For this assignment, I tried out a multitude of new apps. Photo Studio by KVAD Group is terrible primarily because certain features are free and certain features cost money and the app. does not let you know which features are free and which ones cost money until you are done adjusting the effect and hit "apply." I found a new app. called Photo Editor by Aviary that's very good. This app. is exactly the same as Photo Editor Pro by Zentertain (which I've been using since day one of this class), except with less pop-ups, a more polished look, and more sharing options. I highly recommend it for it's "Enhance" and "Effects" features. But at the same time, if I took a photo using the Camera FV-5 app. and imported it into Aviary, then it would not import into Snapseed for some reason. This was frustrating, because I like to Enhance and/or add Effects in Aviary and then do further/more detailed editing work in Snapseed. So if I took any pictures using Camera FV-5, I would have to edit it in Photo Editor Pro (instead of Aviary) and then load it into Snapseed. Camera FV-5 is the app. that I downloaded to be able to adjust shutter speed. The camera on my smart phone does not allow you to adjust the shutter speed, so I had to try out a ton of apps. to find one that worked/worked well. I found that for my phone, there are no shutter speed apps. for free. So first, I paid $3.95 for an app. called Speed Shutter which is the worst app. ever. It does not save the photos it takes directly to your phone, you have to view them through the app. But every time you hit "view images" the app. crashes. I reloaded the app. and pressed view images at least 50 times and it was always the same result (even after restarting my phone). So I never got to see any of the photos I took with this app. The next app. I bought was Camera FV-5 for $5. This app. is good, but not great. It allows you to adjust all sorts of features on your camera phone (including, but not limited to, shutter speed). It also takes higher resolution photos than my standard camera app. (less pixels, but more grain). Despite all of these positives, you can only really slow down the shutter speed a little bit. It's capable of slowing down the shutter a lot, but anything slower than a step or two and the image becomes completely unusable by any means.
This is my photo of the week:
This is a panoramic photo taken at the end of my driveway. I started the panoramic capture with the camera pointing at my feet and then slowly tilted the camera upward. After my feet were out of shot, I began walking forward while continuing to tilt the camera upward. I found this created a strange effect where the image is stretched in an abnormal way, making things in the distance seem more distant than they actually are. I imported the photo into Aviary and applied the "Enhance: HD" feature to it. This sharpened the image and made the shadows more prominent. I then applied the "Effects: Clyde" feature. This turned up the contrast and created a vignette around the outside of the image. I then imported the adjusted image into Snapseed. Here I applied the "Tune Image" feature. I adjusted the image as follows: "Saturation: -100," "Contrast: +60," "Brightness: -27," and "Warmth: +20." My goal was to make the path ahead seem long and unpleasant. I left my feet stationary and motionless, as though the person whose point of view we're seeing through is hesitant to begin the walk down the unpleasant looking path.
I took this photo using the Camera FV-5 app. To adjust the shutter speed, you click the large "S" on the camera screen. A menu appears that reads: "Exposure; Controlled exposure; Open shutter." It then gives you a few options: "Auto; Short; Long; Long+; 1"; 2"; 5"; Custom." For this photo, I found 1" to have the best results. Anything faster did not really capture the flame's movements, while anything slower resulted in a blurry, unusable, and over exposed image. I found when photographing pretty much anything with this camera app., shooting slower than a 1" shutter speed resulted in an usable image (but there is a strong chance I'm doing something wrong). I then imported the picture into Photo Editor Pro. I applied the "Enhance: HD" feature. Again, this sharpened up the image. I then applied the "Effects: Clyde" feature, which gave the photo a vignette and turned up the contrast. I then imported the picture into Snapseed. I applied the "Tune Image" feature and adjusted the image as follows: "Brightness: -48," "Saturation: -100," and "Contrast: +13." I then applied the "Tilt Shift" feature with the following settings: "Blur Strangth: +100" and "Transition: +35." I did this to make my thumb and the background out of focus as to draw attention to the lighter and the flame.
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