Sydney opera house on my iPhone.
Processed with apps; Blender, Scratch Cam, and Dynamic Light.
Shooting into the sun from the ferry, the Sydney opera house photo was very flat. The photo needed a lot of work if I wanted to even bother saving it. It just wasn’t pretty, yet, there was some potential I saw in it.
So to experiment I thought I’d try blending it with another photo using the app called Blender. The photo I used to blend with was this close up of some icky drippy seaweed I found on the beach one day. Yes, now this photo looks more promising!
Next I wanted to grunge it up a little bit. I took this photo into the Scratch Cam app and started randomizing looks. You just keep hitting the randomize button until you get a look you like.
The final image was achieved in the app called Dynamic Light. Once again, randomizing looks gave me what I wanted quickly.
The three apps I used to create this photo I use all the time. I would recommend getting them if you don’t have them already. You might want to put them in the folder right next to your camera app so you don’t forget to use them because you never know what you’re going to get. It’s kind a like a box of chocolates
Strangely enough, Captain Photo has never been the captain of anything, except his golf team in high school. He was on a big boat once, a cuise ship, and was banned from the bridge while offering to help navigate after leaving the ship's nightclub at 3 AM.
What I, Captain Photo, can do for you is to help sail the stormy seas of HDR photography. It's treacherous out there. I've been shipwrecked more than once. (I wasn't Captain those times)
Read the blog and learn the easy and inexpensive process of making Perfect HDR photographs that beginners will love and will make your friends begin to reassess and elevate your worth! You'll quickly be sailing smooth and making amazing images!
~Captain Photo 
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You’ve ended up with quite a nice image, without too much editing. Well the apps do the hard graft. But I think these apps are taking away some of the craft from photography. Less and less people carry cameras, they just rely on their phones.
Really good editing, I still can’t figure out how you did it with those apps. What kind of effect did you apply to the sun by the way?