photography

Big Lens: Blur Out Your Backgrounds To Make Your Pictures Pop [Video]

Mastering depth-of-field can really make your photos stand out. You can blur out the background of your pictures by changing the aperture. However, when using your iPhone's camera, there is no way to set or change the aperture. The Big Lens app helps solve this problem. You can blur out the background in any picture...

Galileo: 360 Degrees of Control With Your iPhone [Kickstarter]

There are a lot of hits and misses on Kickstarter - but this one from Motrr has already surpassed its funding goal with several more weeks to go. It's called the Galileo. It's a robotic platform and charging dock for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It's a device that allows for infinite 360 degrees panning...

Camera+ 3.0 Update: New Icon, Features, and Extensive APIs

Today the world saw the release of Camera+ 3.0, which brings a plethora of new features on top of a shiny, slick icon. Originally, the update was to be released on Wednesday morning but tap tap tap accidentally published it today while tweaking the release notes, Lisa Bettany tells us. The app has recently passed...

Camera Awesome Hits 2 Million Downloads In Less Than a Week

Last week we took a look at SmugMug's free photography app, Camera Awesome. It has some pretty cool features such as a 5 second buffer to 'pre-record' your videos and also an on screen leveller when taking pictures of the horizon. It's like a mash up of Instagram and Camera+ but with video capabilities. SmugMug...

SmugMug Launches Free ‘Camera Awesome’ Photography App [Hands On]

SmugMug this morning released their free app Camera Awesome. In the crowded world of photography apps, how is this one different? Well for starters Camera Awesome has some built in features such as cloud backup to SmugMug, which will really appeal to existing users, along with a plethora of other features not found in other...

Almost 80 Million Pictures Have Been Uploaded to Flickr by iOS Devices

Our recent story about Lisa Bettany's trip around the world with an iPhone 4S had me investigating the usage of iPhone cameras on Flickr, which has been documented before. We've seen the popular rise of iPhone cameras, but what about the total number of images uploaded to Flickr by all iOS devices? The grand total...

Lisa Bettany to Capture Travel Photography Book With Just an iPhone 4S

One of the founders of tap tap tap's popular Camera+ app (which recently surpassed 6 million downloads) is Lisa Bettany, a local resident of BC's West Coast. Her role in the creation of Camera+ has been previously documented by Entrepreneur, but now she has a new journey ahead of her--a trip around the world armed only...