Phone photos

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I occasionally use the edit features in my phone. There are a few canned filters, plus sliders for the typical things (exposure/highlights/blackpoint/shadows/sharpness…). Very rarely I upload to my desktop to do more refined editing in Photoshop.

 

[pvstoy]

99 percent of the images posted here from my phone are not edited.

I do before the capture, change the exposure lighter or darker.

If needed I can use the phone editing sliders, crop, rotate etc. It is good enough.

The new forum software made it super easy to go from phone to post with not much hassle or having to reduce the file size. So I have been able to quickly share images while currently on a trip.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

Burning weeds on the southeastern corner of my property.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

I've never have used in-phone photo tools.

I transfer all images taken each day, weed out the worst or redundant, enhance and store on a 1 terabyte external hard drive. I've tens of thousands of images of mine, old family photos; scanned 35mm slides and photos, digital.

I started with various Kodak cameras in the 1960s; upgraded to various 35mm SLR cameras, generally shooting Kodachrome 64; got my first digital camera in 1998, the first Sony Mavica cameras using floppy disks and having a resolution of 640x480 (my camp with my Chevy S-10 4x4 above was taken with that camera). I've had several digital cameras since, another Mavica with more resolution, then a couple of high end Kodak digitals. Currently have an inexpensive Kodak, which I use now and then because it has a 16x optical zoom. I've been using primarily my phones for the past six or seven years. They keep getting better.

My father's hobby was photography, went pro and opened a shop after he retired in 1985. Started a very successful post card route from Barstow to Carson City, shooting desert and Sierra scenes. His last decade increasingly focused on providing scenic post cards to Joshua Tree National Park, near which they lived until they came north to Winnemucca. Dad sold his business when he was 88 years old. He used 35mm, 2.25" and 4x5 and 5x7 Graflex cameras. He died at 93 in February 2020.