It’s time I came out and said what we’re all thinking. My name is Jess and I am an addict. I am addicted to the Hipstamatic iPhone app. As addictions go, it’s a bit lame. It isn’t going to help me break up my family, squander my fortune or destroy my body. All it does is make the photos I take on my phone look old.
The app provides instant nostalgia. But the problem with Hipstamatic and similar apps, is that while it’s great fun to make things look like 1981 now, when I look back at these images in five or ten or fifty years, I won’t have that visual reminder of what the colours really were like in 2012, or what the texture of the regular photographic images from today was like.
But at least I will have photos, which I wouldn’t if I had to rely on myself lugging my proper camera around with me. What are you thoughts on the ‘atmosphere for the lazy’ look of Hipstamatic, Instagram and the like?
Have a go at the app SwankoLab – even more fun than Hipsta (I find Hipsta quote clunky and slow, all that thinking before you see the image). I saw that Hipsta now has a mailorder photo processing option – but the resolution is always so awful! A pity, as I have some great Hipsta pics!
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I use the BeFunky Fx ap which lets you do lots of things to photos you have already taken so can change to have the old look or black and white. It is quite good.. but it is great to be able to do so much with photos now days!
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Hi Jess – Very cool photos! I found your post though WordPress’s “Related Links” function and link to this at my post over here: SIngle Image Sundays: Inch Nail.
I’m right there with you on Hipstamatic. I like the retro results, but also find the more i use it and become familiar with the different lenses and films, the more I employe it as a general photo device for capturing just the right moment. Totally fun stuff.
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