My neighbour Nic grows beautiful succulents.
Photographing them today gave me a great opportunity to learn more about my iPhone 4S and the Hipstamatic Photo App.
iPhone 4S, Hipstamatic , John S Lens, BlacKeys SuperGrain Film
iPhone 4S, Hipstamatic , John S Lens, BlacKeys SuperGrain Film
iPhone 4S, Hipstamatic , John S Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film
(the BlacKeys BW film allows just a hint of colour through)
iPhone 4S, Hipstamatic , Jane Lens, DC Film
(very close to true colour)
iPhone 4S, Hipstamatic , Jane Lens, DC Film
(very close to true colour)
iPhone 4S, Hipstamatic , Helga Viking Lens, Blanko Film
(an oldfashioned, slightly washed out effect)
Fear not, there’s a cookie recipe coming next!
Love succulents! They are so fascinating!
Thanks Anna! I love their pointy leaves!
Gorgeous shots Celia. We have loads of these growing in our garden too.
:-) Mandy
Oooh Mandy, I’d be stalking your garden too. The neighbours have been walking past, seeing me lying spreadeagle on Nic’s lawn, taking photos.. :)
Wow, I have never seen this before… and you make me wanna have an iPhone :)
Thanks Tes! I hope you get one! :)
WOW! They are amazing and so impressive… Great shots. Thank you dear Celia, love, nia
Thank you very much, Nia! It means a lot coming from you!
Fascinating the way the B&W combinations make a sort of instant “burned in” darkroom print isn’t it? Very nice work again, thanks Celia.
I do wish that the clever Hipstamatic app would also save the camera original along with the processed version.
Peter, thank you, you know how much I value your opinion! I’d love any tips you might have. If Hipstamatic saved the original, then we’d never play with all the different settings.. ;-)
Pretty, aren’t they!? My father used to grow these.
They’re really gorgeous, but until I got my new app, I never paid much attention to them. For that alone – refocusing my eyes on what’s around me – the app has paid for itself a hundred times over. :)
Fantastic succulents & images. I’m hoping Samsung come up with a similar app for their next Galaxy. I’m missing out ;)
ED, I hope so too! I don’t know much about phones – Pete just tells me what we’re getting. The iPhone does so many things – takes photos, plays games, keeps notes – the other day it rang and scared me – I’d forgotten it was a phone! ;-)
Haha. Had conversation with my sister, who commented that even though I use my phone to listen to radio, Facebook, Gmail, text, navigate, google, wake up, remind myself to do something, take photos… I rarely answer a call as it’s on silent in the office & I forget to change it A.H. :)
Beautiful…very cool…
Thank you! :)
So lovely, I recently saw a whole wall of succulents! They were somehow threaded through mesh and then hung on the wall-gorgeous!
Becca, that sounds amazing! I love living walls!
lovely photographs!
Thanks Maureen!
It’s hard to believe an iPhone can take such beautiful photos. Well done Celia!
Thanks Claire! I’m constantly amazed by what it can do!
These are very beautiful succulents. And your photography Celia is stunning. These are very lovely images. I bet your neighbour would like a copy of them! xx
Thanks Charlie! Pete says I’m not allowed to print anything out for the first month…hahaha
These really pop- you are doing art with that iphone!
Heidi, thank you! I still can’t believe the iPhone can do all this. I’ve never taken photos like it – even with all the expensive camera kit of old!
The succulents are beautiful and the photography, Celi, has me stunned. I cannot believe you accomplished these photos with an iPhone. Well done!
John, thank you! I’m having so much fun with the phone! :)
I am a fan of iPhonography too. You have captured some lovely images here!
Thank you! I’m a recent convert, and I can’t believe it’s taken me so long! :)
I’m sorry, you say sumthin? I was too busy playing with my Hipstamatic app to pay attention to anything today.
Just saying… Maz
Hehehe…folks, check out the photos Maz has been taking here:
http://thetoymakersjournal.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/in-good-old-summertime.html
Ooh, I love the contrasts in the black and white shots, Celia..just lovely! Did you watch the photo show a couple of weeks ago when they went out with holga-ish cameras to the races? Really interesting effects on their pics. An app is much more reliable though than a plastic camera!
Chris, I didn’t see that! What was it called please, if you can remember?
Great photos, love the angles you chose to snap the subjects, I especially like the black and white.
Thanks Norma! Succulents are particularly rewarding to photograph, with all their clean lines…
those black and white succelent photos are other worldly – lovely!
Thanks Johanna! :)
I am so impressed with the photos here and on your previous post!
Sue, thank you! I’ve been having fun! :)
Gorgeous photos, I always love how black and white shows up the detail. Will have to investigate hipstamatic.
Choclette, I’m a bit taken with black and white, and I also love the almost black and white in the third photo, I think it’s a nice effect. Hope you find a way to use this app, it’s a lot of fun, and portable! :)
Beautiful!!!
My mother-in-law is Malay Chinese, therefore our house is surrounded, ENTIRELY by succulents (money trees) LOL! We’ve got about 160 money trees planted around the house. When people come over they get a bit of a surprise. I love them though. Succulents are so beautiful and timeless all your round. :)
p.s Thank you so much for always leaving such nice comments on my posts. :)
Dakota, you take some of the best photos I’ve ever seen. I’m so glad you’re back blogging again! I’d love to see what you’re able to do with your camera and all those succulents! :)
Thank you soo much Celia. That’s so sweet of you. I love reading your comments on my posts. I’m glad I’ve come back to blogging. So much was going on in my life, but I really missed taking photos. I think you’ve inspired a post… I shall take photos of our succulents. And of our very Chinese house too. :) xx
I don’t know which ones I like better, the black and whites or the colours. Maybe both! :P
Thanks Lorraine! I think I like the BW ones myself, but only just!
Quite beautiful!
Thanks Misky! :)
Lovely! Makes me wish I had an iPhone…
Succulents make such beautiful garden plants and photographic studies. The B&W’s really work don’t they – all those shapes and textures. Lovely job!
Oh wow, what beautiful pictures.
Thanks C! x
I never knew what they were called. Absolutely beautiful pictures….
Thanks Norma! Nic’s plants are mesmerisingly beautiful…