Twilight Ridge 2

Twilight Ridge, iPhone4

Here is another image from Twilight Ridge - this time an iPhone4 capture using the Bracket Mode application. Added a vintage Polaroid Type 55 frame from lo-mob....

Lately I have been enjoying the way iPhone technology can create pictorial imagery similar to artists like Henry Peach Robinson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen and Alfred Steiglitz to name a few. Among the methods they used were combining multiple negatives, soft focus, special filters, various lens choices and brushes to soften images and on and on. With the iPhone technology we use multiple applications and textures not so much different then these pioneers to create the same feel - something I enjoy coming from an alternative process background. Additionally, iPhone artists use brushes, play with various lens choices, textures and blending to create images. Not so different when you think about it.

I guess my point here is that this new iPhone technology in the right hands is not so different from what those photography pioneers did back at the turn of the 20th century. In some ways
iphone-ographers are going through the same criticisms about whether this technology is truly photography - my opinion is of course yes.

 If you have time take a look at he various website for these artists - you will not be dis-appointed.

Bastion Falls

I was up in the Hudson River Valley over the weekend staying with friends in Palenville, New York. The weather was atmospheric with a low fog hanging over the valley just after a hard rain. As we were driving to dinner on Saturday night we passed Bastion Falls and simply could not resist the light - a perfect storm so to speak.

Having always been drawn to the Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen images I used the iPhone4 to recreate an image with an alternative process feel - something the iPhone does very well.

Bracket Mode (on a tripod)
autositch
Auto Painter to create texture
photoforge to sharpen 
blended auto painter with original and added burnt paper
local tonality in Filterstorm
frame from lo-mob