Even More Randomness

Being new to the iPhone World, I had no idea how enamored others were with their iPhone photos.  There’s even a term they are using and that explains the subject line of this post.  Guess what?  I’ve joined the crowd.

No, the photos will never compare to my DSLR, but the apps and just the fun of whipping it out of my pocket for a quick pic is just too much fun. My previous smartphone had a camera and yes, I had apps for it too, but I never got too attached to the pictures taken with it.

This photo was captured this evening with a camera app called TrueHDR and then I just had to see what else I could do with it in PSP. It is perhaps a little over the top in the editing department, unless of course, you like bold…and I do.

iPhoneography

I had a great photo trip this evening and although I got a late start, it was worth burning the gas. I had not traveled too far from home when I came upon a doe on my side of the road… just THERE, right there at my bumper! I wasn’t fast enough to get my wits together, the vehicle stopped and my camera aimed at her. However, I did slow down to watch her cross the road and stop once she made it into the edge of the wheat field. By that time, I had my truck stopped as well and that’s when I took the first two shots through my passenger window (it no longer rolls down).

She finally was startled enough again to flee by taking a right into the cedars.

As I’m busily reviewing the couple of pictures I got on my LCD screen, I look in my rearview mirror and see a vehicle behind me. I’m sitting in the middle of the road, so off I go to get out of the way. I couldn’t shake the feeling that there might be more than the one deer and had decided I was going to turn around. I’m in luck! The vehicle takes the next right, I continue on down the road to the next “Y” and turn around. As I approached her field, I couldn’t believe she had returned just moments later.

I was wrong though, she was alone.

Or, was she?

Whatever she was watching she wasn’t telling and they weren’t revealing themselves either.

I was totally mesmerized watching this beautiful animal. She sauntered down the edge of the field and then on out into the wheat to start grazing with absolutely no sign of fear from me this time.

Although, she did feel the need to look in my direction just one more time only to once again start grazing with no thought to me at all. I could have sat there and taken photos as long as I wanted, but darkness was beginning to settle in.

My camera journeys are some of the best times of my life. I am thankful to have the evidence.

The kids and I played here last week; today we stopped on the bridge to take a photo with my phone. It was a gorgeous day!

I spotted these two deer in the cemetery, backed up and managed to take a couple of crappy shots before they fled. Hey, it was late (very late!) evening and they were too far away, but I managed to catch them at the far reach of the telephoto lens I had on my Nikon. I totally overexposed the shot and the original below is cropped, but I decided to show you what you can do with a bad photo. View the before and after and please bear in mind, it is still not a good photo, but you can see what editing software can do. I would never print this, but it was fun to play with.

I enhanced the contrast, the colors and sharpened along with a few other things. I enjoy playing with the “bad” shots as well as the good ones just to see what my favorite editing programs can do.

In case you don’t know, I’m now using Adobe Lightroom to process my raw photo files and tweaking there, but I still bring them into Paint Shop Pro Photo X3 to resize for the web or printing, fiddle with them a bit more and then finally save. All could be done with Lightroom, but I am a creature of habit and I just can’t let go of my beloved PSP!