Photography apps to fully utilise your Apple iPhone’s camera

A new iPhone app Vhoto, which automatically snaps pictures from your iPhone’s videos has suddenly shot to the limelight. Photo apps are a dime-a-dozen on iOS and it’s hard to find one that’s actually worth downloading for its features. Many of them are just me-too apps which have the same filters and options, Vhoto moves away from that so it’s definitely a different take on photo apps. But there are other apps too which make photography a whole lot of fun on your iPhone. If you have been itching to put the iPhone’s camera to the test, check out these five fun apps. Tiny PlanetAndroid users will be more than familiar with Tiny Planet, since it’s packaged into the native camera app. But for iPhone users, this one is great when you want to add a bit of fun to an otherwise boring landscape.  Tiny Planet essentially gathers the bottom of your frame and turns into a small floating planet with the top portion used as ‘space’. It’s called stereography, and it can deliver some really cool results from ordinary pictures. This app offers you a reverse option called Rabbit Hole as well, arranging the bottom portion as ‘space’ and pushing the top part in, to make it look like a large pipe. Tiny Planet is being sold for $0.99 on the App Store. Horizon Ever had to watch a video shot with an iPhone in portrait position? It looks terrible and is usually the first thing on any dos and don’ts list on mobile videography. Horizon makes sure that no matter what position your iPhone is shooting in, the video remains in landscape mode. It uses the gyroscope in the iPhone to auto-level videos. For example, if you rotate your phone, the app will automatically adjust and crop the area being shot to make sure it remains horizontally aligned. You can even tweak how you want to app to record and get it to zoom in or out as you tilt the phone. And for those who still can’t get enough filters, there are eight of them to choose from. The only downside is that the app costs $1.99 on the App Store. [caption id="attachment_223053" align="alignnone" width="640"] End of vertical videos[/caption]KinotopicWhen Cinemagram came on to the scene, Instagram was the ruling photography app, but the former brought something very new to your smartphone pictures. Through its unique photography technique called Kinos or cinemagraphs, Cinemagram allowed casual photographers a way to make their photos pop out with life, and added depth and perspective too. Kinotopic is similar to Cinemagram and with this you can select just one portion of the image to be animated or create a super short video, more like a GIF image.[caption id="attachment_223051" align="alignnone" width="640"] A new app for 'moving' pictures[/caption]To get an idea of how the Kinos will look, check out this gallery on the official website. Kinotopics is free with an in-app purchase giving you the Pro version for $0.99. HuelessFan of black and white photography? Hueless is made just for you with no extraneous settings to distract you from your chiaroscuro creation. Its features include live B&W preview so the image in the viewfinder is the image you will get, exposure and contrast adjustments and colour filters, to add a bit of flair to your photographs.[caption id="attachment_223052" align="alignnone" width="640"] For B&W photography nerds[/caption]It can save images in JPEG or Lossless TIFF formats. You can control focus and exposure together or separately with auto and lock modes. There’s a live exposure control slider, live contrast adjustment slider with contrast balance, and variable filters and finally you can share photos on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and via email. See some of the photographs taken using Hueless here. GoldfrApp - Tales Of UsAt times it’s easy to forget to have some funs with your pictures, which is where GoldfrApp comes in to the picture. The app, released by the eponymous UK band, allows you to play around with your existing pictures by opening up double exposure features. Simply take two photos to create a double exposure image or shake the iPhone for the app to randomly select images from the camera roll. You can then tinker with filters, before sharing on Twitter and Facebook.