POTD: Lake Manyara Sunset

I wonder why when you say goodbye

beautiful colours paint the sky.

Shades of orange, yellow and pink too

all come out because of you.

And although I hate to see you go,

I really do enjoy the show.

I've seen you leave so many times

and still it's a favourite sight of mine.

There'll be no sadness, be no sorrow

because my sun, you'll come out tomorrow.

I won't feel hurt, I'll feel no pain

because on your way down, your colours will reign.

• Adoni Marcano, http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=5928#ixzz1fwkCps2P

1)      Panorama - Autostitch

2)      Original – Camera+

3)      ToonPaint

4)      Snapseed

5)      Snapseed – Drama

6)      Photo Toaster – Color Burst

7)      Simply HDR

Apps Featured:

• Autostitch
• Camera+
• Snapseed
• Photo Toaster

POTD: Panoramic view of Canary Wharf from Greenwich Park

3 individual shots taken with Camera+ and then stitched together in AutoStitch.

Apps featured:

• Camera+
• AutoStitch

Panorama 360 Camera is now available for FREE

I have used the app, but found it to be a bit cumbersome - aligning the red and blue boxes is just too time consuming. I prefer Autostitch for panoramas - its simple, easy and accurate. Nevertheless, you can try out the Panorama 360 Camera app at its current FREE price and then make the judgment yourself.

iPhoneography apps by features

Over the last few months, I have accumulated hundreds of iPhone apps for photography. And honestly, it is often confusing to remember which app has which particular features. Every time I have to edit a photograph, I am struggling to determine which is the best app to do the job. And also most of them offer the same features in a slightly different way to each other. So, now I am starting to build a catalog of features that I normally want for my photo editing and list down the corresponding apps that support them. This is just a nascent piece of work at the moment, so keep coming back to see regular updates on the page.

• Capturing Photos
Below is a list of apps that I prefer to use depending on the type of photo I am planning to click.
• Normal mode
Native camera app
Camera+
King Camera
• Retro
Lumiere
Retro Camera Plus
• Monochrome
1. Streetmate
2. B&W Camera
• HDR
1. Pro HDR
2. HDR Fusion
• Panoramas
1. Autostitch Panorama
2. DerManDar Panorama
3. Photosynth
• Shutter Control
1. SlowShutter Cam
• Stealth
1. nofinder
• Quick
1. QuickPix
2. BurstMode
• Crop an image
1. Camera+
This app is my first choice when I have the need to crop an image. It offers cropping in various dimensions like square golden ratio, 4:3,16:9, and freeform. 
2. Squaready
3. Iris Photo Suite
4. Photoforge2
5. PS Express
6. FX Photo Studio
• Increase/Decrease Sharpness
1. PS Express
2. Iris Photo Suite
3. Snapseed
• Adjust Brightness/Contrast
1. Snapseed (allows selective adjustment)
2. PS Express
3. Iris Photo Suite
• Increase/Decrease Ambiance
1. Snapseed
• Change White Balance
1. Snapseed
• Increase/Decrease Saturation
1. Snapseed
2. PS Express
3. Iris Photo Suite
• Convert into a monochrome
1. Monochromia
2. Noir Photo
3. Snapseed
4. Camera+
5. FX Photo Studio
• Selective Colouring
1. iQuikColor Splash (allows selecting up to 4 colors at a time)
2. Iris Photo Suite
3. Color Splash
• Convert into HDR
1. Simply HDR
2. Dynamic Light
3. Photo Toaster
4. Camera+
• Adding Depth of Field
1. iQuikDOF
2. Big Lens
• Convert into an Artistic image

1. ToonPaint
2. MobileMonet
3. AutoPainter
4. Autopainter II
5. Paint It! Now
6. Art Camera
7. Artographo
8. Sketch Me!

St. Paul's Panoramas

Continuing with the past two day's theme, we have some more of St. Paul's today – this time in the shape of Panoramic pictures. I haven't dabbled with this part of photography before, and have started experimenting it recently.

On this occasion, I took some pictures from the terrace of the One New Change mall – on recommendation from Ian (you get the credit again J). Basically, I took some 16 pictures spanning from Shard to St. Paul's part of the view and then stitched them together in Autostitch app. I loved the result and hope you like it as well. Then, I took a second panorama of the front side of St. Paul's, which has come out more like a fisheye picture but that's the best I could create from such a short distance.

(taken with Canon IXUS 310HS and stitched together in Autostitch)

(taken with iPhone and collated in Autostitch)

P.S.: Yesterday's voting result: Cinematic version (#3) won hands down, closely followed by the Monochrome version (#2).