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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#RubyRedCoat

Here are a few photographs (along with the unedited originals) from @Anglo's #rubyredcoat series, named after her daughter's coat, which rescues many a shot taken on a dull Lincolnshire day. 

View them all at #rubyredcoat.

Original Image

"This was edited with Camera+ using the Darken filter, the Lomographic effect and a vignette."

Original image

"Again in Camera+ I used the Darken filter, but this time finished with the So Emo effect. I love that the coat looks quite silky in the final edit." 

original image

"For this shot I used the Camera+ Fashion effect, which washes things out a little. I finished with Instagram's Earlybird filter, which washes things out again (yet it can't touch the titular red coat). Earlybird also adds the lovely curved edges. As for the expression, I think she had just turned round to tell me off for dawdling." 

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