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Fun Photography

There are a few fun cameras that I recently came across I think you’ll enjoy. The Lomography Spinner 360º is the only one you can actually purchase. However, the other 3 are very interesting concepts I’d love to get my hands on one day.

1. Lomography Spinner 360º
2. Holga D
3. Nadia
4. Buttons

Hipstamatic

The Hipstamatic iPhone Camera App

Right now my favorite iPhone camera app is the Hipstamatic. You can purchase this badboy for the price of a can of Papst at your favorite dive bar. Ok, that’s the first and last bad name related pun I’ll use in this post. So yeah, it’s $2. Worth every penny too.

Take all the fun effects your toy cameras can produce and bottle them into a wonderful little user interface and you have Hipstamatic. You can easily scroll through lenses, film, and flash-gel effect options by swiping your finger accross the camera.

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Night Photography in the Lower Ninth Ward

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina ravaged Saint Bernard Parish, the hardest hit region of New Orleans, Hardly Square was hired to create interactive Flash content and capture landscape photography for the parish’s website. We jumped at the opportunity to help a community in need. It wasn’t until we got down to New Orleans that we actually understood what a community in need really meant. Hardly Square…

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Application Photography in eLearning

You’ve probably heard the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” thousands of times. I know I have, and for good reason. With instructional design, application (“in-use”) photography is very instrumental in visually narrating how to properly use a product. When communicating your product’s utility, a training initiative needs to be motivating, learner-centered and performance-based.