I downloaded a new app for my iPhone after reading this post and looking at this photographer’s Web site. I got CameraBag, and so far it seems pretty cool. 

The app is $2.99 — and this is the first iPhone app that I’ve paid for. CameraBag allows you to take a photo or select an image from your camera roll and do some post-processing using different “cameras” (or filters):

• Helga - A square-format toy camera with washed-out highlights and old-school vignetting.
• 1974 - This is your father’s camera. Faded, tinted, and hip.
• Lolo - Shoot from the hip and take life as it comes with vibrant, colorful shots.
• Cinema - Dramatic, moody, wide-screen stills from the movie of your life.
• 1962 - Dynamic black and whites from the photojournalists of a bygone era.
• Mono - Smooth gradation from black to white.
• Infrared - Simulation of the popular landscape photography technique.
• Fisheye - Popular fish eye lens effect – try it in combination with other filters.
• Original - The unaltered image.

[Filter descriptions from Nevercenter.com's description of CameraBag]

There is also a CameraBag Lite: Retro for only  $0.99, but the Helga and Lolo cameras make the full version worth the extra couple of bucks.

Below are  before and after images from my iPhone. The first image of the Crocs and of Otis is the “Original” — they’re unaltered. The second images have been processed using the Helga feature (Crocs) and Lolo feature (Otis) of CameraBag. Looks neat, don’t you think? Certainly much more interesting than just the regular iPhone photo. (Oh. I really don’t like Crocs. I wear them when I want to feel especially frumpy… like tonight.)