Barcelona Street Photography ~ Hipstamatic ~ Snapseed ~ Diptic ~ Phonto

Street Tango

Barcelona is a fabulous city filled with opportunity for street photography!
I chose to capture nearly 95% of my street images with Hipstamatic, using the Film Rasputin and Lens Sergio. I love shooting with the Hipstamatic large screen feature engaged so all I have to do is tap the screen to release the shutter. I also like to turn the sound off so as not to attract attention.
There are several places on the web I like to check out for Hipstamatic info and get combination ideas: one is a blog called Hipstography and the other is the Hipstamatic official blog.

The image above was further processed in Snapseed to make the monochrome conversion. When street shooting it is a good idea to make a series of images all processed with consistency.
When shooting, use the same film lens combo and when processing, make note of the adjustments so they can be applied consistently to create a series of images as in the collage below.

This collage was made using DipTic and Phonto for the script. When using DipTic to make a collage with square images, modify the Aspect adjustment feature to 4:4 and choose a border that works well with the image colors and modify the border size to compliment the collage.

I also made a small book on Blurb using all monochrome images...the link can be found below.
I used Lightroom as the interface with Blurb and it worked well.

 
 
   

      Barcelona in Black and White by Karen L Messick

Diptic Revisited: ClassicPan

Well its been a while since I was posting with any frequency but I am back home from three weeks on the road and sorting and processing images. While in the Palouse, I had an opportunity to shoot some old trucks. I chose to shoot pieces of the trucks as they were interesting to me. I used ClassicPan, to capture the format I eventually wanted to use in piecing these together in Diptic. The amazing colors, textures and handiwork on the old farm trucks were what attracted me. A single shot cold not demonstrate  fully the variety of interest so I felt that a Diptic arrangement would work to show the beauty in the old trucks and paint.

 The shots of the Palouse landscape below were all made while riding in the back of a vehicle out the window at 50 mph with ClassicPan. All the images were adjusted for saturation, levels and sharpness in Iris.They were framed in an app called Crop'n'Frame. Will be posting more from the trip, as I get them processed and time allows.

On to Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch with the iPhone

Sunday May 8th I made my usual walk around Santa Fe making images with the iPhone, so easy to carry around in the pocket. The image above was put together in the app Diptic, after processing each image individually. New Mexico is such a wonderful blend of Spanish influence and American Indian influence, both wonderful art styles combining tiles and shapes and design.

Old Library in Santa Fe..assembled separate images in Diptic app

On the way to Abiquiu I spotted a collection of old trucks behind a chain link fence in La Puebla. I pulled off the highway and tried to make some compositions through the fence with the iPhone. I don't think I could have come away with a shot using the big camera. This image was processed with the app Dynamic light. I used the Orton option and the Dynamic Light option at various strengths and then blended the two images in Iris to get the desired effect.

After shooting the trucks I headed on to Abiquiu on the Old Taos Highway. I stopped first in the community library and asked about making some images with my iPhone as I wanted to respect the community. I was told it would be OK. I also met and conversed with a couple who were doing genealogical research using the church records held in the library files. After enjoying some conversation I walked past the O'Keeffe property and on up the dirt road to the Morada del Alto.  I also made an image of a large handmade pot outside the local school.

After Leaving Abiquiu I drove into the Ghost Ranch now a retreat center of The Presbyterian Church, and made some images in the Ghost House, which is always open. It is the original home of Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico where she lived while she was trying to purchase her final home in Abiquiu.
It was a great day in New Mexico!

Hipsatmatic: iDroste: Percolator

All right, today's post is reminiscent of Pop Art. I made this shot using some water bottles at Starbucks while I was waiting for my Latte. It was made with the Hipstamatic App set to: Bettie XL Lens: Alfred Infrared Film: and Dreampop Flash. This is the straight shot out of the iPhone. I didn't know what I was going to do with it when I shot it but I liked the symmetry of the displayed bottles and the light coming through them.
Having enjoyed the effects of a border on an image in the app iDroste I thought I would run this image through that app and see what I could come up with. So I came up with a few fun patterns like these:

 

While I liked the pattern but I did not like that the water bottle was still recognizable, so I put the image through the Percolator app, because I thought the style of Percolator fit the image potential. 

This is the original image run through Percolator. Now that I had what I wanted, I decided to try iDroste again to see what I could come up with..

And I landed here! Whimsical. 

I used the app Diptic to put some samples in a frame like this to show some of the many variations: