I don't usually like smartphone cameras as I find they're trying to be really good but they're no where near any dslr standard so I don't see much point, especially seeing as you're paying around £600+ over two years and I bough an entry level canon dslr for £300. The strong points for them are that they're apart of your phone so theoretically you have it with you all the time, I bought a fisheye attachment for my phone because I find fisheyes as a bit of a novelty and camera phones also, so I thought they'd work well together. After taking these photos I looked through them and decided to edit them using an app on my phone rather than in Photoshop to keep the mobile theme running and to see how close I could get the photos to look like they're taken on film.
In this edit first I changed the image to black and white and adjusted the exposure and contrast to get a mix a dark to medium greys and not having any really dark blacks. I left the sky a little overexposed as I felt that it fitted well with the theme of film photography and light leaks. I added a little bit of noise to help it look more like a film photo then a super clean crisp digital one. Finally I experimented with the tilt shift effect to blur out some areas of the image and I think it's very subtle and works well.
The large amount of scratches on top of the image adds a lot of texture to the shot. It makes the path look really overgrown, which from the previous shot you can tell is quite clear. I really like the colours with this effect as well. The dark purples really compliment the cloud off yellows.
I really like the perspective in this image; the fish-eye bevel helps emphasis the steepness of the cliff.
I really like this shot as it shows the capabilities of the a fish-eye lens. I'm taking a photo almost directly down towards the ground yet you can still see the sky. Obviously there is an enormous amount of lens distortion, but like I said previously, phone cameras are a bit of a novelty, and 'quality' of the image doesn't matter too much. I like the fact that you can get some much scenery into one shot just by using a fisheye attachment, that only cost around £5. The light leaks effect on this image is similar to some of the image from my lomo (INSETR CAMERA NAME) shoot.
After looking back on this image I think I would lower the mucky scratched lens affect. I find it too 'in your face' and I think it'd look better when it's overlaid lightly and sits just on top of the image.
This is one of my favourites. Although the light leek at the top wouldn't happen like that as it's a fisheye shot, I think that gives almost hints that this wasn't taken on film which could be quite interesting. Most people at first glance would think this was taken on film but then other people will notice the light leak and it being a fisheye lens and realise it was edited onto the photo. It almost splits the group of viewers into 2, meaning they'll have different interpretations of it.
I wanted to see if I could make any photo look good by just using these effects. I just decided to take a photo of the computers next to me as the subject didn't really matter and to give myself a bit of a challenge. Taking photos of the sea or a flower is, generally more ascetically pleasing to people. I find taking photos of other things can be more challenging an lot more interesting to view and make sense of.
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