Saturday 25 May, 2013
WE’RE ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS now, right? Apps, smartphones, tiny but powerful digital cameras and other picture-taking and -enhancing gadgetry have become accessible to more and more of us amateur snappers.
Some apps are taking it a step further – such as Image Blender, Decim8, Photosynth, Shockmypic, ToonPaint, Diptic – and Richard Gray of EMPICS/PA Wire has been experimenting with them on his iPhone around London.
These are just some of the results:
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Interesting stuff – but for me, most of them cross the line from photographs to graphics. There are a lot of bells and whistles out there to tart up fairly humdrum images (which graphic designers have been doing for years). Richard Gray does better than most – because he is a pro photographer to start with – but not everyone will get such good results by using these apps.
I would love to see a ‘reverse app’ that you could apply to the likes of Hipstamatic pics etc that converted them back to the original images – and then we’d see who the real photographers are!
That IS a good idea!
I’m afraid I only got to the sixth image in this slides how and I was too underwhelmed to continue. I graduated in graphic design in 2010 and I firmly believe the six images I saw above are the result of too much blind-filtering.
Absolutely agree with Kate on this. Making image manipulation simpler and bringing it to all is not enabling photography, but image manipulation.
The original photos may or may not be crap — the only interest here is the result of applying the filters and other tools. And in most of this set, the results are pretty poor.
In the words of Reiner Wolfcastle: “Ach, ze goggles… Zey do nothink!”. My eyes hurt after some if those! Two, maybe three good shots in there. Sometimes less is more, people…
Nothing special about those photos!!! Please “the journal” can you please improve the quality of your photos on your articles!! Dont get me wrong great app but the photo images are shocking! It’s only my opinion !!
Lovely pics indeed..iphoneography!!! wtf..is there any day which are minds are not getting polluted by an article on thejournal.ie that subliminally keeps Apple firmly in front of our brains?? My Galaxy S2 is grand… so dont need an S3 or an iphone 5 to fill non existant gaps on my soul. Amen.
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