Instagram Tuesday

Well it looks like we're in for another installment of Instagram Tuesday, since it's Tuesday and I have a bunch of pics that week took at disneyland this past week!

The girls ready for our first day at Disneyland:

 

The park in all of it's holiday glory:

 

Juliana's joy over us finally agreeing to let her have a balloon (those things are so annoying):

Lilly passed out in the stroller:

 

Jules and her "mickey make up"

 

Jules and Daddy snuggling, with Jules quickly passing out:

 Lilly checking out the goods at a shop in Disneyland:

 

Of course not ALL the pics of the week were from Disneyland. Here are a few others:

Daddy's keys were missing for a couple of days, but we found them...in the dishwasher!

 

Tried Starbucks Via for the first time. Thumbs up! 

Winter in Arizona means TONS of hot air balloons. Lots of sightings today:

 

Juliana taking a picture of Lilly:

 

Lilly saying hello as I worked from the couch:

Big Lens- iPhone App

If you are like me, you have more iPhone pics than you do regular pictures. It's just so dang convenient- always right there when you need it. The downside for me is that I'm a quality snob, and the quality of the pictures from the iphone just don't cut it for me. So I'm constantly on the look out for apps that improve the quality of your photos, or add vintage filters and such (like instagram) that makes it look like the grainy quality of the picture was intentional.

Today I ran across this post from Digiscrap101.com showcasing an app called Big Lens. The app is meant to mimic the look of using a lower aperture lens on a DSLR camera. Being the photography app junkie that I am, I had to give it a shot.

I downloaded the app, and in just a few minutes, I transformed one of the pics I took of Lilly over the weekend from drab to fab.

Original Image:

 Image after using Big Lens (I used the Lomo 2 filter):

Much better! However, the grain is still killing me, so I ran it through my Photogene2 app, and ran a little de-noising. Here's the final image:

Now it's still not a DSLR quality image, but it's good enough for my Project Life, and it's a cute capture of my baby feeding herself (a relatively new trick), and that's the important part!

End thoughts- Big Lens is totally worth the $0.99. It's not perfect for every photo, but I have a feeling that I will playing with this one a lot.