Playing around with the macro lens from Ztylus today. Then monkeying with the picture in Hipstamatic.
Tag: photography
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I’m still playing around with the new lens kit from Ztylus. This is a shot with the wide angle lens, taken at the new music hall at the Joy of Music Program (JOMP) in Worcester. The new music hall is absolutely beautiful and the sound is great. The lens is also nice, providing a much better picture than the one I have from CamRah. I may post a review of the lens kit after I get the chance to use it some more, but for now I’m just enjoying playing around. -
I’m trying out a new set of lens from Ztylus. This is the macro lens, and I love how clearly it showed the accumulated dust in the grooves of the candle topper. More to come in the coming days… -
The day before was sunrise. Yesterday was midday clouds. Today is sunset. Tomorrow I’ll focus on something else other than pictures of the sky, I promise. But the sunset was too beautiful not to capture and share tonight.Captured with Camera+, cropped in Snapseed, and given the HDR filter in Snapseed, which really makes the picture pop, and makes it closer to how the sunset really looked (at least to me).
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This morning’s sunrise was insanely beautiful.That is all.
Cropped in Snapseed, but otherwise untouched.
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Sometime a quick shot grabs my eye. This is the set of mailboxes for the condo complex where I live. I had just picked up the mail, it was evening, I was on my way home from work, and the light for the mailboxes against the evening darkness struck me. There was just something about it that had a noir-y feel. Maybe I’m reading and writing too much hard-boiled detective fiction these days.
Anyway, I took the photo with the native camera app, imported it into Black Cam, gave it a noir feel, and cropped it a little.
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Today’s photo is brought to by snow, without which the kids would not have played outside for an hour and a half, come inside frozen, and begged for hot chocolate.By the way, the candy cane is actually a “peppermint stir stick”, made specifically for hot chocolate. My older daughter thought it was interesting how the red stripes tended to melt almost immediately when inserted into the drink. I’m sure that’s perfectly healthy. Better living through chemistry.
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A quick shot out my front door tonight. For a change, the snow storm is hitting everything south of us. My little slice of Massachusetts is going to get maybe an inch of snow. So far, this is the sum total of our snow. This includes leftover snow from a few weeks ago.Taken with PureShot, and cropped, tuned, and bordered in Snapseed.
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Today’s photo is what I think of as a “playing around” photo, where you take a picture and play around with it until you come up with something fun or goofy or both.If you’re in my age bracket, you went to birthday parties in the 70s and 80s and invariably somebody had a Polaroid camera. You may not have known this, but Polaroid developed a photo app, Polamatic, which you can get in the App Store. It’s a pay app, but it can be a ton of fun.
January and February is birthday season in my house, which means we have birthday paraphernalia lying around in various states of use. Take this package of birthday candles, for example. I liked the look of the package of candles with one missing. But by itself, it’s a kind of uninteresting image.
That’s were the Polaroid app comes in. After a few touch ups in Snapseed, mainly just cropping and rotation, I imported the image into Polamatic. From their you can chose the kind of Polaroid film you want to use, any filtered effects, and the border of the picture.
The end result? A birthday image straight out of the 70s.
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This is a shot of a quilt my mother made for my in-laws at the request of my mother-in-law. My mother is a very accomplished quilter, which is made more impressive when you learn that she’s legally blind. She lost a huge amount of vision twenty-some years ago. Yet, she loves quilting and refused to give it up. She opened her own business quilting the backings onto quilt tops with a sewing machine called a long-arm. She has more swatches of cloth than a Joanne’s Fabric, so much cloth that she actually said, “I don’t need any more gift cards to Joanne’s, there’s nothing more I need to buy there.”This particular quilt is called (I think) a wedding ring quilt and covers the king sized bed in the bedroom where my wife and I sleep whenever we visit my in-laws. The patterns you see in-between the rings is a stitched pattern that repeats over and over. It always boggles my mind how much work must go into making one of these things.
Scott Lyerly 