Post production on iPhone

Sitting at the job site this morning waiting for more trucks to roll through I decided to kill time by work on an image which was extremely heavy on midtones. I wanted to brighten the image up and clear up some areas which i felt needed a bit more highlights a pop. So, i downloaded the image from my Facebook photo library, saved it to my iPhone and then began running through several photo editor apps. The apps i used were Snapseed to create a blown- out version increasing the highlights then imported to HDR Fusion to blend the two images. Then through Snapseeds selective correction tools i increased/decreased to mimic a dodge and burn process. Lastly i adjusted the over all contrast and added a tilt-shift effect in Snapseed. The images attached are before and after ( hopefully you can tell which is which ). It amazes me what kind if work flow is possible on a PHONE! Though the images are lofi and have a bit too much digital noise to be considered hi-quality the result is pleasing for what it is ( at least to me ). I wonder how tight a 3x3 or 4x4 print would be? Especially using the new grainless printing processes available today?

Negative development and positive results.

I finally developed four rolls of 120 film shot with my 1951 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye flash model. I used Ben Thornton's two bath development process based off of an older Stocker formula. I was very surprised and
pleased with the results. The film was expired 100 and 125 iso, two T-mac, one Pan-X, and one Fujifilm FP4. The shutter and aperture of the Brownie is roughly F16 @ 1/30 of a second. Exposures made with out flash have a very good range of highlights, midtones, and shadows though the dark areas seem to be a bit thin. I scanned the negs with an Epson scanner which makes very pleasing reproductions ( well, on the monitor as least ). However, its not truly a photograph until one has a tangible print, now is it? So, with LoMo, Holga and other toy cameras becoming so prevelent and popular today, not to mention Hipstamatic, it has been very pleasing to create photos using a forefather of these "newer" photographic contraptions. The images attached to this blog were shot at the 2012 Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifftop, WV.