Skating on Lake Louise in December 2010
A Brief Note on Timeless Images...
Is there an image more iconically Canadian than that of a hockey net set up on a frozen lake? Outdoor ice hockey says Canada the same way baseball and apple pie say America. The only picture more Canadian that I can think of would be one of Sasquatch double fisting Kokanees and maple syrup while listening to the Tragically Hip. Since I'm confident that picture doesn't exist*, I will maintain that if there is an image to represent Canada's national identity, its heart and soul, it would be one similar to the one I snapped with my iPhone while driving past Lake Louise in Alberta last December. The picture is of a hockey net beckoning a pick-up game in a frozen and beautiful place.
The 21st century photo I took may have been shot with the most technologically advanced phone on the planet, the iPhone 4, but regardless of how current my equipment is, the frame itself is timeless. It could've been taken in 1980 or 1940 or 1880.... because since photographers have been taking pictures, Canadians have been braving the cold for a game of hockey.
There's an app for timeless images such as this. It's a free iPhone photography app that successfully makes the photos you take with your iPhone in 2011 look as if they've been folded and stored in the family bible since 1880. The Old Photo Pro iPhone app functions to turn your current mobile photos into the ancient looking images you only really see while combing through shoeboxes in your grandmother's basement.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OLD PHOTO PRO iPHONE APP :)
- It's FREE.... which also makes it very hard to give a bad review here...
- It successfully makes your iPhone photos look older than dirt. Sepia tones, jagged edges and fold lines can all be added to make your photo look like a relic from grandpa's wallet!
- Easy to use... see below...
WHAT I DON'T LIKE ABOUT THE OLD PHOTO PRO iPHONE APP :(
The images may look older than Jessica Tandy on your monitor but I am doubting that the old photo effect is still successfully achieved once you try printing a picture processed through this application. This may be unfair criticism because I haven't yet tried it but between the low resolution of these files and the newness... if that's a word... of the paper they would be printed on... it would be hard to achieve the authentic look that is seen on the screen. I also don't think the jagged edges and the paper folds would translate onto photo paper unless the paper you printed on was worn down in its own right.
HOW TO WORK THE OLD PHOTO PRO iPHONE APP:
If anything, the Old Photo Pro app is easy to use and as soon as you load a photo into the application... the app processes it into something that appears old-fashioned. There are two editing screens that you can navigate to through this application, as shown in the image above. The first editing screen, shown on the left, allows you to add sepia or cyan to the image, adjust contrast, color, tone and brightness. The second editing screen, shown on the right, allows you to adjust the paper and edges of the photograph by adding folds and tears etc.
* If you have an image of Sasquatch or anything more Canadian then a hockey net on a frozen lake than please share the link!
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