Olloclip

Another post related to the iPhone. I recently added an Olloclip wide angle lens attachment for the iPhone to my arsenal. Have to admit it captures some amazing images and it is incredibly sharp. It features a fish eye lens on one side, flip it around to a wide angle lens, and take off that ring and it is a macro lens which gets extremely close (limited to one focal plane up close but still fun and better than nothing). The camera phone world gets better and better.








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Snapseed

I have been focused on being more productive especially regarding photography. A couple months back I produced another book, "Is that a Camera in your Pocket?..." for consideration by the Cleveland Museum of Art for their Photographers & Books exhibition opening next month. With this book I looked inward and examined what images I was capturing and creating with my iPhone. Cell phone photography and video capture has become so common place I wanted to take stock of what images I was capturing and what I was doing with them.

I have written before about the double edge of technology in today's photography, on one hand it is easier to capture and create fantastic images but on the other hand everyone has access to this technology and there is a glut of untrained photographers and our culture is saturated with images. Today's post is on one of the positives.

I use Nik software with Photoshop, particularly the Silver Efex Pro 2 for Black & White conversion. On my iPhone I use their Snapseed app for most my image corrections when I want to bump something up. I would guess that over half of the images in the recent book were processed in Snapseed. It is amazing how simple it easily it edits images. Below are some recent examples of Snapseed images

One more example of technology is the fact this post was made from my phone while down by the water.





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