Self Portrait

Self Portrait

I was invited on to a new Facebook Page all about iPhone Portraits hence today's posts. Over the past few years I have come up with quick combinations for shooting portraits, both quick street images and, of course, self portraits...most of the time I use the Hipstamatic Camera, Johns Lens and Kodot Grizzled film. If time permits I might use either ProCamera or Camera+ to take advantage of being able to throw the background out of focus.

This particular image was made using the IP internal camera...I played around in Filterstorm, NIK Snapseed, MacPhun PhotoStudio and Photo FX and came up with this workflow....My evil twin? Self-Portraits can be fun....

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Ireland, Pier

Ireland, Pier, Dingle

Back at the same photo location today.....only this time in color....still processing using NIK application in CS5 - trying to see how far I can go with non-traditional iPhone processing - but then I was never really a purist about my iPhone work. It is always about the journey to the end result...

This is the same image as posted yesterday, only this time I left the color in...single image johns lens and kodot grizzled film...my favorite combo..

Two Irish Friends

Childhood friends - Ireland

I was sitting in the car at Tuliag Bay, County Donegal waiting for sunset thinking it might be a good one...Out of the corner of my eye I notice a car pull up and two women get out.....Not paying attention I am startled by a tap on the window....of course it is the two women asking if I would take a photo of them with the bay in the background.....of course I say yes with one caveat - i can take their photo also...we agree - i take photos with both of their cameras and then get to shoot a few hipstamatic images with my iPhone...

Long story short they were childhood friends and used to swim in that very bay..currently they are 67 and 71.....back for another childhood memory...and me, I am happy to have been part of it.......

PS: the sunset never happened but the portrait did.....the universe responded....