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How much is that doggy in the background?

On May 27, 2013

It’s kind of hard to relegate Donna to the background when I’m supposed to be holding onto the leash, so we’re depending on some multiple-exposure app goodness here! Hah!

I guess the Japanese doll graphic is copyrighted to the tissue box manufacturer whose product I took a photo of. It was handy since I was busy blowing my nose off from the influenza. :P

Another one, this time comprising photos of the dog at different distances away from me in the living room. Can you spot the one in the background?

iPhoneography Challenge (Abstraction)
It seems we can choose from the list of themes provided this week. I was keen to further explore multiple exposures, so I chose to do Abstraction. Although I’m not sure if this really fits. :/ Heh~
Apps used: Pudding Camera, Blendcam, Gorillacam, Snapseed

Weekly iPhoneography: Seeing myVillage in black and white

By weliveinaflat

On May 21, 2013

In Photography

Today, the iPhone is a mysterious man that offers to sharpen your sense of sight and dull everything else, your taste, your hearing, your ability to touch and to smell. Right away, wouldn’t your world start to seem one dimensional?

What is food without scent and taste to colour it?

But hang on a minute, with sharpened sight, you start to notice details that you may have decided not to notice when you were dealing with all your senses at once.

You see light and shadow, pattern and movement. Little things that once escaped notice because they were insignificant, or in odd corners. Or because they helped form the part of the whole impression of a place, rather than demand your central attention. These little details enrich without calling attention to themselves.

But no, life is incomplete without all the senses at play. And even as you revel in your newly achieved clarity, your dulled senses start to return as the hypnotic iPhone runs out of battery. Slowly, you smell the Peking Duck and hear the buzz of chatter in the background. Sweet relief.

iPhoneography Monday
App: Gorillacam, Snapseed

Black and white photos can be so emotive even with its limited palette. It shows up the interplay of light and the dark in spaces, makes more pronounced the profile of people and things, removes the clutter that is colour and creates a moment of stillness that makes me anticipate the future that follows.

Pictures taken at myVillage, a little mall that we were visiting for porridge and some light dim sum.

Donna is relaxed because I don’t have my phone in her face :O

By weliveinaflat

On May 16, 2013

In Photography

Instead I was pottering in my kitchen snapping macro-views of things with, I would like to say childlike wonder, except that from what I read that phrase is usually used to describe other people and never yourself. But I did get rather excited and shuffled around looking for more things in the kitchen to take macro pictures of.

But let’s start from the beginning shall we?

So I just started to pick up iPhoneography skills. This week’s topic was “macro”, a format that I was not familiar with. I failed in my first attempt. My dog ate my homework subject. Right. Some things are better done indoors, and with more research.

I knew macro pictures had to be taken with macro lenses so I was uncertain how I was to do that with a camera phone. Is there any specific macro photo app that I should download? Research ensued in which I was educated by a bunch of harebrained people to shoot through a magnifying glass, a water droplet (at the detriment of the phone!), etc, etc. Of course there are macro lens for iPhones on the market if you are so inclined. I’m not.

So anyway, let’s give those harebrained suggestions a shot. Why not, I’m as harebrained as the rest of them anyway. It seemed more prudent to place the drop of water on the lens at the front of the phone rather than the lens on the back of the phone. The front is all plastic covering over the lens, so I thought there would be less worry about the water seeping in there. So what conspired was, the phone was resting stably on a box in front of the window (so there is some indirect light), and the tiny toothpick drop of water sitting on the plastic covering the lens. The rest was just a matter of holding the object to be photographed over the drop of water and positioning it to get as sharp an image on the screen as possible before tapping the phone.

Note: Please understand that Apple does not provide warranty for water damage and iPhones are definitely not waterproof.

And since I was at the same time having an interesting time looking at Meg Greene’s multiple exposures, I thought to try that out. Searched and downloaded the first app Google threw up at me.

I narrowed down my selection to a set of four objects, each with one close-up and one macro snap of it. For each double exposure, I layered a close-up view of an object with the macro shot of another object. Made it into a four-tile collage and this is what I ended up with.

Can you match each close-up to its corresponding macro image?

Here are the answers:

Dust, scratches, detail and fibre. I was quite amazed by the degree of detail in the macro captures.

Then the light grew bad, so I stopped.

Hello sleepy.

iPhoneography Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, Instablend, Moldive

By the way, this is the exact size of an image saved from Instablend, so tiny!

I couldn’t find the settings to increase the resolution. The advertising was also very obtrusive and irritating. So I won’t really recommend it. Let me know if you have an awesome double or multiple exposure app to share, k?

By the way, you guys should check out echo/sight if you are interested in double exposures. Their work is amazing.
– http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1068932801/new-york-london
– http://instagram.com/echosight

References
– http://osxdaily.com/2012/10/07/tips-better-iphone-macro-photos/
– http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/07/take-an-iphone-photo-remotely-using-the-earbuds/

What the flowers saw

By weliveinaflat

On May 10, 2013

In Photography

Look.

Out the window.
A canopy of trees.

Look out the window.
An encroaching urban jungle.

Soon to engulf,
Our mish-mash foliage —
Raintrees, Angsana trees.
They tangle together.

No more.

Not here.

These trees that stand in plain sight today.
Beneath layers of foliage, lichens, parasitic ferns,
before you see the tree they cover,
the craggy bark these plants cling onto.

But in the distance,
Look.

In the heart of the urban jungle,
Conservatories, man have built.

Gardens by the Bay.
Trees from far off lands stand there.
Proud individuals in their cooled air domes.

There,
the flowers be.
Studied closely, bloom by bloom
they hang. There.

And this is what the flowers saw.

Apologies for the bit of bad pseudo-poetry.

We took my mom to see the tulip display at the Gardens by the Bay for Mother’s Day. Although my mother loves her container garden, she perhaps found it hard to appreciate flowers and plants from other continents that she is not familiar with. She was happiest when she could identify plants similar to those that she is used to. And she had greater interest in the fruit bushes found at the sidelines than the tulips and other strange flowering shrubs that would not survive our climate outside of the conservatory. But I think she had a good time.

I discovered the iPhoneography challenge sponsored by gracienobiya, Lens and Pens by Sally and watchingthephotoreels the other day via completelydisappear. All the photos on this blog are taken with my iPhone. The photos above using the iPhone camera app and the Gorillacam app. I’m not used to editing much on my iPhone though, so that would be something interesting to start exploring in future posts.

When you are planning for a country, you can’t afford to see the individual tree. I sometimes wonder what sort of forest do our country leaders envision in their heads. Just a curious interest.

Themes: Nature, From above
iPhoneography Challenge: Nature