Hiking In The Dark

This is not my typical photo but I'm going to share it anyway. I took these photos with my iPhone 14 Pro Max. It was early morning and I decided to take a night hike. Interesting to see how the dark mode on the phone makes it appear that there was more light. The face is that I had a hard time seeing the trail. I love the shadow of me taking the 2nd photo.

~ Rick

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Night Mountain View

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We visited family in Utah this weekend. I workout early in the morning, even when traveling. Since I didn't have gym access, I used ‘bands’ for resistance training, and then to complete my workout, I took 2 to 3 mile hikes ... well, call it outdoor walks.

These photo were taken on one of those hikes at about 5:45A using the dark mode on my iPhone. I wish I didn't have the street and house lights, but I believe it adds to the photos. If you look closer you can see the stars. I love the mountains.

~ Rick

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Night Photography

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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.

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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

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Space needle

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The Space Needle was built for the the 1962 World’s Fair. It is unique, and stands out in the Seattle skyline.

I was in Seattle for a conference.  We arrived at the hotel late in the evening, and I was very tried. At this point in time, all I wanted was some sleep. When I travel, I almost always take a look out the room window before going to bed. The view exceeded my expectations.! The Space Needle at night is stunning.

The best photos often happen like this .. be curious, and look around. Night photos are difficult, especially with nothing but an iPhone. This came out much better than I expected. 

~ Rick

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