You got some good concert shots here! These are my favourites, where the light beams work really well.
You got some good concert shots here! These are my favourites, where the light beams work really well.
Fully agree! As someone who has played in a band for a long time I‘d be delighted to have those shots taken by someone. Excellent work!
Mirages Forest and Mountain
The two forest shots look nice and somehow inviting with that deliberately soft looking processing, especially the first one
@Wormsmeat has written:I recently spoke with Nigel about the quality of mobile phone photographs. I recently upgraded my cult classic Pocophone F1 to a mid-range Google Pixel, purely because I wanted a better camera. They seem to get among the best reviews at each price point. To say I've been pleasantly surprised is an understatement. I thought the daytime shots would be good but didn't expect difficult night shots to come out as well. I took the phone to Thailand and I think this is the first shot I took with it. A quick handheld snapshot (auto everything) in Bangkok as our group were hurrying across a footbridge, very late for a restaurant booking. Not perfect but my other phone would have turned its nose up at a shot like this. This is straight out of camera. I could improve it in PS but wanted to show what it could do on its own. It'll get better as I learn the settings.
I met with a few esteemed New York photographers (formerly of this parish) on Tuesday night and was surprised to hear that one of them almost exclusively uses her mobile now and has turned off EXIF data when she posts on Flickr. The results are amazing and she receives just as many plaudits as before, if not more.That is quite impressive. especially when taken quickly under the conditions you mentioned.
Remarkable how sharp the background is for what looks like quite a long exposure time, seems longer than 1/25s in the EXIF, looking at the long white lights of the cars (but maybe those cars were just driving faster?)
I like this shot! Even just considering the technical aspect, it is an excellent photo. But I am also sceptical about the EXIF figure of 1/25 sec. At 60mph, a car moves 88ft/s, in 1/25s it moves 3.52ft. The light trails look at least 10ft long. Is it possible that the phone camera has combined a sequence of shots?
David
**Castello di Carpineti
Great tour. My faves...
Trellis
Art in urban development.
This is a cool structure. Well captured, I read you want to take a second version to avoid "clipping" the leaf on the biulding, that sounds good, but probably best not to remove the buildings completely as they give an idea of the scale and size of the sculpture overhead.
Castello di Carpineti
This is one on my favourite places in the mid Apennines, with some lovely views. There was an extremely strong wind blowing and the bad weather causing havoc in Tuscany, was trying to breach the Apennines. I have posted pictures of this castle before.
The epic scenery in the first and also the last for me.
Without leaving the house
Since I didn't go on any trips this week here's some old ones, all taken without leaving the house, all from our balcony in Mühlbach.
in two different seasons of course :-)
Wow - such scenery from your house? Lucky thing!
During my recent trip... The morning I entered Shenandoah National Park, it was foggy. The morning I left Shenandoah National Park, it was sunny. This allowed me to get some interesting contrasting photos...
Just as you said a nice contrast of foggy and sunny conditions. I like it when it's like that, it's like two trips in one :-)
In the last two shots I have a feeling you could make the white balance of the second a bit warmer.
The presumably black road is looking quite blue and the grass looks a tad blue/green
@Fireplace33 has written: @Wormsmeat has written:I recently spoke with Nigel about the quality of mobile phone photographs. I recently upgraded my cult classic Pocophone F1 to a mid-range Google Pixel, purely because I wanted a better camera. They seem to get among the best reviews at each price point. To say I've been pleasantly surprised is an understatement. I thought the daytime shots would be good but didn't expect difficult night shots to come out as well. I took the phone to Thailand and I think this is the first shot I took with it. A quick handheld snapshot (auto everything) in Bangkok as our group were hurrying across a footbridge, very late for a restaurant booking. Not perfect but my other phone would have turned its nose up at a shot like this. This is straight out of camera. I could improve it in PS but wanted to show what it could do on its own. It'll get better as I learn the settings.
I met with a few esteemed New York photographers (formerly of this parish) on Tuesday night and was surprised to hear that one of them almost exclusively uses her mobile now and has turned off EXIF data when she posts on Flickr. The results are amazing and she receives just as many plaudits as before, if not more.That is quite impressive. especially when taken quickly under the conditions you mentioned.
Remarkable how sharp the background is for what looks like quite a long exposure time, seems longer than 1/25s in the EXIF, looking at the long white lights of the cars (but maybe those cars were just driving faster?)I like this shot! Just considering the technical aspect, it is an excellent photo. But I am also sceptical about the EXIF figure of 1/25 sec. At 60mph, a car moves 88ft/s, in 1/25s it moves 3.52ft. The light trails look at least 10ft long. Is it possible that the phone camera has combined a sequence of shots?
David
I believe my mobile uses a technique similar to Olympus' Live Composition, it takes a base exposure then adds moving objects to it. So 1/25 would be the base image.
I enjoy Q2 more than I expected. I think subconsciously I am conditioned to like it, regardless of what after spending all this money :)
Two good shots, I like the B&W processing in number 2!
Castello di Carpineti
This is one on my favourite places in the mid Apennines, with some lovely views. There was an extremely strong wind blowing and the bad weather causing havoc in Tuscany, was trying to breach the Apennines. I have posted pictures of this castle before.
This last one is my favourite. The tower is enjoying the sunlight.
It has a nice layout with foreground, midground and background to give a nice feeling of depth
Without leaving the house
Alpine Choughs 😀 Possibly - probably - my favourite bird 😍
I think I like the foggy ones best, especially this one.
Castello di Carpineti
This is one on my favourite places in the mid Apennines, with some lovely views. There was an extremely strong wind blowing and the bad weather causing havoc in Tuscany, was trying to breach the Apennines. I have posted pictures of this castle before.
I can understand why it's a favourite place. The first shot is wonderful.
@FloridaNature has written:Wow these are interesting comparisons. How did you drive there, it looks pretty thick. I hate driving in the fog
Slowly. With my fog lights on. There was very light traffic on Skyline Drive. You could see far enough to know what was ahead.
@FloridaNature has written:During my recent trip... The morning I entered Shenandoah National Park, it was foggy. The morning I left Shenandoah National Park, it was sunny. This allowed me to get some interesting contrasting photos...
Just as you said a nice contrast of foggy and sunny conditions. I like it when it's like that, it's like two trips in one :-)
In the last two shots I have a feeling you could make the white balance of the second a bit warmer.
The presumably black road is looking quite blue and the grass looks a tad blue/green
Thanks for the feedback! I see that you are right. I will correct the white balance.
I did like the variety of weather I had on this trip. I have driven the Parkway a number of times but on this trip I saw it in ways I had never seen it before.
The morning of the fog in Shenandoah, during the late morning, I arrived at a gift shop/restaurant just as it started to rain heavily, and it was pretty cold.
The restaurant was selling hot apple cider, which I bought and sat at a window table and enjoyed very much as the warmth went through my body while I watched it rain outside. It was one of the most memorable experiences of my trip when I might have been disappointed that I couldn't do other things because of the rain.