So what can you do with your phone camera?

Phone: Iphone 4s
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed, corel paint it now, blender

This is the original photo straight out of camera plus

Load into Snapseed, converted to black and white, applied vintage filter conert to black and white, adjust contrast, brightness, etc, play around with the different filters till you get an image you like

Load into Corel - Paint it now, apply impressionist filter. You can probably leave it as is at this point, but wanted to see if i could lessen the effect a bit

Load the image coverted to black and white in snapseed and the image from Paint It now. Blend to taste and thats it.

Not really that hard to do. The trick is really in getting an image that this type of processing would work with. More in that later :)

Flowers

The sun sets on 2012

Ok, taken not quite at the end of the year but close enough. Looking forward to this new year and whatever it may bring.

Happy New Year all!!!

Strange Weather

this has got to be the strangest summer we've had in Sydney, with most of december just wet and cold.

though the sun did shine through once or twice :)

Walking the streets - photo 35 of 50

Last saturday I went on my first ever photo walk in Sydney organized by a group of photographers hanging out in Google+ , it turned out to be an excellent day with a bunch (about 150 of them) of wonderful people and ended in Observatory Hill with a barbeque and drinks provided by Google who also provided T-shirts and camera straps for the event.

the rest of the album is on G+ Sydney Photo Walk

there's some pretty amazing work from the others on the walk, you can view them by doing a search in G+ for #sydneyphotowalk