Tamara read an article by a photographer who used the Provoke iPhone app, so I took a look and got the app. The name of the app comes from the hugely influential street photographer Daido Moriyama who started a photo magazine named Provoke.
His black and white photos are instantly recognisable because he pushes the contrast and the grain.
The Provoke App
The Provoke app for iOS can be as provocative as you like because it has settings that emulate different amounts of contrast like this high contrast shot of the entrance to St John’s Wood Tube Station.
But it also has settings for less contrast, like the second photo below, looking out from a cafe on Upper Regent Street in London, and the third photo of leaves around a tree.
And for a phone app, I think the lower contrast simulation does a good job of rendering black and white tones to make a decent photo within the limitations of the sensor.
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