Snappy Happy Photo Challenge-Week 1

A new weekly photo challenge from JX at WeLiveinaFlat and Meghan at Firebonnet.com–

For the next twelve weeks, a new challenge will be posted which includes the opportunity to try out apps on smart phones. Click here for the particulars.

This week’s challenge was bokeh-which I have played around with some, but have not really found any apps that I particularly like-they either distort the image, hide it, or make it difficult to move the effect around. The apps I have tried (including Lumie and InstaBokeh Fx) also crunch pixels BIG time-

The original photo I worked with is one that has been featured here in an earlier post:

So here is Plain Jack and Bokeh Jack (courtesy of Lumie and Real Bokeh-other apps used include Photo Toaster, Pic-Tap-Go and Snapseed):

Plain Jack

Bokeh Jack

Bokeh Jack 2

And of course-Today’s Dog Quote:

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

–Woodrow Wilson

Tags: iPhoneography, phoneography, pit bulls, weekly photo challenge

25 thoughts on “Snappy Happy Photo Challenge-Week 1”

penpusherpen on February 17, 2014 at 5:58 am said:

sweet, sweet photo’s, winners for sure … an’ whatd’yamean Plain? Hummmph!! (Speaking on behalf of Jack of course!! 🙂 ) xPenx

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- littledogslaughed on February 17, 2014 at 7:57 am said:
  
  Oh I know-the look I got when I read that out loud, said, “Really, you had to be told that? Really?” Thanks for looking!
  
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weliveinaflat on February 17, 2014 at 10:18 am said:

Despite the challenges with the apps, the photos turned out pretty well 🙂 I like the one with the round bokeh best but thought the photo with the paw-shaped bokeh will look better in your challenge photo grid 😛 Repix actually outputs quite a large size image, which didn’t work out so great if I had process it in another app that outputs smaller.- – Thank for taking the time to join! And the dog quote! 😀

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- littledogslaughed on February 17, 2014 at 1:04 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much for looking-I like the round one best too I think-the dog paws came from Real Bokeh-looking forward to the future challenges-thanks again for hosting!
  
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  - weliveinaflat on February 19, 2014 at 8:10 pm said:
    
    Hiya Meg! I’ve just created a board for this challenge on Pinterest – http://www.pinterest.com/weliveinaflat/photo-challenge-with-apps/
    
    For challengers whose blogs enable pinterest sharing, I assume that I will be able to add your photos to the board, with your permission. If you would not like your photos shared on Pinterest, please do reply to this comment and let me know 😉
    
    If you are active on Pinterest and would like to contribute to the board, let me know your Pinterest email and I will add you. Thanks!!
    
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  - littledogslaughed on February 22, 2014 at 2:36 pm said:
    
    Hey thanks so much-I do have a Pininterest board-not much is going on there-I will email my address-Thanks again!
    
    On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Little Dogs Laughed wrote:
    
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  - weliveinaflat on February 23, 2014 at 9:56 pm said:
    
    Fantastic! Will add you when I get the email 😉 Here’s my address- weliveinaflat@gmail.com – to make it easy for you 🙂
    
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  - littledogslaughed on February 24, 2014 at 12:23 pm said:
    
    On its way! Thank you!
    
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basiga on February 19, 2014 at 12:31 am said:

Reblogged this on blogagaini and commented:
A Sappy Happy Photo ~ week 1
Join the challenge.

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- littledogslaughed on February 22, 2014 at 2:35 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much for the reblog!
  
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sassmuffins on March 18, 2014 at 12:20 am said:

I think I like the paw-shaped bokeh; don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. And I really do love the dog quote, too. Sweet photo. You could superimpose that lovely quote in the space on the top-right of that photo, to double the sweet effect!

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- littledogslaughed on March 18, 2014 at 1:56 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much for looking-the dog paw bokeh, I think came from the app RealBokeh-and that is a great idea about placing the quote!
  
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