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.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

Today I found that my new phone's camera has a panorama feature. Before, I'd make panoramas by stitching together images in Photoshop, which often don't blend well without extensive work. Several years ago I had a phone with a camera that featured panoramas as well, I loved that feature. So I'm happy that I now have it again.

This photo taken earlier today from my back porch looking south. It pans about 45 degrees or so. The photo is not enhanced, just the image size reduced. The smoke at the left is a property owner burning on his land.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

A pretty southern exposure sunrise…

 

[pvstoy]

Today I found that my new phone's camera has a panorama feature. Before, I'd make panoramas by stitching together images in Photoshop, which often don't blend well without extensive work. Several years ago I had a phone with a camera that featured panoramas as well, I loved that feature. So I'm happy that I now have it again.

This photo taken earlier today from my back porch looking south. It pans about 45 degrees or so. The photo is not enhanced, just the image size reduced. The smoke at the left is a property owner burning on his land.

Just to remind you that you can also do vertical panoramas. I start with the dark side and go pan to the lighter side for more even exposure. Try it both ways.

I don't reduce the size of the image from my phone. I believe the upload software handles this. One less thing to fiddle fart around with.

 

[pvstoy]

Here is two examples of vertical Panorama. Church in Guatemala.
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[Wandering Sagebrush]

Patrick, great tip on the vertical panoramas. While I have done them, I hadn’t thought about starting with the dark area first. Thank you!

 

[pvstoy]

Oh.. I hold the phone in portrait position when doing horizontal pano and hold phone horizontal position when doing vertical pano.

 

[pvstoy]

Horizontal Panorama, jaguar sighting.
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[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

Sunrise, taken a few minutes ago.

Top one is about a 80° pan due south from my back porch. The bottom two about the same due east about a hundred steps out from the house. The bottom one is from the same position and panning my phone in portrait position. I'm not sure why the bottom image's color got washed out, other than the camera compensating for increased lighter sky and darker ground. Images are unenhanced.

I reduced the top two, the bottom is at the resolution it came from the phone - which I overlooked to reduce. I took these and transferred them to my computer and set these three aside for posting before I looked online here. I've been using Irfan View freeware image software since about 2000 or so to reduce the images and as a general photo viewer.

I don't reduce my images for my own use. I primarily reduce my image size because it reduces the file size for emails and posting. I regularly share photos with ski3pins, which I reduce images to 800x450, which allows me to embed around 30 or so images before the email software starts to choke.

I don't want to be presumptuous with this forum's generosity with their capacity to hold my images, thus my habit of reducing image size. And I'm from the days of dial up, old habits are hard to break (maybe that statement ought to go in the geezer thread ... ).

Thank you for your tips from all.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

SR, you should have a way to set exposure on your phone. It will help, plus your editor can work a few wonders. Too bad we don’t have masking abilities on these little hand held computers.

BTW, I like that bottom pano.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

SR, you should have a way to set exposure on your phone. It will help, plus your editor can work a few wonders. Too bad we don’t have masking abilities on these little hand held computers.

BTW, I like that bottom pano.

It does have a manual mode, but I haven't yet played around with it. And thank you. I probably will use portrait mode to shoot panos in the future, I'm not fond of the filmstrip look of images shot with the camera horizontal.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

First snow of the season. Low light, no flash.

 

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