More beach photos and...

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Here's a rag tag collection of some recent creations. I've not done much lately because I'm not very well and my muse goes quiet when she sees me hurting...
A couple of images from the beach photos I took on my birthday - a mixture of painted effects in Paint Mee and Artista Haiku and I *think* Pixlromatic.
The stationary shot is just Camera+
The sketch for a logo for the Fibro site I wrangle ( www.FibroBites.com ) was drawn with a bamboo stylus and Inkpad on my iPad.
...the birthday message to a cousin was made using a hoopy printing app on the iPad called...erm, damn I'll have to come back and add the name when I've checked.

Bats and bins... #iPhoneArt

One of the images included in this weeks collection of creations, I found when going through my photos, (yes, the 4S has arrived so the change over is occurring.) and was about to delete it. See if you can guess which one and if you agree.

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Anyone curious about what apps where used to create a particular image, just leave a question in the comments and I'll answer.

I'm still playing with two lots of images at the moment. Some of the Fluid Motion screen shots from the iPhone cover design I posted last week and the photographs that I took when down at the Albert Dock. Two of the Dock images are included in the above; a close up shot of a dressed up shopper and another from the lobby of the Tate gallery.

Here's the sequence that I went through to achieve the Fluid Motion image that's first in the gallery;

So the apps were, going from left to right, top to bottom -

Fluid Motion, Segmentix, Percolator, then I combined 2 and 3 with HDR Fix to create 4. Lego photo is 5 and the final image is 4 and 5 blended with HDR Fix.

Oh...and Happy Halloween!

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(Number 2 is a .gif )

* For some odd reason some of the thumbnails are blank...? I've tried deleting and re-uploading but it makes no difference.

 

Leaving 4 #iphoneography

What's up with posterous stats btw? My views have dropped from almost four figures to two...are y'all trying to tell me something??

Waiting #iphoneography #Liverpool

I confess I've not used Iris very much, but a nice video tutorial on the new iPhoneography Central site encouraged me to try it again.
I can see it's place in my most used apps but confess that it'll be in a trio rather than my first go to app. Be interesting to try it with iPhone art rather than photography...
And yes, this is another waiting for the cab photo...I can feel my legs aching just looking at this ;)

The City #iphoneography #Liverpool

Another iPhone photograph from that grey Monday in Liverpool. Taken in front of John Lewis by the bus station whilst waiting for a cab...need to get me a rollator. Tsk.

The City #iphoneography #Liverpool

Another iPhone photograph from that grey Monday in Liverpool. Taken in front of John Lewis by the bus station whilst waiting for a cab...need to get me a rollator. Tsk.

Grey Monday Pt 2

Grey Monday #iphoneography

#merseytunnel #iPhoneography

This Grade II listed building is one of the ventilation shafts for the Mersey tunnel, it also houses the control room.

The tunnel entrances, toll booths and ventilation building exteriors were designed by architect Herbert James Rowse.

The first tunnel opened in 1934 and for 24 years it was the longest underwater tunnel in the world.
In 1971 the Kingsway Tunnel opened to relieve traffic congestion.
The tunnel is circular, even though when driving through it appears semi-circular and the area below the roadway is known as Central Avenue, this was planned to house an electric tram route, then to house a gas pipe, these plans were later abandoned.
In April 2004 construction began of seven emergency refuges below the road deck, as part of a project to bring the tunnel into line with European safety standards.
In September 2009 scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were filmed in the tunnel.

Some interesting photos of the inside of the building above can be found here

gif soup

playing with online tools again...

GIFSoup

night in the city - version 2 #Liverpool #iPhoneography

My first attempt to create a slideshow used the convoluted method of making a power point presentation then converting it to an .avi file. I posted it in the spirit of illustrating my working methods...even though I wasn't happy with it.

Then it suddenly occured to me to investigate the Windows Live tools and I've used the movie maker tool to create this,

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I'm happier with it than the first attempt, but realise that I have a lot to learn.