iPhone photos "Through The Loupe" - check this out!

So I got this idea of trying to take a photo with my iPhone through a pocket loupe I have. Well, the image turned out kind of interesting, so I´m going to try to take some more photos the same way and post them here.

It will be a kind of photo project using just the iPhone 5s and a 10x pocket loupe. Not very high technical quality of the images but that´s the charm of it. 

This is the loupe I use:

Pocket loupe (10x) - iPhone 5s, some cropping

And here is the picture that got me started:

Jeans Through The Loupe - iPhone 5s + 10x loupe, cropped

Closeup of iPhone magnetic case:

iPhone magnetic case, camera lens opening - iPhone 5s + 10x loupe, cropped

Closeup of some crud that the factory included on a Linocell Extreme Glass screen protector:

Wife´s iPhone screen - iPhone 5s + 10x loupe, cropped

More pics coming!

Pop-A-Graph your photograph!

I played around some with the PopAGraph app from Flambe Studios LLC, an app that is mainly for adding 3D-effects to your photos. Probably not what the developers would say, but you can read what they think in the description on AppStore heh heh.


 This one was shot with my DSLR and "popped" on my iPad mini:

Popped flower - Nikon D70s, Sigma 70-300 F4-5.6 APO Macro Super II, PopAGraph

This is the original photograph:

Flower - Nikon D70s, Sigma 70-300 F4-5.6 APO Macro Super II

The auto mode works so-so if you intend to blow the image up. I had to manually mask and tweak this one to get the result I wanted - smooth masking and the right details included. Not a bad thing as long as you understand that you have to invest some time and effort to make things look good. 

There are a bunch of filters and effects you can use, as well as different frames. 

So why bother with this app? Well, you won't use it all the time, but for those shots where you want to add some wow-factor or really make the subject stand out, this is it. Better yet, if you plan the picture before shooting it, with a clear subject and well planned composition and background, you can create some stunning images with a little help from this app. Even if the viewer can't see that the subject extends beyond the frame, they will feel it. Thats what it is all about.

Now, off you go and Pop-A-Graph that photograph!

Atentech Perfectly Clear - iPhone 4s

So I bought the "Perfectly Clear"-app for iPhone and have found it really nice. You've seen this already in iPhone 4s camera:

Thistle - iPhone 4s, some cropping

And this is what it looks like after automatic correction in Perfectly Clear, on the iPhone:
(Yeah, its not the same size. Might fix that sometime.)

Thistle - iPhone 4s, not the same cropping, Perfectly Clear

So, which one is better? Im not sure, the "corrected" one is perhaps too much corrected. But the original sure does look grey in comparison.

Another example:

Huseby Bruk - iPhone 4s, HDR to keep detail in clouds

After some Atentech Perfectly Clear automatic correction:

Huseby Bruk - iPhone 4s, HDR to keep detail, Perfectly Clear

This time I´m sure I like the corrected one better. It simply has more oomph. Perhaps the grass is too bright green? This was the automatic correction, I suspect some fiddling around with the settings could improve the result... but then again, if you are after serious image processing perhaps you should use a better camera to take the picture, and your computer to edit and adjust it. 

You have to experiment, sometimes this app does make things worse, but often it enhances photos - right there on your iPhone. Let it do its thing automatically or control the settings yourself, and when you like it simply save the photo to the camera roll. Its that easy.