Week 44- Shot With A Phone

     I am definitely not a cellphone photographer. As a matter of fact I believe my cellphone is very temperamental. Sometimes it takes really nice photos and other times.....thankfully the trash can is right there.
 For this week's 52 frame challenge the requirement was to shoot with a phone. Shoot I did, to make it tad more interesting for myself I decided to shoot RAW and play with the settings, rather than having the phone use its automatic settings. 
 
    The first photo I captured was that of a sliced pear. The settings were: 1/20 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 400.

    I then decided to experiment.

     My cellphone, when using the "pro" setting (which gives one the ability to set everything manually) takes two photos simultaneously. One photo is left raw while the second one is converted to jpeg, all along applying the edits it feels is needed before saving the photo in jpeg. 

    Below I have both the raw version (straight out of the cellphone camera without any edits) and the jpeg version the cellphone camera created.

 

    The above is the cellphone enhanced jpeg version 1/20 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO        400.

    This is identical to the above except in raw form without edits, rather flat.

    Obviously, there is a big difference in exposure and color.

 

    Above is the raw version with settings of:1/60 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 400

     Cellphone version in jpeg.

    As you can see there is a lot of enhancement done within the cellphone camera when the photo is converted into jpeg. 

    On the rest of the photos, I decided to continue shooting in raw and then doing my own edits, using Photoshop. 

     Settings: 1/60 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm ISO 400

       1/50 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 400

 

1/30 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 125

 

1/60 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 250

 

1/25 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 480

 

    I did take a few photos using my regular camera just to see the difference between the cellphone and the DSLR. 

        15 sec. f/5.6 50mm, ISO 100 Z7

    10 sec. f/11 50mm, ISO 160, Z7.

    With the two above, I for obvious reasons could not use the same settings as the cellphone. Therefor I chose to do some light painting, hence the slower shutter speed.

    And so another week of challenges is behind me.

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From Bird Feed to Blooming Flower

 All summer long I filled the bird feeder with all sorts of mixes that included sunflower seeds.
Between the blue jays and the squirrels, the first thing to be eaten were the sunflower seeds. 
In early October I saw a little, but tall plant growing close to the feeder pole. 

At first I thought it was some sort of weed. Since it looked pretty cool, I let it grow, obviously it was another opportunity to photograph a plant using my macro lens.

With time it grew taller and it started blooming.

And of course when all the seeds developed, the bees came around again.

It is now the end of October, and most of the blooms are full grown.

There is one last bloom developing into a full fledge flower, before the cold sets in.

According to a site I researched, if I leave the heads on the plants throughout the winter, there is a possibility they might come back next Spring.

Something to look forward to.😉

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Caged Witch

 Not going gung ho on this site until I figure out all the buttons and such. Hence for today I am posting a photo of a witch I saw at the market. For some reason she was placed under a table somewhat obscure and out of the way. With all the plants surrounding her she looked caged in. I guess the store owner is not keen on selling her, being she was hidden. But I found her quite sweet looking and not at all witchy.

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Venmo Available?

 This is the second post on Blogger for me. Using older posts from Photoblog to experiment with this site. This particular photo was taken in Chicago, while walking around and capturing various sights. It was of particular interest to me for two reasons. The first reason being how well the area had been decorated by the homeless person residing in this particular spot. The second reason being the sign, "cash/app venmo available".

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Week 43- Walls/ Arches

" If you think of a wall as just a meaningless background, think again". That was the entry comment to this week's challenge theme. But it wasn't too inspiring, therefor I chose to complete the extra credit which was "arches".

Repeated Patterns

Gradient Mapping with the help of Photoshop

Gradient Mapping with the help of Photoshop

Mirrored with the help of Smartphone Editor

Arched Window Frames

Glares and Reflections

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