Fab, Fun, Phone Photography
Hi there!
Thought I'd start with my best phone photo.....
After starting to use my phone camera at the production last week, I decided to go out and see just how good it is.
The magnolia bloom was mostly shaded, but lots of light around it. I found it in an area where I was working on the Census. Great detail & color in the leaves & the bloom. Probably got lucky on that because it all stayed in focus.
My camera is not in the middle of the phone---it's kinda in the corner of the top. So, I had to get used to that. It's why the bloom is over to the side. I was centering the phone over the flower. The idea that I had to hold it to one side to
center the subject took a while to sink in. The phone actually makes a little beep when it focuses on something
in the shot. When it's bright outside, you can't really see what you're getting---so you just take some extras and hope for
the best.
The sun did a cool thing---makes rainbow streaks. That's late afternoon in the back yard with the sun behind the
subject---AKA backlight. You can see the second one is lit up nicely. The first has too much sun coming into the
lens.
This is also a find during my census trekking. And, yes, it was dead when
I arrived---how else do you think I could get that? Well, maybe I could have used some honey, but since I'm allergic
to bee stings, this is the route I prefer. I also WAY prefer dead roaches to live ones. I hate those creepy antennae
moving around on the big ones....yuck!
The bumblebee & the Agapanthus are cropped a little, using the phone editing software. Did you read that? Phone picture editing software---who would've thought? The image of the bee still has good texture & detail-- taken in harsh mid-day light. The one below of the flower blooming I intentionally tried to take to get a silhouette--so I used bright light behind it. (If I used the flash, and my phone does have one, I could have lit the blooms for a more ordinary picture.)
I used the phone software to crop & create a Photoshop like effect on it---similar to the cut out or stamp. The black
& white worked well for the silhouette. I'm still shocked that the phone has such sophisticated photo options.
PHOTIP: Experiment with your phone camera and the software included. Then email it to a friend. That is the one
thing I haven't figured out yet---how to get the pix from the phone to the computer. For now I'm using email.
Let me know if you have a better way. I thought I had a camera plug that worked, but the important end was too big.
BLESSINGS,
See more pix
Thought I'd start with my best phone photo.....After starting to use my phone camera at the production last week, I decided to go out and see just how good it is.
The magnolia bloom was mostly shaded, but lots of light around it. I found it in an area where I was working on the Census. Great detail & color in the leaves & the bloom. Probably got lucky on that because it all stayed in focus.
My camera is not in the middle of the phone---it's kinda in the corner of the top. So, I had to get used to that. It's why the bloom is over to the side. I was centering the phone over the flower. The idea that I had to hold it to one side to
center the subject took a while to sink in. The phone actually makes a little beep when it focuses on something
in the shot. When it's bright outside, you can't really see what you're getting---so you just take some extras and hope for
the best.
The sun did a cool thing---makes rainbow streaks. That's late afternoon in the back yard with the sun behind the
subject---AKA backlight. You can see the second one is lit up nicely. The first has too much sun coming into the
lens.
This is also a find during my census trekking. And, yes, it was dead whenI arrived---how else do you think I could get that? Well, maybe I could have used some honey, but since I'm allergic
to bee stings, this is the route I prefer. I also WAY prefer dead roaches to live ones. I hate those creepy antennae
moving around on the big ones....yuck!
The bumblebee & the Agapanthus are cropped a little, using the phone editing software. Did you read that? Phone picture editing software---who would've thought? The image of the bee still has good texture & detail-- taken in harsh mid-day light. The one below of the flower blooming I intentionally tried to take to get a silhouette--so I used bright light behind it. (If I used the flash, and my phone does have one, I could have lit the blooms for a more ordinary picture.)
I used the phone software to crop & create a Photoshop like effect on it---similar to the cut out or stamp. The black
& white worked well for the silhouette. I'm still shocked that the phone has such sophisticated photo options.
PHOTIP: Experiment with your phone camera and the software included. Then email it to a friend. That is the one
thing I haven't figured out yet---how to get the pix from the phone to the computer. For now I'm using email.
Let me know if you have a better way. I thought I had a camera plug that worked, but the important end was too big.
BLESSINGS,
See more pix
Posted by Pamela at 5/24/2010 6:09 PM 
Categories: Personal
Tags: effects agapanthus photoshop camera cropping phone grapeleaf photo editing magnolia sun
Categories: Personal
Tags: effects agapanthus photoshop camera cropping phone grapeleaf photo editing magnolia sun
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