Reply With QuoteI can take perfectly acceptable pictures without the Hipstamatic app. Shitty singers NEED pitch correction to sound good. Blow it out your ass.
Electronic cigarette.
It's faking something the camera isn't to make it look more interesting than it actually is. Autotune is faking someone's singing range to make them sound more interesting than they actually are.
I'm fine with this.
I can take perfectly acceptable pictures without the Hipstamatic app. Shitty singers NEED pitch correction to sound good. Blow it out your ass.
Skeptical.
No, it's gimmicky. Everyone can take "perfectly acceptable pictures" because all that's required for that is to point the camera and push a button. The app is taking these snapshots and throwing various filters and color adjustments on them with no regard for the content (I'm sure you have some user control in what "effect" you want to achieve, but the process is all automated). It would be better to have originals that you could tinker with in different directions, but as a fun diversion with photos you're not that invested in, why not?
I think that's a given considering the medium. If you're saying good photography only results from spontaneity, then that seems quite tough to justify.Originally Posted by Josh
You "tinker" with the shots by selecting combinations of "lenses" "film" and "flashes" like we used to do with analog photography back when it was still fun. The allure of this program to me is not knowing what is going to come out of my camera. Taking a digital picture, then enhancing it with Adobe® Photoshop® has never been fun, or appealing. I like the forced limitation that this app provides.
No, everyone can not. See: vacation photos.
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And knowing how to frame and angle it.
This boring picture of an awesome moment could have been made 100x better if you framed and angled it more dramatically to capture the action of a guitarist rocking out. You need to be up in the action. Right now, all you see is a lot of boring environment and an intense subject not getting the focus she deserves.
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EDIT: or 90 deg counter clockwise so you can see both the guitarist and the bassist in the background would have been good. But there's no need to see the drummer or amps, nothing is really going on back there that needs to take the focus away from the guitarist.
Lighting too, but that's where the hipsta-tune comes in.
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Yeah, I took that while rocking the fuck out with my cell phone over my head without any kind of filtering app.
also, lol at implying you could freely move about the floor and carefully frame your shots during a Guitar Wolf set. I can remember exactly what was happening when I pushed the shutter button, what song was playing, who was violently dry humping me dolemite etc. I "captured the moment" just fine for my purposes
This is license to ignore everything you ever say about anytyhing ever btw.
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In some ways, yeah. But I only hate autotune because it sounds like shit. A lot electronic instruments give people the ability to make music without having the talent to actually beat a drum, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
Hipstamatic makes cell phone pictures look nice. They otherwise rarely do. And since I can't carry my DSLR with me every time I go grab lunch or meet with some friends, a cell phone is what I'm left with. Hipstamatic makes it almost as fun to take pictures with a phone as using a DSLR. In some ways it captures better, more real shots because it happens so quickly and easily. This is the purpose of the thread.
It'll cost probably $8 total to buy the app ($1.99) and the handful of expansion kits. It will be the best $8 you ever spend on your iPhone.
I certainly wouldn't say only. But definitely there is a unique value to the shots you can capture with a cell phone that just wouldn't happen with a DSLR.
The point of the thread is that what you just described wouldn't have happened because 1) that requires a lot of setup and thought, and 2) you'd need a DSLR around your neck at all times to capture idealized versions of pictures.
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Electronic cigarette.
Maybe when I get an iPhone 5. Not sure I feel my 3G is worth the money.
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Here is a lovely autotuned photo of my dog's asshole in response to everyone being serious business about this shit. I like the way the brightness collects around her lighter fur to really bring out the darkened anus.
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