Apex sunset

Shot using my old iPhone on yesterday's bikeride in Apex Park.

Radiance

Sunset seen through a tree in White Ranch open space park iPhone shot using the proHDR app.

iPhone panorama of the Loch and Loch Vale

This was created by 6 shots on my iphone4 (non-S ;-) ) in HDR mode. I stitched them together using hugin later. I did have my phone stitch a similar image using the autostitch app which looked great too, but it lowers the resolution (probably a setting somewhere I should change). I slightly warmed the tone in Lightroom but otherwise this is as is. The image is about 12 MP resolution. Click on it for a much bigger view. It is quite impressive what you can do with a cellphone nowadays.


The Loch iPhone panorama. Buy a print.
relevant Google+ post.

Contrast

Shot on yesterday's bike ride with my iPhone using the pro HDR app. As it came from the camera. I liked the contrast between the yellow and the deep blue skies. I could only get that out using multiple exposure techniques. The built-in camera app gave blah results even with the HDR option turned on.

Cellphone or DSLR?

What do you think? left or right?



I was inspired to post this comparison by shuwenwu's comment on a flickr image of mine. Click for bigger. Of course these are not exactly the same viewpoint but I just wanted to illustrate the amazing results you can get from cellphones. I carry an iPhone nowadays, which has a surprisingly good camera built in. Examples below:

SFO BART station cones

I put this cellphone image of safety cones at the San Francisco International airport BART station on my flickr account with the remark that there must be 1000's of images of these cones on flickr.



And lo and behold, there is a flickr group dedicated to them. Very funny.

From my cellphone

Just a random image from my cellphone (a $8 deal - I am far too cheap to buy an iPhone)

To get the picture off, I have to send a MMS from the phone to my email adress. The thing is too cheap for the USB port to work for anything else than charging the phone.