What do you do when all your weekends fill up and you can't make a date to have brunch with your friends until two months down the road? Declare a plain ol' Wednesday - a Sunday.
Last Wednesday we visited the lovely home/farm of Ashley, Glenn, and Huxley English. You can check out Ashely's amazing small measures blog here.
You may think these photos look a bit strange. The colors, the square format? Are they polaroids? Nope. They are taken with my iPhone, using an app called Hipstamatic. What is Hipstamatic you ask?
Hipstamatic uses the iPhone's camera to allow the user to shoot square photographs, to which it applies a number of software filters in order to make the images look as though they were taken with an antique film camera of yesteryear. The user can choose among a number of effects, lenses, and film types.<br>
Hipstamatic is technology gone retro. It's high fi that is low fi. It's like the Holga or Diana with out the film to buy and process. <br>
I fight the fear of being a photographic cheater, shooting photos with my iPhone. Looking back at my years in the college darkroom I would have never have thought I would be shooting digital or even more.....snapping photos with my cell phone I have to admit, given way the effects add a "way back when" to my photos (and that it fits in my boot) my cheater fears are placated.
