More iPhone apps to improve your photography!

I have found I am using the iPhone for imaging more and more these days..   No, it hasn't replaced my D3, nor will I use it for birding..  But is it a great tool for documenting lighting setups for future reference, for making an image of a shooting location that was or might be particularly rich in photo opportunities and even for an occassional portrait or location shoot.  Here are a few more apps I find particularly useful...

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Strobox

Since I mentioned documenting lighting setups, Strobox is an app I added recently that is particularly useful for studio and location photogs using lights and light modifiers.  There is a sizable inventory of lighting devices that can be combined in various configurations.  You can can move them around the virtual setup, promote or demote them so the order is correct, save the schematic for future reference and/or mail or upload it right from the app.

Autostitch Panorama from CloudBurstResearch

Oh, what fun!!  I am not much of a landscape shooter, but on a recent trip down south to photograph Bald Eagles, I produced the pano below, from eleven images all shot hand-held in the iPhone and stitched on the spot.

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As one might suspect, it has some challenges with fine details like the wires and towers in this image, and moving subjects, be them human or other, will yield motion blurs which if located at the stitch edges of an image will be grossly exaggerated.  None the less, it's a really cool app that I use often.  After stitching, there is an option to crop the image and there are the expected conduits for sharing with various social networking sites.  I ran the above image through Photogene (jump to my prior post on Photogene) after the pano stitch was completed...  Autostitch is available for $1.99 in the AppStore.

TiltShiftGen from Artandmobile

This is fast becoming one of my favorite post processing apps and is an absolute bargain at $0.99 in the AppStore.  Tilt-shift lenses allow the user to move the orientation of the lens relative to the film or sensor plane in much the same manor a lens can be moved on larger view camera's with similar results....  Selective focus and images rendered to look like miniature diorama's are most common with TS lenses, but correcting for parallax (apparent convergence of vertical lines in an image) is common as well.  I've never used a TS lens but I have always found the technique to be intriguing.  (samples of images created with TS lenses) 

The TiltShiftGen app is far more limited in it's functionality than a true Tilt Shift lens, but it does an admirable job of selective focus with sliders for controlling the size and shape of areas to be in and out of focus along with sliders for adjusting saturation (TS images very often have over saturated colors to make them even more dramatic) as well as Brightness, Contrast and Vignette control.

If you are an iPhone user, what apps do you find helpful with your imaging?