![]() ![]() Did a lot of research first before becoming an early adopter. May 2013 – traded in my beloved Samsung Galaxy S3 for the new Galaxy S4. A Longer screen won’t help photographers, a Bigger one will! ![]() Wasn’t impressed by the iPhone 5, as was hoping for a bigger screen and a higher MP camera, but Apple disappointed on both. Now of course I realise I didn’t really need an iPad to do all that, but it seemed a good idea at the time, and besides, the bigger screen meant less of an eyestrain to me! Briefly toyed with DSLR photography, by way of an Olympus E-PM1.ĭecember 2012 – bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone. September 2012 – bought an iPad 2 on eBay, as I wanted to create bigger prints. Discovered that Western Australia has a looong way to go before they catch up with the rest of the world! My style had evolved by then, and I was calling myself an iPhone Artist rather than an iPhoneographer. July 2011 – initiated and organised Perth Apple Store’s and Western Australia’s first iPhoneography exhibition/demonstration. I resigned from this position in June 2012 to concentrate on my own creative endeavours, but still keep in touch with MobiToggers on Facebook. ![]() Was invited to become an Admin Moderator. June 2011 – joined MobiTog to get connected with other iPhoneographers around the world. Started styling myself an iPhoneographer. Discovered Lomographic Apps, ventured further afield and discovered a whole new world of mobile photography Apps. Started Apping like mad, and searching for fellow likeminded crazies. I was mostly using this to access the Internet, and of course to play games from the Apps store.ĭecember 2010 – landed in Australia, got married. June 2010 – bought first iPhone 3 on eBay. It came to me in Ireland via the United Kingdom. In a nutshell, here’s the chronology of events as they happened to me: Here are some pretty cool abstracts I got using images from my camera roll. These 2 are my street and neighbouring houses planetized. Here are some small planets I got using the in-app satellite Google maps. This is inevitable, and can add to the charm of the images. You will see blurring around the corners, from the image being distorted. Which, if you didn’t resample or resize, can give you at an acceptable 150dpi a measurement of 8.67 x 13.67 inches, or approximately a comfortable A4 size. My images came out at 1300 x 2048 pixels. While Small Planet won’t give you a lot of clarity or sharpness, the image resolution is quite acceptable. The results are varied, some work more than others, but you can get some pretty abstract and weird images from this app. Or, you could choose any photo from your camera roll to planetize. Architectural details do seem to come out best for these types of effects. Cool!Īnother cool feature is that you can choose to use Google maps within the App to find images of suitable buildings or cityscapes to create your miniature planet from. I could get a bird’s eye view from above looking down, or an ant’s view looking upwards, or anything in between. The same concept appeared on the Android market too.Īnyway, after installing several Tiny Planet-like Apps, and testing them out (some were pretty basic, too basic actually), I discovered that this particular App called Small Planet allowed me to make adjustments simply by moving my finger around the screen of my mobile phone. Tiny Planets was very popular and spawned a whole generation of similar Apps. It was a rather hit and miss thing, you couldn’t make adjustments at all and had to accept or reject the automated results. When I was using iOS on my iPhone 4, I used to love Tiny Planets. Today I want to share with you Small Planet, an Android App that I discovered while searching for one that would do panoramas that wrapped up into spheres. ![]()
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