QuadCamera – my all new favourite iPhone camera app
I’ve got a new obsession on my iPhone, and it’s name is QuadCamera (made by Takayuki Fukatsu and available on the iTunes App Store here, currently £1.19 but apparently it will go up in price after the next update). It’s basically a software application of the popular Lomo Supersampler cameras, one of which currently resides [...]
the right kit for the job
At this very moment I’m heading away for just over a week on location on a film called Vivid. I already shot some days on it last weekend in London but the bulk of the action takes place in a country house in Dorset, which is where we’ll be based. When it comes to packing [...]
action -vs- inaction
An interesting article about New years Resolutions in Resurgence magazine, as sent to me by my secret spy on the web (that would be my mum, then). I particularly like the last line of the following submission, and although the context of the words in this example are quite specific, it’s an attitude that feels [...]
twitter: an update
Well, who was I fooling? Professional updates only, indeed. There does seem to be something quite engaging about posting snippets of your life for the world to read or totally ignore, while peeping in on other people. Don’t think I’ll be posting any ‘lunch’ updates though, I’m sticking to my guns on that one.
Twitter is one of those things I’ve still not really got a good handle on yet. I can see it being used all over the world by all sorts of people, from Barrack Obama to (insert your favourite blogger here), but using it regularly seems to open a window on one’s life that I’m not [...]
Westfield, or “Photography, blogging & the iPhone”
(This was going to be a post about some iPhone photos I took at Westfield recently, but started to become an iPhone post instead! Photos at the bottom…) So here at mge towers we’re still devoid of connection to the real world, er, I mean The Internet. My iPhone has been pushed to the limit [...]
JPG saved?
Sounds like JPG has been saved after all. I’m updating via the WordPress app for iPhone so I can’t copy and paste in the email that I just received, but the gist is that they’ve got some sort of buyer and will be able to keep the site up after all. Not sure about the [...]
normal service will be resumed shortly!
Just a quick post to say that while I do have plans to post some more “how to…” articles, we’re in the middle of moving house at the moment so when I haven’t been celebrating the festive period or working I’ve been packing box after box with all our stuff. It’s quite incredible how many [...]
save JPG!
Looks like the looming closure of JPG magazine may be postponed a little longer. Here’s an excerpt from their recent blog update: …we are hopeful that something can be worked out with a number of potential last minute acquirers who want to help the JPG community live on. There is a lot to sort through [...]
making ‘this glass is half full’
Today I posted a new image from a local pub that at the time I took it was a really nice photo as it stood. Really nice soft natural light, nice depth of field and sharpness with the 50mm f/1.8 lens, simple subject matter, popping colours, and beer. Perfect. :) I did give it a [...]
JPG magazine shutting shop
If you’re a member of the JPG Magazine website you’ll have got an email today announcing that they’re closing their doors, sadly. The same email is posted on their blog. Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media. We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the [...]
fun with Poladroid
Yesterday I mentioned an iPhone app called Camerabag that applies filters to iPhone photos. Today I happened across a free app for Macs and PCs called Poladroid. You drag an image from your computer onto the application (which is represented by a lovely icon of a Polaroid camera) and it makes that whizz and whirr [...]
i like my iPhone camera
I’ve been playing around a lot with the iPhone camera since I got my 3G iPhone a few months ago. I got Camerabag (£1.79 at time of writing) pretty early on, as it processes images from your Photo Library or can even capture directly from the camera itself. The selection of filters it can then [...]