POTD: Green Pond

I took this picture just outside Greenwich Park (on the Blackheath side), around late afternoon time. The first post is the original version followed by a number of edits done in various iPhoneography apps.

1. Original - Camera+

You know by now I love taking my iPhone pictures with this wonderful camera app. Today’s picture too was shot with my preferred app.

2. AutoPainter version

3. Cross processed version (in Camera+)

4. Simply HDR version

5. ToonPaint version

6. Vivid version (in Camera+)

Apps Featured:

• AutoPainter
• AutoPainter II
• Camera+
• Simply HDR
• ToonPaint

POTD: Bleeding Tree

Red tree withers.
Nature seems to die.
Red leaves gather
Bloody ground -
Battle time.

-- Josh Alfred

1. Original – taken with iPhone using Camera+

2. Pencil Paint version – FX Photo Studio

3. AutoPainter version

4. ToonPaint version

5. Sepia Glow – FX Photo Studio

6. Flashback – Art Camera

I had sent a version of this picture some days ago titled – “Whopping Wednesday”. I just happened to edit that picture in Art Camera app and got some fantastic result, which I thought I can share with you.

POTD: Mega Monday (Autumn Leaves)

I took this picture in Greenwich Park with my iPhone, and is now one of my favourites. It has got that artistic appeal and so, I tried editing it in almost every art effect filtering app in my camera bag on iPhone. I am pretty pleased with the results and would like to share some of these with you.

1. Original Camera+ version

2. Cameramatic version

3. Dynamic Light simple version

4. Dynamic Light (Orton) version

5. Toon Paint version

6. Paint It! Now version

7. Mobile Monet version

8. AutoPainter version

9. AutoPainter II version

POTD: Sunset Sky + 2 Reader's Contributions

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

This picture was taken at Hyde Park last Sunday, around 6 ish in the evening. If it were not for my new super zoom camera, I might not have got the close up effect that you see in the picture.

1. Original with Basic edits on iPhone

(taken with my new Sony HX100V zoom camera, edited for a bit of saturation and white balance in Snapseed app)

2. Pocket Monet version

(edited in Pocket Monet app)

3. Paint It! Now version

 (edited in Paint It! Now app)

4. Autopainter version

(edited in Autopainter app)

5. Dazed version

(edited in Photo Toaster app)

Reader’s Contribution(s)

Today we have two readers contributing to our POTD.

6. ICC

First contribution is from my colleague, Loretta Tsui.

(taken with my HTC Incredible S)

In her own words:

“That’s the International Commerce Centre, it has 118 floors, it’s the world’s fourth tallest building by height, second tallest building by floors, and the tallest building in Hong Kong with the world’s highest swimming pool and bar is on the top floor.  BTW this is the view from our office.”

7. Halloween Cakes

Second set of contribution is from my other colleague and a regular contributor, Carolyne Salmen.

 

(both pictures taken with Blackberry)

Yesterday’s Polling Results:

Number 1 (Flame of Joy) was liked most, but by a small margin to the runner up Number 4 (Vibrant Flame)

  

POTD: Teardrop on a Rose

A Teardrop on a Rose

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Written and recorded by Hank Williams (SR)

While strolling thru a lovely garden

As day was drawing to a close...

My eyes be-held a tragic story

I saw a teardrop on a rose.

It should have been a tear of gladness

But deep inside the sorrow shows

A trusting heart had just been broken

I saw a teardrop on a rose.

A sobbing tear that follows parting

Holds all the pain that sorrow knows

A false goodbye a life is shattered

There lies a story on a rose.

The tear will dry the rose will wither

When spring and winter comes and goes

I loved, I lost, my story ended

With just a teardrop on a rose.

1. Rose1 - SLR Pic

 

(taken with Nikon D5100)

2. Rose1 – Converted into a sketch in Pocket Monet iPhone app

3. Rose2 – iPhone Pic (Big Lens)

(taken with iPhone using Big Lens app – I found the effects produced by this app simply amazing – almost SLR like!)

4. Rose3 – SLR Pic edited with Snapseed iPhone app

(taken with Nikon D5100 and edited for saturation and sharpness in Snapseed)

5. Rose3 – Van Gogh version

(taken with Nikon D5100 and converted into a painting in Autopainter app – Van Gogh filter)

6. Rose3 – Monochrome version

(taken with Nikon D5100 and converted into a monochrome in Monochromia app)