Exploring iPhone photography

I've been post-processing some images from my iPhone lately using various iPhone apps, sometimes augmented by some extra tweaking in Aperture. It's interesting to see that in areas where I would have expected the tiny iPhone camera to fall short, like subtle gradients and low contrast areas, it actually creates an interesting grainy texture that's quite pleasing to the eye. Some extra sharpening usually brings this out even more. Gives the photos a little bit of an analog feel. Below are some recent examples.

Facets - an iPhone video experiment

Above video is the result of playing around with my iPhone to see how I could use the built in video camera in new and unusual ways. I combined several videos recorded on the iPhone to form a larger composition, the same way you would stitch a number of photos together to make a panoramic image. It's kind of interesting to explore the limits of what you can do with the little iPhone camera.

I used some filters and subtle 3D movement in Final Cut Pro to make it a little more interesting. The soundtrack was created using Ableton Live and Native Instruments Kore 2 Player.

iPhone fun with The Best Camera

Having a lot of fun lately with The Best Camera iPhone app. The nice thing is that it not only lets you apply filters to you iPhone shots (a lot of apps do that), but that you can subsequently modify the order of the filters, or even delete one or more of them. This way you can try a lot of different variations quickly. It also lets you post the result to multiple sites simultaneously, as well as to it's own community site.

iPhone snapshot