Shriya and I are into photography and we just bought our first DSLR – Canon Rebel T1i recently. In fact, we blog about the photography tips we learn and camera deals we come across in our new Camera blog – Camerani.com.
Naturally, I listen to a lot of photography podcasts and Rick Sammon’s Digital Photo Experience is one of them. And I came to know that Rick has released an iPhone as well.
Here is a quick review of this excellent Rick Sammon’s 24×7 Photo Buffet iPhone app.
Rick has over 30+ years of professional experience and he has jam packed this little app with photography advice, tips and techniques he has collected over years.
The app is meant to be a reference on the go while you are out shooting as well as a searchable guide to find a quick fix for a tricky photographic situation.
The app has been organized into 5 major sections
- Seeing – Focuses on showing how to see a picture before you snap the shot. Talks about composition, framing and lighting.
- Making – Find out how to make a great picture with tips on exposure, color balance, flash, filters.
- Editing – Tips for your digital darkroom showing how to make your pictures pop by tweaking white balance, levels, saturation and contrast and selectively controlling sharpness.
- Tips – Search Rick’s tip from A-Z with advice on everything from Aerial shooting to panoramas.
- Help – Powerful search function to find anything in the app quickly with link to Digital Photo Experience website with extra content.
If you are a photography enthusiast like us and wonder what f-stop or ISO or shutter speed is right for a situation where your kid is running around or to take pictures in low light without blur or to take a close up of a spring wildflower, etc, then having an app like this in your pocket will make it so much easier.
In fact, Rick has included a section for taking pictures with your iPhone. Oh and you want to learn about HDR, Rick has you covered.
Rick Sammon’s 24×7 Photo Buffet is an excellent resource for a photography enthusiast and with already over 100MB of content in the app and with new additions coming from time to time, I think it will be a $4.99 well spent on your passion.
With this app, I am looking forward to going out more with my camera knowing I have all the help I need right in my pocket to get my creative juice flowing.
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Update 8/22/10: This app is now on sale for $1.99 for one week only! (was $4.99)
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Rating: 4.5/5 [starreview tpl=16]
Availability: App Store [iTunes link]
Price: $4.99
