iPhone 14 Pro Max, 24 mm, ISO 80, 3.0s@f1.78

App: Spectre

Last weekend we were headed to the South Coast to attend a Christmas party being thrown by wife’s most favourite band in the world, Archive. I wasn’t feeling particularly good so was sat in the passenger seat whilst the wife acted as chauffeur. As I was sat there feeling a bit meh and watching the world go by as we were travelling along the M4 it struck me how incredibly grey and dull everything outside seemed. I’ve used the Spectre app for quite a while and in the right scenarios I think it produces some great results. I pressed the phone’s lens up against the window and selected a three second exposure in the app. I then cropped from portrait to square and that’s it. A vague greenness is visible at the bottom but otherwise this looks like a monochrome image. Sadly it’s not – the world really was that grey. well just outside Reading on the M4 it was, anyway…

iPhone 5SE

iPhone 5SE

Something a little bit different this time. My daily commute involves Merseyrail’s Wirral Line into central Liverpool. The trains normally travel with such frequency that I’ve never bothered learning the timetable so I quite often have a few minutes kicking around on the platform whilst the right train turns up… Recently I’ve been using that time to play with an app on my phone called Circular or Circular Tiny Planet Editor to give it its full name. This is great little app by Brain Fever Media that allows you to apply a number of weird and wonder effects to a photo. Some of the results are pretty psychedelic and until the image is saved, completely reversible. It’s great fun, but a word of warning – the effect on portraits can be less than flattering!