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You had a journal once. Then, your little sister found it and told your crush all about your dreams of running away to Disneyland to fulfill your dream of meeting Ariel IRL. That was embarrassing. Days is totally not that. It’s a journal (disguised as an iOS app) that you’ll *want* to share with friends. The goal behind the app is to have you document your life in photos as it happens. Shoot photos throughout the day, and publish your post of photos the following day in a visually delightful grid of time-stamped pics. How the heck is this different from Instagram? So many ways. Cool ways, too.
Documenting your life is so much more fun in photos, and your little sis won’t have any ammo against you. Win. Photograph Your Days with Days p.s. WE ARE HIRING A WEB DEVELOPER. If you love photography and San Francisco and codes, APPLY HERE. p.p.s. WE ARE ALSO HIRING AN EVANGELIST/BIZ DEV HERO. Creative deal-maker types, APPLY HERE. |
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Scenario: A ladybug turns your shoulder into its new resting spot. What do you do? Some might say Make a wish. Teresa Franco? She’d say Take a photo. Snapping a photo of something so tiny can be a challenge. Do not let your camera phone deceive. You can use your phone to get great macro shots of the tiniest objects, from crystal-ball-esque dew drops on a leaf to a caterpillar snacking on a blade of grass. Teresa Franco is living proof. Have you seen her macros? They’re the best of the best on Instagram! We asked her how she does it, and she shared all her favorite phone lenses, apps, and tips for getting fantastic photos of nature’s tiniest details. So the next time a bug takes a liking to your shoulder, you’ll be set. Phoneography Tips with Teresa Franco p.s. WE ARE HIRING A WEB DEVELOPER. If you love photography and San Francisco and codes, APPLY HERE. p.p.s. WE ARE ALSO HIRING AN EVANGELIST/BIZ DEV HERO. Creative deal-maker types, APPLY HERE. |
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Glitching is the digital equivalent of throwing a roll of film into water and seeing what happens. While you might not want to dip your phone in H2O, you can get experimental with your phone photos other ways. And by other ways, we mean panorama glitching. All you need is a sweep of the arm to get your panorama to stitch a scene in really strange and awesome ways. (We used iOS 6′s built-in panorama, but you can try this with pretty much any auto-stitching pano app.) 1) Stitch totally different parts of a scene
The result ends up looking like a diptic with sweet transitions that vary from wavy edges to smooth stitching or black edges. 2) Make a jagged composition of a single subject by jerking your hand as you shoot the pano. This makes for a choppy, mosaic-like image. Try other experiments like twisting your phone as you shoot. More examples at the link below! BONUS: Another trick to try is getting your model to show up multiple times. p.s. Show us your panoramas! Post it to our Facebook wall, and tomorrow (4/9) we’ll pick 4 favorites to feature on our Facebook page. |
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It’s easy to forget about the video function built into your camera phone. It’s just that videos end being too big to send to friends, and who wants to wait for a video to download anyway? Man, are we spoiled. Back in our parents’ day, they had to carry 20lb VHS recorders just to shoot a few minutes of film! Us? We have a video recorder that fits in our pocket. Vine fixes all of this and then some. It’s an app that lets you share snippets of video –six seconds to be exact– in a super-digestible format. As you scroll through a stream of friends’ videos, the video on your screen instantly plays. This isn’t just another Instagram. It’s a whole new platform for showing off your creativity. There’s so much you can do in six seconds! Plus, you get to share life-experiences with friends as they happen. And that right there is pretty much the coolest thing your phone has to offer. So get it, and then read on for all the best tips, ideas, and inspiration on Vine. p.s. Hey DSLR lovers! Have you seen the Lensbaby Spark? It’s a way fun, bendable tilt-shift lens that’s totally affordable. |
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We started as a newsletter, then we opened a store, then we wrote a book… Now we’re a school! Welcome to Phoneography 101, photography fundamentals for people who love taking photos with their phone. No homework, no class, just a basket of kittens and a series of bite-sized lessons delivered to your inbox. Learn the basic principles of photography in the funnest four weeks ever. For a limited time it’s just FIVE BUX. (BONUS: Get a FREE $5 Photojojo Gift Card when you finish the class!)
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Slide projectors are great but outdated. And digital projectors cost a bundle. What’s a photographer to do when they’re looking for a bigger picture? We’ll show you how to turn your phone into a photo projector for just $1. Yep, for a buck you can have Instagram on overdrive and Flickr living large. The project is so easy, you might even have time to sneak in a cat video or two. Make a DIY Projector for $1 |
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Back when Zeppelins were zipping around and petticoats were all the rage, the zoetrope was the closest you could get to catching a movie. If you suppose this little gizmo went out with the steam engine, think again. Our DIY tutorial gives the zoetrope a 21st century makeover by using the panorama function of a phone. Yes, with just a few shutter clicks and scissor snips you can create your very own stop motion movie machine. Sound fun? Well full speed ahead on the zoetrope express! Make a Zoetrope with Your Phone! |
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So you’re 90% sure you’re getting an iPhone 5 this year. Maybe it’s the wishlist you e-mailed out to your family or all the circled photos of iPhone 5s you left around the house. Now that you’re going to have that fancy camera, new A6 processor and all, you’re going to want to build up your iPhoneography camera bag. Think of it as an arsenal of photo tools that’ll help you take full advantage of the camera you’ll use the most!
iPhone 5 Gadgets for Improving Your Phone Photos p.s. Spend at least $50 in the shop today and we’ll throw in a surprise with your order. It could be anything from Magnetic Photo Rope to our Wide/Macro Phone Lenses! |
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Holiday Cards + Instagram = HoliGram?! No, not like Tupac’s hologram, silly. We’re talking about Holiday-grams. Real life cards from your favorite ‘grams. Make and send holiday cards from your favorite Instagram pics or pretty much any photo on your phone. This guide has a card-making style for everyone, from the super app-savvy to the DIY-ers. Making holiday cards has never been so instant … and awesome! p.s. Come on a photo walk with us! We’ll be meeting this Sunday 12/2 at the Photojojo Secret Store in San Francisco with cider and cameras. |
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If you could make your own photo hack, what would it be? Personally, we’d figure out a way to make CatPaint real life. Over a hundred developers dreamed even bigger at Photo Hack Day Berlin last week! With judges from Facebook, Getty Images, and EyeEm and participants like the Loopcam & InstaCRT team, competition was fierce and yielded some amazing apps that we actually wish we had on our phone right now. These were the top three winners! 1.Helmut: The fastest scanner in the world! A simple box in which you place a film negative. The accompanying app shoots a photo of the film & inverts it into a positive image. We watched them scan a frame in under 5 seconds. EXTRA COOL THING! We helped celebrate with an online photo challenge with EyeEm. See the winners’ photos, which were actually shown at Photo Hack Day! The Best Photo Hacks from Photo Hack Day Berlin p.s. Looking for even more of the best DIY photo ideas on the interwebs? Follow us on Pinterest! |
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