A little iPhone Photo Fun
My cousin-in-law celebrated her 50th birthday in Boston last week. She lives in San Francisco and is a flight attendant for United but she grew up in Massachusetts. She just happened to have a layover in Boston, so she invited family and friends on a sunset cruise of Boston Harbor. Normally. I would have brought at least 1 camera with me, but for some reason I left home with just my iPhone.
The Boston Harbor sunset cruises head out to the Boston Lighthouse – which is located on Little Brewster Island out on the harbor. Our boat was delayed and we got a really late start. By the time we got to the Lighthouse, the sunset was almost over. The view was spectacular and the lighting on the Lighthouse was amazing. I know the iPhone camera sucks in low light, but it was all I had. I took a couple of shots trying to time getting the beacon light in view. Here is one of the photos:
Boston Light – original iPhone Photo
Nothing to write home about, but look at the lighting on the left side of the Lighthouse and the Keeper’s home! I couldn’t just let this photo go to waste so I loaded it in to iPhoto to see what magic I could do.
First, I did a crop just to see what I had to work with:
Still nothing to write home about. Normally I would use Photoshop to work some magic but I was curious about what can be done with the simple tools in iPhoto. So I applied 3 effects and also tweaked sharpening and noise reduction to create the following 4 “art photos”.
Boston Light – Black and White
Boston Light – Noise Reduction and Sharpen 100%
You can click on the above to see the full size final result. I think I like the last one, oversharpened and over noise reduced, the best. How about you? Anyone have any other interesting, simple techniques to recover iPhone photos?