Erstellt am: 28. 12. 2009 - 11:40 Uhr
Today's Webtip: iPhoneography
Although the iPhone was released in 2007, and has been increasingly successful ever since, 2009 was the year mobile computing has gone seriously mainstream.
It was the year a good portion of the people using smart phones realized that that wasn't just a phone in their pockets, and began doing stuff with them that used to be the sole domain of full computers.
Like photo editing.
Camera phones have been massively popular for quite some time now, and a quick look on Flickr shows that a goodly portion of the photos there were made with people's phones. Although most of the smart phones also came with built in cameras, they were rarely the best of the crop, and the iPhone's was actually well behind the pack.
But that hasn't stopped it from becoming the most popular camera on Flickr. Yes, the iPhone is at the top of the camera phone charts, and has also beaten out Nikon and Canon DSLR's.
Flickr
And I am convinced there is one reason behind that. The apps.
The growth of iPhone postings coincides quite nicely with the growth in photo editing and effects apps for the iPhone. People can now shoot, edit, add effects and upload from wherever they might be, and it looks like a lot of people are doing just that.
David Dempsey
The possibilities go far beyond the initial spate of software that let the iPhone pump out retro polaroids or toy camera clones. Many of them give you nearly the same degree of control you could previously only find in desktop apps, and some, like one or two of the recently released High Dynamic Range apps, actually give the iPhone features never before existing in cameras.
Of course, smart phones can actually do quite a bit more, and it's now possible to have a multitrack music editor, drum machine, synthesizer, video editor, and gaming system in your pocket. But none of those other uses have found quite the same number of users as the photography apps.
One site that provides a pretty decent overview of just what's possible is iPhoneography. It features reviews and updates of the more interesting photo apps, and also highlights the works of people who take some amazing images with their iPhones.