At the stadium
This is a small stadium near Torino. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was 645 Pro, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Scratchcam.
This is a small stadium near Torino. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was 645 Pro, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Scratchcam.
This is via Milano in Torino. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was Pro HDR, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Dynamic Light, Pic Grunger and PhotoToaster.
This is a palace in Torino. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was Pro HDR, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Dynamic Light, Pic Grunger and PhotoToaster.
This is via Garibaldi in Torino. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was Pro HDR, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Dynamic Light, Pic Grunger and PhotoToaster.
You can also see Via Garibaldi, Torino another post about this street that had been selected amongst other pics as a semi-finalist for the 2011 IPA Mobile Art Grant .
Many of you have been asking to see the original shot before editing or the sequence of processing steps that brought to the posted image, and here it is.
This is the starting shot, it was taken around 1 pm during lunch break on a cold day after snowfall, the weather was cloudy with some sunlight piercing the clouds.
There were seagulls flying on the Naviglio channel in Milano, so to capture them in flight, instead of shooting with HDR Pro app which is quite slow since it does take two shots to create the HDR effect, I used another shooting app called 6×6. Throughout the shooting session I used an Olloclip wide lens, as can be easily seen by the curved line of the river bank.
Amongst the shots I took I chose this one because the flying seagull can be clearly seen and has a nice vignette of snow around.
I used Snapseed to crop the image so that the subject (the seagull) was larger and better positioned.
After that I tuned contrast, brightness and saturation.
To enhance and dramatize the image I used Dynamic Light, an app that applies many effects but mainly does a HDR-like effect.
PicGrunger applies textures to the image in the so-called “grunge” style. I chose warm textures for this image.
Phototoaster is a all-round editor that I find very good for final balancing and refining of the image. In this case I mainly corrected the color temperature of the image adding blue and red hues.
In many images my editing chain stops here, and the final image is ready.
Looking at the image, however, you will notice that after all this editing the seagull is almost lost in the image and does not catch the eye of the viewer.
There are different devices you can use to make a subject pop up in an image, for this shot I chose to enhance the image with an app called Rays.
Rays enables you to add light rays effects to an image. In this case I chose to originate rays from the subject, the seagull.
Rays has however the downside of generating a misty overlay that reduces contrast and colors making the image somewhat dull.
To give back “punch“to the image I did some final adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation with Snapseed.
And this brings us to the final image that you have seen in the previous post.
Hope you enjoyed this walkthrough, it was nice to go back with you at the steps I followed to create this image.
This is the Naviglio channel in Milano. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s and Olloclip wide lens.
The app used to shot the image was 6×6, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using PicGrunger, Dynamic Light, Rays and PhotoToaster.
This is the Naviglio channel in Milano. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was HDR Pro, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Image Blender, Dynamic Light, Rays and PhotoToaster.
This is a building in Torino. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was HDR Pro, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Dynamic Light, Pic Grunger and PhotoToaster.
This is the Naviglio channel in Milano decorated with festive Christmas lights. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s.
The app used to shot the image was HDR Pro, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Dynamic Light, Pic Grunger and PhotoToaster.
This is via Pietro Micca in Torino, and above you can see light decorations that are part of the “Luci d’artista” art exposition. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s using an Olloclip wide lens.
The app used to shot the image was HDR Pro, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Dynamic Light, Pic Grunger and PhotoToaster.
This is via Garibaldi in Torino. This has been shot with my iPhone 4s using an Olloclip wide lens.
The app used to shot the image was HDR Pro, cropping and adjustments were done using Snapseed, further editing was done using Dynamic Light, Pic Grunger and PhotoToaster.
This photo has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2011 IPA Mobile Art Grant