Fabian Mohr

Walking with the dog in beautiful Plänterwald, I had a weird idea. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a sound option in Hipstamatic? Yes, I hear your sighs. Who on earth would want to bloat a matured, lovely photo app?

Sure.

But that weird idea didn’t go away (sorry), so I faked a Hipstamatic picture with sound in Final Cut. It’s nothing more than a 800×800 px video hosted on Vimeo, showing a single photo with sound recorded on location using the iPhone microphone. Even though this is technically a video, I’d rather consider it a photo – with complimentary sound.

Imagine this in a museum. A large-format, touchable photo that comes with an unobtrusive soundtrack.

A new favorite: Gif Brewery (Mac App Store, 4,49 €) generates Animated GIFs from imported movie files. Great fun. Finding a good balance between image quality and file size is not easy, though. Admiring “If we don’t, remember me” even more now.

Recommended reading for my German-speaking friends interested in all things photography: Zeit Online has launched a series about the state of photography (“Das ist Fotografie”), including my interview with Richard Koci Hernandez about iPhone photography and a video debate between Ostkreuz-photographer Maurice Weiss and me about the impact of smartphones on photojournalism. And don’t miss our video about an analog photo laboratory in Hamburg – a fascinating parallel universe in the age of camera apps.