photo by kawabata, via Flickr Another interesting photo taken with an iPhone — this one was processed with the PhoneGrafer app. That’s a bus terminal in Tokyo. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to [continue reading]
photo by Eddy Mansoor, via Flickr Here’s a great tilt-shift photo of a bus in Malaysia. It was taken with a Canon EOS 7D and processed with Photoshop. Tilt-shift processing and/or lenses changes the focus, making images appear to be miniaturized. Several iPhone apps allow you to do this with [continue reading]
photo by Hunter Kerhart, via Flickr Pretty amazing photo, eh? It almost looks like a painting but it’s not — Hunter processed this photo with the HDR method, otherwise known as high dynamic range. The idea is use processing and/or multiple images to better expose both the lightest and darkest [continue reading]
photo by Frederic Mancosu, via Flickr As I’ve written several times lately, you don’t need a big fancy camera to take a nice photo. This one, of a train in Switzerland, was taken with an iPhone and obviously got some help with the use of the many great photo apps [continue reading]
photo by Downtowgal, via submission This is a nice shot. There’s some blur to convey movement — but not too much. The framing gives viewer an idea how large the articulated buses are. And the bright red looks good offset against the washed out sky. The photo was taken near [continue reading]
photo by Jeremy Brooks, via Flickr Another photo taken with an iPhone, this time on San Francisco’s Muni Rail. It’s obviously not good to see a cracked window — and I don’t know how it happened — but it was used to good photographic effect. To submit a photo for [continue reading]
photo by Jan Kretschmer, via Flickr Another nice photo taken with an iPhone, this time of a bus lane in Munich and the bus and U-bahn station. Jan did a great job capturing the dark of the street and the white light of the station. Some of his other iPhone [continue reading]
photo by the dude abides, via submission Proof again that the subject of a photo doesn’t have to dominate the frame. The inbound Gold Line train is seen here across Los Angeles State Historic Park on the northern end of downtown L.A. The photo was taken with the Instagram app [continue reading]
photo by Tamara Manning, via Flickr Nice shot of bus and sky — the grain looks great. Click on the photo to see it larger. The photo was taken with an iPhone 3Gs and edited with the Camera+ app’s HDR filter. Where was it taken? Take a guess — answer [continue reading]
photo by Paul Bailey, via Flickr This is the Gold Line on the bridge that crosses the Arroyo Seco — a very photogenic spot. I like the black-and-white here, especially with the trees in the foreground and a hint of the hills under the bridge. The subject of the photo [continue reading]
