My 365 post today shows how I created yesterday's "Gingered Torso" work using images from my iPhone and several apps on my iPad. 

Additional details as well as info on the Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2011 juried exhibition the piece was selected for is available on my website at: http://www.shanerobinson.com/contemporary-photography-in-hawaii-2011-my-photo...

A departure tonight from both my "Self Portrait March" and my self-imposed rule of only posting my daily 365 via my iPhone or iPad.
Today's 365 Project post is one of my favorite works to date. "Gingered Torso" was created entirely on my iPad, with photos taken from my iPhone, using several iPad applications. The details of the applications used, including a QuickTime video of the entire process, is available on my main website at http://rsr.me/makingtorso

I'm also thrilled to announce this work was selected for the "Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2011" juried exhibition and was awarded the Juror's Award. Information on this event is also available on my website link above.

If you've been following my 365 Project, you may have noticed that for the month of March I somehow started down a "self-portrait" track. The reviews (comments on Flickr, mostly) have been kind but few in numbers when compared to earlier postings in the Project. Which is fine. I remind myself that I'm not doing my 365 Project for reviews or comments.  I’m doing it mostly as a test to see if I can stick with it for 365 days and out of curiosity to see where it takes me and what I discover along the way.

Early in the project, I had some time in the evenings when I was able to spend a few hours on some of my favorite pieces so far. For example, 1/365, 2/365, 18/365, and 32/365. I'd love to do more of these but I don't always have the time or energy at the end of the day. 

Last night, I had both the time and the energy to create another favorite. 72/365 - Gingered Self Portrait, like the others linked above, was created in the amazing Brushes app on my iPad using several photos from my iPhone. In addition to being an incredibly powerful and intuitive painting and compositing iPhone and iPad application, Brushes allows you to export your finished work as a high quality  QuickTime movie that shows each brushstroke as a frame. The final effect is that you can watch a work of art being created. 

My work is a little different than the regular Brushes galleries you'll find on the Brushes website gallery and Brushes Flickr group.  Because I'm using photographs, textures, and layer blending modes, my video exports look more like flashes of photos and less like automated drawings and paintings. But, for photographers that are experimenting with the amazing photography and painting apps on their iPhones and iPads, I thought my creation process would be fun to see. 

The video is only 1 minute and 8 seconds long. 18 seconds of that is title and credits (created in Apple's iMovie). 5 seconds is a still frame at the end showing the finished image. The remaining 45 seconds shows 1350 individual video frames. 45 seconds at 30 frames per second = 1350 individual frames. Each frame represents a change, a stroke, a blending mode change, a photo layer import or deletion, a layer opacity change, etc. 1350 different decisions over the course of  about 2 hours that it took to create the final image. And you can see at the beginning and for most of the video, I ended up with something very different than where I thought I wanted to begin.

Hope you enjoy this little peek into my creative process and I hope I have many more evenings with both the time and energy in which to create this type of work. 

Oh. And the audio soundtrack in the video I threw together with 3 different loops in Apple's GarageBand. 

PS: The rules I broke for my 365 Project? The final piece, the video and audio, was created on, and uploaded from, my MacPro, and not my iPhone or iPad. 

We shipped one of our vehicles to Maui today. Somewhat ironic that it will live full-time on Maui before we do... I took an iPhone photo of one of the shipping containers with the intention of using it for today's 365. But I was so bored with the image that I threw it into Percolator, then Iris Photo Suite, then iDroste, and finally TiltShift Generator. I'm not sure what the result is, but it's lots more fun than just the original photo of the container.

Just a fun, shot-from-the-hip photo of Lexi this morning at Lanikai Beach. Happy Aloha Friday and weekend.

I took several photos at Lanikai beach this morning during Lexi and my walk/swim but I just wasn't excited about any of them as i went thru them tonight. So, I went thru my iPad photo albums to see if anything caught my interest.

We have an outdoor shower off our master bathroom (it's our main shower) and this was taken from outside on a very sunny day. On sunny days the glass door acts like a mirror and my reflection in the door mixed with Lexi as she was standing inside, peering out at me after I finished my shower. The high contrast effect was achieved with the "Plastic Bullet" app on my iPad.

At great potential peril to my unprotected iPhone, I took 3 shots of this coconut, one of dozens washed up on Kailua beach this morning. This was the third shot and the water came in higher and faster than I expected. I had no idea if I even got a shot and decided it wasn't worth a wet iPhone just to get a photograph of a coconut on the beach.

When I got home (and had washed all the salt water and sand off my hands and arms, I was delighted to find I got the shot! A quick pass through my default settings in TiltShift Generator app and here's my 23/365 for Sunday, January 23, 2011.

These two coconuts were sitting just like this when Lexi and I were walking Kailua Beach this morning. A quick pass through TiltShift Generator on my iPad and voila...

This marks the 21st day of my 365 Project and I'm posting this about 6 hours earlier than I ever have. Hope this is a good omen for the remaining 344 days!

A re-working of one of my iPhone self-portraits using Brushes, Percolator, and Iris Photo Suite on my iPad.

It's a crazy amount of fun to sit down with the iPad, not having a single idea of what I want to crate, browse through my photos, and just start adding photos, layers, and textures.

Palm on Lanikai beach, heavy with coconuts. No deep message today. Just one of my favorite subjects taken on a beautiful Hawaiian morning.