Just wanted to come back around and thank you again for the Vignette recommendation. After playing with the demo version for a day or two, I bought the full version. It's amazing, particularly for the price, and opens up all kinds of visual thinking.
The trick will be learning how to use it--there's a lot there! Can you say anything about how you use it?
I have a really bad habit of leaving it set to polaroid frame, random vintage effect, because having random/random means I don't know how it's going to frame, which bugs my inner control freak ;p That or go out with the intention of taking a 1001 vignette photos of basically whatever ;p
It's my go-to for low light and fast movement, because the faux-vintage effect seems to me to make a feature of the level of noise/blur I'm going to get anyway (I have some great shots of my 2y/o nephew eating ice-cream that look like something from the 70s which made his parents happy, for example)
Oh - and in regular life, I leave it on 'fast shoot' mode, so I can take a ton of photos with randomised effects, and then check back later for how they turned out, when my phone's churned through the processing. My Wildfire is a little slow, especially on the higher-res photos.
What a lovely collection! I like your approach, using the random vintage effect with a set form of framing.
My one wish for the app would be for it to write its settings somehow into the picture's metadata. That would make it much, much easier for me to learn to use it (you know, look at a set of pictures afterwards and say, "Hey! That's a nice effect! What was it?" Similarly, looking at your pictures, for instance, on Flickr, it would be helpful to see what effect you used to produce them.)
As it is, so far I've discovered that the Ilford black and white and the Platinotype settings are very much to my taste for a lot of kinds of pictures. The rest, I'm still trying to get a feel for.
So much fun for so little money. Amazing, isn't it?
you're right - that kind of metadata would be so nifty! I haven't really mastered how to use a lot of the effect *intentionally* as opposed to setting up for pleasant serendipity - I think it may actually be my favourite Android app - so much fun to be had :D
(you've inspired me to start messing about with the lens modes today, including tiltshift :D )
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:48 pm (UTC)The trick will be learning how to use it--there's a lot there! Can you say anything about how you use it?
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Date: 2011-02-23 09:49 pm (UTC)I have a really bad habit of leaving it set to polaroid frame, random vintage effect, because having random/random means I don't know how it's going to frame, which bugs my inner control freak ;p That or go out with the intention of taking a 1001 vignette photos of basically whatever ;p
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/89596055@N00/sets/72157624441537093/)
It's my go-to for low light and fast movement, because the faux-vintage effect seems to me to make a feature of the level of noise/blur I'm going to get anyway (I have some great shots of my 2y/o nephew eating ice-cream that look like something from the 70s which made his parents happy, for example)
Oh - and in regular life, I leave it on 'fast shoot' mode, so I can take a ton of photos with randomised effects, and then check back later for how they turned out, when my phone's churned through the processing. My Wildfire is a little slow, especially on the higher-res photos.
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Date: 2011-02-23 10:19 pm (UTC)My one wish for the app would be for it to write its settings somehow into the picture's metadata. That would make it much, much easier for me to learn to use it (you know, look at a set of pictures afterwards and say, "Hey! That's a nice effect! What was it?" Similarly, looking at your pictures, for instance, on Flickr, it would be helpful to see what effect you used to produce them.)
As it is, so far I've discovered that the Ilford black and white and the Platinotype settings are very much to my taste for a lot of kinds of pictures. The rest, I'm still trying to get a feel for.
So much fun for so little money. Amazing, isn't it?
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Date: 2011-02-23 10:32 pm (UTC)(you've inspired me to start messing about with the lens modes today, including tiltshift :D )