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I was walking past Marks and Spencer's and spotted a ripped M and S plastic bag on the pavement. As soon as I saw it I thought the colour would look interesting offset against the background. Photograph 1 is the raw image. As you can see it looks pretty uninteresting (pretty repulsive, huh?). Once the photograph was taken I used TiltShiftGen iPhone app (photo 2) to process it just like a black and white darkroom image, increasing the contrast and darkening the overall image. Because the contrast between the green plastic was sufficiently high (about 'three stops' or so) the background turned almost black but the bag looked great and picked up loads of texture and saturation. (Just one thing about TiltShitGen is that you have to make the 'blur circle' bigger than the whole image if you don't want the defocus effect.) I also darkened the edges.

Next I used the Photogene iPhone app to crop the image into a square. Photo 3.

Lastly I loaded the image into the ShakeItPhoto to add the distinctive border effect and give it the look of a photograph. Photo 4.

That's it. Photographed and enhanced completely on the iPhone - that's iPhoneography. I hope this has been useful - try it out yourself it's a lot of fun.