Jeremy Brooks

It’s here! The Kickstarter project to make a book from the Transamerica View 2012 project is now live!

Last year, I started a project to document my daily view of the Transamerica Pyramid. I used my iPhone and the Hipstamatic app to make an image of the view every day. The result was 256 unique images of the Pyramid. I had always envisioned that the project would take on a physical form, either through a series of prints or a book. After considerable research, I have decided that the best format is a 12″ x 12″ 72-page full color photo book. This size will allow plenty of space for four images on each page, and there will be enough pages to dedicate a full page to some of my favorite images from the project. The book will be printed by Oddi, a company with many years of experience producing high-quality art catalogs and photo books.

Printing a book like this is a large project, and I need your help! If you would like to help make this project a success, please consider backing it on Kickstarter. You can donate any amount and receive a digital copy of the book. For donations at the $10 level and up, the rewards range from a postcard to prints to a poster to the book itself.

If you would like to see all the images, they can be seen here.

Thanks for taking the time to check out the project. Tell your friends! Tweet it! Post it on Facebook and Google Plus! Let’s make this happen!

Made this one by shooting with my iPhone through a Diana lens, then processing in Camera+.

Inspired by the Lee Friedlander show at the Fraenkel Gallery. If you are in San Francsico, check it out.

I am constantly amazed at the power of the photo processing apps on the iOS platform. This original image was shot using the Hipstamatic app. It was dark, the interior of the shop was poorly lit, and I was shooting through glass. As you can see, the image is terribly underexposed and grainy. Not much to look at:

However, after cropping and adjustments in Camera+ and applying noise reduction in PS Express, the image looks like this:

It take some time to learn what each app is best at, and to open and process the image in various apps, but it is time well spent. There are some great results possible. If you want to see more, I suggest you check out this group on Flickr that is dedicated to iPhone before and after shots, and look at the Appsperiments project that Doctor Popular is doing.

Happy shooting!

Last month, I announced a contest for users of Interlacer and Instagram. There were a lot of great entries, and it was difficult to choose only 10. The images are presented here, in no particular order. In the end, I think we got a great cross-section of really interesting images that people are creating on the iPhone.

This image by Ventri was chosen as the overall favorite:

This image by Always Breaking was chosen as the most creative. Both Doc Pop and I loved the way the interlace effect echoed the architectural theme of the shot:

dottiebobottie made this cool image of the 16th Street BART station:

deena21 created this interesting double exposure portrait:

debinsf used Decim8, Camera+, Blender, and Interlacer to make a very interesting landscape image:

maansee made this image along the Embarcedero in San Francisco:

topspinguy used Interlacer, Photoforge2, Diptic, and Slitscan to make this interesting abstract image:

mikistrange used Photoforge2 and Interlacer to come up with this image:

brandondoran came up with this creative entry:

amywhiggins used Stripecam and Interlacer to create this abstract:

I want to thank all the talented photographers that took the time to post an image. Special thanks to Doc Pop for helping to select the images and to Postagram for providing prizes.

Can’t get enough? Check out all the images on Instagram that were created with Interlacer.

Interlacer was released about a month ago, and people are making some really cool images with it.

To inspire you to keep creating awesome images with Interlacer, I’ve decided to hold a photo contest during the month of June. All you have to do is process an image with Interlacer (and other apps, if you want), then post it on Instagram with an #interlacer hashtag. The top ten winners will each receive five Postagram cards. In addition, the most creative and the overall favorite image will win a $10 iTunes gift card. The contest will be judged by myself and the king of iPhone photo app experiments himself, Doctor Popular.

When you post your photos to Instagram, please make sure you tag them with #interlacer so we can find them! You are welcome to describe which apps you used to create your images as well.

Sponsored by Postagram. Thanks, guys!

Here’s the fine print:
RULES

1. Photos must be yours
2. Photos must be processed with Interlacer and posted to Instagram
3. The photo on Instagram must contain the hashtag #interlacer
4. Any photo posted between June 1, 2011 and June 30, 2011 is eligible
5. Photos do not have to be taken with the iPhone
6. Any combination of apps may be used to process the photo, as long as Interlacer is one of the apps
7. Judges are not eligible to win prizes
8. Enter as many times as you like
9. One prize per photographer
10. Winners will grant a non-exclusive, royalty-free license allowing their photo to be featured on the Interlacer web page and on the Interlacer App Store page for promotional purposes only. Your photo remains yours.

PRIZES
Ten photos from ten different photographers will be chosen as winners. Each winner will receive a promo code good for five Postagram cards. One of the photos will be chosen as the Most Creative, and one as the Overall Favorite. These winners will also receive an iTunes Gift Card in the amount of $10 USD.