all new Hipstamatic at-a-glance
There’s been quite a few Hipstamatic lens/film packs released since I last posted my ‘every lens and film combination’ image last year. Actually, it turns out that a few of them were limited edition and they aren’t available any more. I stopped using Hipstamatic for quite a while and I missed a couple of these, [...]
my plastic eye – the ‘hipstamatic’ look for Photoshop
iPhone photo apps have sparked a surge in popularity of retro camera styles, emulating the imperfect plastic lenses and saturated colours of Lomo cameras in particular, and for months now the regular number one photo app has been Hipstamatic (which I wrote about here). There are others – I was a big fan of Camerabag [...]
mac stuff for photographers
If you’re a photographer and you use a Mac, chances are you’ve probably already heard of the vast majority of these, but it’s still a pretty good list so I really ought to link to it before I lose too many readers. The Ultimate Mac Setup for Photographers is a nice collection of apps that [...]
daddy or chips? comic or sweets? cropped or uncropped?
Whenever I have a big decision to make, a clear choice between ‘a’ or ‘b’, my mum likes to remind me of my habit as a 3 or 4 year old toddler of storming out of newsagents empty handed, crying my eyes out and having a right old hissy fit because I couldn’t choose between [...]
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 [...]