My second try for the Xanthe Berkeley class using iMovie. This time for the stop-frame animation I used my iPhone on a tripod and Timer app to take the pictures of the succulent. More successful there, I think. 95% of the photos in the movie are taken with my iPhone but a few are from my files back in the day when I would use my Canon. This one doesn’t have much of a story thread, so I will have to work on that aspect next time.
When I was staying in my parent’s home the weeks before I was getting married in 1974, my dad made a great deal of the fact that a few nights before the ceremony he could see two racoons frolicking in the yard across the street. He called me out to the front yard to spy on them and then announced that their appearance obviously was an indication of the great luck and fortune that would be visited upon my marriage union. Ever since I have thought of small animals that make their appearance in my life as bearers of good fortune and luck. My latest talisman is a small frog that has appeared in my non-functioning water feature in my back garden. He even knows enough to pose for a close-up and to place himself against the intriguing background of the rim of the pot that mimics the texture of of his hide. I am so lucky and have such good fortune!
Processing with Snapseed app taken with an iPhone 4.
The garden still grows even though this has been a strange weather year…not much sun or heat so the California fuchsia (Epilobium canum) is late and not so abundent…but at least the bright red is working some magic, at last…the little spot of color is the last hurrah before the dormancy of winter… a plant that can lighten your mood…and very adept at attracting hummingbirds (who just love, love, love it)…from this morning’s reconnoiter of the garden pathway…
Taken with the iPhone 4 native camera but cropped, vignetted, and framed with Snapsneed on the iPad.
Inspired by my visit to a new city, new photos from the visit, and even a new app for my iPhone, today I have been playing…in between painting new doors and windows…almost done now, only the bathroom left for the worker guys to do.
The app is called CollagePro. It has a lot of nice things about it, however, it kept crashing before I could save what I was doing and I got very frustrated with it. Then I realized, if I saved after every move I made instead of only at the end, maybe it would not get so temperamental about the whole thing and treat me nicer. So, I started doing frequent saving and combining parts I got out of CollagePro with other apps and I became more successful…a combination of CollagePro, PicGrunger, Blender, and Snapseed gave me these…
The center image is a texture shot of a large, bronze elephant statue in a Portland park.
Have I mentioned how much I like bridges? Here, the best is last…
Took a break and noticed that the Snowberry (Symphoricarpos mollis) is starting to bloom…
Taken with an iPhone 4 and processed with Snapseed app on an iPad. Good news…Snapseed is now available for the iPnone.
A college made with my iPhone that contains a background image that includes an old advertising sign from Effinger Brewery in Baraboo, Wisconsin (Terry’s family’s brewery that became an ice cream factory during Prohibition.) Processed with Juxtaposer, Blender, and PicGrunger apps. Maybe others, can’t remember…
For the first day of the August Summer Break, a collage using the iPhone apps: Blender, Impression, Juxtaposer and for the iPad: Snapseed. To find information about the August Break go here.
I am an IG’er. There I said it. Addicted to posting pictures on the Instagram site. I am definitely not a Twitterer, takes too many words. But Instagram is visually just up my alley. Some people have thousands of followers, me, not so much. I do however enjoy telling people that I like their images with a ♥. Also, I follow Jamie Oliver, the chef. He is in Tuscany right now and I learned about Amoro from him tonight. The other interesting thing is that I have learned about photography from joining groups on the sight. I am not really one that would join in a flash mob in Union Square, but one poster proposed as many people as possible post to #ortonoffensive at a particular time and day in an attempt to have the entire popular page of the site made up of orton shots for that time. Pretty interesting if you think about it. I did not, however, have any idea what an orton shot was. I had an app that had an Orton filter which led me to Wickipedia. Photographer Michael Orton invented the Orton slide sandwich where two shots of the same image, one focused, one out of focus, are layered for high and low detail in the same image. You can also create this ethereal effect using Photoshop Elements. Here is a tutorial.
Yesterday, my post was Orton shots of my garden. I couldn’t get things to stop moving and be focused anyway because of the breeze so I tried to exploit it. I did forget one of my pictures in the post so here it comes today with this explanation.
The original foggy, blurry shot of a Spice Bush flower:
Run through the Dynamic Light app for the Orton Filter:
With an added frame from Snapseed app:
I think the image was saved from itself and will make a nice entry in a visual journal. Plus I learned something new.
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We left home at 9:02 this morning (pretty good for us—our goal was 9:00) to head toward Ashland, Oregon to the North. I do not think that in my whole life I have taken the inland passage to Oregon up Highway 5. My memory is of always going up 101 through Crescent City (always famous for the effects the earthquake tsunamis had on it.) So the scenery was new and by the time we arrived at Shasta Lake I kept muttering, “wow…”
The ClassicPan app caught it from a rest stop.
The only uncomfortable thing about the drive was that it was Friday and there were lots of transport trucks on the road.
Hipstamatic app caught the traffic but we kept ahead of the rain blowing into the San Francisco region and saw some snow topped mountains.
I think this was the native camera with no apps from the front seat of the car.
We stopped for afternoon coffee in Dunsmuir, an historic town with a great theater (no longer open). Native camera with Iris Photo Suite cropping and vignetting.
Although I didn’t drink the water I think this refers to the quality of the fishing since they also had this painted wall and a fly shop.
Iris Photo Suite again.
We walked all around Ashland before dinner and found another movie theater.
It was a Friday evening art walk in a very vibrant downtown.
Sculpture:
and copper people:
If you have ever been in my house you would understand how excited I was to see copper people. I’ve put copper on counters, walls, lightfixtures—anywhere I can crinkle it and patina it.
To top it off, there were many historic buildings that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
An Episcopal Church.
A library.
And best of all, the Peerless Hotel and Restaurant.
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