Greek Church

Greek Church, Paros

Rushing out the door on my last day in Greece......Found this church yesterday up in the hills on Paros. going back to make a few more images in today's light...Stay tuned

Church, Wales, Great Britain

Wales, Church,

Stumbled upon this Hansel and Gretal Church while exploring Wales last year....Loved the leaning tower....and the light was fabulously mysterious....

Icelandic Church

Icelandic Church, iPhone4s Image

"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education"..........Smiley Blanton

Red Church, Iceland

Iceland CHurch

Today's image started as a DSLR photo which was photo-synched over to my iPad2 for processing. Snapseed and Blender were used and then the image was synched back to my desktop where I added a texture and sharpening.

I like creating what I call the anti-postcard image.......The original image is below and was made through a bus window on a rainy day, hence the soft fog look....

Scotland, Church with Blue Bicycle

Edinburgh, Scotland

Yesterday a friend asked me why I process iPhone images on ,my laptop when most folks are using the iPad and iPhone.  I told him there were several reasons and have listed them below:

1. Pro Photo color space - largest color space
2. 16 bit image - more tones and shades
3. Use of available third party software - so many to choose from
4. ease of posting to various social media quickly - using Lightroom4
5. Digital asset management - folder structure using Lightroom4
6. Ability to sharpen for print in a way that fits my vision of the image

When I first started making images using my iPhone I always processed on the iPhone, and later on the iPad. I am not against using these mobile devices for processing and actually do when in the field. It is simply a matter of choice that I use my big boy computer whenever I have the choice.

My good friend Teri Lou Dantzler is doing really great work using only her iPad and iPhone. She trekked through Nepal and placers east without carrying a big girl camera - something I would never consider doing - both the trek and not carrying at minimum a point and shoot.

And now for the shameless promotion part of this blog. Teri Lou and I are teaching together under the name The Last Pixel Show. I mention this because we are so different in how we use iPhone photography that one can learn several approaches to this genre of photography at one of our destination workshops. We shoot, talk, process and on the last day we print. Check out The Last Pixel Show by clicking on the link above. The next workshop is August 16-20 at The Palouse in Washington State - we have 4 places open....

Iceland Church

Iceland Church

Just finished the weekend workshop at Foto Care in New York City. I was running through a few processing tips using today's image and was really liking the results. This is not at all rare in workshops as one usually starts pushing sliders to make sure the results show on the screen - and of course - happy accidents happen. This is something to remember - don't be afraid to push those sliders as far as possible to see the outer limits of what they do....it is a valuable learning tool.

I did a bit more work on this image this morning and decided to post to the blog. As I was moving rather quickly in the workshop all I can remember is PhotostudioHD, Artista Haiku, Sketchmee HD, possibly a bit of ArtistaOil, NIK Color EFX4, PhotoKit Sharpening and I did some retouching in Snapheal for the Mac. Not my usual workflow - hardly ever use this many applications......

The old adage holds true - if you want to learn something......teach it.....

check out The Last Pixel Show  for destination, one on one and online iphone/ipad training.

Horton Church_Wales

Horton Church, Wales

Iphone4 Hipstamatic Capture
5 images stitched together using the Autostitch Application
local tonality in Filterstorm
sbarpened in Photoforge