Talk iPhoneography with Sion Fullana

If you're in New York on the 18th February, then stop by the Apple Retail Store in SoHo and meet the iPhoneography blogs favourite iPhoneographer Sion Fullana.  Sion will be there from 7:00PM talking about his work and techniques.

Sion Fullana makes another TV appearance

iPhoneographer and friend Sion Fullana has appeared on yet another TV program, this time it's online Catalan TV station Sies.tv

Whilst the video below is all in Catalan, it does give you a visual insight in to where and how Sion goes about capturing his street photos, and includes video and images from the recent EYE'EM exhibition in New York.

Sies.tv

To see Sion's work, check out his Flickr stream here.

Sion Fullana appears on Spanish TV

iPhoneographer and friend Sion Fullana was interviewed in New York a few months ago by INQUIETOS, a Spanish culture TV show, and below is his segment with English subtitles.

iPhoneography Exhibition at La Panera Art Center, Spain

The La Panera Art Center in Lleida, Spain is to host an iPhoneography exhibition with 6 of the worlds most known iPhoneographers.  From the 2nd October to 14th November 2010 iPhone photography from Valeri Ardini (Netherlands), Koichi Mitsui (Japan), Alex Kess (Australia), Dominique Jost (Switzerland), Jordi V. Pou (Spain) and our very own Sion Fullana (NYC) will be on show.

We will bring you more information on the exhibition closer to the time, and the iPhoneography blog may even attend the opening event (funds permitting), but until then, this is what the art center has to say about the event.

"Throughout the history of photography there have been several trends which have sought immediate results, to reduce the technical concerns of composing and shooting to focus on the moment and the object photographed. Movements like those created by Polaroid or Lomography have marked periods in which distinct art groups have approached the immediacy of photography. Today, Apple’s iPhone has taken up the baton of these movements. The camera incorporated is limited in quality and technical options and leaves photographers the only option of choosing when and what to photograph, thereby rekindling the spirit of Polaroid and Lomo. However, its success goes far beyond this: as this device has several apps for postproduction and immediate sharing of pictures, whether in social networks or photoblogs, a broad group (photographers, filmmakers, designers, journalists…) has turned it into an everyday tool of creation. iPhoneography is an ever-growing global movement, fed by the constantly impressive production of its members, who have already opened the door of art journals and galleries."

Deserted: The streets of New York

Following the aftermath of the bomb alert in New York City over the weekend, street photography Sion Fullana grabbed this shot with his iPhone of Times Square eerily deserted.

Sion Fullana, EYE’EM, Mobile Photography and Vogue

Sion Fullana was interviewed, and the EYE’EM Awards featured on Vogue's Italian website today, so I just wanted to congratulate Sion and the EYE’EM team for bringing mobile photography to the world of Vogue.

Below is an extract from Sion's interview.

"Point, focus and shoot: in the future we will be doing this more and more with our phones", announces the Spanish photographer Sion Fullana, honorary president of the judging panel for Eye'em, the first worldwide competition dedicated to "mobile photography" or phone photography.

To read the full interview head over to Vogue's Italian website.

Source: Vogue Italy

PMA 2010: “Through the lens of an iPhone” by Sion Fullana

For those of you who were unable to attend PMA, here is Sion Fullana's Keynote presentation “Through the lens of an iPhone”.

Unfortunately there is no music or voiceover, but never the less it is well worth watching, so enjoy.

PMA Day 3: The presentations continue

Following on from day 2 of the PMA event (which was actually day 1 of the official trade show), the Best Camera app demonstration attracted a nice crowd (this was possibly due to the misleading wording for the presentation, as I heard a number of people say "look Chase Jarvis is going to be here").  Anyway the presentation started, I showed a short video of Chase promoting his app (Chase and his people gave me permission to do this), and then made a short joke about Chase not being here and that they had drawn the short straw and it was me doing the demo.  Thankfully, and despite the technical issues we were have with WiFi connectivity at the event, the demo went without any hickups.

Next up it was the turn of TiltShift Generator, and then it was lunch time.

After lunch it was Sion's turn to give his second presentation about his iPhoneography, and this was to an almost full house.

Above: Sion presenting to an almost full house at the 'PMA Photo App Pavilion'Following on from Sion, it was the turn of John Martin from Reallusion Inc., who was the first of our guest speakers for the day.  John enthusiastically demonstrated his 2 apps, Photo Makeover and 10x Camera Tools (PRO)

Above: John Martin from Reallusion Inc. demonstrating Photo Makeover and 10x Camera Tools (PRO

John has very kindly given me 3x promo codes for each of his 2 apps to give away here on the iPhoneography blog, so if you would like the chance of getting one, then post your request  specifying which app you would prefer, or any, if you have no preference in the comments section.  Note: As with all promo codes you will need a US iTunes account to redeem them.

After John had completed his presentation it was time for me to take the hot seat again, giving an overview and comparing Adobe's PS Mobile app with Photogene.

For our final session of the day, we had Hal Denton and Ross Pirtle from Tunaverse Media Inc., who talked about their photo syncing app Cinq.

Above: Hal Denton from Tunaverse Media Inc. kicking off their demonstration of CinqAbove: Ross Pirtle from Tunaverse Media Inc. doing a live demo of their Cinq appWell that was day 3 out of the way, and thankfully I had only had the one presentation that afternoon, as my voice was fading fast.

PMA 2010: Two Bloggers and an iPhoneographer

PMA has been great so far, but one of the highlights for me has been the opportunity to meet fellow blogger Marty Yawnick from Life in LoFi, and to meet and work with iPhoneographer Sion Fullana, and below is a photo of the three of us.

Above from left to right: Marty, me and Sion. Photo taken by Anton Kawasaki

My photo, by Sion Fullana

The final image is called "We Are Nothing but Ghosts Walking on a Street".

I was in Chelsea, in New York City, on my way to a meeting at my new favorite cafe. When I saw the cross walk and how cool it look with the people walking through, lost in their thoughts, the idea for this photo came to my mind and thought about trying it out. In order to get it, I first shot a few different takes on the iPhone 3Gs built-up camera. And then opened them on the Autostitch app to melt them together in sort of a triple exposure. Then I opened the PS Mobile app and cropped the image square to get rid of the "curved edges" that Autostitch had created, I converted the image to black and white and added the thin white frame. Finally, on CameraBag app I processed the photo to the 1962 style to get it more depth and contrast. And used Mobile Fotos to upload it to my flickr account. And that's all!

Above: The 3 photos used to create "We Are Nothing but Ghosts Walking on a Street".Above Left: The results of the 3 photos loaded in to AutoStitch. Above Right: The photo after being cropped in PS Mobile.If you would like to share your "how to" photo, then send me an email, and I will email back details on how to submit your photo to the blog.

Update on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 2:27AM by Glyn Evans

HOW THIS EFFECT WAS DONE:

There have been a few questions posted here asking how Sion created this effect, so for those who are unsure here we go.

• Step 1. Take a number of photos with the iPhone camera app, ensuring that the subject moves and NOT the camera, so either mount it on a Joby Gorillamobile tripod or hold it steady.
• Step 2. Having taken the photos now open up AutoStitch and select each photo.
• Step 3. Now AutoStitch will import and line up all the key landmarks, but because you have not moved the cameras position all the landmarks will be in the same place, so the app gets confused and and overlays them all.
• Step 4. Now that you have your overlaid image, simply crop and save, and that's it your done.

I hope the above steps clears up any confusion around the way this image was created.