Day 87 of my 365 Project. Day 28 of "self-portrait" March. Most days it's still a bit of an energetic and creative struggle to keep with the project. I want to produce shots that I'm proud of and enjoy doing, but it remains difficult at the end of some days...

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.

I'm on Maui this week getting ready for my open studio this weekend (http://rsr.me/mauiopen) and I simply didn't get a 365-specific image taken today. This image was created last week when I was working on the 32/365 image (http://365.shanerobinson.com/32365-something-different). It's quite a bit different than that image but I like it for its simple, rough, complexity.

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.

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.

Just a fun photo for today's 365, taken at Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu. I was walking to the car, looking for something interesting to shoot and noticed how much the light poles in the parking lot mimicked the palm trees that surrounded them. The problem was there are SO many palm trees at Aloha Tower that it was difficult to find an angle for a clean shot. Quite a few people were looking up trying to figure out why I was waking around and crouching down while pointing my phone toward the sky.

Yesterday, Sunday, was my first full day to just work creatively in our new studio in Haiku, Maui. I haven't yet shipped any of my canvases or panels to paint on from Oahu, nor any of my tools with which to build them. But I had two tables an an iPhone...

I love the show, NCIS, and have a mildly perverse fascination with alien abductions and stories of Cold War government / military experiments. I had these in mind when creating this "clone" photograph.

I also got a TON of exercise running up and down the stairs and hopping up on the tables and getting positioned before the 10-second timer on my iPhone app fired off the shot using the GorillaPod app.

Once I had several shots of each "position", I transferred all the photos to my iPad. I used Brushes to layer and composite the images, Iris Photo Suite to add texture and vignetting, and CameraBag for additional flavor. I have over a dozen different final edits of this shot but this is currently my favorite.

I fully intended to just pull a previously created image tonight since it's Sunday and I just spent the last 3 hours manually pressing almost a gallon of tangerine juice from about 100 tangerines I picked from our tree today. But I just wasn't inspired by anything I've previously created sitting in my iPad's photo album...

So, I grabbed a photo I took of myself in our outdoor shower a couple months ago (that I've never liked and almost trashed several times) and started playing with it in Percolator, Iris Photo Suite, and Brushes. Same "app recipe" used in yesterday's post. The door to our outdoor shower is mostly glass and on sunny days acts like a mirror. There are 4 flections of me in the image above but only 2 are easily visible.