Layers Of Beauty

Adjustments.jpeg

I wish everyone could see this photo at full size on a good screen. The color and the depth blow me away. The clouds look like they are floating on a sea of blue, and the trees have great detail. Its like layers of beauty.

I shot this photo with my iPhone. I could not have done any better if I had swapped my lens on my DSLR.

~ Rick

Rick’s latest technology muse:

Check out our vlog, which includes more pictures and video on YouTube at tales.photos. Remember to subscribe!

Prints are available for many of the photos on this site on canvas, metal or glass. They are stunning and you can purchase them for a wall at home. Click the link or the ‘prints and such’ tab.

©2019 ©2020 Rick Cartwright

Night Photography

public.jpeg

This past weekend the view of the moon was amazing. I wanted to share this photo I took this with my iPhone at 5:35A The framing was not perfect, but it was very dark at this early hour.

I am very impressed with the night photo mode on my new iPhone. I previously blogged about this feature here. It is so amazing.

Look at the photo above. You can even see the clouds in the night sky. This is computational photography at its best. Very impressive.

public.jpeg

So, what does that mean? In this case, the iPhone collects image data from three lens. That data is sampled many times for a longer period of time. This photo was sampled over a 10 second window. This is not a long exposure image .. it is several photos that are merged over time to create a final image. Kind of amazing. It’s still a night shot, but you get something very different.

The second photo was taken mintues later with my big boy camera (my DLSR camera with my sigma 600mm lens). A very differnet type of photo.

~ Rick

Rick’s latest technology muse:

Check out our vlog, which includes more pictures and video on YouTube at tales.photos. Remember to subscribe!

Prints are available for many of the photos on this site on canvas, metal or glass. They are stunning and you can purchase them for a wall at home. Click the link or the ‘prints and such’ tab.

©2019 Rick Cartwright

The mobile phone ... I mean camera.

Granddaughter on her iPod Touch (older pic) 

Granddaughter on her iPod Touch (older pic) 

At one time or another, I think we have all been told, “The best camera is the one you have with you.” Most of the photos I take these days are on my iPhone. Yes, I use my DSLR for what I will call ‘serious photography’, but I capture amazing photos with my iPhone. Editing photos on a mobile device has improved as well, making the need for large cameras and computers less relevant. 

It was not that long ago when the cell phone camera was just a toy. Mobile photography has advanced faster than most point-and-shoot technology. It’s amazing to think how far computational photography has come. I ran across this NatGeo article today and it reminded me how far mobile cameras have come .. enjoy. 

This Is the Extraordinary True Story of the First Camera Phone  - National Geographic