Zen

 

Zen, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

Lots of patterns and geometries to play with at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Taxis

Taxis, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

Another image from my G9 at night from room 1550 at the San Francisco Hyatt at the Embarcadero. NoiseNinja to clean up the ISO 800 noise and conversion to B&W to manage the night-time white balance and mix of lighting.

Waterfall Miniature

Waterfall Miniature, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

I went walking with Hutch and friends. We both took pictures of the waterfall. I used the iPhone and he the 5d. He got a wonderful closeup, I got this wide angle view.

Children at Play

Children at Play, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

I’ve been taking panos on the iPhone all month, mostly stitching them directly on the phone using Autostitch. I’ve been working especially on panos containing people because I think it is kind of unique. People move, you need to be careful. But if you get your seams right, then you can capture a scene that didn’t take place.

This is 4 vertical images taken on the iPhone and stitched together in Photomerge from Photoshop Elements 6 (Mac version). There is almost no other editing except a bit of color balance adjustment (i like my images a bit warmer).

I am continually amazed by the iPhone image quality. I can’t even enter this in my favorite low-res group on Flickr. They would just kick it out.

The Side Lobby

The Side Lobby, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

The side lobby in our hotel in Victoria. Through some sloppy framing I lost a great EXIT sign. Still happy I edged in a little corner of that chandelier.

Courtenay at Dusk

Courtenay at Dusk, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

Small town feel. Beautiful sky. Who can resist?

Barely Visible

Barely Visible, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

Barely visible (pun intended) in this high-key rendition are my shoulder scars. I was cleared this week to work with my 5dmkII. PT says it will be good exercise and stretching to bring my hand up and and back to the level of my face.

Cheap Date

I’ve certainly been lax at describing what I’ve been up to lately. I hope to remedy that with the installation of the WordPress app on my iPhone.

It has been 9 weeks since my shoulder surgery and during this time I have purchased an iPhone and have refallen in love with taking its 3-MP camera. What makes the iPhone such a great device is that you can take the pic, edit the pic, and publish the pic all from the phone.

In confluence with my purchase came the TO Photo Club’s next composition assignment is panorama crop images. Here are a couple of images which I took and stitched on the iPhone, though I later did the final processing in Lightroom. Not one to do something simple, my pano not only include people, they include moving people. I find the mediocre stitching and ghosting an interesting artifact. Probably something like CS4 could stitch them together better, but who would use CS4 on an iPhone pic?

Cheap Date

The View

Morning through the screen

Morning through the screen, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

Just a little tweaking in Lightroom – mostly right from the iPhone.

Leaves and Shadows

Leaves and Shadows, originally uploaded by I Nancy.

Thousand Oaks Photo Club (officially the Thousand Oaks Computer Club Digital Photo Group or TOPCC) Picnic.
The assignment was “creative” from Roy Dunn, an amazing photographer of high-speed flash photography and high-magnification macro photography. Says he is lousy at non-technical images and so gave us this assignment. With my shoulder still on the mend, the iPhone was my weapon of choice.