Caifornia Coast, iPhone4

California Coast, iPhone4

'I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love'......Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux Chief

Whidbey Island, Photo Forge

Whidbey Island Lighthouse

This is a slightly different version of the Photo Forge workflow talked about on the Pixel-Show page yesterday. The basics are still the same in Photo Forge but the after treatment and sharpening are slightly different...I have worked up the basic treatment below - this was done on the old photo forge - I find that dialog a bit easier to get around and the results, at least for me, are better:

1, Once your image is loaded hit the funnel (yes the funnel) which will expose the Unsharp Mask icon.

 

2. Tap the unsharp mask icon to reveal the USM dialog:

 

3. There are several ways to use this USM. You can run the amount all the way up and then use the radius to your liking or you can do the reverse - radius up and amount down. They will effect the image in different ways - this is actually a sharpening method that comes from using phototshop and you should navigate your own way to what you might like. Lately I have changed to using the set-up below. When this was first introduced there were very few choices as to how to get this look - now there are several new apps that do a better job - but start here and play a bit.

 

4. The alternative way using forge is to just use the sharpen slider - USM if not done correctly will add artifacts into the image and depending on the image sharpen works just as well. I usualy start with the strength below.....

 

5. Once sharpened navigate (scroll down) and find the oil painting and watercolor sliders. You can use one or both - yo can use one - resharpen and then use the other - it is all trail and error depending on the look you are after.  As Teri Lou says PLAY PLAY PLAY

 

6. At 100% opacity the image will look something like this:

 

7. Adjust the slider to your taste.....

 

8. A combo of both watercolor and oil paint.....

 

9. Combo with adjusted opacity....

 

10. My starting point for the image above.....

At this point it is completely up to your creativity as to what happens next. I always like to have some clarity in the image so the subject stands out....I use Dynamic Light, Filterstorm, Snapseed and Blender to work up the final look. I even used Iris on the image posted today....

Take a Last-Pixel Show Workshop and learn more creative choices for your iPhone imagery - not to mention printing techniques and much more....If you can't make a workshop then take one of Teri Lou's online courses - they are perfect for learning basics and much more....

 

 

Iceland - Sunrise

Iceland, Reflection, Route 1

On the next to last day in Iceland we were driving up Route 1 heading to the Glacier Lagoon and kept seeing these reflections in pools on the side of the road. Finally, after realizing we were not going to make sunrise at the Glacier, we stopped and photographed on the side of Route 1 for 30 minutes or so.....This is an iPhone4 image from that morning....

I am teaching a two day comprehensive iPhone/iPad workshop in Carmel, Indiana on September 10 - 11, 2011. Along with my regular iPhone workshop, and having the more time, we will on a field trip to cpature images that can be processed back at the class. Additionally, this workshop will cover printing and all students will leave with at least one print on Epson archival paper....For registration info see the link below...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238585306172778

or

http://www.renaissancefineartanddesign.com/site/iPhone_2_day.html

Santa Monica Pier

Santa Monica Pier, California

Posting two images every day on two separate blogs has been very educational. I have learned so much over the past 18 months - many new ways to manage an image and applying the new skill across many many platforms...

Today is one of those transitional images for me - I have processed the Santa Monica Pier (one of my all time favorites) several ways but today is a more slightly grungy saturated version. Can't wait to see where this work-flow will lead...after all as my friend Teri Lou Dantzler always says......play play play....

Image Management:

Phase P65+
Mamiya 645DF - 47MM Lens
Transfer to move to iPad2
FIlterstorm
Snapseed
Iris
perfect Photo

Sunset - Maine

Sunset - Maine

Photographed on the way to dinner a few months ago near Thomason, Maine.

Image Management:

iPhone4
ProHDR - handheld
Filerstorm
Iris
Perfect Photo
Photostudio

Transfer

Union Station

Stacked Chairs, Union Station

These chairs were stacked outside of Union Station in Washington, DC. Made a fast image on the iPhone as I was running for the train.

Image Management:

iPhone4
Prohdr - hand held
Perfect Photo for sharpening
Toon Paint for blending layer
Photo Studio for another blending layer using pencil paint 2
Iris to blend
Filterstorm for local corrections

Cloud Construction 1

Cloud Construction 1

The clouds over here in Europe have been spectacular lately. As I have been spending a good deal of time flying about I will post a few of what I am calling Cloud Constructions. Some will have a good deal of image management and others will be straight up.

Today's image is from yesterday's flight from Dublin to London - somewhere over the Irish Sea....

Image Management:

Hipstamatic
Lucifer VI lens
Kodot FIlm
6 images blended in Autostitch
Iris to blend the stitch with the original using the overlay mode
Filterstom for final blend and local adjustments
Touch retouch to take out artifacts
Perfect Photo for Sharpening

Dublin Street Musicians

Street Musicians, Dublin, Ireland

Photographed usng the iPhone4
Hipstamatic
JohnS Lens
Kodot FIlm
Iris
Filterstorm
Perfect Photo
Toon Paint

Music and iPhone

I was on a flight today from The Hague to Dublin and worked out a new image, John Mellencamp,  for the Music and iPhone series. I had this image in the archives since the mid to late 90's and decided to give it a bit of a Jack Levine treatment on my iPad. Jack was a social realist painter who passed away in 2010.

Image Management:

Photographed using a Nikon F Series Camera
Kodachrome Film
Transfered into the digital world using an Imacon/Hasselblad scanner

On the Ipad:

Auto Painter II
Iris
Filterstorm
Perfect Photo

I do realize that auto-painter II is not high res but I like this setting so I bite the bullet...I can upres later for printing on canvas....

Images from Music and iPhone will be shown starting September 10th at the Renaissance Fine At and Design Gallery as part of the Music, iPhone and other Neighborhoods Sequence. This show wil then move to Toledo, Ohio at Gallery 20 as a benefit for 1Matters.Org, an organization that works hard to house the homeless. They are located in Toldeo, Ohio. All monies will be donated to 1Matters.org.

The Red Door

I just keep going back to Christiania and noticing something that I missed on the last visit. Still obsessed with the fact that this location actually exists at all in 2011. The more I go back the more it reminds me of San Francisco in the mid to late sixties....it would seem they have found a way to make the counter culture work in a major city setting.

At any rate I had dinner there last night and on the way out noticed the red door which I believe was a restaurant open only during the day. There is definitely something that draws one into a red door.....IN Ireland last January it was a blue door.....

Image management:

iPhone standard camera set to HDR
Perfect Photo for sharpening
SketchmeeHD for line drawing
Snapseed for black and white conversion, frame and adding grain
Iris and Blender
Filterstorm for local adjustments and masking


I AM STILL NOT ABLE TO SEPARATE MY IPHONE BLOG FROM MY TRADITIONAL CAMERA BLOG.  TO THAT END IF YOU HAVE SIGNED UP FOR THE IPHONE BLOG NOTE THAT IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS I WILL BE MOVING THE IPHONE BLOG TO WORDPRESS. STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS.

Boats - Christiania

Boats, Christiania, Copenhagen

 
I came across these two boats while walking Christiania yesterday. Would have posted them earlier today but the blogspot was not uploading properly...

I have been trying to achieve sort of a cloisonne look with water - getting closer I think but not quite there.

Image managed with:

TrueHDR on Tripod
Perfect Photo
Filterstorm
Iris
Photostudio
Blender

Claremont Hotel

This one is from one year ago. I was in Oakland, California staying at the Claremont Hotel and Resort in Berkeley, California. The Claremont was built circa 1917 and is a fabulous old place, albeit in need of a renovation.

At any rate there are fabulous views of San Francisco on one side while the other side gives one a look at the architecture of the hotel.  As per my usual I photograph out of my hotel room window at sunrise and caught the image posted today. Of course I applied a bit of iPad image management as per below:

Photographed using the iPhone4
TrueHDR resting on the window sill
Photostudio
SketchmeeHD
Perfect Photo
Iris
Filterstorm

Scottish Sheep

So last night I asked my friend and top iPhoneographer Teri Lou Dantzler to give me the haiku demo of the new NIK Application, Snapseed.. Not being a fan of u-point technology in the past, and still not really liking that technology, I was apprehensive about diving into Snapseed. In the end I came out of the tutorial  really liking Snapseed, particularly the framing dialog. Having control of size and width in a framing dialog is huge, at least the way I see it. The only thing missing is the ability to save a preset...maybe in the next iteration...presets are always important when you have multiple choices for image management.

Needless to say I have added Snapseed to the work-flow and will also add to future iPhone workshops.....

Today's image captured in Scotland using:

Canon 5DMKII. 24-70MM lens
Transfer to bring the image into my iPad2
Snapseed for framing and a bit of grunge
Filterstorm
Iris
Auto Painter


PS: Be wary of Auto Painter II - it downsizes your image - hopefully they will change that in a future upgrade.

Eddie Van Halen

Another image from the 'Music, iPhone and Other Neighborhoods' series.......These images and more of my traditional work will be shown in Toledo, Ohio at the 20 North Gallery  to benefit 1Matters,  an advocate with and for those who have lost domestic autonomy. Watch this space for more information.

Photographed on the 2004 Van Halen - Sammy Hagar Tour with a Nikon D300 and processed in the iPad2 using:
Transfer
Filterstorm
Iris
Photostudio
Perfect Photo
Texture of live lighting situation

Maine Christmas

Carousel, Maine

Went to Maine a few years ago in December to attend a photographic workshop. Every day on the way to class I passed this carousel but never photographed as the weather was really bad. Long story short on the last day the weather cleared and I was finally able to photograph this scene.

Original photograph made with a Mamiya 645DF, Phase One P65+, 75-150MM lens
Transferred to the iPad2 for processing using:

FIlterstorm
Photostudio
Pefect Photo
Iris

Swans

Ireland Swan, County Clare

Photographed with the iPhone4

Image mangement using the following applications:

trueHDR - tripod
Perfect Photo
Iris
Filterstorm
Artista Haiku
SketchmeeHD

Tables and Chairs

Happy Memorial Day....

Captured with prohdr - hand-held
photostudio
iris
filterstorm
autopainter

Boats, Portree, Scotland

Boats, Winter, Portree, Isle of Skye

Iphone4 - proHDR - tripod
Perfect Photo
Iris
Filterstorm
Photostudio

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Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar 2004

Caught this image of Sammy Hagar during the 2004 Van Halen Tour - so many stories to tell....

Reflection_Lexington

Sky  - Lexington, KY