I’ve started a new photography project with just photos taken and processed on my iPhone. Many of the photos are using some of the iPhone toy camera apps, such as Hipstamatic, ClassicPan, and ClassicToy, and filter apps such as SwankoLab, Camera Bag and Best Camera.
I use a DSLR and Photoshop on my other photoblog. I thought it would be interesting to see what I would get out of the iPhone camera and only processing the photos with applications on the iPhone.
Check them out at iphone.kevincrafts.com
After some questions asking how I process my hdr photos, particularly the bus photos, I decided to put together this small tutorial.
The software used to complete this tutorial is Photomatix 3.0 and Photoshop CS.
Step 1: Shooting the photos
When shooting photos for an hdr process I set my camera (Canon 30D) to the fastest frame rate possible (5 FPS) and set the Auto Exposure Bracketing to the maximum amount of stops (2). I find that the fast frame rate will allow me to shoot handheld and then Photomatix can align the photos. I like using a wide angle lens and I my favorite lens for HDR is my Sigma 10-20mm.
I expose the photos so the darkest of the shots has the scene outside of the bus exposed correctly, since it’s darker inside the bus. I suppose I could shoot more exposures, but since I didn’t have a tripod, I just shot 3.
Here’s the 3 photos I ended up with:
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The WebUrbanist recently named me an “Inspiring HDR Photographer” in their article, 7 Inspiring Infrared and HDR Photographers. I’m not sure how to respond to that, except thank you and I’m happy to hear someone is inspired by my work.
This week I reached 1000 photos on my photoblog. I’m not sure that when I started it in the spring of 2005 that I would have stayed with it, but photography really turned into a new creative outlet for me. Hopefully I can stay inspired to do another thousand.
I produce electronic music, take photos, and design websites. 
