Making money with your iPhone

There are some sites out there where you can experiment with selling your iPhone images. Here's one of them: http://foap.com/



I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I guess there's some potential to make a little money, on the other hand you're selling your photos for a pittance, and the market is flooded with cheap stock photography. Also, with sites like iStockphoto.com and others like it, at the very least you need a model release for photos of people.


Any thoughts on this?

Chinatown

Some shots I took while cruising through Chinatown. These were all edited in Snapseed for basic adjustments, then added frames and a grunge effect.     
http://www.snapseed.com/

 Lucky

Lady in Red

Year of the Tiger

Lucky Bamboo

 Ethereal

Gold and Red

Lantern

The Guardian

Planet Hollywood

Here's some shots taken on the photo walk at Planet Hollywood and surrounding area. All of these were shot with the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone4-except for number 2.      http://hipstamatic.com/

Hipstamatic app, John S Lens and Blanko film

 SOOC (straight out of camera, except for cropping and vignette)

 Hipstamatic, Jimmy lens 

 Kaimal MarkII lens

 John S Lens

 Kaimal MarkII lens

John S Lens

 Jane Lens

 John S Lens, Kodot XGrizzled film

 And well, you get the idea...

Still Life Light Paintings

These images were created in the style of the Impressionists: Cezanne and Gauguin in particular. They had such an intuitive understanding of composition and color, and I found it challenging to try and emulate their style. In these images I was shooting for a more "painterly" style of photography.

I used a flashlight in a dark room, taking multiple shots of different areas and layering them in Photoshop. I really like the effect of the light painting; it gives a more natural feeling to the light-but at the same time is unpredictable and difficult to reproduce exactly.

 Onions and Squash

Pot and Apples

Eggs and Flowers

Callas and Tomatoes

“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.”
― Julia Cameron

Alternative Lighting Techniques

Some images from the Alternative Lighting Techniques class

 

 Still Life with Deja Vu

Lit only with candles

This was an edge-lit piece 

All of the items were from the dollar store

Environmental Portrait

This was a painting with light project, using a flashlight in a dark room. My neighbor Neil was good at holding still! There were multiple shots put into layers in Photoshop, brought Neil in at the end and gave him his own layer. 

 Painting with Light

Flashlight with a snoot in a dark room. Took several shots and layered them in Photoshop. Love this technique - it makes things look so painterly! 

 

Flower Scanograms

 

Here's some flower scanography I did for Chuck Lohman's Alternative Photographic Processes class. Got to try some old and new alternative techniques of photography. Great way to jump-start the old creativity!

These flower scanograms were done on a regular scanner in a dark room with the lid up. All of the plants and flowers were from my back yard. I originally tried covering the flowers with a black velvet cloth, but it flattened everything out too much, and the composition was hard to control - the lid-up approach worked best for me. 

Connection

Loss

 Rebirth

 Tenacity

 Memories

 Free Fall

 Farewell

Acceptance