The Week in Photos 04.04.10

I'm a day late on my Week in Photos post. Yesterday morning was pretty busy for me and I was beat by the time I got home (more on that later in the post).

Last Sunday I shot Miss Carnage again. She's always fun to work with. I shot her on some heavy machinery, which she had no problem climbing up and jumping off of. Here she is touching up her makeup in one of the rear view mirror.

You can check out the rest of the photos here.

I've been taking more photos of the dog lately. I walked in my bedroom to find him curled up with his friends in his bed.

I had three shoots in a row the past three days. First off was my friend Peter, a local aspiring filmmaker. You can check out his photos here.

Next up was Miss Mischief. I've always wanted to shoot her. It seems like every other week she's on a cover of a magazine. Shawn got in some shots of her as well, which was awesome. He's starting to build his fashion photography portfolio and Miss Mischief was kind enough to pose for him. Check out Miss Mischief's gallery here.

Yesterday Shawn and I went to Lowell, Mass to shoot Spooky Digital Girl wearing clothing by desginer Cyrahn. Miss Carnage did hair and makeup. Spooky was a pleasure to work with. We didn't have much time to shoot yesterday so we're planning on doing a much larger shoot in the future. Definitely check out Cyrahn's clothing. The clothing is colorful, fun, and well made. Become a fan of her Facebook page.

I hope everyone is having a great Easter/ Passover/ Sunday. How was your week?

CinemaFX | iPhone photography app review

When I was thinking of a new photo app to review, I was going to do CameraBag which seems to be a pretty popular app. It's consistently in the top ten in paid iPhone apps. But as I was looking at my photo apps, I clicked on CinemaFX (which I have to admit is an app I rarely used) and realized that it is a pretty great app. It's actually better than CameraBag because not only does it give you the different style options, it actually lets you adjust the settings to your specifications.

With CameraBag, once you choose your style that's it. If the original photo wasn't perfectly exposed, maybe the style you choose will be too dark or too light and it just doesn't look the way you want it to. With CinemaFX you can use the sliders to adject the style to the way you like it.

Another cool thing is that you can layer styles. You can layer styles in other apps as well but normally you have to save the edited photo, then go back to your photo library and select the edited photo, add a new style, rinse and repeat. In CinemaFX you can add a style, click the "CinemaFX" logo up top, press done, and keep adding styles.

This the Charmed Glow style.

This is Egyptian Glow on top of Charmed Glow.

This is Surveillance Cam on top of Egyptian Glow on top of Charmed Glow.

If you just want to edit the brightness and contrast to the original photo, you have that option as well.

There are also options for image size (larger photo resolution for 3GS).

For only 99 cents, this is a pretty great photo app to get. Compared to CameraBag's $1.99, I think this app gives you a ton more options and needs a lot more recognition*.

*as on 3/29/10 it's number 71 out of the top 100 iPhone photography apps compared to CameraBag being at number 9.

The Week in Photos 03.20.10

Not much happened this week besides having a photo shoot on Wednesday with Sam and Sisters of the Moon. Sam came all the way from Maine with her daughter for the shoot and in my opinion it was well worth it. We shot for six hours but we got in a lot of looks. Her daughter was so cute and is one of the coolest five year olds I know. You can check out the whole set of photos here.

Thursday I went to the mall to pose for my friend Steph who works in the photo studio at JC Penney. It was cool being on the other side of the camera watching the photographer work. It was one of the most hilarious experiences in my life. I did the cheesiest poses and made faces the whole time. And I also mimed eating a fake rabbit. Anything to get the shot.

The past three or four days have been amazing so I have been spending as much time as possible outside before it rains again. My dog Maxwell has been enjoying all the time outside. He's happy even though he is giving me the meanest puppy face possible in this photo.

Today Shawn and I went to Lincoln Woods to hang out. We sat on a rock and talked about shoots we have coming up. Shawn is the one who got me into photography years ago (we've been together for over six years) but he most shoots scenic and architecture photos. I'm getting him into shooting models. He had his first shoot a couple of weeks ago and he did really well.

Afterwards we went to Woonsocket to walk around. We got some really good clam chowder and clamcakes from a stand in downtown Woonsocket. We also saw this really cool murdered out truck with a casket in the back.

Now we're going to watch some comedy specials and enjoy the rest of the night. How was your week?