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Thursday
Mar252010

Old world Seattle

As we ferried our way towards Seattle today, I took this with my iPhone and processed it with TiltShiftGen and Lo-Mob on the iPhone. It's really interesting to me how the vintage look makes me want to study the photo a bit more. It's as if the psychological effect of thinking it's vintage makes me want to look longer and gives it more appeal.

Friday
Feb052010

Do it All iPhone app I heart...

I have every space on my iPhone filled with apps. Apple sends me personal thank you cards, signed by Steve himself, for single-handedly funding the App store. Well, not really. But, I do love to try new apps and finding that perfect little gem is my personal conquest.

I've been using a great app called UltraList Plus. I like it because it is incredibly versatile and can be used for a variety of business and personal productivity needs. It's seems on the surface to be a list maker/manager. But it's really MUCH more than that. You can keep track of multiple personal lists, Shopping lists, Gift giving lists, todos, etc. But it also is a great expense tracker, photo tracker, and location record keeper. Here's some of the things I use it for:

1) I keep a bloody mary blog from travels around the world and whenever I indulge, I add it to UltraList. I can add my geographic location, complete with google maps link, a photo or photos, notes, my ratings, helpful search tags, and more. Then I instantly email the note from the app to my blog and it's online!

2) I keep a note of all the cool restaurants and places I visit when I travel. I like to share this info with others and also be able to review the info when I'm back in town looking for places to go. Just like with the Bloody Mary, I mark the spot on the map (right inside of UltraList), save the map link, add photos, ratings, category, etc. I can instantly share it via email or keep it in the list for future reference.

The cool thing is that whenever you pull up a list of places, the app can (as an option) use your current gps location and show you your items in order of their distance from you! Great if you are in the middle of a city and want to know where your nearest favorite restaurant is.

3) Track your business and personal expenses and easily email a .txt or .csv file, with pictures attached, for easy import into your bookkeeping software. My bookkeeper loves me much more now!

4) Keep todo lists and gift giving ideas for upcoming occassions.

5) Be able to keep photos in a list where I can add titles, descriptions, geo tag info (map links to where they were taken), and more. You can search any list easily too, so if you have tons of photos you can search for something by the name. You can't do that with the iPhone Photo album app! You can also see on a map all the pins for the locations where your photos were taken.

6) Take photos of locations I want to return to and photograph again. The built in mapping makes it easy to record the exact location and multiple photos and details. Great for photo location scouting!

There are many more uses for UltraList and it keeps getting better. The developer is very helpful and receptive to suggestions. It's one of my Home Screen apps!

 

Wednesday
Jul082009

iPhone panorama photos from Italy

On our Italy trip, I purchased a new iPhone 3Gs. I love it! The camera is much better - with a new autofocus system and the video is down right acceptable! It's faster overall too. Lot's of little tweaks. One of my favorite apps for any iPhone is Pano. With it you take as many photos as you want and it automatically stitches them together. It's really easy and a ton of fun! It works best on farther away subjects where the edges of the scene are less prone to distort when you pan from shot to shot. As you know, when subjects are closer, the distortion with a semi-wide lens becomes very apparent. Even so, when I played with it in very close quarters (like in the sunflower field) the seams were noticeable, but still it created a great image that gives a better feel for what being in that environment felt like. This is why I like the panos.

On this trip, I tried to look at things a bit different than on past trips. I typically would use my 70-200mm lens quite a bit. I do love that lens. I brought it with me, as usual, but I rarely used it. Most images I took were with my 12-24mm or the 50mm f1.4. Oh, and the iPhone :-) I also used my Lensbaby and my video cameras. I wanted to force myself to look at things a little different. This was our 5th trip to Italy and it's still just as beautiful as ever.

I'll post images from my regular camera later today or tomorrow, but here's the iPhone panos. Click the image below to see the gallery of others.

Click the image to see the gallery of other iPhone panos