More iPhoneography

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This image was taken with my iPhone early this morning. I adjusted it in-camera using three different apps: Red Camera, Photoshop for iPhone, and Impressions. I recently started experimenting with a lot of different types of programs to manipulate images. It's a lot of fun and produces interesting results. There's a lot of opinions on this type of manipulation. Art is art and in the eye of the beholder.

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More Industrial HDR with Explanation

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So I probably should have explained HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography in my last post, but I forgot. Simply put, it's combining multiple images so that the final image has all of the details in the bright and dark areas. Thereby, increasing the dynamic range of the image. Additionally, you can also add some interesting effects. The great thing is that it's very experimental. You never know what you're going to get until you process the final images together. [caption id="attachment_80" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Nuclear Station Containment Building"][/caption]

2011 Bicycle Film Festival Miami, "La Noche" Crit Races

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[caption id="attachment_60" align="alignleft" width="720" caption="2011, BFF, bicycle, Bicycle Film Festival, Cycling, Cycllist, Fixed Gear, March, Miami > South Florida, Nighttime, www.carlosfernandezphotography.com, Wynwood"]Racers[/caption] Last night I went to the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, which is basically factories, and galleries in the area between Downtown Miami and Little Haiti. I found it totally redeveloped, but I kinda already knew that. The 2011 Bicycle Film Festival, Miami is being held this weekend, and it's a series of Documentaries, Short Films and After Parties promoting all types of cycling. The first night opened with two street races. Kind of underground, but not really because the Police knew it was happening and kindly looked the other way since it was in a "not at all" traveled area of Miami. The first race was with geared bikes, and by the way this was all at night with bike lights. The second race was Fixed Gear bikes with no brakes. So here's how it works: the pedals chain and rear wheel are setup as a track bike or a messenger bike is setup. If the bike is moving, the pedals have to move. Think of a tricycle. So to slow down you have to slow your pedaling sometimes so much that the rear wheel begins to skip along if you stop pedaling. Lots of skill involved here and not for the faint of heart. One poor guy, new to this, could not make the first turn and slammed right into a building at 20 plus mph. He was on the ground until paramedics showed. They checked him out and he waved them off. Oh to be young and foolish again...

 

Experimenting with iphone Apps

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I started checking out some of the fun apps for taking and manipulating images on the iPhone. There are tons of them and most do something fun or interesting with any image. Just about all of them allow you to save your image directly to the device. The great part about this was that I was able to save this rather ordinary image and manipulate it in several Apps. Yeah, it looks pixelated, but sometimes the fun is not knowing what you're going to get. The best thing was that I didn't have spend virtually any time learning the programs. I just loaded my image and started going wild with it. You can get a lot of information at www.iphoneography.com. Have fun!

Nightcar on MacArthur

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You can get some unpredictable and interesting effects with a camera resting on the dashboard. I cropped out the windshield wipers. I think next time I'll use a slower shutter speed to try and blur everything but the main subject. [caption id="attachment_31" align="alignleft" width="360" caption="2011, car, January, Miami > South Florida, Nighttime, Road, www.carlosfernandezphotography.com"][/caption]

 

Iphoneography

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Decided to try my hand at manipulating a simple image taken with my iPhone. All manipulations were done with Adobe Photoshop Express for the iPhone. There is an exhibit by Jaime Ferreyros coming up at MAGQ Gallery. He works almost exclusively with the iPhone. I see this as another tool to express creativity. As I always say, "the best camera is the one you have with you."