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iPhoneography Insights: Brick Road

For this post, I decided to give a little more detail than the previous ones in this project. Most of the time, I don’t know beforehand whether or not I want to write a post about the post-processing of a certain photo.

But, if I’m able to decide before or while I’m editing, it’s easy for me to get some screenshots and upload it to my OneDrive for this.

Here’s the original photo of a hallway at my local library.

I purposefully composed to have the lines of the brick wall meet the two corners because I’d imagined a brick road. Not yellow bricks, but it’ll do. First, I opened the image in SKRWT where I did most of the transformation.

Using the ratio tool, I compressed the image horizontally so both corners of the brick wall would still be in the square crop. This tool does a good job of compressing images in order to fit things in a different aspect ratio.

After exporting from SKRWT (image on the left), I used the heal tool in Pixlr to remove a lot of the distractions on the right side of the brick road. To finish it off, I applied a black and white preset from my favorite and most-used app (in 2014 at least), VSCO Cam. I think the black and white really brings focus to the window light and makes the result more surreal.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: New

Since I’d already posted photos from New Year’s celebrations yesterday, I had to think of something else that’s new. The first thing that came to mind was the new film camera that my girlfriend gave to me for Christmas.

We were both excited to find out that it works after shooting a test roll. I’ll share the results with you soon in the Film Rekindled project.

iPhoneography Insights: Not the Louvre

I was grabbing a coffee at Starbucks recently and I noticed their app pick of the week, Juxtaposer — an app that had been on my iTunes wishlist for a while.

Juxtaposer lets you combine multiple pictures into creative and fun photomontages quickly and easily thanks to its intuitive and responsive user interface. 

– Pocket Pixels Inc.

I happily grabbed a card on the counter, entered the promo code in the App Store, and immediately began using the app.

These are the two photos that I’d decided to work with after combing through my library for a couple of minutes. The aim was for one photo to provide a clean background and the other a subject to place onto the background. Juxtaposer made it pretty easy to extract the building by zooming in on the photo as I was selecting which part to extract, although some sort of line tool would definitely have been helpful in this situation. I finished it off in VCSO Cam with a black and white preset.

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iPhoneography Insights: Flockin’

I was glad to be at a red light when I came upon this scene. The sunset in the background gave some color to the sky. I brought it into VSCO Cam, applied a preset (F2 if I remember correctly), and lowered the exposure a bit. Doing so added more contrast and saturation.

To finish this one off, I wanted to straighten the power lines. I used SKRWT to do so. It’s a keystone and lens-correction tool that has come in handy for me quite frequently, especially for architectural shots.

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