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    An iPhone shot from a couple of years ago, with some "apping" in the iPhone -- I just recently rediscovered it and wondered how it would look in B/W.

    The caption notes in LR say PhotoForge Watercolor + Oil and Pic Grunger.

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    Really nice, would have never guessed it was an Iphone shot. Love the textures and the dark and light contrasts. Sort of spooky in a good way.

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    Diane, this one is pretty cool. The technology in those phones is something else. B+W works for this subject and style, reminiscent of a stone engraving. Only critique would be a subtle gradient to gently lighten the lower region.

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    This is so good in black & white. Wow! The range of tones skewed toward darkness makes a powerful impact. And an iPhone shot, too. I just got my first iPhone and am anxious to try some real photography with it -- probably with some auxiliary lenses. This inspires me to get moving on that.

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    Diane, this is gorgeous and I'm not surprised that it came from your iPhone. The tones and the lighting are lovely. I haven't really started exploring all the apps for the phone - I've got a long exposure app and a multiple exposure app and that's about all. I knew Dennis just bought one and I was just getting ready to email him and find out if he'd used it yet
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    Dark and mysterious. A tree stands out in the forest. Nice composition. Great B&W--from white to black and tones in between.
    When working on iPhone photos, do you (and others) edit on the iPhone? The image is so small that I don't think I could do that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheryl Slechta View Post
    . . . I knew Dennis just bought one and I was just getting ready to email him and find out if he'd used it yet
    Not yet, Cheryl. A little before I got the phone, a new lens that I bought for my real camera arrived. It's going to open up a lot of exciting possibilities, I think. However, things have been so crazy I haven't even put it on the camera, yet. I'm anxious to try it out and to put the iPhone through its paces. If I'm happy with what I see from the iPhone, the next step is auxiliary lenses.

    Anita, my opinion is that iPhone apps are probably a good thing for images that are going to stay in the phone. If the quality of the original photo is good enough -- and I've been impressed enough by what I've seen in OOTB, already -- I'll download the images and play with them on the computer.

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    Great composition with wonderful lines and tones. And a bit spooky!

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    Great tonal range and composition.

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    Thanks, everyone! Here's the color version. Curious which is favored.

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    Processing is often mostly push-button, but some have masking and combining images. That has to be easier on the iPad's bigger screen, but I don't feel the need for one yet. I take Dennis' approach -- if I can figure out how to replicate an app look I like, I'll do it on the real computer, and with a "real" image, if possible. Some of the apps are becoming available for a computer, and you can use them on any image (but only on a JPEG, or maybe TIFF).

    I have almost 1000 iPhone images cataloged in LR (although quite a few are derivatively processed) and there are about 10 that I like. And those 1000 probably represent 10% of the actual shots I've made with the thing. It's a love-hate thing, with hate being well ahead. Image quality basically sucks but is occasionally kind of fun. But there is a lot of stuff I really like on the internet. I love most of Dan Burkholder's work.

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    To my surprise, I prefer the B&W version. Usually, I prefer color. In the color image, the bright area is too bright for my taste, or maybe too small.

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    Love the black and white, has an old timey wrinkled paper kind of feel.... One for the wall for sure!

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