[Leica] Kyle's iphotos...a tech question

[leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the LUG)]

Of this:
  http://www.kylecassidy.com/pix/travel/2010/la-iphone/air-earth-air-1.pdf
George asks:
>Hi Kyle...
>loved the article and the pix...can you share a little about your settings
>or the apps you used for those pix?
>George
>Chicago
There are a few apps I tend to use a lot -- these are:

Plastic Bullet which is a kind of light-leaky plastic camera filter.
TiltShiftGen which is a fake tilt/shift thing that you can use to fake bokeh
Photogene which is a photoshop like app that does levels, saturation, 
cropping & rotating.
Watermarkr for putting watermarks on the images
Camerabag has a Holga filter I use sometimes for square crops with vignetted 
corners
There are some Hipstamatic images in that lot but as some photo contests 
point out "please do not send us photos you took with the hipstamatic, 
everybody has it." So I tend to use it in limited quantities.
Pano does stitched panoramic photos either live (with a visual assist) or 
from the library.

Photoshop has an app too that's useless for anything but sharpening. Often 
I'll go back and forth between that and photogene to over-sharpen & add 
contrast.  But if you happen to be sitting at a computer, it's a lot easier 
to just do that in the real Photoshop. switching back and forth between apps 
on the phone to make minor adjustments is an exercise for people stuck in 
long lines at the grocery store.

The iLeica 4's actual image quality is pretty good right out of the box -- 
surprisingly  -- but the big thing you have to watch out for is blown 
highlights. meter on the bright spots. The new iPhone OS has built in HDR 
for capturing things with a lot of contrast, which is nice. 

Hope this helps,

kyle