New iPhone Photo App: lo-mob

Description from the AppStore: Lo-mob brings lo-fi and photographic experimentations to your mobiles pictures.

Have you ever experiment with your old analog cameras? Have you put a 35mm film in a medium format body? Have you ever tried to achieve Through The Viewfinder (TTV) photography by shooting a picture with a camera through the viewfinder of another? Do you just love to stick you eye in the viewfinder of an old medium format body? Have you tried to deconstruct an instant picture, ripping off its frame to keep only the film? Do you prefer sometimes the subtle colors rendering of an outdated film from an old camera than an perfect picture? Are grain, noise, oversaturation, scratches and frames meaningful to you?

Do you just love your iPhone because it's the perfect toy to play with pictures? Do you often take a picture and try to treat it in various iPhone softwares?

If one answer to the questions above is yes, you may just love Lo-mob!

Lo-mob will propose you to chose or take one picture, and will process it for you. You'll be then presented with the preview of the more than 30 Lo-mob effects.

Chose one to preview it, be back to the list in just a click to chose another.

Once your choice made, save the file in high definition back to your iPhone, or share it over Twitter, or Facebook.

• more than 30 effects including vintage , instant and experimentation
• one process per picture for all the effects : means just one time to wait for the application to process before seeing all the effects
• hi-definition export
• application preferences in the iPhone setup area

AppStore Link: lo-mob - Price £1.19/$1.99

Editors comments: Despite this app having 30 effects I found them extremely disappointing and generally of poor quality, and whilst it may not be visible in my sample below, the inner edges of the slide are jagged and look unrealistic. This disappointment continues throughout the range of effects, both in colour and framing. In addition to the issues with the effects, I also found the image loading and processing times to be extremely slow.

On a plus side this app allows you to share your photos via email, Facebook or Twitter, letting you to set output sizes up to 1200x1600.

Overall I found this to be a disappointing app, and one that I regret buying.

New iPhone Photo App: KODAK Pic Flick

Description from the AppStore: Wireless access to your pictures is now at your fingertips with Pic Flick! Relive and share your favorite iPhone and iPod Touch pictures on a Kodak EasyShare wireless digital frame and Kodak ESP 5250 All-in-One printer. With a few simple touches you can send pictures to your digital frame or printer.

Kodak EasyShare W820 and W1020 wireless digital frames are like windows to the world. Featuring built-in WiFi, these frames give you seamless access to your memories – whether they are stored on your home computer or online, and now, your iPhone and iPod Touch.

Also with built-in WiFi, the Kodak ESP 5250 makes it easy and affordable to wirelessly print your photos from your iPhone or iPod. So go ahead shoot, print and share; it’s that easy.

Kodak is making it even easier to connect with your friends and family through pictures.

AppStore Link: KODAK Pic Flick - Price FREE

Editors comments: This app is currently only available in the USA.

New iPhone Photo App: Eraser!

Description from the AppStore: Have a great photo but your ex is in it? A cheeky squirrel crashed your scene? No worries. Eraser will fix it in a flash.

Just load a photo, mark an object to be removed and let the magic happen.

ERASER is a brand new power tool for fixing your photos from United Playcos.

Just load a photo, mark an object to be removed and let the magic happen.

FEATURES:

• amazing object removal effect
• easy to use
• you can fix a photo in a minute

AppStore Link: Eraser! - Price £0.59/$0.99

Editors comments: This may be a useful app to some, but beware your are cutting out sections of your photo and then stitching the two remaining halves back together, which may work with some shots, but not all.

The iPhoneography Showcase of John Cooper

I used to love shooting with my old Nikon for about 8 years and spending a lot of time in the darkroom, as a hobby and job and then didn't really take another picture for well over a decade until the iPhone entered my life.  Now it is the only camera I use and take pictures with it all over the world, and especially here- in San Francisco.

The iPhone really reawakened a passion for photography and experimenting in the darkroom, in this case the darkroom are camera apps: Camera Bag, Photogene (cropping, levels), Photo/Cool FX, Toy Camera,OldCamerad and TiltShift, mostly.  These are often used recursively on a single image, my only rule is that everything must be done on the phone.

If you want to see more of John's work, then you can check them out here.

If you would like to showcase your iPhone photos here on the iPhoneography blog, then send me an email and I'll reply with details on how to submit.

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