Although I carry a camera around my neck pretty much whenever I’m outdoors, I still take photos with my iPhone, especially if I know I want to share them right away. My workflow may not suit everyone, but I’ve spent years perfecting it.
- Shoot the photo in the native iPhone camera app.
- Run it through the Perfectly Clear app, which often does something.
- Upload to Snapseed to crop and edit basic things like exposure and contrast.
- Use the Snapseed Transform feature, altering vertical and horizontal perspective to make it look unnatural and bad.
- Undo.
- Save to Camera Roll. Or Favorites. Or is it Moments?
- Upload the saved photo to the VSCO app.
- No, not that one. The other one.
- Repeat step 7.
- Try every filter.
- Try them again.
- Go back to the one that looked good.
- Which one looked good?
- Repeat steps 6 and 7.
- Determine that I like none of the filters and revert to the original, which now somehow seems lacking.
- Post to Facebook and/or Tumblr and/or Flickr and/or my blog, based on vague and ill-defined criteria.
Give it a try!