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Hipstamatic is one of my favorite iPhone apps. Users can take photos using any combination of lenses, film and flash and get some very satisfactory results. Here are a few from around Chicago.
This photo is actually 3 photos stitched together using Photoshop's Photo Merge automation. There are better programs out there for doing this but for stitching together a couple of photos it works just fine.
These are several examples of photos taken with an iPhone 3GS and enhanced with the Photoshop app. After playing around with several photos and settings I found the Vignette Blur to be the 'go to' setting. The trick is slightly desaturate the photo before using the blur. Tight shots on a subject and wide landscapes seem to work best.
The family and I took our muggle butts down to the Museum of Science and Industry today to check out the Harry Potter exhibit. No cameras were allowed within the exhibit but there were a few photo opportunities in the main areas of the museum. The exhibit is a bit pricey, $25 per adult for about 45 minutes from start to finish. However, the props were amazing, everything from the first movie to Half-Blood Prince. Quidditch uniforms, dress robes, ball gowns, creatures... everything from the movies in fine detail. I especially liked the fake book jacket cover designs for Ron Weasley's favorite Quidditch teams. You could tell the designer(s) had a fun time coming up with authentic looking programs. Another area I enjoyed was Hagrid's hut. It definitely felt like you could have been hanging with Hagrid talking about dragons. All in all, we had a good time. The boy is a too young to appreciate the fine craftmanship but hopefully the exhibit will come back around when he gets older and is more familiar with the books and movies.
