Photo submitted by AMPt Member Anna Cox (@annacox)

•sound and light•

I’ve found myself wishing for warm weather and the beach since it has gotten cold so I thought perhaps a beach photo would be a fun revisit. This year the only time I spent at the beach was in the early morning and evening strolling my 4 month old. It was such a sweet serene time for me

Process: opened the image in snapseed and put it through the tune image paces. Adjusting contrast, saturation, etc. The buildings in the background caused me a little trouble. I couldn’t get them dark enough without losing some of the color in the foreground so I darkened the image to get the houses in silhouette and hit save. Then reopened the image and edited the rest of the image to my liking. Hit save again. I then had two images- one with the houses how i liked them and one with the water how i liked it. Then I opened both in juxtaposer and replaced the buildings in the lighter version with the buildings in the darker version. Hit save. Took the whole shebang back over to snapseed to add a touch of old lens in the center focus feature keeping the blur at 5 to smooth some noise at the top of the photo. Hit save and then finished my coffee :)

AMPt Member Graham Preston @grahampreston Title: in the woods, is perpetual youth Description: For me, the main difference between the old world of film photography and the current world of digital, is number of shots I take. I take loads !! I do it when I shoot on the street because time is short and I like to give myself some choices when I go back through my work. But last week I shot with my film camera alongside my iPhone for an afternoon. I shot 1 roll of 24 b&w film exposures against well over 400 digital ones. My point is that does quantity give you quality? After waiting 5 days to get the roll of film processed and it costing nearly a tenner all in, I did get 5 keepers though. This shot above has taken me 3 weeks to select from 798 I took that afternoon. We spent about an hour on a swing we came across in the woods and I used QuickPix to shoot. This camera app allowed me so underexpose and fix it. Then you just stick your finger on the button and off it goes, rapid fire capture of frames and lots of them. I have concluded the iPhone isn’t the ideal platform for selecting shots from hundreds of similar shots, so I had to download to my mac for that - but I copied this shot back for editing. Used Snapseed for warming up the white balance a bit and a little center focus without blur.

Photo by AMPt member Rebecca Cornwell (@repinsk) Title: Concentrating on the Abyss Description/story : early in my photo editing experience, I was determined to master the #decim8 app. I had taken a ton of photos at my eldest daughter’s dance recital. The quality was not very good but the movements where clear. I used these images to master some of the fxs of decim8. Recently decim8 released some new effects. Once again I returned to my dancer shots to study the new fxs. Edit process: this image originally held two dancers. I cropped the photo to hold only a single dancer. I tuned the image in snapseed and ran it several times through the decim8 app using the KOMPLIANCE and BEAMRIDER fxs saving several versions of each. I merged several of these versions together to create the illusion of the dancer spinning. I used scratchcam to add texture and change the color. I loaded the image into superimpose and added a few branches. Finally a created a BW version and ran it through decim8 again with the BEAMRIDER fx. I merged this version with the last color edit version and then added a couple of fresh branches in superimpose. Hashtags: #decimateddancer_repinsk

Photo submitted by AMPt Member Nei Cruz (@n_cruz) The Hudson River I love to take walks by the Hudson River during sunsets. It’s such a great place to walk in NYC. I took two shots in the same spot. Both taken with the native iPhone 4 camera. Make sure you are very stable when you take the shot. I put my finger on the shutter but only release it when I’m totally stable lifting my finger gently. Both edited with Snapseed. First shot: using the Tune tool, I warned the colors pushing the White Balance to +30, Brightness to -10 and Ambience to -10. Saved. Second shot: using the Tune tool, I cooled the colors pushing the White Balance to -40, Brightness to -10 and Ambience to -10. Saved. Then brought both to Diptic using the horizontal double layout setting. Adjusted the borders to 0 on Effects. Saved. In Camera+ I added a touch of Cross Process at 5%. Saved. Finally, I added the simple text with Phonto.

Photo submitted by AMPt Member Martin Reisch @safesolvent Taken in St. John’s, Newfoundland at Cape Spear in September this shot was unfortunately left out of my “in realtime” posting but i’m glad to have a chance to put it up here finally :) The ultra-distance was achieved with iTimelapse.app setting to an interval of every 60 secondes in order to have enough time to make it that far. This was shot on my iPhone 4S at the time so it’s still part of the Cross-Process style i was using with that device. Overall i have a strong feeling that i was mimic’ing a Boards of Canada shot i remember seeing back in the day especially the cold-tones and being on the east-coast of Canada it looks alot like Ireland

Photo by AMPt member Rebecca Cornwell (@repinsk)

Title: the dreaming dead

Description/story : for as long as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with old photos. I would spend hours in antique and junk stores looking for faces that spoke to me. Usually it’s something in the eyes, a knowing look, a connection that allows me to interpret something about them. Several months ago I found an image of a young couple. He is sitting and she stands behind him. I was in the midst of a devastating breakup. Something in the woman’s eyes spoke understanding. I’ve photographed her in many ways since, always focused on her eyes.

Edit process: I took a photo of a vintage photo with hipstamatic using the John S lens and Claunch 72 monochrome film focusing on the woman’s eyes.
In Superimpose I added a masked image of a butterfly giving it a red tint with the color filter. In Superimpose again I added a masked image of the delicate branch.
I ran the image through scratchcam adding a layer of texture.
In Decim8 I ran the image through the BLITBOMB fx several times saving each and then layering together in Superimpose with the original.
Finally I put the image in Satromizer adding the color and shift. #ampteam #amptmember #digitalart #iphoneart #iphoneart #iphoneography

AMPt member Frank Mathews @nitti80

Title: Chasing Your Dream

This Image. This opportunity. This moment is of a young man named Traveil chasing his dream to be a successful entertainer. This past saturday I was invited to see him perform on stage in Fayetteville, NC and I was in the front row snapping like crazy. During the show I could see and feel his passion. You could see throughout his performance the fact that he believes its only a matter of time before his dreams come true. What I really love about this photo is it captures him in the process of chasing his dream. In that moment I realized that a dream no matter how big or small is an important part of who we are and you should fight for your dream with passion. This night I was inspired to chase my very own dreams harder. So let me ask you all a queation…..What does it mean to chase your dream? Well I believe the first step is to write it down somewhere. So what is your dream? Thats right I would like know what your dream is. Put your dream in the comment line big or small doesn’t matter and lets chat about it.

Photo submitted by AMPt Member Anna Cox (@annacox)

•Where the buffalo roam•

My great grandfather owned this farm. I still remember him showing me a goose egg and thinking even though it was huge it looked tiny cupped in his hands

Photo was taken with the native camera on a 3GS. I started in snapseed by tuning the image- brightness, contrast, and saturation. Saturation to -9 and white balance to +21. I wasn’t pleased with the flat quality of light so I took the image to noir to make BW version to use in blender. Once the BW Image was made I loaded the color shot and bw into blender. I masked my entire image except for parts of the foreground adjusted the opacity and saved. Using the new image and the bw I blended the images together again this time masking everything but the barn using the multiply option to deepen the shadows. Saved then off to snapseed to apply center focus using the old lens filter

#beautyindecay #childhoodseries
#abandoned

Photo by AMPt member Adam Conner (IG: @derblutenkat)

I took this shot during a 2 month hiking expedition with native shepherds in the volcanic mountains of Hawaii…ok, not really…but the mountains are from Hawaii.

Process:
I originally took the picture of the mountains while standing on a balcony in Hawaii last fall. The image of the sheep was taken across the street from my house. I blended the 2 images in Filterstorm using the normal blend mode.

I brought the blended image into Snapseed and applied the Fog & Old Lens Center Focus effects, subtle sharpening and kicked the white balance up to mellow out the scene with the nice warm tones.

Wrapped up the edit by blending in an image of clouds with the overlay blend mode in Filterstorm to accent the lofty/dramatic feel. Saved.

Photo submitted by AMPt member Thomas Kakareko (@thomas_k)

Title: Countryside

Process: This is most probably my first color shot for AMPt. Lately I started to appreciate color a little more so it’s time to do it here as well. This picture was taken last weekend while I was visiting some friends in a very small village in central Germany. I felt a little strange during our walk because I was missing my urban backgrounds and some people of course. We haven’t spotted a single person during our walk so I had to photograph my friend. Still it’s all candid :) For editing I used only Snapseed as for all my color shots. After adjusting things like contrast and saturation I applied Drama filter at 30% and Vintage Filter 4 with texture down to 0%. Finally I applied Rise filter to add a little brightness and clarity.