Open Thread: Sheepshead Bay Road, Hipsta-Fied


by on Sep 17th, 2012

Source: bondidwhat/Flickr

I don’t really have much to say to lead in to today’s open thread, so instead, Flickr presents: Sheepshead Bay Road, Hipsta-Fied.

No, it doesn’t mean hipsters are invading. It’s a photo taken using Hipstamatic, a photo treatment app for smartphones. And, if you don’t look carefully, you might just think this photo was taking 80 years ago.

I suppose, since we’re on the topic, it becomes a topic, and I can ask: what’s your favorite smartphone photo app?

Oh, and of course, feel free to talk about whatever you like. The open thread is now open.

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  • randyice

    i hate hate hate hate hipstamatic stuff… and those “filters”  learn how to use a camera and do it yourself…. lazy bums…

    secondly… wtf is up with the psy gamgang style crap thats all over the place… can we just kill both with fire

    • ES

      I use Instagram all the time. My feeling is that you can take cool photos no matter what photo-taking device you are using, so long as you implement creative composition and good lighting. If that makes me a lazy bum, I can live with that.

    • applegreen

      a bit elitist? 

      but i do see what you r saying, everyone and their dog, post up pictures on fb using instagram, trying to pass it off as something as high art and at the height of creation. I get your irritation.

      • randyice

         ES. i do use instagram, with nofilters to promote my work in social media and get work from it

        apple.. i didnt spent a life time committed to learning photography, how to play with light, print and develop film. to see a person with a cell phone take a photo and consider themselves a photographer…. its a mockery to the art..

        now just using istagram to take a quick lil photo of yourself or food or something… is fine… to consider onesself a artist using it… is a shame and belittles the lifetime i have spent.

        • applegreen

          i get you. absolutely. I’m an illustrator and i had my work once compared to ones doodles that they did while talking on the phone. I get your bit of frustration.

          But i do doubt that anyone would have a show in a gallery with their instagrammed photos or actually get paid for it. From my limited knowledge of photography, its a lot more difficult than just pointing and clicking. 

        • http://kibblesbits.wordpress.com/ Ann

          It’s the eye, Randy.  Some people have talent with just a cell phone. Some can go to school for years and still suck.  There’s a balance.

  • http://www.andy-baum.com/ Andy

    I don’t have a smartphone. And, my photos really ARE old. No app needed.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

     It’s cute but it doesn’t have the potential of a full featured editor with choice plug-ins added.

    Every photo should have unique aspects if you want to get creative.

    Like this

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/7968672446/in/photostream

  • Whwsailboat

    Too many people (politicians) think they can photoshop thire lives.

    • Whwsailboat

      “their”

  • LennyM

    So Mitt Romney doesn’t release his tax returns so we have to assume that his effective
    tax rate comes from him paying capital gains alone, and that he himself
    does not pay a federal income tax (FICA). Does that make Mitt Romney
    part of the 47% of “victims” who “are dependent on the government” and
    wouldn’t vote for him anyway? I guess Mitt Romney is then just like his
    father before him who relied on government welfare programs and wouldn’t
    vote for his son because he was “obsessed with entitlements.” Once
    again Mitt Romney’s greatest adversary is Mitt Romney.