Feature 500 photo submitted by Sean O’Connor - @seanoconnor

Title: Love Won Another

Process:
1. Upload image into photoforge 2
2. Straighten and crop to square format
3. Slightly increase vibrance, exposure, and contrast
4. Play with levels giving the picture a blue/green tint
5. Resize image to 5MP, save to camera roll
6. Import saved image into lenslight to add artificial lighting to enhance/slightly exaggerate natural lighting, render flare, save to camera roll
7. Open saved photo in picfx, add creek filter on 50% opacity, add marshmallow filter on 50%, save to camera roll
8. Open phonto, (on white background) make ribbon using letters and shapes, save to camera roll
9. Open edited photo as ribbon shape in blender, set blending mode to darken with 50% opacity, save to camera roll
10. Open saved photo in phonto and add text with negative kerning on words “love” and “won” (typeface- matchbook) and positive kerning on word “another” (typeface- helvetica neue), save to camera roll

Bio:
I first got into mobile photography and editing shortly after I joined instagram. I saw work from some artists that I was following and I was amazed to find out that they were completely done on an iPhone. With the right combination of creativity and apps, professional quality work is more than possible. I am from Southern California but during the school year I am a student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design studying graphic design. Lately, I’ve been super into logos as branding (simplistic and vintage-like to be exact). In the next few years I am going to be starting a company combining my love for design and snowboarding with my growing passion of helping people find God; those poor both physically/financially and spiritually. Anything is possible with the right mindset! Thanks for taking the time to read this guys. Check out my work and keep an eye out for my company which should hopefully be dropping soon.

Feature 500 photo submitted by @askarey

Description:
This shot was taken in the afternoon at railroad in my home town Jakarta.

Process:
Taken with iPhone camera. STEP ONE: opened in phonto and write the “trail” type and than go to style decrease the gray one until 64. STEP TWO: opened in image blender make the first image as the base image and the next pict with the type is the top layer and than i erase the part that cover the type. STEP THREE: opened in snapseed detail: sharpening+100 structure +20. Drama: drama 1. Tuned image: white balance -20 saturation 40 contrast -20 brightness -65 ambiance +35. Vintage: style 6 texture set to 0 style strength +100 center size 0. STEP FOUR: Opened in lenslight and add the spot source, and lumos glow. STEP FIVE: opened in rays length40 brightness80 rays90. STEP SIX: Opened in snapseed tunes image: brightness -70 . STEP SEVEN: opened in phonto and write the “foreign”, and “walking in the dark type and save!!

Bio:
My name Askary, age 18. Home town Jakarta Indonesia. Study at Faculty of Law University of Indonesia. I start iPhoneography when I got my first iPhone. I always enjoyed taking photos with my iPhone, but its not so great and curious until I join the Instagram community. With IG, everyday I can see new photos created by talented and creative people from around the world. IG its something that can helping me to open my imagination, to create art through photos. Thanks to IG 

AMPt Feature 500 photo by Brittanie Joseph (IG @_vivalavida)

Description: Budding Roses. This is a random photo that I took out of boredom in my aunt’s front yard. Turned out better than I expected.

Process: Taken with iPhone 3G camera. Edited on iPod for its apps.

App used: Snapseed. First, I cropped the photo using the 1:1 aspect ratio. Next, I decided to brighten the colors just a tad with 9% saturation and 5% white balance. After that, I sharpened the picture to its maximum and applied Vintage Style 1 to the photo. I amped up the texture to 100% (though very hard to tell) and tuned the brightness down to 24%. I adjusted the center size to 30% and used tilt-shift for it’s awesome auto contrast. Lastly, I used the center focus to give the photo it’s dark meets light look. I did a couple of minor last minute adjustments to the brightness and contrast, just to make sure I was satisfied with the look.

Bio: I live in the Georgia suburbs and I’m currently starting my first year of high school. I am fourteen years of age, and I am a twin. God and family are my top priority. I became obsessed with photography around August of last year by Instagram. When I was first introduced to the app by my sister, I was so captivated by the many amazing photos, that I just had to start taking my own. Each day, I am constantly inspired by the countless photographers I run across and the ones I follow, to become better. It’s what I will always strive to do.

View more mobile photography from Brittanie on Instagram

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AMPt Feature 500 photo by Balqi Firman @balqi

Description:
This photo was taken during my 2 days trip to Ciater tea plantation, Indonesia.

Process:
1. Native iphone 4s camera
2. Snapseed
3. Effects Camera

1. Taken with native iPhone 4s
2. Open with Snapseed and crop.
3. Tune image: brightness -60, contrast -20, sat 10, wb:10
4. Choose Center Focus: blur 0, inner 30, outer -45
5. Highlight the man. Make Selective adjustments to the area around him: bright 50, contrast 15
6. Add Detail: Sharpening 80, Structure 15
7. Add Vintage style filter #1: center size 80, texture 0, style strength 0, sat 30
8. Reduce contrast -15 and sat -40 then save.
9. Final touch, open with effects camera app, choose filter #8. Save

Bio:
Hi I’m a public servant living in Bandung, Indonesia, responsible for delivering information through my lenses and any other printed graphic communication.

I started instagrammin’ early this year. Really fun to play with this square-format photography. The best part of it, Instagram provides me a place to enjoy the fantastic work of many talented people in iPhoneography.

View more mobile photography from Balqi on Instagram: statigr.am/balqi

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AMPt FEATURE 500 - Photo by Tori (IG: @cloud_dreamer)

Description: This shot was taken in a beach resort close to where I live, on a rare sunny day for north western England!

Process: The main pier image was shot on the iphone 4s camera. The orbs are a sky shot taken with the 3D photo app. I used the juxtaposer app to place the 3D orb shot on the pier shot, erasing everything but the orb. I then stamped the top image to create two more orbs and arranged them where I wanted them and saved.

Opened up snapseed and used drama to 60%, I didn’t adjust the saturation, as I like the washed out effect the drama filter adds. I then used selective adjustment “brightness” to create a darker patch under the orbs and saved.

Next to the blender app, where I opened the first juxtaposed image and layered the snapseed image over the top and erased some of the darkness under the orbs to create a shadow shape.

Bio: I’m a thirty six year old wife and mom/mum. Originally from LA County, I had the luck to meet and marry an Englishman and we have lived and worked in some pretty interesting places over the years, recently moving to the north of England where we hope to settle. I’ve always enjoyed taking photos, but it wasn’t until I got my first iphone and discovered the App Store, that I realised this little device could do so much more than take a snap for the album. I’m quite new to Instagram but I’m fast becoming addicted and I’m getting to “meet” some awesome, like minded people from all corners of the world. What could be better than that!

View more mobile photography from Tori on Instagram: statigr.am/cloud_dreamer

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AMPt FEATURE 500 photo by Ryan O. @x_epic

Description:
This street houses phenomenal 19th / early 20th century warehouses with a very dramatic turn at the other end. The light and shadows in the corridor are cool to see at varying sun levels

Process:
Shot with Crossprocess. Basic (+green) selected.
Edit: Picfx to crop. Snapseed, use Center Focus at the skyline. Blur at 0%, inner and outer brightness diminished. Apply Drama Filter at 30% strength with Saturation at 50%. I then use several passes of Selective Adjust dodge / burning using brightness/contrast spots to vignette, add shadow or fake highlights on surfaces. Saved to Roll.
Open in Picfx and applied the Valentine filter at 30%. Saved to roll and uploaded to IG

Bio:
I’m a visual artist. I make small abstract dioramas, fake cities, weird organisms. I got into mobi photography to record my surroundings as “sketches” for other projects. Also, to expore the area i live in. IG definitely made that easier. I’m originally from outside Philly, but currently live in Boston, working 2 jobs, paying loans, eating beer and waiting for more vertically prolific cities. My name is Ryan O.

AMPt Feature500 submitted by Michael E (@medes101)

Description:

This shot was taken under a train bridge on the edge of the city. The mix of architecture, transport and strong lines of the bridge got me. The color of the wall, bridge framing and car coming into the frame were bonuses

Process:

Taken with standard iPhone camera app and shot dark CrossProcess App: Single process / Blue (Green)
Snapseed: Drama / Filter Strength +10 / Saturation +50
Vintage / Style 3 / Texture 0 / Center Size 100
Not happy with the tone so Fine Tune / White Balance +10 / Saturation -10
VSCO Cam:
Color / Filter 04 (liking a harder black here)
Save and finish

Bio:

I’m a Melbourne based designer with a visual arts background. I mostly take urban landscape photos but also dig taking shots on road trips or anywhere really! I admit I struggle with a style for my shots and pretty much anything with atmosphere, structure and landscapes (city or otherwise) get me interested. I try and edit to give a photo a story or some kind of reference.

Spending a heap of time in the city and on trams there’s always something to shoot and down time to edit so mobile photography and edit apps really suit me. Its instant and sometimes things don’t last much longer than that. I’ve also got to say I’m a huge fan of the general respect in the photo sharing community for great shots and edits

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AMPt FEATURE 500 by Chris Paff
(@Crispiracy)

Description:
Your body is the shoreline. Sometimes I am the sea. Clinging. Feeling all the contours. Ebbing away. Pulled by the tides, the moon and digital clocks - sensitive to nothing-Swimming by Anne Clark

Process:
Without having an iPhone, I usually use two devices for my photos an Instagram. A LG Optimus Speed Smartphone (8MP) as the camera and a 4th. Gen. iPod touch for the edit

At first, I loaded the photo in ‘VSCO Cam’ and made it Black and white. I used the filter 2. I like the dark areas more grey, so I also added a pretty strong fade effect to it. Then saved it to camera roll and loaded into ‘Snapseed’The next step I did in Snapseed, was the crop. Of course I chose the square one and placed the bright area in the center of it, so that the center is framed by the dark clouds and the dark trees in foregroundOn the next step, I wanted the right side of the picture as dark as the left side, where tree was. I added a very dark vignette with a little blur effect. It’s the ‘Old lens’ in the ‘Focus center’ area. Then I saved this too and loaded it again in the ‘VSCO Cam’ app
The vignette was now darker than scene itself. But I wanted it to look like more open. To fix that, I added more of the fade effect and set the exposure to +1. Now, the picture looked a lot brighter and kind of plain in the foreground

Bio:
I’m Chris Paff, a 33 years old Illustrator and (former) Interior designer. Mostly doing drawings for tattoos and books.
I currently live in a charming small town near Leipzig, Germany and enjoying every aspect of life including all it’s details. Even the bad ones

You can contact me via Email - chris.paff@me.com
Find me on Twitter (mostly talking to myself): @crispiracy
And, of course, on facebook: www.facebook.com/crispiracy

AMPt FEATURE 500 - Photo by Louis Mondot (IG: @_holo) presented by Adam Conner (IG: @derblutenkat)

In this week’s Feature 500 we’re focusing on the conveyance of mood. Typically, mood is conveyed by the general atmosphere, or state of mind and feelings, that a work of art generates. As you’ll see from his body of work, Louis has shown a unique ability to convey mood to viewers through the use of tones, subtle lighting and vignettes. There’s no question that his editing style pairs beautifully with a trending focus towards more industrial landscapes and architectural subjects. I’m thrilled to be presenting Louis for this week’s Feature 500. Enjoy.

Title: Floating Over the Raging Sea (reference to The Beach Boys’ “Til I Die”)

About the Artist:
I’m Louis, 22, studying journalism. Living in Toulouse, in southern France. I started to use IG in june 2011 if I remember well, but in a kind of instant-fun-vintage-pic-sharing way. Then I started following inspiring people and finally took it more seriously as there are very talented people here, whatever mobile photography mockers may say! Inspire and get inspired. That’s how a community works. I have no favorite subject or style on IG, but I plan to buy a DSLR to focus on urban/night BW shots (which is pretty tricky on iPhone actually).

Process:
Let’s start with the process, which may be weird for some of you guys (I like messing around with the editing): Before taking the shot in Camera+, I adjusted the exposure so that the clouds in the background are not overexposed while the foreground gets some light. Then in Snapseed I used “dark 1” in Drama, set both filter intensity and saturation to zero, saved. Opened the original pic in Filterstorm, picked the edited one as a second exposure, set opacity to 50%, saved. Back in Snapseed, turned the picture in b&w, and added some sharpness (+20) and contrast correction (+20).

View more mobile photography from Louis on Instagram: statigr.am/_holo

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