TheRandom [Adventurer//Photographer//InMotion] » camerabag http://www.therandom.co.uk Because Existence is Random. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:31:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Welcome to the World of Hipstamatic http://www.therandom.co.uk/2010/03/welcome-to-the-world-of-hipstamatic/ http://www.therandom.co.uk/2010/03/welcome-to-the-world-of-hipstamatic/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:05 +0000 Sam http://www.randomphotographer.co.uk/?p=2202 This isn’t a review as such, there are so many sites and blogs these days ripping apart iPhone apps down to their finest technical details and workings, the last thing you need is another one of them. If you really want to know the ins and outs of the Hipstamatic app then be my guest and click here. If you want to look at pretty photos and what can be achieved by using this app then stick with me.

A quick oversight of Hipstamatic and you find it’s basically another ‘Toy Camera’ app for the iPhone, adding various effects, filters and backgrounds to give your photos the look and feel of a lo-fi film camera.

I’ve had Hipstamatic since Christmas after the apps store genius recommend it to me. After installing it I took a instant dislike to it, mainly because once you have bought the app you have to hand over more money to buy the additional filters, and that’s not cool in my mind and a very sneaky way for developers to extract more money from us, I would rather them charge more for the app than drop the a-bomb on us when we hand over our money. Other things quickly annoyed me, you couldn’t save high-res files. (Fixed in the latest version) and the slow speed of processing the image. I gave it a few goes but I just couldn’t get the hang of it, so there it lay on the back page of my apps list gathering digital dust.

A few months in to 2010 and I started seeing some of my fellow iPhonegraphers crop up on flickr with rather slick Hipstamatic photos. Seeing what this app was capable of in the right hands, gave me a quick swift kick up the arse to try it out again. The last few weeks I’ve been getting some pretty cool results with it. Will it replace my favourite iPhone app, Camerabag? I very much doubt it, but it will certainly not be on the back page of my apps from now.

*These photos were taken with the standard filters that come with Hipstamatic.

]]> http://www.therandom.co.uk/2010/03/welcome-to-the-world-of-hipstamatic/feed/ 1 7 Photos, 7 Songs, 7 days http://www.therandom.co.uk/2010/01/7-photos-7-songs-7-days/ http://www.therandom.co.uk/2010/01/7-photos-7-songs-7-days/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:39:46 +0000 Sam http://www.randomphotographer.co.uk/blog/?p=1738 I should stop watching the clock, I’m watching it count down to 8am before my shackles are released and I can escape in to the real world.
I’m a night owl for a week, the country sleeps and I drink coffee, trying not to lose my mind watching endless repeats of the Jerry Springer Show and having American Infomercials rammed down my neck for hours upon hours. This is my life for the next 7 days, I hibernate during the day, followed by staring blearily eyed at monitors in a soulless room for 12 hours at a time. Slumped in my chair, wrapped up in a hoodie and 3 day old clean jeans, my night’s seem to merge in to one long unbroken day. Is it Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday? Who knows, who fucking cares, all I know is I’m counting down to Friday morning where I shall escape this rat race for seven days.

As the week goes by, the snow falls, freezing the roads that morph in to one continuous ice ring. I amuse myself by watching commuters sliding ever which way, trying their best to get to work unscathed. My evil side comes out as I secretly hope I catch someone wiping out, how that would make me laugh, except if it was me, landing on my fat arse.

I can’t even enjoy my daily bike ride because of the weather. I must find another release to stop me going insane and to break up the daily grind of work, sleep, work, sleep.
For the next seven days I had an idea to take one photo every morning on the walk home. At the same time I would log the song I was listening too.
London feels like a very different place this time in the morning,  quiet, subdued & lonely. With the music jamming in my ear, the following photos were captured during those seven sleepy walks home.

To play the track, click play on the media player under each of the photos.
All photo’s were taken on the iPhone 3GS and using the wonderful Camerabag app.

Saturday

Tricky: Abbaon Fat Track

Sunday

Fever Ray: Triangle Walks

Monday

Broken Social Scene: Cause = Time

Tuesday

The Beloved: Sweet Harmony

Wednesday

Booka Shade: Charlotte

Thursday

Yelle: Tristesse/Joie

Friday

LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends

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