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.