iPhone Photography: Lone Tree

After taking a nature fine art online photography class, I really took to adding textures to my pictures. I was therefore delighted to find out there were apps that allowed me to do this on my smartphone.

iPhone photograph of a lone tree in winter time edited with the DistressedFX app.
This is my favourite of all the versions of the lone tree photograph I created with the DistressedFX app.

One of my favourite editing apps is DistressedFX. It is very easy to use, but it does take quite a bit of experimentation to find which photographic subjects best lend themselves to adding DistressedFX textures.

iPhone photograph of a lone tree in winter time edited with the DistressedFX app.
It never ceases to amaze me how different a photograph can look when applying another DistressedFX texture.

The ‘distressed effects’ worked out quite well, in my opinion, with this photograph of a bare tree taken during the past winter, on my way to a meeting.

iPhone photograph of a lone tree in winter time edited with the DistressedFX app.
This high contrast version works because of the graphic simplicity of the subject.

When editing the photos, what I typically do is cycle rapidly through the many textures/overlays DistressedFX has to offer, and then go back and tweak the ones I thought looked good.

iPhone photograph of a lone tree in winter time edited with the DistressedFX app.
This effect is called ‘Surreal’.

If you are like me and love to add texture effects to your iPhone pictures, I would recommend you try the DistressedFX app. But be warned it’s going to take some experimentation before you get the results you want.

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