Brooke Edwards- Research Collaborative: Memory/Vintage

  Last topic I made a post here discussing some apps that I found helpful. I received some feedback that some of you really benefited from my suggestions, I'm glad I could help! I want to do that again for this memory and vintage topic. I have found just a few apps that have been working for me. I would like to know what apps some of you are using too.
 
The first app that I have really enjoyed using aside from the ones I mentioned before is called STEP (Simple Touch Editor for Photos). Version 1.1 and requires iOS 7 or later. It has been described as the best photo app for iPhoneography. (I don't know about that but it's a great help). It offers film presets, adjustment and fine tune strength. Among the presets there are vintage looking affects that can work as a starting point. So far with this app, I have started with a preset but found it need adjustments to not be too potent or distract from the actual photo.
 
  The second app I downloaded is called, Camera 360 version 5.4.3 and requires iOS 5.1.1. Honestly, I wish I had downloaded this app sooner. It's really great and has so many options. There are so many modes, some include filter, scenes, burst camera, low light and double exposure. The options allow for easy transformation of your photos into something that appears more vintage or give it a memory feel.
 
  So far, these are the only apps that I have found helpful. If I find any more that are helpful I will post here!
 
  Hope this helps,
  Brooke

Emily Gilmore- Topic 3: Extended Seeing Recipes

 All photographs were taken with an iPhone 5S with Apple iOS 7.1.2.

For nearly every photograph, I used  the Google editting app, Snapseed, and all photographs were finalized (given borders and detail sharpened) in Afterlight. The slow exposure and the multiple exposure photographs were taken in the Slow Shutter Cam app by Cogitap Software. The first two photographs shown here were captured in this application, but it is a pretty tricky process. In settings in the app, I changed the "Capture Duration" to "minimum", which is basically speeding up the shutter speed. I took the first exposure of a mirror (the odd sun shape form), and then I took another exposure of just my face. This process creates exposure layers in which the highlights and shadows overlay to create one image with results like the photo to the left. You can take as many exposures as you want to create more layers as well.

This photograph was made within Slow Shutter Cam like the
first photograph shown. I placed my iPhone in the sink directly beneath the faucet (ballsy, huh?), and then I positioned myself and my hand and took the first exposure with my other hand. Then moved my body and removed my hand from the frame entirely and took a second exposure. Both of these photographs were taken into Snapseed where I added the "Drama" filter and the black and white filter, and then I took them into Afterlight where I increase their warmth (warm-toned).








This photograph was a favorite among my set for this topic. I took this shot in the panoramic function in the iPhone; however, it was not captured in typical panoramic motion. This panorama was shortened by jerking the phone (inflicting sudden movement) while it was exposing. So rather than moving the iPhone along a linear path, I maintained its initial frame- which creates that square-like frame. This "jerking" causes distortion in the exposures. I opened this photo in Snapseed, where I added the HDR filter (sorry) and the Drama filter as well as B&W. I took this edited version into Afterlight and added a red tone to the midtones. I then increased the clarity and sharpness and added a border. The interesting thing about this kind of processes is that even with the recipes, it is impossible to achieve the same results every time; however, I think this adds a sense of authenticity and spontaneity to this kind of photography work.

Alexandra Schulsinger - Topic 3: Extended Seeing Recipes

All of my pictures were taken on the iPhone 4s with an iOS 7.1.2. I used multiple apps for this weeks critique. I used Snapseed, LongExpo, Light Camera, Slow Shutter, and Top Camera. My POW is of red solo cups and hands that is almost see through, grabbing one of the cups. I was at a party and I saw all of the cups on the table, with no one paying attention to them and I thought that I could make that look like something more meaningful. 

The picture below is one that I wanted to comment on. This happened multiple times when I tried to take panorama photos. I am not sure why, but the picture kept getting chopped up into pieces instead of just being one long picture. I though this was cool because it somehow captured my friend's eye and nothing else about her.

Allison Goldman: Extended Seeing Recipe

This was voted my picture of the week.  I used an Iphone 5 IOS 7.0.2.  This photograph was taken using a panorama feature on my camera that comes with my phone, so I did not need to download an app for my panorama shots.  This shot was taken at Tyler State Park, 10 minutes from where I grew up (a lot of my nature shots are taken at different points of this location- the park is HUGE).  The colors and sun glare are natural- I had great lighting during this shoot that took place in late afternoon, roughly 3 or 4 o'clock.  I did use a photo editing app called BeFunky.  It's a free app that features all of the necessary basics for photo editing (brightness, contrast, hue/saturation) as well as a few nice filters.  I did use a filter called "Cross Process" that brought out the colors and the sun glare a little bit.  I then turned down the brightness, contrast, and saturation a tiny bit to make it look more natural.  BeFunky also allows users to adjust filters.

 


I also got a lot of comments on the distorted photographs.  These were taken with the same phone, also using panorama.  Number 1 was taken by moving my left hand with the camera using a panorama feature.  This was not easy, since this technique is rather unpredictable and there are several bloopers on my phone from getting it wrong.  I then made the photograph black and white using a filter that comes with my camera called "Mono."  The second photograph was taken using panorama, then moving the camera quickly back and forth once.  This cut out half the picture, and created an illusion that the lighter had burned off half the photograph.  This was a total accident.  I softened the photograph and decreased the saturation using BeFunky.  The last photograph involved me waving my hand back and forth with the camera that was set on panorama.  I then used a filter called "Instant 1" and decreased the brightness and contrast to make the filter less extreme.

    

Rachel Burkey Crit 3: Extended Seeing Recipe

I used my iPhone 5C iOS 8.1. Since this photo is my POW and also my personal favorite, I decided to give the recipe for this slow shutter photo because some classmates were curious. 

I started with bothering my roomate and asking her to help take this self-portrait of myself. I stood infront of the white walls in our appartment and did some test shots with me beinhd the camera phone and her moving her hair so I could figure out how to focus on what I wanted and blur what I wanted. So, I came to the conclusion that if she tapped the focus on my phone to my shirt then my upper bodywould become blurry. I stayed perfectly still except for moving my head / hair. I was determined to take this photo without an app because I really enjoy the rawness of a photograph. I chose to make it b&w toned because it makes the picture pop even more and give it the energy I was looking to create. I used my camera roll editing tools to make the photo b&w and boost the contrast a bit then took it into the app 'BeFunky' to tone it. This is definitely one of my more successful slow shutter speed photographs, I had a lot of fun creating it. 

Debora Charmelus. Extended Seeing Recipe

This was one of my favorite sections so far. I really enjoyed the theme and liked the idea of taking panorama photos, although slow shutter photos proved to be more difficult to me. Instead of explaining my POW I am opting to justify how the following two photos relate to the theme "Extended Seeing." Both were on a Galaxy S 3 in the basic camera app. The first is a regular photo and the second is a panorama photo.

This photo is probably one of my favorite photos for this class so. It was taken while I was caught in a rainstorm at Dilworth park. I love the way the droplets formed on the slanted glass pane and decided to snap it. I really enjoy this photo because it looks like I edited it to be in Grayscale but it is in fact a full color photo. To me this represents extended seeing because once you know this fact, you are prompted to actually examine it more. Plus it's seems cool to me.

I really enjoyed manipulating the panaorama camera to get warped and more aesthetically intriguing photos. I took a basic photo of several pumpkins lined up in a row before this and I thought it was cute, but that it really wasn't anything different. I played around and liked this photo a lot. To me, it represents the growth of vegetation. It forces the viewer to examine what pumpkins come from, dirt and roots.

Sarah Criswell Recipes: Extended Seeing

If you saw any of my self evaluations or even my pictures you can see that I did not really enjoy this section. Probably because I had such a hard problem with shutter speed. So I will not be writing about that at all. Panorama, that's another story, I loved it. I had a really great time finding things to shoot and working with vertical as well as horizontal. For the 15 pictures I posted I probably took 10 times that amount, if not more.
 


This was not my picture of the week that was voted on, I will get to that next, but this is my favorite picture. This was my last shot before I left the cemetery that day. I was raining that morning, cold and windy. I took this from outside the cemetery on the sidewalk that sat lower then the actual cemetery. It was about 4 or 5pm in the late afternoon and I was fighting against time and light. I happened to snap this as the sun was coming back out for just a few minutes between the moving clouds. I love the way that the color came out so minimal due to the shadows. I feel like it gives a dark mysterious feeling. Then the little bit of light accents the church and draws your eye to it completing the picture. I feel like without that you would not know what you are looking at. I used my standard camera on my Galaxy S5. The panorama mode on it is amazing! It has a guide bar that comes up to make sure you keep your picture straight as you slowly pan across the view you are looking at. This helps make both vertical and horizontal panoramas really easy.


This was my POW and almost did not happen. I was on my way home from the cemetery and thought I had gotten a good amount of pictures for the day and drove past this but then stopped actually to see what a panorama of the corn field would look like. After that was a fail, I walked over towards the abandoned church and started doing vertical panorama of the headstones nothing was coming out great due to lack of light. Then before I left I turned and did a quick pano of the church and really thought this wouldn't look great, the light by the church was actually blinding in trying to take the picture.  When I got home and pulled them up on my computer I was really surprised at how this came out. This was also shot with my standard S5 camera in panorama mode. Nothing special.

Maria Ablonczy: Crit 3 Extended Seeing Recipe

For this critique, I used several different methods to capture my image for Photo of the Week. Because the theme was extended seeing I wanted to capture my subject in an unconventional way. To do so, I found an interesting angle with a close up perspective which I felt gave the image and interesting composition. I also used photo editing tools to make the subject appear more sharp and in focus. Along with that, I intensified the color to really capture the viewers attention. The app that I used to do this was the Photoshop App. Overall I feel as though I was successful in capturing the theme of this critique.

Brooke Edwards- Crit 3: Extended Seeing Recipe

 

             

               The photo I have decided to discuss is number nine of my set – the black and white photo where the hands overlap. I want to explain the processes for this photo because so many people asked how it was done. It was a runner up for my POW and those who commented on it said things like, “I have no idea how you did it” and “I had to do a double take to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing.” So I am going to take this time here to try to explain my methods.

              I am still using my IPhone 5c iOS 7.1.2 (I still need to get the new update but I am worried about losing storage space). The story of how this photo came to be begins with me being downright frustrated. At this point, I had been trying little by little to understand and work on the slow shutter technique.  I finally decided that I needed to spend the rest of my day playing around with apps and experimenting. I eventually gave into spending a few cents on a slow shutter app called Slow Shutter Cam Version 2.1 because the free version just wasn’t doing it.

              I took this app and I went outside – I invited my boyfriend, Matt to come with me and I started to scavenge. He probably thought I was crazy. I would stand in a spot until an idea came to me. A few small ideas came to mind but then the idea for this photo came to mind and I went with it. I said, “Hold on, wait a second” and I walked over to the tree and put my hand on it. “Will you do me a favor? Just put your hand here, on top of mine. I want to see if this works.” After trial and error it did.

              What I did was lay my hand on the bark and take a picture through the slow shutter app. The app was set to Motion blur on all of the lowest settings (capture duration and blur strength). This helps to get this exact effect by changing these settings the photo would become more blurred and less transparent. After the first shot I kept my hand in place, the camera still and asked Matt to put his hand on top of mine. I took another picture and it created what you see below. This is how you get the effect that a ghost hand is on top of a more permanent form. Finally, I used the Afterlight app to edit the color and contrast of the image. I felt that this made the photo seem more like a memory which was one of my main intentions.

Breanna Keohane - Recipe: Crit 3- Extended Seeing

 

   The topic for this critique was “extended seeing”. To achieve that, I had a combination of panoramic and double exposure photos. All of my photos were taken on an iPhone 5s under iOS 8.0.2. For the panoramic photos, I used the iPhone’s panoramic setting built into the phone. For the slow shutter/ double exposure photos, I used an app called “Top Camera”.
    I paid high attention to angles. I believe that the angle of view is what really makes a photo. For my POW, I took a landscape panoramic photo from a birds-eye view. I wanted to take a pano that was different than the typical, landscape, even-horizon view. I also took it during sunrise, but didn’t want to create a typical, cliché sunrise photo.
    Within some of my panoramic shots, I varied the speed at which I moved the camera, to create a choppy and abstract effect to the photo. The faster I moved the camera, the more broken up the

    For all of my photos, I used an app called VSCOcam for the editing. I went with a softer and dulled-down tone in the majority of my set. I adjust the exposure, tone, and saturation. I also dull down my photos using the fade adjustment. I occasionally add contrast to bring out the shadows more.  I usually like to go with a warmer tone to keep my photos in the same realm of color. I like my photos to be warm and comforting, while also keeping the idea of a mystery. The subjects of my photos are parts of my every-day life, so I used those techniques to create an abstract point of view, to look at things differently. 

picture turned out. For my other photos, Top Camera allowed me to take a couple photos of a scene, and gave me an option as to what frames I wanted more prominent.