It is no mystery that you can get almost any effect or filter that you could imagine for your iPhone camera. And if you read these reviews very often, it shouldn’t be a mystery that I love the retro effects that I can get through a number of the iPhone apps that I have reviewed. Further, you should not be surprised that there is a good deal of duplication when it comes to iPhone photo effects. But sometimes you see something a little different–perhaps unique–that catches your eye. Such is the case with Snappr by Revolver.
Snappr is an app that simulates the use of five different fisheye lenses. Choices include Sunk It, Orca Liber, 4Skin, Bvlgaria 75, and Nemo. The app is simple to use. You have a large viewfinder in which you touch to take a photo. When I tested this app I expected more to happen when I took a photo but found out that only something that resembled one of those old pull down blinds that said Mike Kennamer’s iPhone showed that I had just taken a photo. In retrospect, that seems to be plenty but I can’t explain why I took some many photos of my knees while learning to use the app. Maybe I was touching it in an effort to get the camera to focus and didn’t realize that the camera would focus on its own and that I was taking pics of my knees. Anyway, it is a functional camera with flash and automatic focus that works quite well. A simple touch is all that is required to take the photo. Read More→
A college administrator by profession, Mike Kennamer enjoys the opportunity to take photos and improve his skills by shooting events at work, church, and for friends. He enjoys landscape photography, portraiture and is starting to dabble in HDR. His current photography project involves learning to control flash manually. “My goal”, according to Kennamer, “is to be the best photographer I can be.”
Kennamer is also the President of Kennamer Media Group, Inc., a provider of traditional and online media, specializing in the healthcare industry. On CurrentPhotographer.com he writes about iPhone and iPad applications for photographers.