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Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Friday, December 7, 2012

Apps and accessories help make Apple iPad a hand-held darkroom


“Over the years, I've been in and out of relationships with dozens of film cameras, Pentax, Canon, Nikon, Minolta and others, as a result of my passion for photography,” Nick Bilton reports for The New York Times.



“In the late 1990s, after college, I snapped so many photos that I ended up building a 5-by-6-foot darkroom in the corner of my living room in Brooklyn. There, standing amid long, dark strips of film under the glow of a dim red light, I spent countless hours mixing pungent chemicals and developing and printing photographs,” Bilton reports. “I have since retired most of my film cameras. Now, my camera bag is all digital, and my darkroom is 7 inches wide and 9.5 inches long: an Apple iPad.”



Bilton reports, “The immediacy of digital has pushed photographers to want to edit their photos and then share them right away. A number of applications allow you to do this, some free and some costing as much as $20.”



Bilton covers:
SnapSeed (free)
iPhoto ($4.99)
Photoshop Express (free)
Photoshop Touch ($9.99)
ShutterSnitch ($15.99)
Photosmith ($19.99)
piRAWnha ($9.99)
Photoraw ($9.99)



Read more in the full article here.



[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "David G." for the heads up.]


Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Obama's Win Sent Instagram into Overdrive


It's not just Twitter that saw an astronomical boost from last night's electoral dance—Instagram completely exploded as soon as Obama clinched presidential victory. In a huge way.



Within just six quick minutes—about as much time as it took for ecstatic Democrats to confirm on Twitter, jump up and down a little, pick up their phones, and pick a filter, the rate of photos uploaded to Instagram more than double to 2.1 the normal rate. If you're a user of the app—and you probably are!—you no doubt got sepia peeks into a lot of living rooms and apartments around the country. The CNN close-up shot was a particular favorite. [Instagram]