Mobile Photography – Tip Of The Day – Number 31
Welcome to another brand new section from your favourite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our 31st Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site.
Every day we will publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers and artists in the world.
We’ll also have a widget in our right hand column, displaying the Tip of The Day every day, just click on that and you will be taken to our tip of the Day archive.
We are delighted to publish our 31st Tip Of the Day today, this time by Jennifer Sharpe. Jennifer is a key contributor to our Flickr groups and specifically our Streets Ahead Flickr Group and we have featured her work many times. We have also published a previous Top Five Photo Apps article with Jennifer too, if you missed that – please go here. We are sure you’ll be delighted to read this wonderful tip today, over to you Jennifer …(foreword by Joanne Carter).
Playing With Distortion While Shooting – Making Non-Macro Photos With a Macro Lens
“There are obviously many ways you can distort photos in post-processing. However, one of my favorite things is achieve this distortion while shooting, so I don’t have to do anything more to what results.
One of the ways I’ve been playing with distortion is to use my Olloclip macro lens to shoot things far away instead of close-up, which is the original purpose for which a macro lens was designed. I’ve been experimenting now and then with night shots, but for this piece, I shot during the day to see what that looks like too. My process so far is to pick an app with great filters which you can shoot through right off the bat, with the Olloclip macro attached. What you get is a photo that you don’t need to edit at all (unless you want to). Happy experimenting!”
Here are some results, night and day:
Olloclip macro lens + Hipstamatic Classic (night) – tv screen – Image © Jennifer Sharpe
Olloclip macro lens + Hipstamatic Classic (night) – candles – Image © Jennifer Sharpe
Olloclip macro lens with Oggl (day) – corner of the room w/objects in front of the windows – Image © Jennifer Sharpe
Olloclip macro lens with KitCam (day) – my daughter on a red rug and in front of a few windows – Image © Jennifer Sharpe
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
2 Comments
Geri
Jennifer – what a grand idea! I like this a lot!
Jennifer Sharpe
Geri I am so glad that you liked this! Will try to think of some other fun things to do and share!