Nope. Un-uh. Negatory. It’s far too early to be funding these on the ground.
Tag: procam
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Yet another attempt at a night sky picture using an iPhone. The clouds in front of the moon last night were to cool not to try again. -
Still trying to improve my night photography using an iPhone. Feels like it’s still eluding me. It might be the kind of thing that an iPhone is simply never good at. They always come out too grainy. Oh well.Shot with ProCam.
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This is a borderline cheat, but that’s just tough. I couldn’t resist. Happy Leap Day. See you in four years.Shot with ProCam, made slightly less uninteresting in Snapseed.
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I didn’t get out much today. It was a “clean the house” kind of day, and I didn’t think pictures of used Swiffer sheets would be all that compelling. So, in lieu of something interesting, it’ll just have to be something pretty. Here’s a picture of the sunset, as seen through the trees outside my front door.See you tomorrow.
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I still really struggle with night photography on the iPhone. Then again, in fairness, the iPhone doesn’t have the full range of capabilities that a SLR camera has (the iPhone has a fixed aperture, which can’t be changed no matter what app you use) and I’m always trying to take picture of the moon (a really difficult subject).I snapped this one using night mode on ProCam. The thing I like most is that it captured the beauty of the clouds and trees in the moonlight. And Venus. I think that smaller dot is Venus.
The thing I don’t like is that there was just no way to tone down how bright the moon was in the shot. It totally overpowered the rest of the sky.
I’ll keep trying, but for now, this is what I got.
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Lines fascinate me like never before. It could be the drawing course I took at the Worcester Art Musuem last fall. If you’ve ever taken a drawing course, you’ll know that drawing, at its most basic, is nothing more that lines drawn the best way you can. When I find lines and patterns just by walking around, I usually take a picture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it needs a little help.This is a standpipe in the parking garage at work. What drew me to it was that fact that it lined up in perfect parallel to the wall and the electric conduit next to it.
Taken with ProCam, cropped and zoomed with Snapseed, filter applied in Hipstamatic.
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My wife and sister-in-law have had this funny Valentine’s Day tradition for years, and that is to give Valentine’s Day the middle finger and go out for sushi. And even though my wife and I have been married for close to twenty years, it’s a tradition that persists. So today we went out to get some sushi with the kids and an old friend of ours.The picture above is part of an order of crab rangoon (yes, I know, it’s not a sushi, but it’s an appetizer), which itself is seems to be something of a anomaly up here in New England. At least, as far as we’ve seen. Up here, you ask for crab rangoon, the restaurant knows what you mean. Anywhere else, they seem to be called crab dumplings. (Well, at least in Maryland anyway.) Not sure why that is.
These crab rangoon are a little different than what you usually see. Most times, it’s crab and a cream cheese filling in some dough, pinched together and fried. The crab rangoon we had today was crab and cream cheese, along with some additional herbs, wrapped in a thin dough and deep fried. Looked different than usual, but still very tasty.
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My town has, of all things, a dairy. Model Dairy operates out of Main Street. I’ve lived in my town for fifteen years, and I still know next to nothing about this dairy. Their website is a Facebook page. They have a truck that roams around town that looks like it dates back to when Ike was president, and smells even older. They have a building that is down the street from me, yet I never see anyone coming or going. I’m sure this dairy is fully functional, but it must be a word of mouth kind of thing.This morning, after dropping my daughter off at school, I noticed that the morning light was hitting this mystery building in a way that begged to be photographed. I pulled over, pulled out my phone, and started snapping. One of the results is above.
I played around with this one in Enlight. I’m still getting to know Enlight, to figure out all of its tips and tricks. One of the things it offers that some of the other photo-editing apps don’t is the use of curves. Using curves is essentially just picking a spot on a curve, overlaid on top of the photo, and dragging it this way or that to change the color within the part of the photo the curve falls. Think of curves as a way to alter the hue and saturation of a part of the photo only, and not the entire photo. Using the curves, I was able to enrich the warm color hitting the upper part of the picture, and cool down the lower part of the picture with the snow.
I think the result is okay. It’s not the best picture or post-processing I’ve ever done, but it’s still interesting enough (to me, at least) to post.
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The day after the snow storm was a bright, beautiful day. The snow still on the trees contrasting with the blue sky was pretty spectacular. I took this with ProCam and it is untouched by post-processing.
Scott Lyerly 