Today in the second part of our Frozen special
I'm going to show you how by attaching a little Olloclip lens to our phone is
going to take your photography into another world. I'm also going to show you
how we can photograph some tiny textures in frozen ice
and how we can transform a natural look photo into a wonderful,
colorful, funky art print using the wonderfully versatile app iColorama.
AdoramaTV presents, iPhoneography with Nicki Fitz-Gerald.
Macro photography or close up photography is absolutely wonderful
for really getting those little hidden textures like in the leaves or fruit that can't
be seen by the human eye
and if you add some ice to the mix you're going to get some wonderful translucent
textures and frost forming on the top which looks
absolutely brilliant under the macro lens.
Now light is absolutely key to what I'm going to show
you so we've got ourselves a nice position here by the window with the light coming through
I've got myself at in nice study table and I've got my gorilla pod which is going
to keep our shot
nice and steady and I've got the mount attached which the camera can go into.
Now the Olloclip lens I'm going to use is a four piece kit
and we'll be just using the 10x,now the reason for that is the 10x is going to
give us much more
of an area within our frame in focus, great for getting
lots of patterns in focus. The 15x is great, its closer
but its a tiny area, good for ants heads and little spider details.
So the way we get to the lens is if we just unscrew the wide-eyed lens that
sits on top
and we'll just attach it to our camera, now the first thing we want to do is give it a little clean
with a microfibre cloth, these are dead cheap,
just give a little whipe and also give your little camera
lens a wipe as well, thats to ensure your picture is nice and sharp.
Now just pop on to the camera, clip that on
and then set the camera up into the
mount, avoid the shutter buttons on the bottom
and what I'm going to do is going to photograph these leaves against the light
so I've got myself a little support here, a nice soft support and I've got the leaves here
which look absolutely fantastic frozen in ice
and I've put them on a plastic plate because they come away
really easily from the
plate. So I've also put a little bit of plastic we might be able to just see the transparent
plastic around
if you were to take them to the windows, which is another way of getting the
light to come streaming through
that would help you attached those to the windows. So
let's just put that there, will put our beautiful leaves
up against the window,look at the light streaming through, that looks
absolutely
wonderful. I'm just going to sit so they're nice and firm hope they're not going to
rock anywhere and you can see the textures of the bubbles coming through
so we need to get our camera in nice and close to the leaves here
lets position our tripod down like that, need to put ProCamera on
and let's just select that
ProCamera is fantastic because we get nice high resolution files
and we're just going to move that around until we get something we like, there's some really lovely
pattens and textures, lovely blue coming through just behind here
and want I'm going to do is I'm going to put the timer button on because that's going to avoid
camera shake, but just before we do that let's just make sure we've got that nice
in focus
by clicking on the screen, we've got the focus reticle here
so we can just move that around a bit and get our focus nice and sharp.
We've also got a little exposure reticle here so we can just move around if want to adjust the light
in the frame a bit, and once I'm happy with my shot, which I am
that looks absolutely wonderful, I'm going to press the timer button
3, 2, 1 and we've got our fabulous shot,
brilliant! But don't just stop there, try some other subjects like this frozen
cactus which looks absolutely wonderful when it's frozen in
ice, the little textures and the flowers look absolutely beautiful.
I'll move my camera in so we can have a closer look at exactly
what happens here, where we freeze this little cactus and these little spikes here
appeal their little bubbles, it looks absolutely delightful
a really, really wonderful magic world existing in there when we look at that
under our Olloclip lens.
Now what I'm going to do is I'm using ProCamera, I'm going to just get the exposure
and the focus reticle up by clicking and dragging on the screen,
I can move that exposure around to make that slightly lighter or darker
now that looks just about right, we're getting a bit of detail in the flower there
and then lets just move our focus around and get that just on the flower and the little
details in the bubbles there, that looks beautiful. This would look lovely as an
image on itself or if you liked doing collage work and
liked integrating in backgrounds with
other images this would look beautiful and soft, so let's have a look
we'll just press on the timer because that's going to give us a nice steady shot
perfect, wonderful!
Now another great idea with a cactus is to get some lovely frozen results is to actually
sprinkled it just with a little bit water
and then freeze the results of that and this is going to give you tiny little
blobs of ice on the cactus spikes, a lovely combination those little round
icicles on the sharp spikes of the cactus. Now let's have a look
here, get in a bit closer with ProCamera
and just have a twist around and see what we can see now
this cactus has got, here we go, these little blobs here
you can just see those little ice blobs, it takes a bit of practice
sometimes you need to sprinkle quite a bit on and
we can just see one here on that edge, it can look absolutely beautiful.
So you can see the spike and its got a little
ice blob at the end, the spike blob is the center of the image
we'll just focus in on that get the lens nice and clear,
lets take our exposure down to this bright area here, just get a bit more
even light on the subject. Again bring our focus reticle in
tap on the timer; 3, 2, 1
so you get a nice steady shot and thats a beautiful little detail with that ice blob. Now I've just
spotted another one
just down there and if you could just see that little blob down there,
let's just focus in on there, we've got our camera in a nice position
lets press the timer, and it just gives a little bit of extra sparkle
to that cactus another frozen idea.
I'm really happy with the leaf photographs I've taken today
and I particularly like this one, this one is wonderful it has a lovely
strong line going through the middle the frame, we've got all these lines
around the edge of these beautiful little textures just inside.
Now this is a shame to leave it on the camera roll where no one can see it,
I'd love to get this printed out like the ones you can see behind me here
but this time I'm going to turn into a really colorful funky print
and I've got a great app for doing that. iColorama is a fantastic
app let's get the photograph into that and see what we can do.
So we'll open the iColorama app, we'll need to click on
image from library and then select our photo.
Now I know I've got it in my favorites folder here so
here's that photo, click on the highest resolution one on the top because that's
going to give us the finest
quality and then lets see what this iColorama app can do.
We've got a big word at the top here, Select, and we've got all our different affects
in the menu there. Now presets, here
is great if you just when I have a little look and see what you can do
automatically, we've got patterns in there,
we've got colors, it has a lovely pink color transforms that really quickly already
but I prefer to experiment a bit so
let's have a look and see what else we've got on the menu. Now
I've just clicked on Form and in here we've got some
really great little affects, click on warp and you can just start to stretch that
image around.
Try another one, we've got Deforms here
which is instantly going to change that into quite a radical
abstract piece of art, and glass is really beautiful its a more natural effect.
Now that would be good enough to print now, that's really given
pointillist effect which is really quite beautiful
I like that one. We've also got other ones on here
but I've got to remember what I'm going to do and that is I want a colorful pop print.
So if we go into adjust, we've got some great
options here including vibrance,
click on vibrance and
you'll see when you click on Set down the bottom
you've got an option to slide saturation right up, now watch what happens when I do this...
you can see thats really a magnificent color
into the image. I'll click on Set again, if we bring the gammer down
that's going to bring the blue in the background right up
and you can see that has instantly transformed that image, if you can see
the possibilities with just one image how we can transform this
into lots of little prints we could have a great set here of images
so I'm happy with that I'm going to save that down,
click in the top right hand corner, save it down to your photo album
and there it is, its now ready to print out and that's exactly what you can do.
We've shot our image with a high resolution camera app we've edited it in a high
resolution app so you can actually have that printed
on the wall and have something like this all from your iPhone
and I think that looks absolutely great!
But don't stop there, not only can have your photographs on canvas or prints,
you can print them on glass and get these lovely little coasters its easy to do, take your photographs
transform them in the app
and then just make your own art for your home, that looks fantastic.
So what are you waiting?! Grab your Olloclip lens, grab your camera
and photograph som lovely natural forms and textures,
find some leaves, anything you find freeze it in ice, put them through the apps like
Mextures and Snapseed
and create some great art for your walls, you'll be amazed how easy it is and how beautiful
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