two minute silence

Original Image

How I edited this iPhone photograph

Camera +

Crop closely to the crowd. Put the old fashioned lampposts at the centre of the picture.

In Scenes, select Clarity to define each head clearly.

Noir

I want to get rid of the overbearing Burton shop sign, so I use the Noir highlight to make an arch over all the image apart from the top corners, which I darken using the maximum vignette setting. This also makes the lampposts distinct as black silhouettes. 

Instagram

Here I used the Earlybird filter to give the shot a vintage, sepia look. And I like Earlybird!

People have commented that this looks like a shot from the olden days, perhaps even from the first Two Minute Silence in 1919. A happy accident, I must confess!

About the ceremony: At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Two Minute Silence is observed on Armistice Day, the day which marks the end of the First World War. More on this ceremony at the British Legion's website

 http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/the-nation-remembers/two-minute-silence

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three amigos

How I edited this iPhone photograph

Camera+

In Scenes selected Portrait to brighten the face against the black background

Used the XPRO C-41 filter for contrast and bright colours

Cropped using the 'Golden' preset

Photo FX

In Lens fx > Vignette > added the black square vignette

In Special Effects > Colour Looks > added the Glamour filter to soften the light and brighten the colours 

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conkers and dappled shade

Sometimes you don't need a filter, just some dappled shade

Here's how I took this iPhone photograph

Obviously, I held the conker about 5 inches from the iPhone, about as close it can focus without a special macro lens. 

Cunningly, I placed my hand in a natural spot of light coming through the horse-chestnut canopy, so that the hand and conker looked spotlit against the darker background. I was careful to get some light visible through the spikes to make them extra spiky. I also waited so my daughter was in the right place in the background, collecting more conkers for a bit of story telling.

I tapped the phone screen on the image of the conker (not easy as you're holding and tapping with one hand) This told the iphone where to focus and what light to expose for (I think this is only possible with later iPhones, sorry!)

Snap. No filters. No Apps. 

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grab a seat

My Sepia Victorian Park Bench - shot on iPhone 3GS

The original shot

Here's how I edited this iPhone photograph

Dynamic Light

I applied both the Orton and the Overcooked HDR filter to the image so see which I liked best. I preferred the Orton effect of soft focus light over the HDR, with all its hard detail. 

Noir

Set to Sepia, I placed a pool of light beneath the bench to lead the eye into the picture, then set all the dials to 100% so the image was incredibly bright. Gradually, I dropped the dials down to reveal just enough detail in the shot whilst keeping brightness very much the overall theme.

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barn owl meets iphone

Barn Owl 'Willow' photographed at a falconry display

Original image

Here's how I edited this iPhone photograph

Camera +

Get rid of those bloody tourists with a close, square crop to just the owl and the tree

Add Scenes > Auto to lighten it just a little

Use FX Effects > Vibrant to make the red berries stand out in the tree

Use Borders > Simple >Vignette to make the tree more of a circle pattern behind the owl, a little evocative of the moon, this bird's usual companion.

Instagram

Tilf Shift (circle) round the owl so it really stands out from the background

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