Approaching Storm

January 5, 2014 – A little Magic Scrooberizing

Approaching Storm

Approaching Storm

This year’s iPhone photography challenge is as much about venturing out from my normal photography to see what I can produce creatively with the iPhone and the many Apps that I use. Tonight’s picture was done with a couple different Apps, or actually three. The native camera, an App called Painteresque and another called Snapseed, all to produce what you see here tonight. The title above pertains to one of the processes the Painteresque App goes through.

First, I’ll be honest and say I totally forgot about shooting my iPhone photo for the day until I looked up from my computer and noticed that it was almost dark outside! For me, the dark and the iPhone are not two things I like to put together as I hate to use flash and with the iPhone the darker it gets the more noise you get in the photo unless you use flash.

The wind and snow had started to fall and so I thought perhaps a shot of the trees in my yard against the last light of the day might provide for an interesting photo. So I shot a series of the tops of the trees that I liked and made my way back into the house to thaw out.

I liked the way the trees looked, but I wanted a more blurry, movement type effect and so I thought I’d see what I could do with the App called Painteresque and after trying several different style effects I finally settled on the one called Painteresque 1. It was close to what I was thinking in my minds eye, but not quite. I saved the photo with the effect applied, opened that one back in the App and then applied it a to the image I had saved to get this final photo that I’m happy with.

The only thing I did in Snapseed is apply the border. The watermark was applied in Photoshop where I cropped it to the right size to post to the web.
I’m really pleased how this one turned out and I’m excited to try some of the other effects as the year goes on and also some of the other many Apps that I’ve not really played with that much that I’ve bought.