20 Applications For Iphone And Ipad For Photo Enthusiasts

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IDevice are increasing their present in the market and they have changed radically, the way we enjoy the multimedia content, work and play. One of the categories that have benefited the most multi-touch device with the apple on the back was the photographer. To them came applications of all types, useful for both amateurs and professionals.

Apple, in a famous spot, says that there is an app for everything, why should it not be true for our work? We tried for you the applications for photographers from the choice of our new reflex to post-production via random shots for fans of street photography or photo studio for portrait or landscape.

The choice

Choose a camera can be a real mystery. Wandering on the Internet in search of technical specifications, sample photos can be complicated; sometimes the abbreviations used are complicated and not always accessible to all. If the reader is a photographer, he may not need help in the selection, but a photo lover who is recently approaching in this world just be glad to know that there is also an app to choose your next camera.

The app in question is called ...
... [http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fpdc-calculator-camera-db-by%252Fid393008704%253Fmt%253D8&h=cceb4]Dof Calculator & Camera DB and for $ 1,99 gives you a virtually infinite database of over 1700 cameras divided by brand and models with complete technical specifications for each of them, but also gives us a very complete online help to learn about the significance of the technical specifications and to use caution with our purchase. The application also gives us the opportunity to look at the pictures from Flickr taken with the selected camera to get an idea of the possibilities thereof. It can also be used to calculate, with precision and reliable depth of field and hyper-focal starting from the specific characteristics of our camera.

Shooting.

One of the essential tools for photographers is [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/xposure-best-photography-tool/id325439409?mt=8]Xposure that for free provides you some excellent tools for your shots. In particular, this application can calculate the exposure based on the scene you want to take from rare solar eclipse to beautiful sunset or to take a photo of a difficult dive with a parachute. But that’s not all. With this application you can also calculate the hyper-focal (although Dof Calculator & CameraDB is more intuitive for the task and Xposure tends to crash) and even calculate the exact time of sunrise and sunset based on our position. It’s an excellent utility to have, also because it free.

Very important for every photographer is the light and [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/lightmeter/id320768222?mt=8]LightMeter for $ 2.99 gives you a good substitute to a meter, maybe can not replace in every way a professional tool, but it can help in times of need from the point of view that probably will always be with us on our iPhone, which is not always be said for a light meter.

A couple of other applications are certainly to be taken into account for $ 1.99 [http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=290785551&mt=8]Photo Buddy also gives you the ability to make calculations for the power of flash and [http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287811118&mt=8]PhotoCalc for $ 2.99 gives you access to the magical world of the [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_zonale]zonal system.

The geottagging.

It’s comfortable being able to geotag our photos, for example, by area theme albums, such as what makes the excellent iPhoto for Mac. Some photographers use to keep a diary of pictures precisely the time and coordinates of picture to change, then the exif of photos. If you're tired of all this [http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=290954446&mt=8]EveryTrail is right for you. The app relies on the service [http://www.everytrail.com]www.everytrail.com to make you see the diary of your photographic journey. 

Another useful application is [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/photojot-photographers-notebook/id290773872?mt=8]PhotoJot that for $ 2.99 allows you to write your diary, using the GPS of the iPhone.

Street photography.

One of the most fascinating styles of photography now is that the street photography. It’s to shoot in the street, random pictures that can give satisfaction to many photographers. In this area has become increasingly so-called iphoneography, the art of taking artistic photographs with your iPhone; its latest incarnation has a camera worthy of the name 5-megapixel and above all of good quality.

There are so many applications to take pictures that it would be difficult to make a full review, but certainly stands out among the many [http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC8QFjAB&url=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fid329670577%253Fmt%253D8&ei=TQXZTc-aG87ssgas0ND3Ag&usg=AFQjCNFSedXNVjzVMjVHsdKL8-HG0VbJ6w&sig2=vgGAaAf4qYpZy0Z3GfbulA]camera+ ($1,99), which, among its unique features allows you to define separate touch with the exhibition and the focus for unique photos, bright and well focused. After shooting, with same application we can also apply filters and sharing our photos on social networks.

Another very popular application in this genre is [http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDYQFjAB&url=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fit%252Fapp%252Finstagram%252Fid389801252%253Fmt%253D8&ei=YAXZTdGQCMjGtAaCp6T4Ag&usg=AFQjCNFJlK2vW8KQLWuaAU62ZGsE_auIMw&sig2=n4PJ7ve1u-0lDOrrw1uhpg]Instagram; the basic version is free and includes the purchase in-app to add filters. With the latest versions Instagram has become a real social network for street photographers where to send and receive comments on your photos. A must have.

The Panophotography.

Another creative way to use our iPhone is the so-called panophotography, i.e. construction of panoramic photographs using the gyroscope and accelerometer to automatically take photos in succession to obtain the pano pictures. The queen application of this series is definitely [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/panoramatic-360/id329855051?mt=8]Panoramatic 360 that for $ 1.99 gives you the ability to mount views with a single clicks. In particular, the application uses the hardware of your iDevice to understand when taking photos in succession, the app will tell you when to stop it in your hand to take a new picture. Worthy of note are You gotta see this ($ 1.99) for the creative way in which our panos are shown, [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autostitch-panorama/id318944927?mt=8]Autostitch ($ 0.99) for ease of use and [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/photosynth/id430065256?mt=8]Photosynth (free).

Postproduction.

Even for the postproduction applications are numerous, having to make a choice we have explored the universal applications that allow you to edit your photos on both iPhone and iPad using its ample screen, and its dual-core processor. The first program that we present is that [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8]Photoshop express that offers, for free, several tools to edit pictures and the ability to purchase additional filters through in-app purchase. If you want to spend a little more, another useful application you can buy is [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/iris-photo-suite-for-ipad/id431534775?mt=8]Iris Photosuite per iPad ($ 2.99), the application is not universal, but [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/iris-photo-suite/id377598786?mt=8]Iris photosuite per iPhone is available for download for $ 1.99. The application has an accurate GUI and also allows us to apply additional filters to our photos.

If your creative mind loves pictures with selective color the application for you is definitely [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/color-splash-for-ipad/id374308914?mt=8]ColorSplash for iPad $ 1.99, you can create artistic photos with your fingers deleting the colors of your photo, leaving only some details. [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/color-splash/id304871603?mt=8]ColorSplash for iPhone costs $ 0.99. Similar application is the universal [http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/color-effects-recolor-decolor/id409913910?mt=8]ColorEffects that gives you the same opportunity for free. We have to add here the recent news of the API release by Adobe for Photoshop Touch API, which could give developers more ideas to give us even more functional applications.