When you take most of your photographs with a digital SLR it is easy to shun the iPhone as a viable camera solution for capturing great photos. Generally I used the camera on my iPhone for nothing more than grabbing photos of things I needed to remember, no family shots, no landscapes and definitely no macros. This week I grabbed PhoneGrafer from the iTunes store. The developers are giving it away free for Christmas (be quick) else it will cost you just $1.99.

Phonegraffer really transforms the iPhone camera offering a range of photo dimension conversions : 2048×1536*, 1600×1200, 800×600, 427×320 (*iPhone 3GS Only) and a stack of really nice automatic filters : B&W, B&W Extreme, Russian, Antique, Sepia, Cyano, ColorCast-C/M/Y.

This photo was taken with the iPhone 3GS with the extreme black and white filter and is the view across the Lagan river from Clarendon Dock in Belfast. It was a dull, depressing day for numerous reasons so the extreme black and white filter works really well. The final image is particularly noisy but I am still happy with the outcome given it was captured on a 3 Megapixel camera phone.

The full sized image has already seen some attention over on flickr (due to the TotalApps article), in a way it reminds me of the video for Simple Minds, Belfast Child. I am wondering if that is a good think or not.