Nice to see you back, Marco! These are very nice shots. I am constantly amazed at the quality coming out of the tiny lens and sensor on modern phones, I've used mine exclusively for on-line sales images, and to add to requests for a quote for renovations recently.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: Marco Alpert <ma...@alpert.com> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 9:34 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: Phone photos > On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:08 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >> On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:03 PM, Marco Alpert <ma...@alpert.com> wrote: >> >> For various reasons, I haven’t been doing any “serious" photography for >> quite a while now (although I do consistently lurk here). I think I’ve only >> taken my K-3 out a few times in the past few years, and then only for some >> practical purposes. However, seeing the conversation about the current state >> of phone photography, I thought I’d share a few phone photos I took this >> past weekend while we were visiting family up in Olympia WA. > > I will forever remember Olympia as where Mom had a 29 point hand when I was > playing cribbage with her. > >> I usually only use the phone for grab shots to record things, but I thought >> I’d try some high contrast B&W. These were all edited on the phone using >> Snapseed. I could definitely have refined them on the computer once I got >> home, but thought I’d leave them as they were as documentation of the >> in-phone process. >> >> https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAwVC6 > > Aesthetically, those are very nice. Technically, they’re very impressive for > a computer that you can hold in your hand. Some of them seem noisier than > I’d expect, but that might be some “artificial grain” effect in the > processing. Good eye. Yeah, on a few of them I was trying out the "add grain" function. Seemed like it might work with the high contrast aesthetic. m > >> >> (I haven’t used Flickr in about a decade, so hope I didn’t screw the >> link up.) >> >> - Marco >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email >> to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the >> link directly above and follow the directions. >> > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret4est > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
