Hockney, Kandinsky and Escher walk into an app... (or Adventures in Autostitch).
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: iphoneography, autostitch, Phoneography
Date: 16 March 2014 14:22:30
A few days ago (blimey, only that? feels ages ago...) I tweeted a couple of pictures from a dental surgery in a converted church saying that I loved the app when it broke because of the geometry of what you're pointing the camera at...
... and team Autostitch tweeted me back saying that they prefer the app when it doesn't break.
<blockquote lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Kercal">@Kercal</a> That's strange, we don't like it when it breaks. Maybe we need a special mode that does this on purpose?</p>— AutoStitch Panorama (@AutoStitch) <a href="https://twitter.com/AutoStitch/statuses/444175921239425025">March 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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The thing is, it's the accidents that make it for me. If I want an app that you slowly pan from left to right to get a picture that looks like a normal panorama every single time, that's what I'll go for. Autostitch occasionally snaps and that gives you all sorts of oddnesses which is just the way I like it :) Would it be better if the accidents were planned or there was an inbuilt abstract mode? Possibly... but it's the joy of the discovery that makes it all the more special imo.
... and my personal favourite: the Cyber Giraffe (also known as the Eiffel Tower).
I also photographed the one below although wish I'd had the 5S at the time (the one above and below were on a 4S). Would love to have see how the image below could have come out in higher resolution...
(like the one below for example...)
So there you go: breaking an app to get something akin to a drunken mashup of artists portfolios :) Love it.