Sunday 27 September, 2009

Three sixty five! Three sixty fiiiive!!!


About a week ago Dorien was talking to me about her blog. We were talking about 365-days projects. Personally, I’d love to do one myself but shooting a decent picture every day? Not gonna happen. I can’t find the discipline to take a shot using my DSLR every day. Not to mention the time invested in preparing the shot, getting it right, getting to your computer and uploading the shot… That’s (at least) a one hour job every day! During one year…

So I was thinking about a way of getting the shot wherever I want, whenever I feel like it, and upload it right away… I figured using my iPhone and some photography apps might do the trick. About an hour later I uploaded my first shot. I really like the fact that it is instantaneous. I shoot, I process, I upload it to Flickr. *magic happens* WordPress gets the latest picture from my set on Flickr and displays it in the sidebar. Done.
It only takes a few minutes a day and I’m pretty sure that next year in September I’ll have a cool collection of pictures (which I’m planning to use in my next big project ;-) )

You can see the latest picture in the sidebar. And because I like the process so much, let me share how the workflow is like on the right. (From left to right: I take a shot, I edit it a bit and then I polarize it (and add the tag of the day)).
If you like it, check out my Flickr set which is updated daily (duh)!

IMG_0331 IMG_0332 IMG_0333
IMG_0337 IMG_0339 IMG_0340

IMG_0344 IMG_0345 IMG_0346

IMG_0347 IMG_0348 IMG_0349

If you’re interested in what iPhone apps I’m using:

  • Default camera app
  • Vint Green (take a shot and immediatly have it developed into a vintage green version)
  • TiltShiftGen (take a shot/open an existing picture and edit colors, vignette, blur (circle/tiltshift) (I love this one)
  • Polarize (convert the image to a polaroid: frame and color correction)
  • QuadCamera (get 4 shots one after each other into a single picture)
  • CameraBag (take a shot/open an existing picture and add one of 9 effects)

If you got any cool suggestions or ideas: just let me know :-)


2 Comments

  • ynk says:

    Hey !

    I love this idea :)
    How do you do to add numbers on your picture ? which app does the trick ?

    Thanks a lot

  • Ronny says:

    Thank you!

    The app I’m using to add the polaroid look, make the picture a bit more vintage and add the number is called ‘Polarize’. It’s a free app, on the App store! I think you’ll like it :)

    Enjoy!


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