let's talk of graves

This gorgeous angel statue lives in the Canwick Road Cemetery in Lincoln, England. In this post @Anglo reveals the two apps she used to turn this from iPhone snapshot into moody Gothic image. 

"First editing app was Dynamic Light. With this I used the Orton filter to make the colours more vivid and the light and dark more polarised"

"I then switched to the Qbro app, where you have to crop to square before you can edit, so that came first. I was tempted by a lot of the filter's effects on the image, but ended up using the Qbro Blacker filter because it looked most dramatic and haunted. I have always loved the work of Simon Marsden, and often find myself trying to capture that infra-red feel. I wonder what she is supposed to be reading?" 

The cemetery was opened in 1856 and contains many angels and Victorian graves. You can see more photos from this session under the #AngloVanHelsing tag on Instagram. 

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light & dark

Two editing stories for the price of one. Both images taken by @Anglo on her iPhone 3GS.

"With both these images I used the iPhone app Noir which (and I quote the makers here) 

'...lets you transform your photos with beautiful, dramatic lighting and instant results. Peel away the color to a cinematic black-and-white, apply a lovely tint, and then light up your subject. Touch and pinch the brightness Vignette and spin the Contrast and Exposure dials for white hot thrills and shadow.'

"In this first one, I used the vignette to create a diagonal vignette, to change the natural side light into a more diagonal top light. I made the rest of the image as dark as possible whilst keeping the story that it was a tunnel of trees, with the light at the end of the tunnel also there on the original image.

Original image

"In this second one, I set the vignette to be tall and slim, circling the child and the path behind her. I used the app to make what was inside the vignette slightly darker, whilst bleaching the rest of the image to the barest details."

Original Image

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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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