Here are a few....The blue clouds shot started as a big vertical pano, but since I wanted a new work desktop background I cropped to dimensions and rotated
Took the iPhone 5 out for a spin yesterday. Not too bad, honestly.
And this one is a bit different. It's an HDR of two in-camera panoramas. Because the stitching varies a bit between the two, there wasn't perfect alignment, though HDR Efex Pro 2 did an admirable job of aligning them, considering they had slightly different projections due to sweeping further on one....still, it's sort of a dreamy effect in the end. One was started on the left and metered for the normally lit stuff. THe other was started on the right, and metered for the sun. Final image is nearly 22 MP.
There are some super nice images in this thread. Some are much better than you would see in some of the more dedicated forums :-) I'll throw in a couple of mine.
At the car wash looking out throught the windshield
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I dig that worn wood shot! Kewl!
Thanks - believe it or not, that's actually a close-up of the hull of the trawler/barge in the other image. I bet she would sink the moment they set her down in the lake.
Some/most of the barges here have planked hulls. They were used to transport timber and other goods in lake Saimaa during the early 20th century. Luckily some barges and steamships still remain from that era.
I really should take the time to photograph them properly with my better equipment at some point.
Thanks, mortyb. The N8 does produce some nice images for a phone camera, but it's painfully difficult to hold steady while shooting.
I actually find that I tend to desaturate most of my images these days, and I go for a certain type of understated, realistically gritty look. Not sure if it's some kind of a phase or something, but I like the look myself nevertheless.
I've made some prints lately to put on the wall, and the photos I like the most, are some of my Instagram shots. Makes you wonder about the $$$ spent on Zeiss etc.
