, anywhere. No need to painstakingly shoot multiple photos, transfer them to the computer, manually align and tonemap them - do it all on your iPhone.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by eyeApps LLC</li>\r\n<li>Automatic and Manual HDR modes</li>\r\n<li>Quickly aligns full-size photos</li>\r\n<li>Photo Library support</li>\r\n<li>Save images at 3 or 5 megapixels</li>\r\n<li>Share HDR outputs through email</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Clean and easy-to-navigate interface</li>\r\n<li>Option to shoot single HDR photo or multiple shots to be combined into one HDR photo</li>\r\n<li>Customizable exposure settings</li>\r\n<li>Alignment is very good</li>\r\n<li>Accessible tutorial on HDR</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<liShooting and processing time is a tad slow</li>\r\n<liNot integrated to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR is for anyone who wants to try out HDR photography on the iPhone! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, this app is a must-have as it vastly improves the quality of your shots, even those taken in low-light. Advanced users may still prefer to process HDR photos using Adobe Photoshop for more flexibility but if you’re into HDR on-the-move, this app will surely come in handy. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]Arguably, PRO HDR is by far the most intelligent and flexible HDR photo app in the market today.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR has hit the nail on the head when it comes to what users really want from an app - something that offers several options for different shooting circumstances while delivering good results.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR, iPhoneographers have two shooting options: Automatic HDR and Manual HDR. If you\'re in a hurry or want to avoid taking multiple shots, just choose Auto HDR and all you have to do is to tap on the screen and PRO HDR will do the rest. If you want to flex your creativity, try out the Manual HDR mode which enables you to choose the brightness and darkness for each of the HDR images you capture.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR you\'ve also got the freedom to adjust settings such as saturation, brightness, contrast, and tint to get a better output unlike other HDR apps where the final photo is as unchangeable – what you shoot is what you get (good or bad).\r\n\r\nThis app is also pretty darn clever...PRO HDR prompts you to take a photo of a dark part and bright part of a scene. Then it will automatically “align” the pictures and blend them together. The result is an HDR photo that is much closer to what the eye sees, but that the iPhone camera could not possibly see with such a small sensor.\r\n\r\nThe only real drawback here is that you might be waiting awhile for the shots to process...the rendering stage is quite lengthy to be frank. But hey, what can we say? Results like this take a bit of time. While the results are not likely to be as what a DSLR could offer, they are still way above what a regular camera phone can deliver. With Pro HDR and iPhone 4’s built-in HDR function, you\'ll blow away any smartphone competition by a mile. \r\n\r\nIt is a pity that the developers haven\'t integrated sharing photos to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr especially now that online photo sharing is a major trend, but ultimately we can live with this oversight as we\'re pretty sure it will be included in the next update. How could they not include it? \r\n\r\nOverall, this is a fantastic go-to app for creating HDR photos on the iPHone. At $1.99, we think it\'s money <em>very</em> well spent.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Pro HDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Pro HDR 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/1/8/iphone-app-review-pro-hdr-by-robert-barr.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“The bottom line is I am in love with this application… For $1.99 I would say everyone that has any interest whatsoever should download this Application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/pro-hdr-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR has more options and generally takes a better picture than the built in camera HDR, but it does sacrifice a bit of speed and convenience in the process.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://photofocus.com/2010/08/31/pro-hdr-for-iphone-mini-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">PhotoFocus</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR won’t eliminate the need for a DSLR and tripod for serious HDR shooters, but if you just want to have some fun with your iPhone, this app provides a bunch of it for $1.99.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Pro HDR – Shoot Stunning HDR Photos On The iPhone','','inherit','open','open','','4392-revision-7','','','2011-08-05 09:16:40','2011-08-05 09:16:40','',4392,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4392-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(4532,16,'2011-08-05 09:02:03','2011-08-05 09:02:03','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\"><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPRO HDR proudly brings high dynamic range (HDR) photography right to your fingertips...anytime, anywhere. No need to painstakingly shoot multiple photos, transfer them to the computer, manually align and tonemap them, do it all on your iPhone.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by eyeApps LLC</li>\r\n<li>Automatic and Manual HDR modes</li>\r\n<li>Quickly aligns full-size photos</li>\r\n<li>Photo Library support</li>\r\n<li>Save images at 3 or 5 megapixels</li>\r\n<li>Share HDR outputs through email</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Clean and easy-to-navigate interface</li>\r\n<li>Option to shoot single HDR photo or multiple shots to be combined into one HDR photo</li>\r\n<li>Customizable exposure settings</li>\r\n<li>Alignment is very good</li>\r\n<li>Accessible tutorial on HDR</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<liShooting and processing time is a tad slow</li>\r\n<liNot integrated to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR is for anyone who wants to try out HDR photography on the iPhone! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, this app is a must-have as it vastly improves the quality of your shots, even those taken in low-light. Advanced users may still prefer to process HDR photos using Adobe Photoshop for more flexibility but if you’re into HDR on-the-move, this app will surely come in handy. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]Arguably, PRO HDR is by far the most intelligent and flexible HDR photo app in the market today.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR has hit the nail on the head when it comes to what users really want from an app - something that offers several options for different shooting circumstances while delivering good results.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR, iPhoneographers have two shooting options: Automatic HDR and Manual HDR. If you\'re in a hurry or want to avoid taking multiple shots, just choose Auto HDR and all you have to do is to tap on the screen and PRO HDR will do the rest. If you want to flex your creativity, try out the Manual HDR mode which enables you to choose the brightness and darkness for each of the HDR that are captured.\r\n\r\nBefore saving the finale image, PRO HDR will give you the freedom to adjust settings such as saturation, brightness, contrast, and tint to get a better output. This is unlike other HDR apps where the final photo is as is – what you shoot is what you get.\r\n\r\nSo why did we say that this app is clever? PRO HDR prompts you to instruct him to take a photo of a dark and bright part of a scene. Then it will automatically “align” the pictures and blend it together. The result is an HDR photo that reveals what your eyes see but your iPhone camera could not.\r\n\r\nHowever, you may be displeased with the time it takes for the camera to process the shots. It may be difficult for some to stand still while the app is in the rendering stage. But hey, you will be amazed of the results. While these may not be as good as what DSLRs can offer, still these are way above what a regular camera phone can deliver. Between Pro HDR and iPhone 4’s built-in HDR function? Pro HDR blows away the competition by a mile. \r\n\r\nIt is such a pity though that the dev hasn’t integrated sharing photos to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr especially now that online photo sharing is a trend. \r\n\r\nOverall, if you do not have any similar app installed in your iPhone yet, we suggest you try this out. At $1.99, we honestly think that it’s quite a bargain already.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Pro HDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Pro HDR 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/1/8/iphone-app-review-pro-hdr-by-robert-barr.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“The bottom line is I am in love with this application… For $1.99 I would say everyone that has any interest whatsoever should download this Application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/pro-hdr-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR has more options and generally takes a better picture than the built in camera HDR, but it does sacrifice a bit of speed and convenience in the process.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://photofocus.com/2010/08/31/pro-hdr-for-iphone-mini-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">PhotoFocus</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR won’t eliminate the need for a DSLR and tripod for serious HDR shooters, but if you just want to have some fun with your iPhone, this app provides a bunch of it for $1.99.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Pro HDR – Shoot Stunning HDR Photos On Your iPhone','','inherit','open','open','','4392-revision-6','','','2011-08-05 09:02:03','2011-08-05 09:02:03','',4392,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4392-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(4531,16,'2011-08-05 09:15:30','2011-08-05 09:15:30','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\"><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\n\nPRO HDR proudly brings high dynamic range (HDR) photography right to your fingertips...anytime, anywhere. No need to painstakingly shoot multiple photos, transfer them to the computer, manually align and tonemap them - do it all on your iPhone.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\n\n[tabswrap]\n\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Developed by eyeApps LLC</li>\n<li>Automatic and Manual HDR modes</li>\n<li>Quickly aligns full-size photos</li>\n<li>Photo Library support</li>\n<li>Save images at 3 or 5 megapixels</li>\n<li>Share HDR outputs through email</li>\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\n\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>Clean and easy-to-navigate interface</li>\n<li>Option to shoot single HDR photo or multiple shots to be combined into one HDR photo</li>\n<li>Customizable exposure settings</li>\n<li>Alignment is very good</li>\n<li>Accessible tutorial on HDR</li>\n\n</ul>\n\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<liShooting and processing time is a tad slow</li>\n<liNot integrated to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter</li>\n\n\n</ul>\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\n\nPRO HDR is for anyone who wants to try out HDR photography on the iPhone! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, this app is a must-have as it vastly improves the quality of your shots, even those taken in low-light. Advanced users may still prefer to process HDR photos using Adobe Photoshop for more flexibility but if you’re into HDR on-the-move, this app will surely come in handy. \n\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]Arguably, PRO HDR is by far the most intelligent and flexible HDR photo app in the market today.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\n\nPRO HDR has hit the nail on the head when it comes to what users really want from an app - something that offers several options for different shooting circumstances while delivering good results.\n\nWith PRO HDR, iPhoneographers have two shooting options: Automatic HDR and Manual HDR. If you\'re in a hurry or want to avoid taking multiple shots, just choose Auto HDR and all you have to do is to tap on the screen and PRO HDR will do the rest. If you want to flex your creativity, try out the Manual HDR mode which enables you to choose the brightness and darkness for each of the HDR images you capture.\n\nWith PRO HDR you\'ve also got the freedom to adjust settings such as saturation, brightness, contrast, and tint to get a better output unlike other HDR apps where the final photo is as unchangeable – what you shoot is what you get (good or bad).\n\nThis app is also pretty darn clever...PRO HDR prompts you to take a photo of a dark part and bright part of a scene. Then it will automatically “align” the pictures and blend them together. The result is an HDR photo that is much closer to what the eye sees, but that the iPhone camera could not possibly see with such a small sensor.\n\nThe only real drawback here is that you might be waiting awhile for the shots to process...the rendering stage is quite lengthy to be frank. But hey, what can we say? Results like this take a bit of time. While the results are not likely to be as what a DSLR could offer, they are still way above what a regular camera phone can deliver. With Pro HDR and iPhone 4’s built-in HDR function, you\'ll blow away any smartphone competition by a mile. \n\nIt is a pity that the developers haven\'t integrated sharing photos to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr especially now that online photo sharing is a major trend, but ultimately we can live with this oversight as we\'re pretty sure it will be included in the next update. How could they not include it? \n\nOverall, this is a fantastic go-to app for creating HDR photos on the iPHone. At $1.99, we think it\'s money <em>very</em> well spent.\n\n\n<br/>\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\n\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Pro HDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Pro HDR 4.5 Flashes\" />\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\n\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/1/8/iphone-app-review-pro-hdr-by-robert-barr.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“The bottom line is I am in love with this application… For $1.99 I would say everyone that has any interest whatsoever should download this Application.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/pro-hdr-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148apps</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR has more options and generally takes a better picture than the built in camera HDR, but it does sacrifice a bit of speed and convenience in the process.”</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://photofocus.com/2010/08/31/pro-hdr-for-iphone-mini-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">PhotoFocus</a></strong></td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR won’t eliminate the need for a DSLR and tripod for serious HDR shooters, but if you just want to have some fun with your iPhone, this app provides a bunch of it for $1.99.”</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>','Pro HDR – Shoot Stunning HDR Photos On The iPhone','','inherit','open','open','','4392-autosave','','','2011-08-05 09:15:30','2011-08-05 09:15:30','',4392,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4392-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(4530,16,'2011-08-05 08:52:43','2011-08-05 08:52:43','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\"><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Pro HDR\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"ProHDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ProHDR-Logo.png\" alt=\"ProHDR App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPRO HDR proudly brings high dynamic range (HDR) photography right to your fingertips...anytime, anywhere. No need to painstakingly shoot multiple photos, transfer them to the computer, manually align and tonemap them, do it all on your iPhone.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by eyeApps LLC</li>\r\n<li>Automatic and Manual HDR modes</li>\r\n<li>Quickly aligns full-size photos</li>\r\n<li>Photo Library support</li>\r\n<li>Save images at 3 or 5 megapixels</li>\r\n<li>Share HDR outputs through email</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Clean and easy-to-navigate interface</li>\r\n<li>Option to shoot single HDR photo or multiple shots to be combined into one HDR photo</li>\r\n<li>Customizable exposure settings</li>\r\n<li>Alignment is very good</li>\r\n<li>Accessible tutorial on HDR</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<liShooting and processing time is a tad slow</li>\r\n<liNot integrated to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR is for anyone who wants to try out HDR photography on the iPhone! Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, this app is a must-have as it vastly improves the quality of your shots, even those taken in low-light. Advanced users may still prefer to process HDR photos using Adobe Photoshop for more flexibility but if you’re into HDR on-the-move, this app will surely come in handy. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]Arguably, PRO HDR is by far the most intelligent and flexible HDR photo app in the market today.[/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nPRO HDR has hit the nail on the head when it comes to what users really want from an app - something that offers several options for different shooting circumstances while delivering good results.\r\n\r\nWith PRO HDR, iPhoneographers have two shooting options: Automatic HDR and Manual HDR. If you\'re in a hurry or want to avoid taking multiple shots, just choose Auto HDR and all you have to do is to tap on the screen and PRO HDR will do the rest. If you want to flex your creativity, try out the Manual HDR mode which enables you to choose the brightness and darkness for each of the HDR that are captured.\r\n\r\nBefore saving the finale image, PRO HDR will give you the freedom to adjust settings such as saturation, brightness, contrast, and tint to get a better output. This is unlike other HDR apps where the final photo is as is – what you shoot is what you get.\r\n\r\nSo why did we say that this app is clever? PRO HDR prompts you to instruct him to take a photo of a dark and bright part of a scene. Then it will automatically “align” the pictures and blend it together. The result is an HDR photo that reveals what your eyes see but your iPhone camera could not.\r\n\r\nHowever, you may be displeased with the time it takes for the camera to process the shots. It may be difficult for some to stand still while the app is in the rendering stage. But hey, you will be amazed of the results. While these may not be as good as what DSLRs can offer, still these are way above what a regular camera phone can deliver. Between Pro HDR and iPhone 4’s built-in HDR function? Pro HDR blows away the competition by a mile. \r\n\r\nIt is such a pity though that the dev hasn’t integrated sharing photos to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr especially now that online photo sharing is a trend. \r\n\r\nOverall, if you do not have any similar app installed in your iPhone yet, we suggest you try this out. At $1.99, we honestly think that it’s quite a bargain already.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Pro HDR\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Pro HDR 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/1/8/iphone-app-review-pro-hdr-by-robert-barr.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“The bottom line is I am in love with this application… For $1.99 I would say everyone that has any interest whatsoever should download this Application.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.148apps.com/reviews/pro-hdr-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">148apps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR has more options and generally takes a better picture than the built in camera HDR, but it does sacrifice a bit of speed and convenience in the process.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://photofocus.com/2010/08/31/pro-hdr-for-iphone-mini-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">PhotoFocus</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Pro HDR won’t eliminate the need for a DSLR and tripod for serious HDR shooters, but if you just want to have some fun with your iPhone, this app provides a bunch of it for $1.99.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Pro HDR – Shoot Stunning HDR Photos On Your iPhone','','inherit','open','open','','4392-revision-5','','','2011-08-05 08:52:43','2011-08-05 08:52:43','',4392,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4392-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(4366,16,'2011-06-10 15:31:10','2011-06-10 15:31:10','If you are a mobile photographer, there’s some really great iPhone photography accessories around to help you get the great photos you want with your iPhone. Whether you’re shopping to make iPhone photography more convenient, easier, more practical, or just a little bit more exciting – there’s a gadget out there for everyone! \r\n\r\n<a title=\"USBfever\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/USBfever.jpg\">[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/USBfever.jpg\"]</a>\r\n\r\nHere’s a few of our recommendations for iPhone photographers. Don’t worry, none of them cost an arm and a leg, but they’re sure to get the job done! \r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://www.case-mate.com/iPhone-4-Cases/Case-Mate-iPhone-4-Barely-There-Cases.asp\"><strong>Case-Mate Barely There Case for iPhone 4</strong></a><br/>US $24.99<br/>\r\n\r\nThis case provides ample protection from scratches and bumps whilst still remaining a thing of beauty! The best thing about this case is that it lives up to its name: it is indeed barely there! Style and functionality in one sleek case for only US $24.99? Why not?!</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n<li><a href=\"http://joby.com/gorillamobile/iphone4\"><strong>Joby GorillaMobile for iPhone 4</strong></a><br/>US $39.95<br/>\r\n\r\nIf you intend to maximize iPhone 4’s built-in HDR and HD video recording features, Joby’s GorillaMobile is definitely a good investment. It comes in two parts: the flexible tripod itself and the stand-alone bumper case for added protection. </li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li><a href=\"http://usbfever.com/index_ecat.php?cPath=88_211\"><strong>Special Effect Lenses for iPhone 4</strong></a><br/>US $7.99 – 28.99<br/>\r\n\r\nAdding special effects on your photos does not need to come at a steep price. With the decent line up of detachable special effect lenses offered by USBFever for iPhone 4, capturing nice photos in fish eye, wide angle, macro, and telescopic is within your capabilities!</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li><a href=\"http://www.iphone-tripodholder.com/index.html\"><strong>G Design LLC‘s iPhone Tripod Holder</strong></a><br/>US $9.95<br/>\r\n\r\nWith mobile photography, you may find yourself shooting in conditions that would really benefit from a sturdy tripod. You might already have a tripod you could use at home. But how will you “connect” your iPhone to the tripod? G Design LLC‘s iPhone tripod holder is just the thing for you. The holder has soft pads inside to fit comfortably around your phone and mounting it to the tripod is a breeze. A well-spent US $9.95, indeed.</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li><a href=\"http://www.zoomitonline.com/\"><strong>zoomIt SD Memory Card Connector</strong></a><br/>US $59.95<br/>\r\n\r\niPhone photographers who are always on the move will love the SD Memory Card Connector sold by zoomIt. It makes managing content a breeze as it allows the user to view and share their photos on the go without being obliged to connect it to a camera and a computer through a cord. Simple! Easy!</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ol>','Wallet Friendly iPhone Photography Accessories ','','inherit','open','open','','2865-revision','','','2011-06-10 15:31:10','2011-06-10 15:31:10','',2865,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/2865-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),(4200,16,'2011-07-27 12:20:02','2011-07-27 12:20:02','','Teri7','','inherit','open','open','','teri7','','','2011-07-27 12:20:02','2011-07-27 12:20:02','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Teri7.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4170,16,'2011-07-27 10:32:53','2011-07-27 10:32:53','Hey check it out...we\'ve got a new series of iPhoneographer interviews just for you! To kick things off we\'re very happy to introduce Teri Lou Dantzler, an inspiring iPhoneographer from the great state of Washington! It\'s fantastic to have Teri onboard...enjoy the interview, and more to come very soon! \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"602\" height=\"448\"  alt=\"\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Teri5.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h4>Teri, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography?</h4> \r\n<p></p>\r\nI have lived in WA state my entire life. I have two grown daughters who live about an hour from me. I have loved photography since high school however didn\'t take it seriously until 2004. The iPhone is a great tool for me with my background as an owner of a software development company. I remember when people thought the PC was a toy that would never run a real business, just as many think the iPhone is a toy that doesn\'t take \'real\' photographs.\r\nI got into iPhoneography seriously on October 4th 2010 when I took my first iPhone \'wow\' image with the application \'ProHDR\'. That is when I understood what a powerful tool I was holding in my hand. Shortly afterward I started a private FaceBook iPhoneography Group where photographer\'s around the US - from NY to Hawaii - shared their experiences, knowledge and passion for this relatively new art form. Since October I have been engrossed in capturing and processing on my iPhone.\r\n\r\n<h4>What does iPhoneography mean to you?</h4> \r\n<p></p>The iPhone/iPad allows me to fulfil the dream I always envisioned for myself. I have always wanted to travel, take photographs and teach. I now do just that. In fact here I am in Iceland sill connected to my current students, blogging, and capturing incredible image on my iPhone.\r\n\r\n<h4>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h4>\r\n<p></p>The iPhone is different than regular photography because of the complete portability, ease to learn, low cost applications, and ability to simply play with your artistic possibilities. I have become a better artist because of the tools available to me. I have them with me all the time and engross myself in them whenever possible. \r\n\r\n<h4>Do you feel you have an iPhoneography style? How would you describe it?</h4> \r\n<p></p>I feel I am still creating a style. If I look back on my blogs I see that I don\'t see a pattern or style I see that I am still free flowing. I am focusing always on showing what is possible to my students and blog readers and growing with the possibilities. I am do have a smudging technique that sets me apart from other iPhoneographers that I am still developing with my self portrait images I call, \'My Back Side\".\r\n\r\n<h4>Do you think it\'s important to have an iPhoneography style?</h4>\r\n<p></p>I do not think it is important to have an iPhoneography style or a photography style. However I would like to have someone look at a photo of mine and say, \"Hey that is a photograph captured and processed by Teri Lou\" that would be nice someday.\r\n\r\n<h4>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h4>\r\n<p></p>First of all just like anything, if you want to be good at something, you need to do it a lot through practice and play. Practice to get better, play to enjoy it. In order to practice you must dedicate time. There are several great iPhoneography blogs to look at: <a href=\"http://iphone-antics.blogspot.com/\" title=\"Harry Sandlers iPhone Antics\">Harry Sandler\'s - iPhone-antics</a>, <a href=\"http://karenmessickiphone.blogspot.com/\" title=\"Karen Messick iPhone Adventures\">Karen Messick</a>, <a href=\"http://imadigitaldiva.blogspot.com/\" title=\"Lynette Sheppard iPhone Diva\">Lynette Sheppard - iPhone Diva</a>, <a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/\" title=\"iPhoneography\">iPhoneography</a>, <a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/\" title=\"Life in Lofi\">Life in Lofi</a>, among many others. A few people teach iPhoneography including myself online, <a href=\"http://www.danburkholder.com/\" title=\"Dan Burkholder\">Dan Burkholder</a> during one day seminars and workshops, <a href=\"http://iphone-antics.blogspot.com/\" title=\"Harry Sandler\">Harry Sandler</a> and I will be teaching a 3 day workshop in Washington State: teaching photography apps for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. During the workshop we will be in the field capturing images, processing the in class and printing them on the final day. I am always willing to help and enjoy sharing my passion.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"602\" height=\"245\"  alt=\"Teri 3\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Teri3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\n<h4>Give us some of your top tips for budding iPhoneographers!</h4> \r\n<p></p>1. Download two camera apps: Hipstamatic and TrueHDR. Be sure to set them up for highest resolution. Take a few photos and see what is possible. \r\n<p></p>2. Make sure you sharpen your images before posting them, always important in photography. \r\n<p></p>3. Process your images with a variety of apps. I believe that blending and brushing is what creates the most incredible images and works of art. \r\n<p></p>4. Use a tripod with an iPhone holder and create multi-stitched images using the AutoStitch app.\r\n\r\nI always use a variety of apps in processing my images, my top go to camera apps are: \r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pro-hdr/id347104281?mt=8\" title=\"ProHDR\">ProHDR</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/truehdr/id340741871?mt=8\" title=\"#\">TrueHDR</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131?mt=8\" title=\"SlowShutter\">SlowShutter</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipstamatic/id342115564?mt=8\" title=\"Hipstamatic\">Hipstamatic</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/procamera/id300216827?mt=8\" title=\"Pro Camera\">ProCamera</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nMy top processing apps are: \r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filterstorm/id363449020?mt=8\" title=\"Filterstorm\">Filterstorm</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fx-photo-studio/id312506856?mt=8\" title=\"FX Photo Studio\">fxPhotoStudio</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/image-blender/id414544492?mt=8\" title=\"Blender\">Blender</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoartista-oil/id388848929?mt=8\" title=\"Photo Artista\">Photo Artista</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/perfect-photo/id322556359?mt=8\" title=\"Perfect Photo\">PerfectPhoto</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/impression/id364597384?mt=8\" title=\"Impression for iPhone\">Impression</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchretouch/id373311252?mt=8\" title=\"Touch Retouch\">TouchRetouch</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dynamic-light/id422494924?mt=8\" title=\"Dynamic Light\">DynamicLight</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoforge/id314173066?mt=8\" title=\"PhotoForge\">PhotoForge</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autostitch-panorama/id318944927?mt=8\" title=\"Autostitch\">Autostitch</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grungetastic/id418140198?mt=8\" title=\"Grungetastic\">Grungetastic</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nI don\'t have a special recipe or combination but I would say that I use many filters in fxPhotoStudio to blend with when using Blender and also to brush with when using Filterstorm. \r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"  alt=\"Teri 4\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Teri4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI use a variety of apps because I love the endless possibilities. As I said early I believe that the true artist came out in me when I began processing with the iPhone. To create the incredible images is possible only because of blending and brushing with an opacity brush. I don\'t limit myself at anytime, in fact I am always finding new and creative ways to use the apps. \r\n\r\nOne of the reasons I love to process images on the iPad is the intimate feeling of being connected to my image when brushing my finger across the glass. You can\'t get that when working with a mouse or stylus.\r\n\r\n<h4>What are your hopes for the future of iPhoneography?</h4> \r\n<p></p>I believe we are only at the beginning of what is possible as iPhoneographers. I can\'t image what type of artistic possibilities the iPhone/iPad photographic apps will present to me even a few months from now; but I do know that I will continue to be passionate in my adventure. \r\n\r\nCheck out more of Teri\'s iPhoneography at <a href=\"http://iphoneographywithterilou.blogspot.com/\" title=\"iPhoneography with Teri Lou Dantzler\">iPhoneography with Teri Lou</a>.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\"  alt=\"Teri 6\" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Teri6.png\"  ]','iPhoneography With Teri Lou Dantzler','','publish','open','open','','iphoneography-with-teri-lou-dantzler','','','2011-09-26 09:10:55','2011-09-26 09:10:55','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/?p=4170',0,'post','',0),(4143,16,'2011-07-26 09:46:20','2011-07-26 09:46:20','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pictarine.jpg\"><img title=\"Pictarine\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pictarine.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Montages with Montager\" width=\"330\" height=\"216\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"This is the Pictarine Web App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pictarine_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Pictarine App Logo\" />PICTARINE is a great online photo sharing website that helps users organize their many Internet-based photo accounts by connecting them in one place. It’s intuitive, easy-to-use, and best of all, it yours absolutely free! Yes please!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? 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Ale has been exhibiting his work for several years with his first exhibition showing at the historic alternative Art Center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence. The exhibition was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato, Italy. Ale doesn\'t just limit himself to photography but has also had a long-spanning career in other artistic mediums such as poetry, music journalism, video, singing and music production. His *possible* exhibition (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) travelled various cities around the world through 2009 and 2010. We are totally stoked to have Ale join us for our iPhoneographer interview series...some absolutely fantastic advice from another iPro! Read on...\r\n\r\n<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it. Maybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works. But I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\nIn 2008 Ale directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\" which was selected and screened in Italian and International film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. <a href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Short Film\">Watch the short movie on Vimeo.</a>\r\n\r\nCheck out his photos and other work: \r\n<a href=\"http://aledigangi.com\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Website\">http://aledigangi.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/ale2000\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Flickr\">http://www.flickr.com/ale2000</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://gplus.to/aledigangi\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Gplus\">http://gplus.to/aledigangi</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Facebook\">http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer</a>','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-17','','','2011-08-04 15:18:49','2011-08-04 15:18:49','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-17.html',0,'revision','',0),(4515,16,'2011-08-04 16:10:04','2011-08-04 16:10:04','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto.png\"><img title=\"WordFoto\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto.png\" width=\"469\" height=\"340\" alt=\"WordFoto\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto-Logo.png\" alt=\"WordFoto App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nWords can serve as a great addition to a photograph, not just as a caption but you can literally incorporate them into the photo as part of the overall effect. Enter WORDFOTO App. This app combines photos with words making a visually striking one-of-a-kind creation!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by bitCycle AB</li>\r\n<li>Preloaded with word sets but user can also add their own sets</li>\r\n<li>Many font styles</li>\r\n<li>Eight preset styles to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Customizable photo settings such as brightness, contrast, and saturation</li>\r\n<li>Share photos via email or Facebook</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Varied options, considerable degree of customization</li>\r\n<li>Can process existing photos from your Camera Roll</li>\r\n<li>Has built-in camera app</li>\r\n<li>Usable pre-defined colour effects</li>\r\n<li>Great results (given a good match between photo quality and creativity)</li>\r\n<li>Save full-resolution photos</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Limited sharing through Facebook and email - other options would be useful</li>\r\n<li>Novelty value wears off without good results</li>\r\n<li>A bit pricey for what\'s on offer</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nWORDFOTO App is fantastic for newbie iPhoneographers and casual iPhone shooters who are looking for unconventional or novelty ways to enhance their shots.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]WORDFOTO App offers a fun and exciting way to spice up your iPhone photos with words. However, it only has one function, so best to be sure you\'ll really use it before you shell out two bucks for it. [/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nWORDFOTO is a funky little app that can turn seemingly \"regular\" photos into something interesting and fun, given the novelty factor. Turn your photos into typographic designs in just a few minutes. \r\n\r\nThe app is packed with an array of options so there\'s plenty of effects and looks that can be achieved. There are a number of good presets and word sets stored in the app, but you can also create your own to suit the image. Plus, there are fine tuning options to further improve the photo by adjusting the saturation, edging, and contrast. There’s also a handy cropping tool to boost the impact. Most of the images we have seen are really fun and pop with color and meaning.\r\n\r\nThough WORDFOTO can transform an ordinary photo into an appealing one, this app is not suitable for all photos. The quality of the edited image also largely depends on the quality of the original, unedited version as well as the subject in the photo. You\'ll need to play around with lots of photos to get the best results, and beware - the novelty factor can wear off quite quickly! It would have also been a bit better if there were more sharing options included in the app, these days just Facebook and email seems a bit limited.  \r\n\r\nThe app also seems to be a little bit pricey at $1.99 considering that it only does one type of edit. When compared to other apps such as FX Photo Studio and King Camera which are also on the same price point, there\'s better value for money out there. But on the other hand, this app is unique enough to justify the purchase on those grounds alone. So if word processed, pop-art influenced images is your cup of tea, then this app is for you.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for WordFoto App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give WordFoto App 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/05/24/wordfoto-review-iphone/\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“WordFoto is definitely not a memorable app, one you cannot do without after you try it, mainly because the effects you can achieve are very limited and not particularly original. They are OK, but they can get quite stale after a few times. Nevertheless, WordFoto is still a curious app that can still have some use in a few instances, especially if used creatively.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/27/app-review-wordfoto/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">LifeIfLofi</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Not for all photos, but works really well with the right pics. WordFoto is a fun app that can also add powerful messages.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.knowyourapps.com/review/wordfoto/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">KnowYourApps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Nevertheless, WordFoto clearly has a novel value, and it would have been good to see other effects offered, but it’s a nice app to play around with and create some interesting, yet basic photo artwork.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','WordFoto App - Photos + Words = Fun iPhotos','','inherit','open','open','','4454-autosave','','','2011-08-04 16:10:04','2011-08-04 16:10:04','',4454,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4454-autosave.html',0,'revision','',0),(4516,16,'2011-08-04 15:39:40','2011-08-04 15:39:40','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto.png\"><img title=\"WordFoto\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto.png\" width=\"469\" height=\"340\" alt=\"WordFoto\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto-Logo.png\" alt=\"WordFoto App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nWords can serve as a great addition to a photograph, not just a caption but literally being incorporated into the picture. This is where WORDFOTO comes in. This app combines and blends photos and words very well, creating masterful works of art. </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by bitCycle AB</li>\r\n<li>Preloaded with word sets but user can also add to it</li>\r\n<li>Lots of available font styles</li>\r\n<li>Eight preset styles to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Customizable photo settings such as brightness, contrast, and saturation </li>\r\n<li>Share edited photos via email or Facebook</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Varied options, considerable degree of customization</li>\r\n<li>Can process existing photos from your Library</li>\r\n<li>Has built-in camera app</li>\r\n<li>Usable pre-defined colour effects</li>\r\n<li>Amazing results (if the quality and the subject of the photo are appropriate)</li>\r\n<li>Processed photos can be saved in full resolution</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Can only share photos to Facebook and through email</li>\r\n<li>A bit pricey </li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nWORDFOTO will appeal very much to the newbie iPhoneographers and casual iPhone shooters who are looking for unconventional ways to be more artistic and creative with their shots.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]WORDFOTO offers a fun and exciting way to spice up your iPhone captures with words. However, it just does one thing so make sure to spend that two bucks wisely. [/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nWORDFOTO is a funky little app that makes iPhoneography all the more interesting and fun. With this iPhone photo app, users can add words into their photos to create typographic digital photos in seconds.\r\n\r\nWe liked how the developer packed the app with an array of options available for the users so there will be plenty of effects and looks that can be achieved. There are a number of good presets and word sets stored in the app but the user can also create their own to satisfy their individual tastes. Plus, there are fine tuning options so the user can further improve the photo by tweaking saturation, edging, and the like. There’s a handy cropping tool as well to keep the photo tight. Most outputs we have seen are really stunning and eye-popping.\r\n\r\nThough WORDFOTO can transform an ordinary photo into an appealing one, this app is not suitable for all photos. The quality of the edited image also largely depends on the quality of the original, unedited version as well as the subject in the photo. So make sure you process the right kind of photo to get optimal results.\r\n\r\nIt would have been better also if users have other sites where they can share their photos to aside from Facebook, perhaps to Twitter and Flickr. Maybe that’s a looming feature include in the app’s future upgrade.\r\n\r\nThe app seems to be a little bit pricey at $1.99 considering that it has limited functionality. When compared to other apps such as FX Photo Studio and King Camera which are also on the same price point, there seems to be lesser value for money in this app. But for many, the purchase can easily be justified because of the sheer uniqueness this app offers.\r\n\r\nSo if the look of the processed photos is your cup of tea, and that you’re willing to spend a couple of dollars for an app which does only one thing but delivers good-looking outputs, then this app will definitely suit you well and you probably won\'t regret the purchase.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for WordFoto App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give WordFoto App 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/05/24/wordfoto-review-iphone/\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“WordFoto is definitely not a memorable app, one you cannot do without after you try it, mainly because the effects you can achieve are very limited and not particularly original. They are OK, but they can get quite stale after a few times. Nevertheless, WordFoto is still a curious app that can still have some use in a few instances, especially if used creatively.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/27/app-review-wordfoto/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">LifeIfLofi</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Not for all photos, but works really well with the right pics. WordFoto is a fun app that can also add powerful messages.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.knowyourapps.com/review/wordfoto/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">KnowYourApps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Nevertheless, WordFoto clearly has a novel value, and it would have been good to see other effects offered, but it’s a nice app to play around with and create some interesting, yet basic photo artwork.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','WordFoto - Photos + Words = One Cool Image','','inherit','open','open','','4454-revision-7','','','2011-08-04 15:39:40','2011-08-04 15:39:40','',4454,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4454-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(4513,16,'2011-08-04 15:38:20','2011-08-04 15:38:20','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransferApp.jpg\"><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransferApp.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"503\" alt=\"Photo Transfer App\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransfer-Icon.png\" alt=\"Photo Transfer App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TRANSFER APP enables you to share photos and videos between your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and your computer via a wifi network. Never mess around with cables and software again, airwaves is the way forward!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by ERCLab</li>\r\n<li>Downloads multiple photos from an iPhone to a computer</li>\r\n<li>Transfers photos in full resolution</li>\r\n<li>Preserves photo metadata in all transfer directions</li>\r\n<li>Works with other iDevices such as iPad and iPod Touch</li>\r\n<li>Compatible with computers running Windows, Mac and Linux </li>\r\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Simple interface</li>\r\n<li>Extremely fast photo transfer ability</li>\r\n<li>Easy to use</li>\r\n<li>Download photos as ZIP file</li>\r\n<li>No cables/additional software needed</li>\r\n<li>Can upload/download multiple photos simultaneously</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Can’t browse through a whole album at a time</li>\r\n<li>Shared photos cannot be separated into albums for better organization\r\n</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPHOTO TRANSFER APP is for anyone using the iPhone as their go-to camera. If you\'re look for a super fast way to share and transfer photos - without all the extra wires. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TRANSFER APP is an indispensable tool for iPhoneographers who want to make their lives a whole lot easier. Sharing, downloading, or and transferring photo is quick and convenient with this handy app! [/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nAmong all its sales points, there are really two things which make the PHOTO TRANSFER APP a must have for the avid iPhoneographer: Downloading full-res images and fast wireless sharing of images across all iDevices and computers. Save yourself the hassle and frustration of photo sharing using endless cables and bits of software. All you need is a wireless connection and you’re set. \r\n\r\nThe app is very user-friendly; it takes no time at all to get familiar with the interface and controls. The transfer time is fast – and by fast, we mean impressively fast.\r\n\r\nHowever, there\'s a couple of things that could be improved to speed up the sharing process even further. It would have been great if you could select all of the photos within the Photo Transfer App itself rather than leaving the Photo Transfer APP to go into the native Photo App, surely an oversight that could be corrected in a future update. \r\n\r\nOverall, PHOTO TRANSFER APP the app doesn\'t look like anything fancy but it does the job very well and that is what really matters. It\'s definitely worth picking up the PHOTO TRANSFER APP especially now that sharing photos is much more than just a trend, its a lifestyle. Of course we would be remiss not to mention that sadly there\'s a good chance that photo transfer apps are likely to become redundant with the release of iOS 5 and the automatic syncing to Photo Stream and other devices, I guess we\'ll have to wait and see?! \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for Photo Transfer App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Transfer App 4 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/4/7/new-iphone-photo-app-photo-transfer-app.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is a great app that works exactly as described.  In my tests I transferred photos from one iPhone to another, from iPhone to MacBook, and most impressively from MacBook back to iPhone, and all at full-res!!”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.whatsoniphone.com/reviews/photo-transfer-app-review\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">WhatsOniPhone</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Would I Buy Again: Yes...sending pictures between iDevices tends to be something I do a lot. Anything that makes it easier is good in my book! I have a feeling that I\'ll be using this app a lot. It make sharing pictures much easier.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://bestapps.me/2010/photo-transfer-app-iphone-app-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">BestApps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you want to take your phone to the next level and make it even more easy to use between different devices, get this app to help you move pictures from device to device.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Transfer App - Move Your iPhone Photos Over Wifi','','inherit','open','open','','4357-revision-16','','','2011-08-04 15:38:20','2011-08-04 15:38:20','',4357,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4357-revision-16.html',0,'revision','',0),(4514,16,'2011-08-03 16:37:34','2011-08-03 16:37:34','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto.png\"><img title=\"WordFoto\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto.png\" width=\"469\" height=\"340\" alt=\"WordFoto\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WordFoto-Logo.png\" alt=\"WordFoto App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nWords can serve as a great addition to a photograph, not just a caption but literally being incorporated into the picture. This is where WORDFOTO comes in. This app combines and blends photos and words very well, creating masterful works of art. </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by bitCycle AB</li>\r\n<li>Preloaded with word sets but user can also add to it</li>\r\n<li>Lots of available font styles</li>\r\n<li>Eight preset styles to choose from</li>\r\n<li>Customizable photo settings such as brightness, contrast, and saturation </li>\r\n<li>Share edited photos via email or Facebook</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Varied options, considerable degree of customization</li>\r\n<li>Can process existing photos from your Library</li>\r\n<li>Has built-in camera app</li>\r\n<li>Usable pre-defined colour effects</li>\r\n<li>Amazing results (if the quality and the subject of the photo are appropriate)</li>\r\n<li>Processed photos can be saved in full resolution</li>\r\n\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Can only share photos to Facebook and through email</li>\r\n<li>A bit pricey </li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n Anyone\r\n\r\nWORDFOTO will appeal very much to the newbie iPhoneographers and casual iPhone shooters who are looking for unconventional ways to be more artistic and creative with their shots.\r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]WORDFOTO offers a fun and exciting way to spice up your iPhone captures with words. However, it just does one thing so make sure to spend that two bucks wisely. [/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nWORDFOTO is a funky little app that makes iPhoneography all the more interesting and fun. With this iPhone photo app, users can add words into their photos to create typographic digital photos in seconds.\r\n\r\nWe liked how the developer packed the app with an array of options available for the users so there will be plenty of effects and looks that can be achieved. There are a number of good presets and word sets stored in the app but the user can also create their own to satisfy their individual tastes. Plus, there are fine tuning options so the user can further improve the photo by tweaking saturation, edging, and the like. There’s a handy cropping tool as well to keep the photo tight. Most outputs we have seen are really stunning and eye-popping.\r\n\r\nThough WORDFOTO can transform an ordinary photo into an appealing one, this app is not suitable for all photos. The quality of the edited image also largely depends on the quality of the original, unedited version as well as the subject in the photo. So make sure you process the right kind of photo to get optimal results.\r\n\r\nIt would have been better also if users have other sites where they can share their photos to aside from Facebook, perhaps to Twitter and Flickr. Maybe that’s a looming feature include in the app’s future upgrade.\r\n\r\nThe app seems to be a little bit pricey at $1.99 considering that it has limited functionality. When compared to other apps such as FX Photo Studio and King Camera which are also on the same price point, there seems to be lesser value for money in this app. But for many, the purchase can easily be justified because of the sheer uniqueness this app offers.\r\n\r\nSo if the look of the processed photos is your cup of tea, and that you’re willing to spend a couple of dollars for an app which does only one thing but delivers good-looking outputs, then this app will definitely suit you well and you probably won\'t regret the purchase.\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for WordFoto App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give WordFoto App 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appotography.com/2011/05/24/wordfoto-review-iphone/\">Appotography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“WordFoto is definitely not a memorable app, one you cannot do without after you try it, mainly because the effects you can achieve are very limited and not particularly original. They are OK, but they can get quite stale after a few times. Nevertheless, WordFoto is still a curious app that can still have some use in a few instances, especially if used creatively.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://lifeinlofi.com/2011/05/27/app-review-wordfoto/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">LifeIfLofi</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Not for all photos, but works really well with the right pics. WordFoto is a fun app that can also add powerful messages.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.knowyourapps.com/review/wordfoto/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">KnowYourApps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Nevertheless, WordFoto clearly has a novel value, and it would have been good to see other effects offered, but it’s a nice app to play around with and create some interesting, yet basic photo artwork.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','WordFoto - Photos + Words = One Cool Image','','inherit','open','open','','4454-revision-6','','','2011-08-03 16:37:34','2011-08-03 16:37:34','',4454,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4454-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(4511,16,'2011-08-03 09:37:04','2011-08-03 09:37:04','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransferApp.jpg\"><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransferApp.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"503\" alt=\"Photo Transfer App\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransfer-Icon.png\" alt=\"Photo Transfer App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TRANSFER APP enables you to share photos and videos between your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and your computer via a wifi network. Never mess around with cables and software again, airwaves is the way forward!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by ERCLab</li>\r\n<li>Downloads multiple photos from an iPhone to a computer</li>\r\n<li>Transfers photos in full resolution</li>\r\n<li>Preserves photo metadata in all transfer directions</li>\r\n<li>Works with other iDevices such as iPad and iPod Touch</li>\r\n<li>Compatible with computers running Windows, Mac and Linux </li>\r\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Simple interface</li>\r\n<li>Extremely fast photo transfer ability</li>\r\n<li>Easy to use</li>\r\n<li>Download photos as ZIP file</li>\r\n<li>No cables/additional software needed</li>\r\n<li>Can upload/download multiple photos simultaneously</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Can’t browse through a whole album at a time</li>\r\n<li>Shared photos cannot be separated into albums for better organization\r\n</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPHOTO TRANSFER APP is for anyone using the iPhone as their go-to camera. If you\'re look for a super fast way to share and transfer photos - without all the extra wires. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TRANSFER APP is an indispensable tool for iPhoneographers who want to make their lives a whole lot easier. Sharing, downloading, or and transferring photo is quick and convenient with this handy app! [/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nAmong all its sales points, there are really two things which make the PHOTO TRANSFER APP a must have for the avid iPhoneographer: Downloading full-res images and fast wireless sharing of images across all iDevices and computers. Save yourself the hassle and frustration of photo sharing using endless cables and bits of software. All you need is a wireless connection and you’re set. \r\n\r\nThe app is very user-friendly; it takes no time at all to get familiar with the interface and controls. The transfer time is fast – and by fast, we mean impressively fast.\r\n\r\nHowever, there\'s a couple of things that could be improved to speed up the sharing process even further. It would have been great if you could select all of the photos within the Photo Transfer App itself rather than leaving the Photo Transfer APP to go into the native Photo App, surely an oversight that could be corrected in a future update. \r\n\r\nOverall, PHOTO TRANSFER APP the app doesn\'t look like anything fancy but it does the job very well and that is what really matters. It\'s definitely worth picking up the PHOTO TRANSFER APP especially now that sharing photos is much more than just a trend, its a lifestyle. \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Photo Transfer App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Transfer App 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/4/7/new-iphone-photo-app-photo-transfer-app.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is a great app that works exactly as described.  In my tests I transferred photos from one iPhone to another, from iPhone to MacBook, and most impressively from MacBook back to iPhone, and all at full-res!!”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.whatsoniphone.com/reviews/photo-transfer-app-review\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">WhatsOniPhone</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Would I Buy Again: Yes...sending pictures between iDevices tends to be something I do a lot. Anything that makes it easier is good in my book! I have a feeling that I\'ll be using this app a lot. It make sharing pictures much easier.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://bestapps.me/2010/photo-transfer-app-iphone-app-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">BestApps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you want to take your phone to the next level and make it even more easy to use between different devices, get this app to help you move pictures from device to device.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Transfer App - Transfer Photos To and From Your iPhone Over Wifi','','inherit','open','open','','4357-revision-14','','','2011-08-03 09:37:04','2011-08-03 09:37:04','',4357,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4357-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(4974,16,'2011-08-02 15:10:10','2011-08-02 15:10:10','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\"><img title=\"Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"314\" alt=\"Hipstamatic\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hipstamatic-Icon.png\" alt=\"Hipstamatic App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nTurn back the hands of time on your photos and have a heck of a good time doing it. The HIPSTAMATIC app is arguably THE BEST old school plastic / toy camera for the iPhone. If you haven\'t got it already, you need it in your iPhone \"camera bag\".</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by Synthetic Infatuation</li>\r\n<li>Serves as a pseudo-toy camera on the iPhone</li>\r\n<li>Set the “Lenses,” “Flash,” and “Films” for various photo effects</li>\r\n<li>Shake the app to generate a random combination of Lens, Flash, and Film</li>\r\n<li>Share photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, or Tumblr</li>\r\n<li>Order real prints through app</li>\r\n<li>Wide array of additional effects called “Hipstapaks” can be purchased from the Hipstamatic store</li>\r\n<li>Costs US$1.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Very slick, engaging interface</li>\r\n<li>High quality of vintage filters</li>\r\n<li>Simulates an old / plastic / toy camera</li>\r\n<li>Seemingly endless combinations for lenses, flash, and films give user a great deal of flexibility</li>\r\n<li>Photo processing is a bit like waiting for your polaroid to develop</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Photos taken with other apps cannot be edited in Hipstamatic</li>\r\n<li>Takes a little while to get used to the navigation</li>\r\n<li>Virtual viewfinder is small</li>\r\n<li>Photo processing takes a bit longer than other apps</li>\r\n<li>A bit of lag between shots (due to processing time)</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nThe HIPSTAMATIC app is for anyone who wants to get retro-style photos with the ease of shooting and editing digital. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]HIPSTAMATIC is the ultimate crossover between analogue and digital, get beautiful, rich, and visually interesting photos on your iPhone![/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nThere are lots of apps on the market that have the ability to produce results similar to that of HIPSTAMATIC but what sets it apart from others is that you actually feel as if you are holding an old plastic camera. Flippin\' cool. The classic black styling of the camera, buttons, and all the nitty-gritty aspects were brilliantly planned and well-executed in this very popular app. And of course, the icing on the cake is the absolutely stunning (we resisted saying awesome, but heck they really are awesome) vintage photos which you will be proud to sharing with your family and friends!\r\n\r\nTo be totally impartial, there\'s a few drawbacks. There have been comments that the app isn’t very intuitive to use, which is perhaps because of its old camera interface, which admittedly takes a bit of time to get used to. The viewfinder is also quite small, so you don\'t actually see everything in the viewfinder which does make it difficult to compose a shot - but for many, that is part of the appeal. Photos from the HIPSTAMATIC app aren\'t meant to be perfectly composed, they offer a quirky element which sometimes means imperfect shots. One big gripe from HIPSTAMATIC users is that shots taken with other apps cannot be edited within the app, a fair point since it seems many users would like to use the top-quality filters and effects on their other photos. \r\n\r\nUltimately the whole point of the HIPSTAMATIC app is that it is fun as well as slightly challenging and mysterious, much like using a true vintage camera. Considering the quirky element and the impressive photos, we are more than happy to take the good with the bad. HIPSTAMATIC definitely comes with top marks from The Beginners Lens!\r\n\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4.5 Flash Rating for Hipstamatic\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4.5flash.png\" alt=\"We give Hipstamatic 4.5 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/review-hipstamatic\">AppAdvice</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“While those who really want the fun reminder of yesteryear could easily pick up a cheap analog camera in a second hand shop, I suppose most will see two bucks for the app as being the better option. The bottom line is that if you like the app based on its description, you’ll love using it.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=355058&expand=false\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">MacWorld</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Synthetic clearly spent a lot of time creating a unique app that doesn’t just produce nice results—it’s engaging and fun to use before you ever see the finished product.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://appmodo.com/9676/hipstamatic-review-for-iphone/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">Appmodo</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Hipstamatic for iPhone comes highly recommended to photography enthusiasts of all ages. It is a fun application that will surely bring any dull Kodak moment to life.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Hipstamatic App – Bring On The Retro','','inherit','open','open','','4342-revision-18','','','2011-08-02 15:10:10','2011-08-02 15:10:10','',4342,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4342-revision-18.html',0,'revision','',0),(4512,16,'2011-08-04 15:33:08','2011-08-04 15:33:08','<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"20\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\r\n<td><a href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransferApp.jpg\"><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransferApp.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"503\" alt=\"Photo Transfer App\"></a></td>\r\n<td><img title=\"PhotoTransferApp\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PhotoTransfer-Icon.png\" alt=\"Photo Transfer App Logo\" />\r\n\r\nPHOTO TRANSFER APP enables you to share photos and videos between your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and your computer via a wifi network. Never mess around with cables and software again, airwaves is the way forward!</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\nLet\'s get to the gist of it in the tabs below.\r\n\r\n[tabswrap]\r\n\r\n[tabhead id=\"1\"] Overview [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"2\"] Cheers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"3\"] Jeers [/tabhead] [tabhead id=\"4\"] Who is it for? [/tabhead] [tabhead_last id=\"5\"] The Verdict [/tabhead_last] [tab id=\"1\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Developed by ERCLab</li>\r\n<li>Downloads multiple photos from an iPhone to a computer</li>\r\n<li>Transfers photos in full resolution</li>\r\n<li>Preserves photo metadata in all transfer directions</li>\r\n<li>Works with other iDevices such as iPad and iPod Touch</li>\r\n<li>Compatible with computers running Windows, Mac and Linux </li>\r\n<li>Costs US$2.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"2\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Simple interface</li>\r\n<li>Extremely fast photo transfer ability</li>\r\n<li>Easy to use</li>\r\n<li>Download photos as ZIP file</li>\r\n<li>No cables/additional software needed</li>\r\n<li>Can upload/download multiple photos simultaneously</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"3\"] [list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Can’t browse through a whole album at a time</li>\r\n<li>Shared photos cannot be separated into albums for better organization\r\n</li>\r\n\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list] [/tab] [tab id=\"4\"]\r\n Beginner iPhone Photographers\r\n Advanced iPhone Photographers\r\n<strong>√ Anyone</strong>\r\n\r\nPHOTO TRANSFER APP is for anyone using the iPhone as their go-to camera. If you\'re look for a super fast way to share and transfer photos - without all the extra wires. \r\n\r\n[/tab] [tab id=\"5\"]PHOTO TRANSFER APP is an indispensable tool for iPhoneographers who want to make their lives a whole lot easier. Sharing, downloading, or and transferring photo is quick and convenient with this handy app! [/tab] [/tabswrap]\r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>\r\n\r\nAmong all its sales points, there are really two things which make the PHOTO TRANSFER APP a must have for the avid iPhoneographer: Downloading full-res images and fast wireless sharing of images across all iDevices and computers. Save yourself the hassle and frustration of photo sharing using endless cables and bits of software. All you need is a wireless connection and you’re set. \r\n\r\nThe app is very user-friendly; it takes no time at all to get familiar with the interface and controls. The transfer time is fast – and by fast, we mean impressively fast.\r\n\r\nHowever, there\'s a couple of things that could be improved to speed up the sharing process even further. It would have been great if you could select all of the photos within the Photo Transfer App itself rather than leaving the Photo Transfer APP to go into the native Photo App, surely an oversight that could be corrected in a future update. \r\n\r\nOverall, PHOTO TRANSFER APP the app doesn\'t look like anything fancy but it does the job very well and that is what really matters. It\'s definitely worth picking up the PHOTO TRANSFER APP especially now that sharing photos is much more than just a trend, its a lifestyle. Of course we would be remiss not to mention that sadly there\'s a good chance that photo transfer apps are likely to become redundant with the release of iOS 5 and the automatic syncing to Photo Stream and other devices, I guess we\'ll have to wait and see?! \r\n\r\n<br/>\r\n<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>\r\n\r\n<img title=\"4 Flash Rating for Photo Transfer App\" src=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4flash.png\" alt=\"We give Photo Transfer App 4 Flashes\" />\r\n<a title=\"The Beginners Lens Flash Rating System\" href=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/about#rating\">Learn more about our rating system.</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<strong>Review Digest</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; width: 100%;\" size=\"1\" />\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"30\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>SOFTWARE REVIEW WEBSITE</strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong>WHAT THEY HAVE TO  SAY</strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/4/7/new-iphone-photo-app-photo-transfer-app.html\">iPhoneography</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“This is a great app that works exactly as described.  In my tests I transferred photos from one iPhone to another, from iPhone to MacBook, and most impressively from MacBook back to iPhone, and all at full-res!!”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.whatsoniphone.com/reviews/photo-transfer-app-review\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">WhatsOniPhone</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“Would I Buy Again: Yes...sending pictures between iDevices tends to be something I do a lot. Anything that makes it easier is good in my book! I have a feeling that I\'ll be using this app a lot. It make sharing pictures much easier.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\"><strong><a href=\"http://bestapps.me/2010/photo-transfer-app-iphone-app-review/\" rel=\"shadowbox;width=1000;height=640\">BestApps</a></strong></td>\r\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\">“If you want to take your phone to the next level and make it even more easy to use between different devices, get this app to help you move pictures from device to device.”</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','Photo Transfer App - Transfer Photos To and From Your iPhone Over Wifi','','inherit','open','open','','4357-revision-15','','','2011-08-04 15:33:08','2011-08-04 15:33:08','',4357,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4357-revision-15.html',0,'revision','',0),(4509,16,'2011-08-04 15:14:48','2011-08-04 15:14:48','This week, we\'re very happy to welcome Ale Di Gangi, iPhoneographer, Lomagrapher, and Polaroider from Florence, Italy. Ale has been exhibiting his work for several years with his first exhibition showing at the historic alternative Art Center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence. The exhibition was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato, Italy. Ale doesn\'t just limit himself to photography but has also had a long-spanning career in other artistic mediums such as poetry, music journalism, video, singing and music production. His *possible* exhibition (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) travelled various cities around the world through 2009 and 2010. We are totally stoked to have Ale join us for our iPhoneographer interview series...some absolutely fantastic advice from another iPro! Read on...\r\n\r\n<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\nIn 2008 Ale directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\" which was selected and screened in Italian and International film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. <a href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Short Film\">Watch the short movie on Vimeo.</a>\r\n\r\nCheck out his photos and other work: \r\n<a href=\"http://aledigangi.com\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Website\">http://aledigangi.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/ale2000\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Flickr\">http://www.flickr.com/ale2000</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://gplus.to/aledigangi\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Gplus\">http://gplus.to/aledigangi</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Facebook\">http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer</a>','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-15','','','2011-08-04 15:14:48','2011-08-04 15:14:48','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-15.html',0,'revision','',0),(4510,16,'2011-08-04 15:18:25','2011-08-04 15:18:25','This week, we\'re very happy to welcome Ale Di Gangi, iPhoneographer, Lomagrapher, and Polaroider from Florence, Italy. Ale has been exhibiting his work for several years with his first exhibition showing at the historic alternative Art Center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence. The exhibition was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato, Italy. Ale doesn\'t just limit himself to photography but has also had a long-spanning career in other artistic mediums such as poetry, music journalism, video, singing and music production. His *possible* exhibition (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) travelled various cities around the world through 2009 and 2010. We are totally stoked to have Ale join us for our iPhoneographer interview series...some absolutely fantastic advice from another iPro! Read on...\r\n\r\n<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it. Maybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works. But I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\nIn 2008 Ale directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\" which was selected and screened in Italian and International film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. <a href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Short Film\">Watch the short movie on Vimeo.</a>\r\n\r\nCheck out his photos and other work: \r\n<a href=\"http://aledigangi.com\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Website\">http://aledigangi.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/ale2000\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Flickr\">http://www.flickr.com/ale2000</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://gplus.to/aledigangi\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Gplus\">http://gplus.to/aledigangi</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Facebook\">http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer</a>','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-16','','','2011-08-04 15:18:25','2011-08-04 15:18:25','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-16.html',0,'revision','',0),(3418,16,'2011-06-14 14:17:21','2011-06-14 14:17:21','','1','','inherit','open','open','','1','','','2011-06-14 14:17:21','2011-06-14 14:17:21','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(3419,16,'2011-06-14 14:17:36','2011-06-14 14:17:36','','2','','inherit','open','open','','2-3','','','2011-06-14 14:17:36','2011-06-14 14:17:36','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(3420,16,'2011-06-14 14:17:48','2011-06-14 14:17:48','','4','','inherit','open','open','','4','','','2011-06-14 14:17:48','2011-06-14 14:17:48','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/4.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(3421,16,'2011-06-14 14:18:00','2011-06-14 14:18:00','','5','','inherit','open','open','','5','','','2011-06-14 14:18:00','2011-06-14 14:18:00','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/5.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4508,16,'2011-08-04 15:13:54','2011-08-04 15:13:54','This week, we\'re very happy to welcome Ale Di Gangi, iPhoneographer, Lomagrapher, and Polaroider from Florence, Italy. Ale has been exhibiting his work for several years with his first exhibition showing at the historic alternative Art Center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence. The exhibition was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato, Italy. Ale doesn\'t just limit himself to photography but has also had a long-spanning career in other artistic mediums such as poetry, music journalism, video, singing and music production. His *possible* exhibition (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) travelled various cities around the world through 2009 and 2010. We are totally stoked to have Ale join us for our iPhoneographer interview series...some absolutely fantastic advice from another iPro! \r\n\r\n<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\nIn 2008 Ale directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\" which was selected and screened in Italian and International film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. <a href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Short Film\">Watch the short movie on Vimeo.</a>\r\n\r\nCheck out his photos and other work: \r\n<a href=\"http://aledigangi.com\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Website\">http://aledigangi.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/ale2000\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Flickr\">http://www.flickr.com/ale2000</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://gplus.to/aledigangi\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Gplus\">http://gplus.to/aledigangi</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Facebook\">http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer</a>','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-14','','','2011-08-04 15:13:54','2011-08-04 15:13:54','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-14.html',0,'revision','',0),(4507,16,'2011-08-04 15:13:34','2011-08-04 15:13:34','This week, we\'re very happy to welcome Ale Di Gangi, iPhoneographer, Lomagrapher, and Polaroider from Florence, Italy. Ale has been exhibiting his work for several years with his first exhibition showing at the historic alternative Art Center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence. The exhibition was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato, Italy. Ale doesn\'t just limit himself to photography but has also had a long-spanning career in other artistic mediums such as poetry, music journalism, video, singing and music production. His *possible* exhibition (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) travelled various cities around the world through 2009 and 2010. We are totally stoked to have Ale join us for our iPhoneographer interview series...some absolutely fantastic advice from another iPro! \r\n\r\n<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\nIn 2008 Ale directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\" which was selected and screened in Italian and International film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. <a href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Short Film\">Watch the short movie on Vimeo.</a>\r\n\r\nCheck out his photos and other work: \r\n<a href=\"http://aledigangi.com\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Website\">http://aledigangi.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/ale2000\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Flickr\">http://www.flickr.com/ale2000</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://gplus.to/aledigangi\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Gplus\">http://gplus.to/aledigangi</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Facebook\">http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer</a>','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-13','','','2011-08-04 15:13:34','2011-08-04 15:13:34','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-13.html',0,'revision','',0),(4506,16,'2011-08-04 15:13:25','2011-08-04 15:13:25','This week, we\'re very happy to welcome Ale Di Gangi, iPhoneographer, Lomagrapher, and Polaroider from Florence, Italy. Ale has been exhibiting his work for several years with his first exhibition showing at the historic alternative Art Center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence. The exhibition was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato, Italy. Ale doesn\'t just limit himself to photography but has also had a long-spanning career in other artistic mediums such as poetry, music journalism, video, singing and music production. His *possible* exhibition (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) travelled various cities around the world through 2009 and 2010. We are totally stoked to have Ale join us for our iPhoneographer interview series...some absolutely fantastic advice from another iPro! \r\n\r\n<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\nIn 2008 Ale directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\" which was selected and screened in Italian and International film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. <a href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Short Film\">Watch the short movie on Vimeo.</a>\r\n\r\nCheck out his photos and other work: \r\n<a href=\"http://aledigangi.com\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Website\">http://aledigangi.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/ale2000\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Flickr\">http://www.flickr.com/ale2000</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://gplus.to/aledigangi\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Gplus\">http://gplus.to/aledigangi</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Facebook\">http://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer</a>','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-12','','','2011-08-04 15:13:25','2011-08-04 15:13:25','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-12.html',0,'revision','',0),(4504,16,'2011-08-04 15:02:43','2011-08-04 15:02:43','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n\r\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\r\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\r\n\r\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\r\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\r\n\r\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\r\n\r\nhttp://aledigangi.com\r\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\r\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-10','','','2011-08-04 15:02:43','2011-08-04 15:02:43','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-10.html',0,'revision','',0),(4505,16,'2011-08-04 15:13:01','2011-08-04 15:13:01','This week, we\'re very happy to welcome Ale Di Gangi, iPhoneographer, Lomagrapher, and Polaroider from Florence, Italy. Ale has been exhibiting his work for several years with his first exhibition showing at the historic alternative Art Center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence. The exhibition was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato, Italy. Ale doesn\'t just limit himself to photography but has also had a long-spanning career in other artistic mediums such as poetry, music journalism, video, singing and music production. His *possible* exhibition (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) travelled various cities around the world through 2009 and 2010. We are totally stoked to have Ale join us for our iPhoneographer interview series...some absolutely fantastic advice from another iPro! \n\n<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png\"  ]\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\n\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\n\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png\"  ]\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\n\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\n\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\n\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png\"  ]\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\n\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\n</ul>\n[/list]\n\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\n\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\n\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\n\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png\"  ]\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\n\nIn 2008 Ale directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\" which was selected and screened in Italian and International film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. <a href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Short Film\">Watch the short movie on Vimeo.</a>\n\nCheck out his photos and other work: \n<a href=\"http://aledigangi.com\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Website\">http://aledigangi.com</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/ale2000\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Flickr\">http://www.flickr.com/ale2000</a>\n<a href=\"http://gplus.to/aledigangi\" title=\"Ale Di Gangi Gplus\">http://gplus.to/aledigangi</a>\n#hhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-11','','','2011-08-04 15:13:01','2011-08-04 15:13:01','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-11.html',0,'revision','',0),(4502,16,'2011-08-04 14:48:42','2011-08-04 14:48:42','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.jpg\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\r\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\r\n\r\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\r\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\r\n\r\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\r\n\r\nhttp://aledigangi.com\r\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\r\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-8','','','2011-08-04 14:48:42','2011-08-04 14:48:42','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-8.html',0,'revision','',0),(4503,16,'2011-08-04 15:00:56','2011-08-04 15:00:56','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.jpg\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.jpg\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.jpg\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\r\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\r\n\r\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\r\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\r\n\r\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\r\n\r\nhttp://aledigangi.com\r\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\r\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-9','','','2011-08-04 15:00:56','2011-08-04 15:00:56','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-9.html',0,'revision','',0),(4496,16,'2011-08-04 14:47:39','2011-08-04 14:47:39','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.jpg\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\r\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\r\n\r\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\r\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\r\n\r\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\r\n\r\nhttp://aledigangi.com\r\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\r\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-6','','','2011-08-04 14:47:39','2011-08-04 14:47:39','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-6.html',0,'revision','',0),(4497,16,'2011-08-04 14:48:17','2011-08-04 14:48:17','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\n[imageeffect type=\"frame\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"  alt=\"iPhoneography with Ale Di Gangi \" url=\"http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.jpg\"  ]\r\n<br class=\"spacer_\" />\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\r\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\r\n\r\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\r\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\r\n\r\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\r\n\r\nhttp://aledigangi.com\r\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\r\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale Di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-7','','','2011-08-04 14:48:17','2011-08-04 14:48:17','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-7.html',0,'revision','',0),(4490,16,'2011-08-04 14:42:19','2011-08-04 14:42:19','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\r\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\r\n\r\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\r\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\r\n\r\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\r\n\r\nhttp://aledigangi.com\r\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\r\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-4','','','2011-08-04 14:42:19','2011-08-04 14:42:19','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-4.html',0,'revision','',0),(4498,16,'2011-08-04 14:58:18','2011-08-04 14:58:18','','aledigangi1','','inherit','open','open','','aledigangi1','','','2011-08-04 14:58:18','2011-08-04 14:58:18','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4499,16,'2011-08-04 14:58:25','2011-08-04 14:58:25','','aledigangi2','','inherit','open','open','','aledigangi2','','','2011-08-04 14:58:25','2011-08-04 14:58:25','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4500,16,'2011-08-04 14:58:30','2011-08-04 14:58:30','','aledigangi3','','inherit','open','open','','aledigangi3','','','2011-08-04 14:58:30','2011-08-04 14:58:30','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi3.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4501,16,'2011-08-04 14:58:35','2011-08-04 14:58:35','','aledigangi4','','inherit','open','open','','aledigangi4','','','2011-08-04 14:58:35','2011-08-04 14:58:35','',0,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/aledigangi4.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(4495,16,'2011-08-04 14:42:41','2011-08-04 14:42:41','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\r\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\r\n\r\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\r\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\r\n\r\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\r\n\r\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\r\n\r\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\r\n\r\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\r\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\r\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\r\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\r\n\r\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?</h3>\r\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\r\n\r\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\r\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\r\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\r\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[/list]\r\n\r\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\r\n\r\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\r\n\r\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\r\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\r\n\r\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\r\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\r\n\r\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\r\n\r\nhttp://aledigangi.com\r\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\r\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\r\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-5','','','2011-08-04 14:42:41','2011-08-04 14:42:41','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-5.html',0,'revision','',0),(4489,16,'2011-08-04 14:41:59','2011-08-04 14:41:59','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactly the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\n\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\n\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\n\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\n\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings. One of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\n\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\n\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\n\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\n\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\n</ul>\n[/list]\n\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\n\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\n\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\n\n***\n\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\n\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\n\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\n\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\n\nhttp://aledigangi.com\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-3','','','2011-08-04 14:41:59','2011-08-04 14:41:59','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-3.html',0,'revision','',0),(4488,16,'2011-08-04 14:40:00','2011-08-04 14:40:00','<h3>Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?</h3>\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactely the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\n\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry. I did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\n\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography. I haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\n\n<h3>How is it different from regular photography for you?</h3>\n\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings.\nOne of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\n\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\n\n<h3>Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it?</h3>\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\n\n<h3>What would you recommend for a beginner iPhoneographer to easily learn the craft?\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy. Being on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time. Pay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own. You need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\n\n<h3>What tips and tricks would you share with new iPhoneographers?</h3>\n[list style=\"orb\" color=\"grey\"]\n<ul>\n<li>First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.</li>\n<li>Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.</li>\n<li>But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.</li>\n</ul>\n[/list]\n\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo. I like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\n\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\n\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\n\n***\n\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\n\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\n\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\n\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\n\nhttp://aledigangi.com\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With Ale di Gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision-2','','','2011-08-04 14:40:00','2011-08-04 14:40:00','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision-2.html',0,'revision','',0),(4487,16,'2011-08-04 14:28:33','2011-08-04 14:28:33','First question: Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into iPhoneography. What does it mean to you?\nAs a child, I grew up watching my father taking photos all the time or filming on 8mm; he owned an impressive array of Leica lenses and cameras, and also enjoyed developing and printing on his own. But he was not the only influence I had, as artists were populating my family form both sides (my mother used to paint on fabrics, her parents were painters too, then there were musicians and poets...) and I was immersed in a mixture of Arts. I could smell them and watch them closely.\nI did nothing artistic before my 20s, and I started from music, as I almost rejected photography. Years later, after having released a few albums and in my 30s, I realised the musical side was over and my eye was instead taking over. It was the time when Lomography was not yet such a hip thing, but I was hugely fascinated: strong colours, blurry visions, randomness made me feel free from my dad’s vision of photography and I started having fun with those cheap and intriguing cameras.\nThen came Polaroid. I fell in love, and for exactely the reasons why my father had always prevented me from owning a Polaroid camera: expensive, poor image quality, non-reproducibility of the original.\nIn the meantime, digital was taking over and I did not restrain myself from using it of course, though I never felt much at home with it, mainly because I see it as too clean and cold for my taste. I am a son of the analog age, you see... and I like it raw. I like it grainy and blurry.\nI did not think the iPhone could produce anything decent, at first, so for a few months the photographic capabilities of my first iPhone remained unexplored, willingly ignored. Until I found that a colleague of mine was having fun with some apps... and so I became curious, started investigating and stumbled on CameraBag, falling in love.\niPhoneography is to me what Lomography is: the way I see photography.\nI haven’t abandoned my Lomos and my Polaroids of course - only, an iPhone stays better in my pocket and as I never leave home without a camera, the iPhone is the easiest to carry around...\nHow is it different from regular photography for you?\nI don’t think there is a “regular” photography; I see this definition as some kind of “purism”, and I have learned that such a thing won’t lead you very far, preventing you from experimenting and discovering new things. Let’s just say that “classic” photography and “alternative” photography are for what concerns the iPhone getting closer thanks to technical advancement and better quality it brings.\nOne of the best things of analog photography is the array of available films you can choose from; but these days film doesn’t come cheap, and the best ones have been discontinued.\n\nThe iPhone is a big source of excitement for me as it feels like you are always dealing with newly available films to experiment with. Any new app being released and every update feels almost like the materials to work with are growing and expanding in number and quality.\n\nNext question: Do you feel you have an iphoneography style? If so, how would you describe it? If not, do you think it\'s important to have an iphoneography style?\nTo have a style is always important - anything you do, you should have your own way of doing it.\nMaybe I spend too much time admiring the style of others than studying my own style, but yes, in a sort of often-not-selfconscious way, I think I do have my own style, and somehow it passes through either my analog and my iPhoneography works.\nBut I am unable to describe my style. All I can say is... colour is so important, it comes before anything else.\n\nThird question: What would you recommend a beginner iphoneographer do to easily get into the move and learn the craft?\nLook at what others do and try to understand how they do it. Try what you fancy.\nBeing on Flickr for a few years has been an invaluable school to me, and has teached me so much in such a short time.\nPay attention to find what you like and what you don’t like, as that’s what makes you aware of yourself. I usually don’t trust people saying “anything goes with me”: if anything goes, than you have no taste of your own.\n\nYou need to know your taste to find your style. I like to call this education of the eye.\n\nFourth question: What specific tips and tricks (3 to 4), would you share with wannabe iphoneographers? The apps you use and in what combination, if you use several apps to get what you want with one photo? For instance, do you shoot, edit and share with the same app or with different apps or with just one app? In any case, please say why.\n\n- First and foremost: have fun and keep it so! It\'s the main fuel to go on, and helps in case of harder moments.\n\n- Find and keep trying apps, methods, ways of working until you find what you feel is good for you: new possibilities, ideas, means will help you understanding your own work, and you should be the one mastering exactely this aspect. As I said above, I don\'t like being a purist; to me, any means to get to a possible good photo is worth it.\n\n- But most of all, as I said above, develop, exercise and know your taste and eye.\n\nAs for my method and the applications I use, these often change over time and moods; I like using various apps and in fact I own a lot of them and try to always stay up-to-date with what’s coming out, but very rarely I use more than one app for each photo.\nI like seeing results without needing to plan on editing; I like improvising, so multiple steps and planning in editing are most often out of the question for me. I also like giving chance its fair share, and this is why I am particularly fond of Hipstamatic: it’s really like doing real film xpro and then taking the roll to an unaware lab to process and print. The unexpected truly gives me such a thrill!\n\nAs for sharing, I store everything I do on my Mac, be it analog or digital. From there I send photos on all my streams: my flow almost always consists of one photo posted each working day as this gives me the time to fully see what reactions come for each single photo I post.\n\nOne last bit of advice: work hard to find your rules, then break them as soon as you can.\n\n***\n\nBorn and living in Florence (Italy).\nMy first exhibition was in 1986 at the historic alternative Art center Pat-Pat Recorder in Florence and was videotaped for the archives of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art of Prato.\n\nI have done poetry, music journalism, video, photography, singing and music producing for years. My main interest today is photography: I am a Lomographer, a Polaroider, an iPhoneographer. My photos have been exhibited and published in many occasions, in Italy and abroad.\n\"The *possible* exhibition\" (featuring original Polaroid shots and plexiglass prints) has been traveling in various cities for almost one year between 2009 and 2010.\n\nIn 2008 I directed the short docufictionary titled \"Investigation of Citizens Above All Suspicions\", selected and screened in Italian and international film festivals, including the \"Short Film Corner\" of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.\n\nWatch the short movie on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/2521700\n\nhttp://aledigangi.com\nhttp://www.flickr.com/ale2000\nhttp://gplus.to/aledigangi\nhttp://www.facebook.com/aledigangiphotographer','iPhoneography With ale di gangi','','inherit','open','open','','4486-revision','','','2011-08-04 14:28:33','2011-08-04 14:28:33','',4486,'http://thebeginnerslens.com/articles/4486-revision.html',0,'revision','',0),