On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:59:44PM -0500, ann sanfedele wrote: > THe first one : > maybe bring up the brightness and contrast on the lower third of the > frame and convert to BW...
That was uploaded directly from the camera to flickr. Once I got it onto my iMac I processed it a bit more: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4091536378/in/set-72157622647635111/ I'll also be posting a bunch of pictures taken with "real cameras", I've got about 1400 frames from the weekend to wade through. I'd guess that there are probably 1 to 2 orders of magnitude more photos taken with camera phones than any other sort of camera, but I tend to think of them as "not real cameras". I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the photos this phone produces, in good light anyways. I sus;ec that there may be some subtle tone mapping going on, the sky in these shots is just too well exposed in comparison with the rest of the frame. > and I think it would be great... It may only be my poor eyesight but I > can only jsut make out what the > roof says.. and I think its both scary and funny. > > I like this the best of the three.. but i do want the barn /shed roof to > stand out more. > > The second one is really scary :-) Web research on "Salvation Mountain" in "Niland CA" would probably tell a lot more of the story. But it is a very impressive accomplishment for one guy, who is now probably in his 70's or 80's. Leonard Knight, if I recall correctly. There was an amazing amount of stuff to photograph down in that area. Unfortunately the group we went with was about 30 people, so it was impossible to photograph anything of interest without someone else getting in the way. I found that I also seem to have a different rhythm when it comes to photographing some of these places. We'd get there, everybody would charge off to the obvious subject, I'd take a couple of "warm up" shots and just as I was starting to get a feel for the place, and starting to see intersting things to photograph, we'd charge off someplace else. It is interesting to note that I was the only one shooting Pentax, but there were three people shooting Holgas. > > ann > > Larry Colen wrote: > > >I got a new camera on Friday. > > > >It's 5MP, fits in my pocket, has a nice screen for viewing and while > >the quality isn't even close to my Pentax, it's lot better than I > >expected. > > > >It does have some features that could be convenient in my SLRs, such > >as automatic GPS tagging of photos and the ability to upload photos > >directly to various sites: flickr, facebook, picassa. > > > >This weekend I used it mostly to take photos to get a geotag of where > >I was taking photos with the SLRs, but I got a couple of decent shots > >with it: > > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622647373103/ > > > >I wasn't looking to buy a camera, but my waranty replacement treo died > >last week and the camera in the new droid is about an order of > >magnitude more usable than I expected. > > > >I need to figure out how to get the full resolution photos off of > >it. I just got back at about 9 this morning, I didn't even have time > >to RTFM with the new phone, but the short review is that I like it. A > >lot. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
