Camera+
£1.19/$1.99 Take better photos
The Camera app that comes on the iPhone by default is, frankly, a bit rubbish. Oh, the camera's fine, and the app can take some decent shots, but it doesn't offer you much creative control. This is where Camera+ excels.
The app has two parts: one for taking photos and one for editing them. The 'taking' bit is deceptively simple; by default, it overlays a Rule of Thirds grid to help you compose better shots, and you can activate an anti-vibration more that, when triggered, automatically takes a photo only when the camera is held still. Better still, while the default Camera app enables you to touch on an area to set both focus and exposure, Camera + lets you touch with two fingers to set the focus and exposure points independently. Flash modes are supported, and you can even turn the flash just to 'on', transforming your iPhone into a handy torch.
The range of effects you can apply in the editing mode is broad, split into three categories for easy navigation. Better still, the effects are actually of a very high quality. We'd still like proper manual control or even just an opacity slider, though.
£1.19/$1.99 Take better photos
The Camera app that comes on the iPhone by default is, frankly, a bit rubbish. Oh, the camera's fine, and the app can take some decent shots, but it doesn't offer you much creative control. This is where Camera+ excels.
The app has two parts: one for taking photos and one for editing them. The 'taking' bit is deceptively simple; by default, it overlays a Rule of Thirds grid to help you compose better shots, and you can activate an anti-vibration more that, when triggered, automatically takes a photo only when the camera is held still. Better still, while the default Camera app enables you to touch on an area to set both focus and exposure, Camera + lets you touch with two fingers to set the focus and exposure points independently. Flash modes are supported, and you can even turn the flash just to 'on', transforming your iPhone into a handy torch.
The range of effects you can apply in the editing mode is broad, split into three categories for easy navigation. Better still, the effects are actually of a very high quality. We'd still like proper manual control or even just an opacity slider, though.
HIPSTAMATIC
£1.19/$1.99 While Camera + does have a few effects that do a credible job of giving your photos the low-fi hipster look, if you're going to go for it then you really need Hipstamatic.
With this camera app, you can choose from a range of lenses, flash effects and film stock - a few are included, though you can buy more inside the app itself - to create low-fi photos that look terrific.
The hipster aesthetic and mindset might get to you after a while - the processing time for pictures seems artificially long, just for show, and you can't edit normal photos that you've already taken, but there's no doubt it's a lovely, fun app.
£1.19/$1.99 While Camera + does have a few effects that do a credible job of giving your photos the low-fi hipster look, if you're going to go for it then you really need Hipstamatic.
With this camera app, you can choose from a range of lenses, flash effects and film stock - a few are included, though you can buy more inside the app itself - to create low-fi photos that look terrific.
The hipster aesthetic and mindset might get to you after a while - the processing time for pictures seems artificially long, just for show, and you can't edit normal photos that you've already taken, but there's no doubt it's a lovely, fun app.
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