Well, sis and I are on the road again for a two week trip to the east coast and back to attend my Combat Camera Reunion in Charleston, SC starting on the 27th. As usual we’re taking a couple weeks and making a road trip to visit people and places along the way.

The first stop of our trip this time, after visiting my niece Tracy in Richmond, Ky, was the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We’ve been here before, but there’s always something new to see or photograph, even when you’ve been there before.

I bought the iPhone App called Slow Shutter Cam for this trip as I wanted to capture some slow shutter speed images of waterfalls and streams that I could post on this blog and Facebook without having to worry about spending time editing and formating the images I’m shooting with my Nikon D700 while I’m on the road.

While the app is by no means as good at capturing the smoky water effect I wanted to get as I could with my D700, it really did a pretty decent job for me. Slow Shutter Cam brings new life into your iPhone’s photo toolbox by letting you capture a variety of amazing slow shutter speed effects that you only thought you could get with a DSLR.

The settings screen allows you to tweak everything from the shutter speed to the f/stop that you want the camera to use or you can of course use the camera in automatic mode.

There’s also a setting called Light trail which I understand is for shooting night cityscapes that include moving cars and such. This is one feature I haven’t tried as of yet.

For the most part the two images I’ve included that I shot here in the Smokies, (I shot more of course) were taken with the camera on Automatic mode.

It’s pretty obvious that if you’re going to use this app then you need to do so on a tripod of some sort for the shooting or brace it against something and hold your breath. I used a small Gorillapod for my tripod of choice and a iPhone tripod adapter to attach it. There’s a wealth of different kinds out there, just do a google search and find something that you like.