Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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iPhoneography App Stacking in Italy Part 3: More Experiments!
After Setting the Base in a photograph, the next thing I do is push and pull the photo to different interpretations through experimentation. Last time we experimented with SpookyPic and Lo-Mob in a linear format. This time we’ll experiment with other apps but in a gallery format. All notes will be in the caption below…
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iPhoneography App Stacking in Italy Part 2: Experiment and Play
While we “set the base” in the last entry, that’s just the starting point. Different treatments of the same image can yield radically different meanings. Experimenting and playing can help discover a possible range of options to chose from. Even though it makes for a longer post, I’ve made the pictures bigger today so…
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App Stacking in Italy Part 1: Set the Base
This post is part one of a five part series. One of the first things I do when I decide to edit an iPhone photo is to “set the base.” By this I mean take care of the structural basics before moving on to filters or layers etc. Here’s the original image that I’m going to…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful
Even 1,000 photographs wouldn’t be enough to show all that I am thankful for. Ann Voskamp in her book One Thousand Gifts shows the power of the gift of thankfulness in good times and bad. I won’t show 1,000 things here, just one or three, but even so, I need some help. Thomas Merton describes the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
Ever heard of “runtography”? It’s a term I coined for “photographing while running.” It sounds better than “photoning” doesn’t it? When you’re out for a jog you get to see a lot of extraordinary things that you miss from the car or at home. But, you have to stop…to take a photo. Stopping or pausing is…
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Blue Moon Camera Delights
In Film to Phone and Back I wrote about my return to film. It just so happened that doing so required actual film and a battery. In a display dominated by memory cards, my local CVS had a very small selection of mostly out of stock consumer grade films. Each box was dust covered. Not…
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An Altar in the World
Barbara Brown Taylor’s meditation on reverence in her book A Geography of Faith: An Altar in the World (2009) put words to what causes me to pick up the camera to take a picture. With the help of classical philosopher Paul Woodruff she defines reverence as “the recognition of something greater than the self” (p21) Even…
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Captured Global’s New Business Model
The new business model behind Captured Global, a photography portal founded by outdoorsman, marketer and collector Peter Johnson (@capturedglobal) was the focus of this week’s evening lecture at Newspace Center for Photography (@NewspacePhoto) in Portland, Oregon. His new business model has definitely received some attention: “Fascinating new model for buying photographs on the web”. Stephen Perloff,…
