Iphone photography and Instagram

Image jisabel

I´m so behind...my instant Monday series....is this week instant Wedensday...lol..anyway I´m here now, with great info about new apps I LOVE - don´t miss out on these, they are my faves so fare! But first I wanna introduce you to an artist I found via instagram.

jisabel

Find her on instagram and enjoy her creative and beautiful pictures.

The Iphone apps I wanna introduce to you today are great! The first one is CameraSharp which allows you to finally take better photos with your Iphone camera - the quality really becomes better with this app! Your images gets sharper, brighter and you can zoom too. I love it!

The next new app is also fantastic, it´s Phototoaster - I must say that until now it´s my number one favorite Iphone post processing tool.

The PhotoToaster combines all the essential ingredients for photo processing in a single product. It employs fast non-destructive image adjustments and provides three different ways to adjust them. The Toaster can do everything from simple lighting adjustments and color corrections to elaborate multi-layer composite effects. I adore the sliders function - it make it so easy to control the settings!

Technical Specifications:

- sixteen adjustments
- dozens of global and category presets
- numerous border options
- non-destructive editing
- live slider updating
 - save to album, email, sms, facebook and tumblr

That´s all for today - let´s meet on instagram and share som great pics :-) You can find me by looking for @Christinagreve - see you there!

Iphone Image by Christina Greve

Instant Monday (instagram and Iphoneography)

So what´s new on instagram? In last weeks instagram post someone asked me; "how do I see a collection of my own photos on the instagram Iphone edtion"? And I said; you can´t.... but Instagram just made it possible...yay, so to get this function you need to update your instagram app. When istagram is updated you go to Instagram - profile - your photos! And there you see all your photos - a nice feature if you wanna show friends and family what you have been up to.

I´m so in love with instagram and I enjoy following some great photographers, here is a small selection of some of my favorite pictures uploaded during last week....

Photo by k_tina

Photo by jisabel

Photo by gudinni

Photo by Sarka Babicka

Photo by charmaine olivia

Photo by nyaa335

Photo by Alexander Abramov

They are amazing right! I also wanna give you some Iphone photography tips today as well. The first one is an image editing tool  called PhotoForge, and it is as close to Photoshop as you can get on a mobile phone. With image editing tools never before seen on a phone, it's a must-have for anyone interested in making creative photos on the go.

When you first open the app, you'll be surprised at the wide array of tools thrown your way. Like a desktop-based image manipulation software, you get a photo bucket (for quickly filling areas of the canvas with color), a color picker, a smudge tool, a cropping tool and eight different brushes. Really amazing! Look for this app:

The second tip I got for you today is the app Picframe

PicFrame allows you to join multiple photos into a single frame. Select a frame layout and then pan, zoom, mirror or rotate your images to the perfect position. Using a slider you can adjust the frame in real time, allowing certain images to have a larger space. The size of the border can be scaled and also a color or pattern applied to it. I love this app!



Here is a four of my photos put together with picframe:

And here are some more of my own pictures from last week.....

This one I shoot while driving...sorry..it was very stupid...but I just had to have this picture...

This one is from a cafe down town Aarhus Denmark - I love their burgers and retro interior :-)

Here is a picture of my breakfast...

And a snapshot from my house...Simba walking into the picture :-)

And this one is from a studio in Copenhagen.

That´s all for today darlings - hope you feel inspired to join instagram and have some fun with Iphoneography...see you there, just look for @christinagreve!

xoxo, Christina

New series: Instant Monday (instagram and iphone photography)

One apple a day.....

Mr. DJ and I had 19 years anniversary...

If you are sitting there thinking that it´s Tuesday and not Monday...yes, you are so right! It´s just that I was so busy yesterday that my instant Monday series now is instant Tuesday...at least this week...smile :-)

Risskov Neighbourhood

Studio stuff

Better late than never right, yay! This is my new series which is all about my new addiction INSTAGRAM and Iphone photography. Instagram is an app you can download, it snaps pictures which you then can add filters to so it looks retro/vintage. Istagram come with an online personal stream,  it´s kind of the same as flickr - you upload your snapshot directly to your stream and then your followers can se it instantly. Hey you can even upload directly to flickr, facebook, twitter and tumblr.

Grandma´s homemade cake

Wonderful day at the beach

Instagram lets you be playful and creative without NO pressure of creating the perfect flawless picture. This is simply a fun way to have a good time and share all the things in your life that makes you smile.
Personally I use instagram as a way to keep a diary - I never shoot everyday snapshots witn my canon, I simply forget, but I always have my iphone with me and in 1, 2, 3, I can snap whatever I like. You can read more about instagram in last weeks post right here.

My baby boy Marco

Me - just finished a job in the studio

In my last post about instagram I presented pictures from different users of instagram, pictures I had fallen in love with during the week. Unfortunally it turned out that two of the people who I folllowed and featured had stolen the photos they claimed to be theirs. So I no longer follow them and have taken these pictures away from my last post. I´m so sorry that there are people out there who claim other peoples work to be theirs....get a life!

Two is better than one...

My dog Simba resting in the afternoon sun

Okay, that being said...let´s move on as I have some great tips for you today, to make much better Iphone pictures..whoohoo..

This week I have tried and tested different apps and tricks. I really like the photoshop app version which is free, with this you can controle exposure, brightness, hue, saturation and you can crop and sharpen. All with a simple touch off your finger. Look for this app:

On the picture below I used the photoshop app to brighten and sharpen.

Favorite flowers in the dinning room

Another  fave is the tilt-shift-focus app, which I use to create some fun and cool effects. I used this in the picture below. Look for this app:

Favorite gallery shot from a balcony at Hotel Royal (used tilt/shift)

I will also recommend the app called 100 cameras which now works very well with your instagram account. This gives you many great ways to create fun amazing photos. Look for this app:

When you use 100 cameras you can save your images to your camera roll and then go to your instagram app to upload it directly to your stream.

Roof top view over my city Aarhus

That´s all ladies...now go and play with your phone camera and have fun...if you wanna find me on instagram just look for @christinagreve :-)

See you there!

xoxo, Christina