Apple have announced a major upgrade to the RAW photography application Aerture. Aperture 3 features over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organise large photo libraries. Aperture 3 introduces new tools to refine your photos … [Read more...]
Camera+ iPhoneography
As many of you know I love photography and run my own little personal photoblog over at (www.flixelpix.com). Although I can’t ever envisage the day phone cameras will replace the SLR they are getting considerably better for quick, creative photography. Firstly there is Hipstamatic and Swankolab for capturing and processing classic style photos on your iPhone, then if you … [Read more...]
Review : SwankoLab for iPhone
Following our review of the brilliant Hispstamatic app for iPhone (read the review here) we have decided to take our nostalgic photo processing one step further with SwankoLab. SwankoLab is a traditional darkroom but transformed into a complete digital process with everything you need to turn any image into a retro misprinted masterpiece. SwankoLab follows all the … [Read more...]
Ultimate Noise Control with Noise Ninja
I have been struggling with noise on a number of photos I have taken in extreme light situations. From low light landscapes through to live music performances many of my best captures have been blighted with grain and noise. In an attempt to make the best of a bad bunch I generally spend a bit of time working with the images in Lightroom and Photoshop in an attempt to patch one … [Read more...]
Photo Fun : Hipstamatic for iPhone
Sometimes it just isn't practical to take your digital SLR camera everywhere you go but that doesn't mean the photography fun has to stop especially that is if you own an iPhone. Over the last few weeks I have been playing with the brilliant Hipstamatic for iPhone app. Hipstamatic transforms the digital camera on your phone to a fully fledged analogue art box. You can … [Read more...]