iPhone Photography Video Workflow By Paul Brown

Originally a very static Hipstamatic capture, ‘tennis’ was processed to introduce movement and a vintage black and white iPhoneography look.

This tutorial includes a real-time narrated video workflow and slows the pace right down to look at just a small handful of iPhoneography apps that I use on a day to day basis to create some of the styles I generate. I frequently get told that my images are recognised as mine but I tend to process iPhoneography images in an individual way. The image tells me how it needs / wants to be processed and with the exception of my textured floral work, whilst the results may be recognised as mine, the processes are often very different.

Key iPhoneography apps / processes (with links): AfterFocus • Hipstamatic • Mextures • Snapseed

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Hipstamatic ~ initial capture:
This combo is Madalena lens with Robusta film

Snapseed ~ apply the following edits / processes

• Straighten – to level the horizon,
• Crop – with a 1:1 ratio selected to compose the image with the rule of thirds in mind,
• Drama – standard filter to pull out the detail,
• Black and White conversion – standard settings

AfterFocus ~ the iPhoneography image is imported in to AfterFocus with no manual masking I proceed straight to the second screen where a motion blur at full strength is applied across the whole of the image. I then use the Fading background tool to automatically reintroduce detail in a gradual way.

Mextures ~ Predefined ‘Teen Spirit’ combination of textures applied.

Snapseed ~ converted back to black and white with reduced brightness, boosted contrast and boosted grain. This is my watered down version of the predefined ‘film’ black and white conversion filter.

With many thanks to Paul for granting permission for this article to be republished here.