Ian Watson: Crit 3 and 4 recipes

For some reason, it doesn't look like my third crit recipe is on here, even though I'm pretty sure I posted it. Oh well. This week, I'll be doing a double recipe to make up for it.

CRIT 3: THE LONG EXPOSURE

Phone: LG G3
Model number: VS985 4G (Verizon)
OS: Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)
Captured in: Camera FV-5 Lite
Edited in: VSCOcam

I was actually playing with doing long exposures while hanging with a few friends at lunch. I managed to capture my one friend freaking out over something while people were biking and walking by. I was holding the phone incredibly still while using the table as a base.

After, I loaded it into VSCOcam and did minimal editing to exposure and contrast, to make it a tiny bit darker.

CRIT 4: THE SELF PORTRAIT

Phone: LG G3
Model number: VS985 4G (Verizon)
OS: Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)
Captured in: Vignette
Edited in: Vignette

This photo was a bit of a fluke, truth be told. I was in the strangest bathroom in the basement of a very fancy hotel in NYC. Since I hadn't ever seen a bathroom as nice, I decided to take a strange, almost surreal photo in Vignette in the mirror. I used the Holga style Vignette filter as it took the image, which resulted in the shot you see above. I did no editing in post, and for the life of me I could not get another image from that shoot to come out in a way that I thought was as good as this.

Chi Hwan Moon- Crit. 4: Memory/Vintage Recipe

I used an Iphone 5s to capture this photo. I wanted to capture a familiar moment that would evoke a memory from the past for my audience.  In the world we live in today, it's hard to see people just drinking coffee. We either see them engaged with their devices or with a computer in front of them. Sitting down for a coffee without any devices is rare to see and I felt that sitting down to think about where we are heading and how we are living our lives is an important activity from the past

I used VSCO cam to edit this photo. I used the black and white filter, faded the photo and lowered the contrast. I was against using filter that were overused in instagram so I wanted to use subtle methods to imply the vintage/memory theme of the photo.

Garrett Foster- Crit. 4: Memory/Vintage Recipe

The smartphone I use is a Verizon LG Lucid 2 4G LTE.

My picture of the week did not take that much editing this go around. I upload the photo into Snapseed and applied the Retrolux filter. I then hit the scroll effect button until I found a filter that I liked. I then adjusted the filter settings as follows: Brightness: +32, Saturation: +1, Contrast: +75, Style Strength: +90, Scratches: +100, and Light Leaks: +75. As I explained in my self evaluation, I wanted to center the barrel but also frame it in a way the showed the rusted out hole in the other side.

Veronica Miller Crit 4

Iphone 5s- VSCO Camera App

Both of these photos tied as my photo of the week, which I'm actually pretty surprised about. I guess you guys picked up the nostalgic feels I was trying to capture this critique. :) VSCO is no doubt the best camera app! It allows you to not only add a great assortment of filters to give your photos an added feel, in this case vintage, as well as control the brightness, contrast, highlight and shadows of your photos. If you haven't downloaded it yet, do it-it's free and offers additional free filters! I also used whitagram app to frame the second picture and give it a more vintage frame.

Kendel Seigler: Crit 4, Memory/Vintage

iPhone 5s iOS 8.1

apps used: iPhone editor, Fotor version 5.2.0.388

What I really enjoyed about taking this photos were the elements surrounding the main subject. The vintage bike is positioned in front of a wall that mirrors the "vintage" them and the dirty crate + cone represent "trash" that denotes this might be a forgotten area. The neglected foliage also adds to this. To capture this image, I focused on the immediate area and chose not to include a wider frame because there's a newer construction right outside of the frame that would have taken away from the tone. I did have to crop a bit using the iPhone editor to make sure I only included the essential elements. To make the photo look more vintage without adding a campy filter, I desaturated the photo in Fotor. I didn't make it completely black and white because the complimentary colors are important. Both the bike and brick wall are red. The foliage, cone, and crate are all green. So even though this is still a color photo, it can be seen a quite "duo chrome."

Michael Wojcik Crit 4 Memory/Vintage

iPhone 4s
apps- Google Snapseed, Polamatic

This week the Polamatic app came in handy. It will be able to take any photo from your phone and turn it into a digital polaroid. What impressed me the most about this app was how old you can make photos actually look. All the way down to scribbling text and the multiple polaroid borders there are to choose from. The top photo is my POW and the others are some that got some votes as well.

Michael Bergin Critique 4 vintage/memory

For this weeks POW I knew that it was the perfect shot for the theme of vintage because the subject is immaculate. For editing the picture I added a vintage filter that added a shading of purple to the picture because I wanted the darkness in the upper right corner to not be so bland and boring. This technique I have seen in many vintage photographs and it dates the image significantly because in pictures of old many times during the development process the intense portions of black in the photo would fade and become tinted just as I recreated in this photo. I then increased the contrast by 22% to bring out the edges of the photo which also in conjunction with the filter added an ever so faint glow around the subject which was Nice.

All images were taken on my Samsung Galaxy S4 4.4.2 KitKat and edited using the PixlrExpress app version 1.6.1 and Camera FV-5 Lite. 

Dan Casarella Recipe C4

Smart Phone Recipes C4 – Vintage/Memory

iPhone 5S
App: Snapspeed

This photo wasn’t my photo of the week but it did get a few votes in my critique. Overall for this unit one of the themes I was going for was forgotten or lost love and this is one of my favorite pictures going for that. I found this carved in heart on a dock and took a picture of it from the side. I used the SnapSpeed app and enhanced it with light and vintage filters that increased the lighting and detail.

Kati Keller recipes 4- memory/ vintage

Hey guys, the phone I use to take these photos was the Samsung Galaxy S4 with Android version 4.4.2 KitKat. The app I used to capture and edit these photos was Snapseed version 1.6.0.


This was the POW. My house if full of lots of clocks, but I picked this one because of the shape and details of it. The room was actually pretty dark with minimal light coming from the window behind me. I used a vintage filter from the Snapseed app. I then brightened it a little and then added texture to the photo to make it have an appearance of an old photo.


For this photo I was actually using the phone and midway conversation I thought it might be an interesting photo. This was a spur of the moment photo. I again used a vintage app from Snapseed and I made the center brighter and fading out to the perimeter. This was taken in a room with a lot of natural light coming from in front of me.  

This picture was taken with the iPhone 6. I framed it so the lights were as far to the left as I could get them without cutting the glow from the light out of frame. Once I took the picture I opened it the VSCOcam app. From there I put the filter M5 on it. Once the filter was applied I brought the exposure down to -1 and brought the temperature up to +6. I then took the contrast down to -3 and the fade to +5. I brought the vignette up to +12 and the saturation to -4. 

For this picture I used my iPhone 6. I tapped on my phone where my friends head was so she was in focus and everything else was kind of blurry. I then snapped the pictures and opened it in the app VSCOcam. Once is VSCOcam I put the filter P5 on it. Once the filter was applied I lowered the exposure to -1 and brought the contrast up to +1. I brought the fade up to +2 and the vignette to +7. I then brought the saturation down to -3.

Holly Ferguson : Crit 4 Vintage/Memory

Hi everyone! For this first picture I wanted to share how I shot is my POW. I shot this picture with my Galaxy S5 smartphone and used the vintage filter on the app Snap Seed. For this picture I focused on incorporating the sky and the road equally with the houses and cars meeting in the middle. I also took this picture on a day that was not totally sunny to allow for a drearier look to make the picture look more vintage and old. I really like the way this picture turned out, but the filter really helped to make the picture look more vintage.

This is the next picture I want to go into technique detail about. This picture I was trying to capture memory more than vintage, yet the stuff in this cabinet is very old and is considered vintage. The main focus of the picture is the cabinet and a little of the table and chair to the side. This is all intentional to express memories of eating dinners around that table and always seeing the cabinet and all the little things inside. Looking at this picture brings back memories of being with my family and enjoying a meal together.