APPreciation: Hipstamatic
This is the start of a new series on my blog, where I write something akin to a loveletter to apps I use regularly. I talk about why I love said app so much and I will share some things I've created with it, if it creates something shareable that is.
The first blog post in the series is about an app that has probably been on my succession of iPhones the longest (as far as I can tell, since 2010), and that is Hipstamatic.
Hipstamatic is a couple of different things now, but it started as a square picture camera app with various filters you could buy. The pictures were as is, the filter you had active was it for that picture.
They've updated the app since, and now it's (to me) a basic run-of-the-mill filter app.
The version I still use is now called Hipstamatic Classic, and I use it in classic lock, to keep the app as it was when it launched.
And it's brilliant.
It enables me to take pictures I never expect beforehand. I shake the camera to randomise the filters (they call them lenses and film) and I take a picture, shake again, picture, etc.
This always results in pictures I love, pictures that make me look at the world in a different, creative way.
And yes, some pictures are total duds, but that's okay too. There's a lot of beauty in imperfection.
Here are some pictures (as they speak louder than all the words above) I've taken through the years. And to reiterate, these are all taken as is in the app, didn't go through any other filters or editing. And to me, they are perfect as they are.
