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YOUTUBE iPhone photography apps: addendum

2013-02-21 16:57:00 (читать в оригинале)

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Spice Jar Labels
The Creative List: Written Word
La Sophistication
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The Creative List: Music
The Creative List: Style
Quick Crispy Veggie Fritters and some Old Projects

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YOUTUBE Want to play a game?

2013-02-21 16:57:00 (читать в оригинале)

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The Unreal Universe
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I sometimes play a game when I’m reading stuff on the internet. It’s called Commentogeddon – or, if you prefer, Crystal Ballocks. Do you want to join in?

Here’s how you play:

1. Read an article which has comments open. Since most things have comments these days – wisely or otherwise, YMMV – this can mean anything on a blog, news site, content portal or whatever. It helps if the comment count is greater than 0, but don’t read the comments just yet.

2. As you are reading the piece “above the line” (i.e the blog post, article, original content), try to predict the nature of the comments which will follow. Your prediction may concern form, tone or content of comments. For example, you might keep a mental tally (NB this is not the same as a mentalist tally) as follows:
– there will be a comment consisting of just one word
– someone will complain about the topic, insisting that this has already been discussed and concluded
– people will mention (and take issue with) the third paragraph

3. Now read the comments.

4. Award yourself a point for each comment type or form you correctly predicted would occur “below the line” as a result of the piece above it.

Over the years, you will hone your instincts to such an intuitive level that you’ll be able to accurately predict the content of any thread without needing to read it.

Whether you then decide to do so is entirely up to you.

The Author Variant

If you ever write a blog post, article or content piece which is open to comments, you may sometimes be dismayed by the comments which follow it. You may have deserved them. You may not. But people being rude to you in public is never nice, is it?

So rather than feeling depressed and downhearted about the public discourse surrounding your efforts, you can ameliorate any negative feelings by simply using the alternative comment scoring grid below:

Tot up your score at the end.

If you have scored more than 200 points, CONGRATULATIONS! You have won, and everyone who participated in that thread now owes you a proportionate share of the £ or $ or € equivalent to your score. So, 20 people participating in the conversation and your score is 1000? They each owe you a nice crisp £50. You can go round to their house and collect anytime.

(inspired in part by this parody of a science news story and – more importantly – the 400+ parodying comments which follow it. Nice to see that commenters have such a good knowledge of their own, often unwritten, rules)

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YOUTUBE The snail mail rail trail

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A Loving Thanks–Valentines Day Thank Yous
Belle Piece
Bye Bye Einstein
Quick Kebabs from Burger Patties
Mushy Made Easy – Valentine’s Day Cards and Messages
Scenes from Phoenix
La Sophistication
Cute Book Labels for Kids
iPhone photography apps: addendum

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YOUTUBE A few recent moments

2013-02-21 16:57:00 (читать в оригинале)

Quick Crispy Veggie Fritters and some Old Projects
The Unreal Universe
Mushy Made Easy – Valentine’s Day Cards and Messages
Accents
iPhone photography apps: addendum
Sophistication
The Creative List: New Media
The Creative List: Visual Arts
Cute Book Labels for Kids
A Loving Thanks–Valentines Day Thank Yous

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YOUTUBE My favourite iPhone photography apps

2013-02-21 16:57:00 (читать в оригинале)

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The Creative List: Events
La Sophistication
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Hot on the heels of my chapter about iphone photography in lomokev’s new photo project book, and inspired by Heather’s list of apps (and my [not so] recent upgrade to an iPhone 4) here is my list of favourite iPhone photography apps, with some examples of each in action…

I’ve tried a number of photography apps over the past three years of iPhone usage, but these three have come to be my stalwart accomplices. Crucially, they all allow me to be creative, and enhance my existing creativity, without getting in the way and making something which I don’t recognise as “my” work. I formula for a good photography app is: my skills + app = better result. So in an app I tend to be looking for something which doesn’t take over.

1. Autostitch

Unlike other panorama apps (like PhotoStitch for desktop, and the original version of Pano) which only allow you to construct a panorama from horizontally-connected image (perfect for panning around a horizon), Autostitch lets – no, encourages you to get creative with multiple overlapping images, in any direction at all. This can lead to some interesting – and sometimes quite unintended – effects.

I still boggle that this amount of intricate and elaborate processing power is packed into a tiny app on my phone. And available to anyone for less than $3. We truly live in the future.

2. Camerabag

I’m not crazy about apps that only exist to add retro effects to images, but there’s something about Camerabag’s filter settings that seem to be able to turn a lacklustre image into a much more rich and interesting one.

It’s telling that of the twelve filters available, I only use two with any regularity: Helga (which mimics Holga contrast & vignetting) and Magazine (which seems to flatten and punch things)

FWIW, I’ve also played with Hipstamatic and can see the appeal, but I’m not wild about it. For me, the fun is somewhat limited by the fact you have to take images through it, rather than being able to use it for post-processing, as well (as you can with Camerabag)

3. Diptych

Relatively new, this one allows you to quite simply combine multiple images according to a number of templates. Bosh.

I don’t use this one a lot, but it’s handy to have on the phone when I do (and a damned sight easier than downloading, opening and editing in photoshop).

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I’d love to know which photography apps you use, and rate….