VSCO Cam™, a new iPhone app from Visual Supply Company, offers users versatile photo editing capabilities with a simple, convenient user interface.
Unlike many photo editing smartphone apps, VSCO Cam™ offers a minimal set of menus with basic processing. Visual Supply Company hopes that the program will appeal to casual photographers who want to touch up their iPhone photos without learning the complex commands used in other photography apps.
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Although the iPhone’s Camera can take high definition pictures on its own, adding a few textures to photographs with apps like Iris can create a number of unique effects to create better-looking shots.
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Whether you are taking your photos on an iPhone or a Nikon, it is important to remember what makes a great photo. No one is more well-known for incredible photographs than National Geographic. Their magazines are bought by many solely for the photography. But what makes their work so rare?
In this video, National Geographic editors share some of their favorite National Geographic photos and discuss why they caught their eye. Take a look at some of these amazing photos for inspiration.
Capturing someone’s likeness in a photo is not an easy task, let alone one you would think about doing on your iPhone. But that does not mean it’s impossible. In fact, sometimes iPhone photos may turn out even better than photos on many of your other cameras. With the ease of use, advanced technology, and easy to use apps, the iPhone is quickly becoming the first choice by many people. Michael Andrew is a photographer who takes you through capturing great portraits on your iPhone in this tutorial video.
If you don’t know what you’re doing, capturing great portraits may be difficult. Knowing the basics of taking great photos and the limitations of your iPhone’s camera are the first steps to capturing amazing portraits.
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The beach offers an amazing location to capture great photos. It provides not only landscape shots, but macro, abstract, and silhouette photo possibilities as well.
Lisa Bettany is a professional photographer who shares a few secrets about how to take great beach photos on your iPhone using the Camera+ app.
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Photographer Chase Jarvis says the best camera is the one that is with you. In the past, you needed a DSLR swinging around your neck to capture all your day-to-day spontaneous photograph ideas, but now an amazing camera fits in your pocket. You have a visual journal that can capture moments and stories that were not possible before.
In this video, Jarvis walks the New York High Line and preaches iPhone photography. He says not to worry about the lower quality parts; the important thing is capturing the moment. He even shows how to create some cool abstract photos and patterns with some creative thinking.
We have had the ability to shoot HDR photos since we purchased our iPhone 4s, so it was only a matter of time until we had the same ability for video. The Flare app finally brings this feature into our hands.
Just like HDR photos, you can choose your exposure and focus by tapping, or zoom in through pinching your fingers.
While the app is not flawless — yes it does occasionally suffer from the halo effect like many HDR photo, and it is sometimes difficult to separate exposure and focus — it is still an app in the right direction towards shooting HDR video.
Dot by Kogeto is another project being funded by strangers on Kickstarter. It is a hardware device that attaches to your iPhone 4 and records 360 degree video. This video is panoramic and fully navigable. It also allows you to share your video on Facebook and Twitter. Although, we’re not quite sure how the navigable part works once it’s off your iPhone, but it’s still a very cool accessory.
Check out their Kickstarter page to make a donation.
Red Pop makes it easy to take great photos with just the simple press of a button. The creator of Red Pop, Brendan Dawes of Beep Industries in Manchester, says there are endless times an amazing photo could have been taken but instead he fumbled to press the button on the screen. While iPhone camera hardware like this has been tried to be created before, it has often failed because of unauthorized API access with Apple.
The project is being funded by strangers on Kickstarter and has already met its goal. But there are still many days left to help fund this project and get some pretty cool rewards in return.
In this tutorial, learn how to crop iPhone photos without having to purchase an extra app. The steps are simple: open your photo, make sure the image is only showing, and take a screenshot by holding both buttons. The image will then appear in your camera roll.