AMPt REARVIEW - featuring @dirka

Original shot: #AMPt_rearview_dirka

I started taking pictures with the original 1st Gen iPhone so I could practice composition for the professional video work I did. It was always something I just did for fun, but once I got the ever so awesome iPhone 3GS ;) I started taking my mobile photography a lot more serious. Even though I didn’t understand what Instagram was in the early days, I eventually realized that it was the perfect platform to share my visual journal and get that instant feedback that has helped push my work forward.

Back in the day I didn’t really know how I wanted my images to look so I would spend a long time app’ing my photos until something looked cool. The apps I most used then were Cameramatic, PictureShow, ProHDR, iDarkroom & Camera+. Nowadays my arsenal is a lot smaller because I now have a better idea of what I want to convey in my work & how I can achieve that. Currently my favorites apps are Snapseed & Photoforge because they are the two apps that I feel most closely resemble the features I like in Photoshop & Lightroom

In the original image I went pretty overboard with my edit. I used a lot of contrast, saturation and wild colors. The old edit is a bit distracting to the viewer and takes away too much from the story. For my re-edit I decided to go with a cleaner edit and stay away from making the photo feel overly processed. I wanted the story of the image to take center stage rather than the processing. So I did an edit that enhances the desolate/gritty feeling I wanted to convey. I did this using a combination of Snapseed, Vignettr and the Rise filter in Instagram. In Snapseed I used “Tune Image” to lower brightness, increase ambiance and add a little bit of white balance, while also adding a little detail in “Structure”. Lastly, I added a vignette using the Vignettr app and I applied the Rise filter inside Instagram

When I look back at my old work I have realized I can always learn something from those past creations. I feel like if I am not evolving as an artist then I am stagnant, and being stagnate means your work.

AMPt Rearview featuring AMPt member Marco L. ( @magicmarco)

Original Shot: #AMPt_rearview_magicmarco

Ay yooooo. What up y’all?? You booty-hole scratching, finger smelling mofos. I had a joke I wanted to share but apparently my caption was too long. Go figure. Oh well. I hope y’all are well. And getting some sunshine, laughing, slamming down a couple cold ones and all that good shit. But yo…..you see this pic here? I took that shit. Duh, right? Well, I posted it eons ago and was asked to re-edit then explain the process, apps and describe how I feel I’ve grown as a mobile photographer. But also, to keep the shit talking to a minimum. Oh boy

Fine. Ready?

I used ProCamera (for every pic I take), Snapseed - Drama effect and Big Lens for the slight depth of field. Okay, how am I doing so far? Um, describe how I’ve grown as a mobile photographer……man, this is sooo my cue to talk shit. But fine. Fine! Fuckers. Okay, I’ve become more discerning with my shots. Nine months ago, I decided I would focus on street photography. Candids. So I’d shoot anything that moved. And then post only in B&W. Cause, well, it looked like the most authentic way to do street. B&W makes average looking pics look…..artsy. Like…all fancy and shit. So I did that for a while. But then, one day, I got bored. I was like, ‘Man, the monochrome world can eat a dick. I’m posting some mother effin colors! Biyotch!’ Okay, maybe I didn’t say it like that. I still love doing B&W but I didn’t wanna be boxed in. And since I like engaging people with jokes, stories and questions…..there was no way I was gonna start a separate account on IG just for color. So I post both now. Actually, I’ve been kinda branching out from street and shooting whatever catches my fancy. Some may even say I’ve gone soft. Tsk, tsk, fuckers. Don’t sleep on the King. I branched out because I get bored. But, I will admit I am overdue to show why I’m THE streetphotographyologist. So on that note, peace out mofos. Keep snappin’ and drinking good liquors. Don’t be a cheap fuck, you Grande Mochachino express sippin’ ass coffeehouse poetry book quoting mu’fucka. Okay, how’d I do?

AMPT REARVIEW - photo by Holly Temple (IG: @musiccityace)

Description: I shot this near Riverfront Park when we lived in Nashville, TN. The blue line on the brick walkway really caught my eye! That might have been the first time I didn’t care about getting low for a shot and being stared at by people

Process: The original post was most likely edited solely with camera+. That was my go-to app for the longest time. I was comfortable with it and really kind of afraid to branch out and try new apps.
I’m much more open to experimenting now and have more photo apps than anything else on my phone! For my new edit I started with increasing the details and a little bit of drama with Snapseed. I then masked that on top of the original shot in Filterstorm, not masking the surrounding buildings as to not take away from the brick walkway. I added a fake sun in Lens Light to give it a little glow but then did a few more adjustments in Snapseed, like ambience and taking the brightness down a little. Then I used Tilt Shift Generator for some depth

Bio: I am a mid 30’s wife, mom, homemaker in northern Indiana. Married to my best friend @kewiki for 15 years! I always had a little interest in photography but never really tried until joining Instagram in December 2010. I took a lot of stupid pictures in the beginning but soon started learning from @kewiki and asking a lot of questions. He has taught me everything I know and I still ask him for his feedback constantly

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AMPT REARVIEW - photo by Holly Temple (IG: @musiccityace)

Description: I shot this near Riverfront Park when we lived in Nashville, TN. The blue line on the brick walkway really caught my eye! That might have been the first time I didn’t care about getting low for a shot and being stared at by people

Process: The original post was most likely edited solely with camera+. That was my go-to app for the longest time. I was comfortable with it and really kind of afraid to branch out and try new apps.
I’m much more open to experimenting now and have more photo apps than anything else on my phone! For my new edit I started with increasing the details and a little bit of drama with Snapseed. I then masked that on top of the original shot in Filterstorm, not masking the surrounding buildings as to not take away from the brick walkway. I added a fake sun in Lens Light to give it a little glow but then did a few more adjustments in Snapseed, like ambience and taking the brightness down a little. Then I used Tilt Shift Generator for some depth

Bio: I am a mid 30’s wife, mom, homemaker in northern Indiana. Married to my best friend @kewiki for 15 years! I always had a little interest in photography but never really tried until joining Instagram in December 2010. I took a lot of stupid pictures in the beginning but soon started learning from @kewiki and asking a lot of questions. He has taught me everything I know and I still ask him for his feedback constantly

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AMPt REARVIEW - featuring AMPt member Martin Reisch @safesolvent

Original shot: #AMPt_rearview_safesolvent

I’ve always been a photographer as long as I can remember. Perhaps legitimately when I started to get paid for my work but as far back as I remember I started “mobile” photography with an old Creative Webcam Go (which let you detach from computer and shoot up to 8MB of images with no display). Self portraits on iPhone started the minute I found a timer-app. I had been doing them with my DSLR a long time to set the mood for location scouting I would do for films, but it turned into more of a trademark with the iPhone.

I think the idea with my self portraits over time has become more about how I can really push the limits of how far and how epic I can place myself in a scene, I started to really discover what made my self portraits stand out were not only the locations, but the use of light in how it would illuminate or isolate my silhouette, a lot of times I’m looking for a back light so that my pose or “Stance” can be clearly defined and seen in a shot. I still do them when I feel like it but I tend to feel much more compelled to save a self portrait for a location that’s just absolutely perfect rather than just for the sake of it. I do also have a large portion of self portraits whenever I travel to a new city or country because they have always been and always will be a part of my “travel-diary” to say that “I was here”.

When I shot this I was traveling in San Diego out in the Salton Sea for a music video… in fact, the shot was done as an example when I was scouting the location for the video, I took this to show the actress what I had in mind for her! it actually makes it in the final video of her standing on the rocks… I processed it in Camera+ and slapped a black border which I now kinda hate. On this new edit, I tend to have a new outlook on VSCO cam so the edit was processed using that by +1 fade +1 temperature and maybe +1 contrast.

AMPt REARVIEW - featuring @nois7

Original shot: #AMPt_rearview_nois7

Photography has been a passion of mine for a long time. I wasn’t big on Instagram when I first started, my account was private and I really didn’t start using it until I realized its potential. The ability to get feedback on the fly and also engage with other inspiring artists was the biggest draw for me and it’s also been the staple of my growth and change.

I’ve messed around with a lot of different apps, but my go to app has always been Snapseed. I think it’s a must have for every mobile photographer. I wanted to experiment with the creativity aspect of photography so I searched for apps that allowed me to be more creative. I have about 10 years of experience in Photoshop and that has really helped in the process, but I finally found the Artstudio app and I was able to do what I’ve always wanted to do in terms of creativity with my iPhone shots. Artstudio has become my most used app for my montage edits. With the images I focus on now a days I try to have a vision for the image and then go about shooting the different parts I need for it before bringing it all together.

The original shot was made on an iPhone4 native camera with HDR setting on a castle in Alicante, Spain. The model cred goes to my wonderful girlfriend (@galina90). I only used Snapseed and Filterstorm on the original image.

As the re-edit shows, my style has changed considerably in large part due to the new found apps that give me the endless possibilities to do what I want with the images I have. I try to use stock images so I found some cool wings and also took one of my cloud shots and after realizing how I wanted to put these elements together, I combined them using art studio. It’s great because it gives you the ability to blend, arrange, brush and blur. Once the raw montage was created I brought it to picFX to get the toning I was looking for. After that I used MagicHour to manually adjust the single colors and Snapseed to add highlights and shadows. I would describe my style with the words creative, experimental and kitschy :) I think that creativity never stands still and I’m always looking forward to continuing to try new things in the future.

AMPT REARVIEW - photo by AMPt Member Adam Conners (IG: derblutenkat)

Description:
The original shot here was one of the first that I posted on Instagram back in November of 2010. The original image was shot with the 2nd generation iPhone, Native Camera and HDR on (the feature had JUST been made available when this was taken). The only “edit” was the addition of the Lo-fi filter at post…to be honest I knew close to nothing about editing on my phone at the time.

Process:
The new edit has evolved in a few ways but primarily in terms of composition and lighting. I used a mix of “Anti-Crop” and “TouchRetouch” to remove a blurry hand and extend the wall to the right of the window. I loaded the resulting image in Filterstorm and applied Sharpening with the Multiply blend option to the entire image. This darkened the image and helped conceal some of the “2nd generation distortion”. Before committing the Sharpening tool adjustment I used the eraser at 30% opacity to bring out the highlights on the back, arm, fingers and neck. Next, I converted the image to bw in Noir with a focus on the silhouette and letting the lighting reach across the wall. Finally, I touched up any remaining defects with the blur tool in Filterstorm. Saved.

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