Ryan Landis - Crit 4- Memory/Vintage

Photographs were taken with an Apple iPhone 5 ios 8.1. I'm a little behind because unfortunately I dropped my phone in water and had to order a new one. This photo was shot on Poplar close to the Eastern State Penitentiary. I thought this was a cool shot by incorporating the vintage feel with the rusted cast iron fence, while also including extended sight. The picture was edited with snapseed which has become my favorite app for editing. I liked the way the picture came out so very minimal editing was done. I shot with my phone on top of the wall parallel to the fence so that it would create the effect of extended sight. I came about this location while walking my dog in Philadelphia, as many of my pictures are. This photo captures detail in the fence and stone wall while also extending far into the distance to create an added effect. I've found a lot of success shooting from angles like this one.

Emily Gilmore|Topic 4: Memory/Vintage

All photographs were taken with an Apple iPhone 5s and iOS 7.2 (I am a little behind on software updates).

 This photograph is a multiple exposure-made image and was taken in the Slow Shutter Cam app. There are about six exposure layers that I captured as the figure was in movement. The image was first edited in Google Snapseed editing app. In Snapeed, I applied the "Drama" filter. I typically do not like filters, but this one has effect I have not seen achievable in any other application or manual editing styles on a smartphone. Then I imported the photo into Afterlight, where I sharpened the detail, applied the #10 light leak filter, increased the warmth, and added a moderately thin black border.

This photograph was taken up close with the iPhone slightly tilted s to pick up more detail in the image. In Snapseed, I applied the "Drama" filter, and in Afterlight I desaturated the image, flipped it on its side, applied a "dust/scratches" filter (hence the crack in the wall), and added my oh-so-favorite black border, because it's not really a photograph without a official border, right Berk? This photograph is one of many in the set which were extremely sharpened so to achieve a more believable graininess- k?

This shot was an interesting and fun image to capture. I caught an interesting reflection in a window of two men working on a dilapidated house. The shooting strategy I used here was setting up the shot and waiting for the perfect moment. I was focused on not cutting of any part of the figure's reflections while still capturing an interesting interaction. After getting "the shot", I took the image directly into Afterlight. I increased the clarity, brightness, contrast, detail and then I converted the image to black and white and added a cold tone. From there, I added a warm tone and a black border.

Alexandra Schulsinger Topic 4: Memory/Vintage

All of my pictures were taken on the iPhone 4s with an iOS 7.1.2. I used Snapseed in order to add effects and filters to my photos. My POW is of a friend who is thinking while leaning against a wall. She did not know that I was taking a picture of her and after I showed it to her, she was fascinated with how the camera and effects were able to make her look the way she did. 

The picture below is one that I wanted to comment on. I was in my piano class and I was looking at the keys. It just struck me how long pianos have been around and that they continue to be a popular instrument in a things music. With that thought, I thought it would be ideal for this assignment to take a picture of it. 

David Shiraki Topic 4: Memory/Vintage

This photo is of Lake Scranton. I did not grow up here but I do have family and friends all over Northeastern Pennsylvania. I recently took a trip here over Halloween weekend and I figured it would make for some good content for this photo assignment. Knowing the people around here, I know what this lake means to locals and I felt the nostalgic memory while I was here. Luckily the sky was clear and the sun was out. For this assignment I tried not to go overboard with the effects to evoke that memory/vintage feel to my photoset. I relied on the color and the natural reflection on the lake to make such powerful colors and tones. This photo was shot on an iPhone 5S and edited with VSCOcam. I took most of the effect levels down, I really just wanted to bring out the color instead of overpower the tone with filters and effects. 

Debora Charmelus- Crit 4- Memory/Vintage

This was one of the first photos I took with my brand new Galaxy S 5. I was playing around with the basic camera app and I took this snap shot while walking. I instantly loved it. Then I put it on Snapseed to edit it. I used the Vintage filter and the 4th style filter. I turned the texture strength down and made sure the center was weight on the very peak of the church. This ensured that the more modern building in the back faded and was practically unnoticeable. This is one of my favorite photos of all time.

Rachel Burkey Crit 4 | Memory/Vintage

Rachel Burkey

Smartphone Photo 2831-701, Crit 4 – Vintage/Memory, F14Recipe for POW

            This week one of my self-portrait was chosen for the POW.  I am proud that this photo got as much attention as it did because I worked a lot on perfecting it. I’ve been looking at the mirror in my hallway for months now waiting for the right time to photograph it and this was the moment.

            I stood in my hallway in front of the mirror and played around with angles and positioning of myself and my camera (iPhone 5c). When I found the right position for my phone not to be seen I positioned myself how I wanted to be seen. I actually had to stand on my tippy toes to get in the mirror more. After playing around and lots of test shots I captured the image I wanted.

            Next I went into my camera roll, selected the pictured and began editing it in my phones photo album settings. I boosted up the contrast and started by making the photo b&w. I then took it into an app called ‘Fotor’ to add some toning to the b&w. my process for this image was quite simple, just took some trial and error to get the shot I wanted!

Brooke Edwards - Memory/ Vintage Recipe

 

The most interesting behind the scenes photo of mine is my self-portrait above which was also voted as my POW. I received a lot of great feedback from everyone, so thank you! I found that I was successful in relaying the emotion in this photo to its audience. Some of you said that this photo spoke to you. I briefly described the technicalities behind this photo in my self-evaluation but what I focused on more was the emotional aspects. I want to describe the technical aspects here for those who are interested in how this photo was done.

              After I came up with the idea to take a portrait like this (I sat on this concept for a while), I started to think about how I would go about it. How do I attach my camera to my ceiling? I guess I could tape it up there… but no… I have to be able to access it easily for trial and error. Taping and unstrapping would be a pain and how would I push the camera button? I ended up taking a popcorn box and finagling it to work.  I cut open the box so that I could fit it on the ceiling, I also cut out a square that my camera could look out of. I opened one end of the box to be able to reach in and out of with my phone and then I put it on the ceiling directly above my bed using tape to keep it.

              I set my phone in the box with the camera aimed out of the small square. I reached in and pushed the camera button. I had used the self-timer app to give me enough time to get into position. After getting up and back down a couple of times I finally got what I was looking for. Lastly, I used the Afterlight App Version 2.6 on my iPhone iOS 7.1.2 to make fine tune adjustments. I turned down the saturation almost all the way and then added vignette around the outside of the frame and subject. These techniques helped give this photo a darker, emotional flashback feel. I revealed a more guarded side of myself and I am glad I was able to do this and that many of you were intrigued by the photo.

 

I drew a little diagram for how I used the popcorn box in case anyone wanted to see how it was done. I know I am more of a visual learner so I hope this helps give a clearer picture.