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Mom? Didn't you pass away decades ago? ..But thanks. Im off to school now!
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We had a great trip to Oregon with many nice sunsets this summer, but this one was probably my favorite:
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Kinda reminds me of Ansel Adams. That iceberg looks like a fortress.
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Not good photos, but I was hoping someone could help me out. The sun was red this morning in Portland where we are visiting. However my iPhone 7 camera can’t seem to get the color right. Except in one photo. I have no idea what I did on that one. I tried a bunch of times to mimic it, including focusing in other spots, changing the few options the camera allows changed. The background is darker on the one that the sun turned red, not sure how that happened either. In all shots the reflection on the water is the correct red.
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Best picture of my trip so far.
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If you touch your finger to the sun, it still didn't turn out red? Do Apple cameras have an exposure adjustment option to add or reduce exposure? If so, try -1 or -2 EV and go from there. I think it's possible it's over-exposing the sun but it could also be the internal computational photography stuff of Apple just deciding to do it. If you can shoot with a different camera app and touch your finger to it that could be a way to sort of test this idea.Fitzy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:14 am Not good photos, but I was hoping someone could help me out. The sun was red this morning in Portland where we are visiting. However my iPhone 7 camera can’t seem to get the color right. Except in one photo. I have no idea what I did on that one. I tried a bunch of times to mimic it, including focusing in other spots, changing the few options the camera allows changed. The background is darker on the one that the sun turned red, not sure how that happened either. In all shots the reflection on the water is the correct red.
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Seems a lot like a problem I have with my camera. its old and doesn't have tons of features. When I want to take a pic of the moon as it appears it always brightens the pic to appear almost as if it was taken in the day. All I want is a nice bright glowing moon...not the sun
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I tried touching all over, including right over the sun. I was never able to replicate that one picture. There’s not a lot of choices on the iPhone camera, but I had forgotten some camera apps do allow more. I’ll have to look into that. Thanks. Ultimately I do know I need a better camera.Enough wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:40 pm If you touch your finger to the sun, it still didn't turn out red? Do Apple cameras have an exposure adjustment option to add or reduce exposure? If so, try -1 or -2 EV and go from there. I think it's possible it's over-exposing the sun but it could also be the internal computational photography stuff of Apple just deciding to do it. If you can shoot with a different camera app and touch your finger to it that could be a way to sort of test this idea.
Thank you for the ideas.
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This year's Perseid Meteor Shower was absolutely fantastic! The lack of moon (too cool part of the world experienced a solar eclipse before the show) and dark location really helped a bunch. Here's my first take:
Meteors, Mars, and the Milky Way by Michael Menefee, on Flickr
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Awesome!Enough wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:54 am This year's Perseid Meteor Shower was absolutely fantastic! The lack of moon (too cool part of the world experienced a solar eclipse before the show) and dark location really helped a bunch. Here's my first take:
Meteors, Mars, and the Milky Way by Michael Menefee, on Flickr
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Was this the max zoom? It looks a little bit soft? I know on my Pixel 2 I can get away with half strength zoom pretty well but things start to degrade pretty badly at max zoom. If you have any more samples I would love to see them, I'm very intrigued to see how Google does with their new digital zoom approach.
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Just a heads up that I downloaded the new Google Pixel camera apk that includes Night Sight and oh my goodness it's a game-changer for mobile photography. Here's samples from my 2XL, keep in mind that the first was literally shot in a pure dark room besides the candles. The second was well after sunset outside. These are extreme examples that show noise, but even coming from full-frame DSLRs this is one hell of an achievement vs any other night shot mode I have yet tried on mobile and I've tried a bunch:
Here's samples without and with:
Here's samples without and with:
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I am [im]patiently awaiting the rollout of the updated app to my Pixel 2. The Verge's writeup has my expectations very high.
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2 things. First, Night Sight is now out for all Pixels. It's awesome.Zaxxon wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:38 pm I am [im]patiently awaiting the rollout of the updated app to my Pixel 2. The Verge's writeup has my expectations very high.
Second, the Pixel 3 Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals look pretty good. Between those, the trade-in values for Pixel 1/2 ($125/$291 currently through Google), and the fact that I'm due for an employer subsidy this year, I may bite and upgrade my wife (Pixel 1) and my (Pixel 2) phones. Anyone else?
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Those pics with Night Sight are amazing. All software is it?. .Wow.
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And likely much patience. Have a friend who used to do night-time exposures like this, on film. Thankfully, with the advent of digital photography, it means cameras are far more sensitive to light and take much less time to capture. But back in those days, it meant all-nighters taking several exposures. So, he'd be out at night in the middle of winter in -30C (-22F) surrounded by nature, and capturing the skies. Winter often tends to have better skies, the cooler the better, especially if the air is crisp as the air is generally clearer with less particles in the air. Astronomers are dedicated people
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I entered this photo into a juried art show run by the county recently and it got selected to be in a year long exhibit at the county administration building along with 59 other pieces of art. Have no clue what that means but being as I'm not a landscape photographer it's kind of cool one of my only landscapes got selected. I entered in a more abstract photo that wasn't selected but figured that would be the case because Monterey is really into plein air painting.
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Nice shot, and congrats.
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That's fantastic - and deserved. It's a lovely shot with a really nice warm artistic tonal process to finish it.wire wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 12:40 pm I entered this photo into a juried art show run by the county recently and it got selected to be in a year long exhibit at the county administration building along with 59 other pieces of art. Have no clue what that means but being as I'm not a landscape photographer it's kind of cool one of my only landscapes got selected. I entered in a more abstract photo that wasn't selected but figured that would be the case because Monterey is really into plein air painting.
I was actually popping to post something similar - I was notified over the weekend that my image, "Aspen and Adobe," took 2nd place worldwide (fine art professional category) in the 13th Annual B&W Spider Awards. It's a juried monochrome photo competition with the jurors drawn from places like the Tate collection in London, and various galleries, and media agencies etc.. I'm shocked, to say the least, but very happy.
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Holy smokes, very nice shots both of you! The artistic intent is spot on for both.
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I got in on the January moon fun.
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Nice catch . I like how you've captured the transitional period of the eclipse. I have similar shot, probably a fraction later in the cycle than yours, which has a really cool blue cast in the lighter area but still the deep red in the shadow.
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Nice shot, Zax! Our weather has been terrible this winter, so we didn't get a terribly great view of it. What we did see of it though, it was a rather dark eclipse.
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Thanks! Yes, between this, the Great American Eclipse, and a couple of other attempts, my weather luck has been phenomenal. Which tells me that I'm due for a fully cloudy evening the next time I try...
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Yeah, the Great American Eclipse was great. We traveled all the way to a small town in Oregon for that, and our weather couldn't have been better. Originally my Dad had a spot in mind near the Painted Hills, but they had closed that off because they didn't want the increase in traffic which is understandable. We ended up viewing on the motel owner's own property which was up on a plateau with a perfect horizon. It was also a farm with a few horses, and I was looking forward to seeing if they'd have any reaction as I'd heard some wildlife do, but they were very calm horses and never knew anything was going on. It did get perceptibly cooler and darken as it neared totality, and while my Dad had seen one previous Total Eclipse in Mexico in 1991, he felt this one was much brighter and more distinct. It's one thing to hear about it and talk about it, but until one sees it themselves, it's hard to comprehend, and it was just amazing to see the corona effect in person. It's like this crazy magical orb with filaments hanging out in front of you, looking like it's come from another world.
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I don't think I saw it. Post away! Here's my compose from Glendo, WY, pop 205, that day.
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great shots. Me and my wife spent the eclipse on the porch together. Was a pretty amazing time.
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