st swithin's and the multi storey

Original image taken on an iPhone 3GS by @Anglo

Editing Step by Step

"I noticed when I was taking the shot that the sky was very dramatic around the spire, so I used Camera+ to bring out as much detail as possible. Firstly I used the Clarity setting sharpen all the details, then I used the HDR FX effect to expose each area of the image. Not as good as true HDR, which @Ashog does a lot, but it always suprises me what the iPhone lens has captured which you cannot see on the unedited shot. Finally I used the black vignette in Camera+ to really throw your attention on the church"

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the dressmaker

original image by @Anglo
taken on an Iphone 3GS

Editing Step by Step

Noir

I used this app to throw light behind the dress to match that in front, and darken the clutter in the room. 

SnapSeed

A new app for me, but one I am really enjoying, SnapSeed provided the high contrast and grungy surface effect .

Breaking News!

This image was one of those highlighted on Google+ under the #MyMobileMonday tag, curated by Sinead Sam McKeown with guest curator Ron Bearry

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cathedral close-ups

original image of Lincoln Cathedral
 taken by @Anglo on iPhone 3GS

Editing Step by Step

Dynamic Light

I ran the image through this app's basic filter, to make the greens a little more lush. 

Finger Focus

A new app for me, I used this to put the background completely out of focus, making the viewer pay most attention to the medieval carving and emerald lichen of the foreground, whilst keeping the shape of the cathedral's gothic arches in the background. 

Instagram

I finally added Instagram's Xpro II filter to make the light and dark a little more extreme, and cropped to a square.


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from the millennium to st pauls

In another step by step blog, @Londonbird shows her editing of this photograph taken of 

St Paul's Cathedral and The Millennium Bridge, London (of course). 

Raw image take on @Londonbird's iPhone 4

Using Camera+ Clarity filter, it's amazing what
detail the tiny lens of an iPhone can pick up

Finally adding the Silver Gelatin filter on Camera+, which is a little warmer
and smoother than black and white, and harks back to the days
of early photography

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the climbing tree

In a break with tradition we're going to start with this raw image taken by @Anglo of what she calls  The Climbing Tree. Then we'll look at how the image can change dramatically with three different iPhone apps. 

The unedited image, taken with @Anglo's iPhone 3GS

Using the Dynamic Light Orton filter (set at 50%) the image
 is instantly richer and softer. Anglo used this enhanced image
as the base for all the following edits

The Contessa filter in Camera+. Now the tree is a dark,
brooding menace. A tree once used as a gallows?

Using the Burnt filer in Qbro, the tree takes on a somewhat
illustrated feel, an enchanted tree from a book of fairy tales

Using Qbro's 914Chrome filter the tree becomes the most
mythical, something you'd expect to see in The Shire

The question is - of course - which do you prefer?

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