Digital Marketing and Web Strategy by Bob Hazlett | One Half Amazing!

My very favorite photography app, Hipstamatic, has recently pushed an upgrade that includes a slew of cool features.  The big update is the ability to order prints right from the app and have them delivered to your door. The prints will set you back $5-$20 depending on the quantity and size of prints you select. Here’s how the entire process works.  Hooray for technology!

Another great features they’ve added this time around is the ability to automatically share photos and stacks right to your Tumblr page.  Hipsters shooting with the Hipstamatic app are now cracking open a PBR and celebrating in the streets.

One last big addition is the Mission Hipstapak which includes the Bettie XL lens and the Ina 1935 film.  The additional pak will run you $1 and gives you the ability to make your very own ‘I hate machine dryers’ poster like the image below.

Version 170 includes some other settings and bug updates.  Check their site to see all of the other options.

If you’re still on the fence about the Hipstamatic app, typie type over to  Photojojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide.  They detail and layout over 300 combinations of photos available with the app.

Buy the Hipstamatic app in iTunes or find out more from the official site.

Photojojo just released their lastest creation, tiny snap-on lenses for your cellphone, and I’ve got a serious hankering to pull out my credit card and spring for both.  The wide-angle macro and fisheye lenses allow you to modify your existing less than spectacular cellphone lens to create some cool photo effects.  They come with a little self-adhesive magnetic ring that you stick to your phone, surrounding the lens it already has. Both lenses then simply snap onto the magnetic ring.

The wide-angle gives a 0.67x angle of view, and will let you focus as close as 10mm. The fisheye gives you a 180º view, and a 0.28x magnification. It also gives the trademark fisheye circular effect.

The lenses are made to fit any cellphone you have.  They also come with a tiny strap and cap to keep them safe and out of harms way.  Both lenses will cost you $40, or $20 for the wide-angle and $25 for the fisheye separately.

Buy them here.

So, to give you a little history, there was this cheap little plastic camera that a small group of kids loved back in 1982.  It could be modded with different lenses, film and flashes to make all sorts funky prints.  Today, thanks to alien technology and Steve Jobs you can get all the Joan Jett and Hipstamatic camera action right on your phone.

The Hipstamatic ($2) camera app for iPhone is hands down my favorite app.  It takes your ordinary images that in any other case you would be embarrassed to show your friends and automagically turns them into quirky and vintage shots characterized by over-saturation, blurring and amazing vignettes.

Prints from the app can be directly uploaded to facebook, flickr or emailed to your friends.

Here are some of the photos I’ve taken with the Hipstamatic app.