Hipstamatic

Hipstamatic is a camera app shared with me by Kent Butler and Alex Wen.The app turns your iPhone into an old school hip film camera. You can setthe flash (which only

works on the iPhone 4) and from inside the app you can select different lenses and types of film giving you more control over how your prints look. Perfect for getting those shots to look like you dug them out of an old dusty box from your grandma's attic.

Another cool feature of the app is the fact that you can buy different lenses and different film to get a bunch of different effects. Some lenses are more high quality in

order to print them at a fantastic quality.

Samples:

Lens: John S

Film: Blanko

Flash: Dreampop

Lens: John S

Film: Kodot Verichrome

Flash: Off

Lens: John S

Film: Blanko

Flash: Off

Lens: Jimmy

Film: Ina's 1969

Flash: off

Lens: John S
Film: Blanko
Flash: Off

All Pictures ©Staphon Arnold

Project Chase

Apple, a well-known company, a few years ago released a device

called an iPhone. On this iPhone came many different abilities such

as texting and phone calls (as any phone can do) but also

thousands of apps from games to high-end organizational

programs. One feature of the phone, which only a few phones had

had before, was the built in camera, and the iPhone had the ability

to take this item one step further. Now there are now 180 iPhone

apps devoted to the camera and the numbers are rising as the

camera gets better and better.

Most people agree that in order to have a great picture, you need a

great camera. According to Chase Jarvis, world-renowned

photographer and writer of the book The Best Camera Is The

One That’s With You™, that statement is not true. The book

and website explain that “the idea that an image can come from

any camera, even a mobile phone. “

With that established, for my project, I am going to place my Nikkon

D5000 DSLR on the shelf and produce a line of pictures taken

solely from my iPhone 3GS. I will do a write up once a week of

each new app I find (I currently have an entire page of my phone

devoted to camera apps, including Best Cam, the iPhone camera

app created by Chase Jarvis) and display them using an online

source. This project will prove that you don’t need a fancy camera

to take great picture, but can create greatness with the devices

always around you.