Two great photo apps for the iPhone

After reading Phil Coffman’s post about TiltShift Generator and Mill Colour, I became curious and downloaded those two apps.

TiltShift Generator is aimed at replicating the look of tilt-shift lenses with their oblique focus planes. This can be used not only to generate more of the the ubiquitous photographs of “miniature” objects but also to simulate the selective depth effect of a bigger camera with a shallow depth of field. Moreover, you can also change color using saturation, brightness and contrast settings and apply vignetting to further isolate your subject. A great little app!

Mill Colour on the other hand is a great free app to change the color of your photos. It comes with some quite nice presets made by the color professionals at The Mill. But you can tweak these presets to heart’s liking. Unfortunately, however it’s not possible to save your own presets.

I hear that iPhone 3GS’s camera is supposed to be better but there is no fooling anybody, those small lenses and sensors are severely limited. But that’s OK. Not every camera has to have brilliant image quality. That’s not really the point of photos. Polaroid wasn’t sharp or grain-free either, but that didn’t stop André Kertész from making great photos.

I think that’s why such small photo apps are important. They make iPhone’s little camera, a better camera by giving its photos a little character which makes the person behind the touch screen a little more open.

Here are some examples of these two small apps can do: