Pixels: The Art of the iPhone

James Clarke

I like what James has done with the lights, the saturation, the blend of colors, the ghostly softening of the image, while holding detail in the brick and the street-side order window, as well as the luminescent blue neon filaments that span the front of the cafe and continue down the right side of the building. Hints of people-shapes in the brightly lit interior. It’s a beautifully composed image, with wonderfully contrasting areas of light and shadow, and of color: the blues, the orange, peach, spot red, and pale pools of light.

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I’m not sure where Mansi took this picture. Based on some of her other recent submissions, she was at some kind of amusement park recently, so I believe we can deduce that this picture came from there as well.

I love how she’s knocked out the background, added a nice gradation and then used Percolator stars to suggest a celestial dream choo-choo train.

Even if the train is chugging along on a magical mystery tour somewhere out past Venus, I appreciate that tracks still cast a shadow. I really like her use of Percolator on the train itself, very well done. I would guess she had to do a fair amount of work on the train to get it just right before bringing it into Percolator.

I’m thinking there was some layering going on here as well, but I’m not sure. Actually I am sure, since the tracks and ties and their shadows aren’t percolated. It appears a lot of work went into this picture.

Percolator is one of those apps that I thought everyone would be finished with a year ago. But every so often, someone comes up with the perfect usage for it. Mansi has done that here.

And I love the suggestion of the little boy atop the train. Not sure what it was originally, or if she put it there, but I see a little boy having the ride of his life.

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Klaudia Cechini

What is going on here? What kind of building is this? Who is she? It looks like a hospital, or some other institution. She doesn’t seem to be walking: she’s running, or floating … hard to tell. It’s night, that much is clear. Beyond that, a complete mystery. Perfectly apped, a dozen stories hinted. Beautiful and irresistible.

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