My iPhone Photography Workflow

I was asked about what apps I use on the iPhone for photography, so I decided to write this little post to describe my workflow when taking a photo on the iPhone.

The majority of time I start with the iPhone Camera app. Sometimes depending on what I am photographing I will use another app for the photo. But nine times out of ten I will use the camera app.

With panoramas if I have time to take a panorama I will use Panoramatic to take it, if I want to capture something as a panorama that requires speed to capture (ie like a rainbow) I will use the camera app and then use autostitch to generate the panorama. Which allows me to get a quick and dirty check. If I'm not happy I can retake, or if the moment has gone use Panoramtic which often gives better results.
If I want to get "arty" on the panorama I use See This!

For occassions that I want to capture an action scene I use Gorillacam that has a three photo burst mode.

Just recently I have added TrueHDR to handle the times when there is extreme shadow or light.

So now I have a photo(s) sitting in the Camera Roll of my iPhone. This is where I start to use iPhone apps to enhance the picture taken.But first using the Photos app I review what I have shot and make mental notes of which ones I am going to edit.

Generally my first app I pass a photo through is Photogene, here I usually crop the image, and use the colour correction if need be, before saving the image back to the Camera Roll.

If the photo is noisey I will pass it through NoiseBlaster to try and improve it.

Next I may pass the photo through a tilt shift app, my preference at the moment is TiltShift, although if I'm not happy with the results I will try TiltShiftGen.

Then it is down to what filters I want to apply to the photo. This is such a personal thing. The filters I use the most are the ones that come in the Best Camera app, followed by Camera+.
But I use other apps to get some effects I like. For example I will use ColorSplash, or the HDR in 3in1Filters (although the HDR is available as a seperate free download).
But other apps I have in the tool box are ToonPaint,PicSketchPro,Diptic,LensFlare,Mill Colour and Collage.
The Nikon L&E is a great free app (from the US iTunes app store) that gives photography advice.

The only drawback of working this way is that you get multiple versions of the same photo sitting in your Camera Roll. It shows your thought process, and acts as a back up, which is a good thing, but you do need to clear out regularly.
Here is a couple of screen shots showing the current apps I use.






You can see some of the photos I have taken with the iPhone here on Posterous or my SoFoBoMo 2010 project, or these over on whitespider1066.com A Virtual Exhibition and Misty Morning A Photo Post. Well they are the ones I am proud of and willing to tell the world of ;)

Some posts on whitespider1066.com that you may want to look at as well looking at one or two of the apps in more detail: "You Gotta See This","Panoramatic 360" and "Autostitch".