My Shot: "Electro Pop" by Glyn Evans

Above: "Electro Pop"On my recent trip to London (to see Gordon Fraser talk about iPhoneography at the Apple Store in Covent Garden), I took the opportunity to grab some street shots with my new favourite app, Nofinder.

When I first looked at Nofinder a few weeks back, I was a little unsure about a photo app that had no viewfinder, but since then, I've been playing with this app, and really like what it offers. As someone who is uncomfortable about taking "street photos", I have found Nofinder is perfect for "street photography", as it is not obvious to those around you that you're taking photos, although at the same time, there is no guarantee that the photos will be usable, but then again, that's part of the fun/appeal of this app.

So having taken a series of usable "street photography" shots with Nofinder, I decided to play around with them, and do something a little different.

First I took my high contrast black and white Nofinder photo and passed it through the quirky and only occasionally used Decim8 app, using the randomise feature, saving the looks that I liked. Next, I took the original photo and the Decim8 version I liked the most and ran it through an app newly introduced to me by Robson Santos (a.k.a. iPhotos_London), called Interlacer, giving me the final photo, that I've now called "Electro Pop".

The Apps

The following apps were used to create the final image "Electro Pop".

Above: The original high contrast Black & White Nofinder shotNofinder is a toy camera like app inspired by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama "no finder" [shoot from the hip] snapshot style of photography, that the photographer developed as he wandered the streets of Tokyo in the late 1960s and early '70s.

Features:

• No Flash and No Auto-Focus
• 4:3, 1:1, 3:2, 16:9 ratio
• 2 resolution modes, half and full-res
• Shutter position, top or bottom
• Film effects; Normal; B&W; Hard B&W; Vivid; Toy; Old; Instant; Cross; Day Dream; Skip Bleach
• Lenses: Normal; Toy 1- Vignetting; Toy 2 - Vignetting, plus blur; Toy 3 - Vignetting, plus larger area of blur.

App Store Link: Nofinder; Current Price: FREE, with optional £0.69/$0.99/€0.79 lens/film in-app purchase

Above: The Interlacer apps UIInterlacer is an app that combines alternating lines from multiple images and colors to make a new image. The end result can vary from a multiple exposure to a color tinted photo to a very abstract creation.

Features:

• Add photos from camera or photo albums
• Add colors using color picker
• Fixed or random line height
• Shift lines for a video interlace effect
• Full size image preview

App Store Link: Interlacer; Price: £0.69/$0.99/€0.79

Above: The Decim8 version.Decim8 is a digital tool for photographic destruction. Armed with a set of bit-mangling filters, evolve your pictures into strange and sublime artifacts bordering on chaos.

Features:

• Arrange/Activate effects in any order
• Effects never exactly the same twice
• Full size photo output 
• Effect images in photo library
• Support Flash settings, Front/rear cam 
• Randomize effects
• Saves original, uneffected image also
• Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling

App Store Link: Decim8; Price: £0.69/$0.99/€0.79

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Comments

[Fredde Cooney Ahlstrom]

With the headphones it looks very Cyberman-ish. :-)

[mistermacjones]

thnks for bringing those 2 apps to my attention. I've bought them both and already have a lot of fun with them. for those interested: I've just upped 'The Beer Sessions' to Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mistermacjones/sets/72157627494453646/

[Ridwan Jaafar]

I like the B&W & Decim8ed one. Electro-pop doesn't work for me.

[THORNZ]

Decim8 is my favorite effect app. I never like to be photographed but thanks to Decim8, I actually take pictures of myself. Of course, I look all mangled, but I'm ok with that.