Phone Photo Thread
Why not have a thread dedicated to shots we get with our phones?
So many people use their phones for all kinds of quick photos these days, I thought it would be fun.
Here is an iPhone 4 snapshot of Iggy after being dried after his fall in the pond. He looks all messy because I didn't give him a brush-out under the hair dryer, just wanted to get him warm and dry.
I've found that I need to rotate the pic 90 degrees on my computer before posting, otherwise when you click on it it posts sideways. Kind of weird.
Okay, now you're talking my language, Rebecka! ALL my photos are phone photos, lol! I've posted a few here and there on HL, but here's a recent one I took off my back porch. I'm not often up this early in the morning, so it struck me. It's blurry but kind of pretty nonetheless. At least no one will want to rip it off! ;-)
I'll try posting without first rotating, to see what happens. It worked! Wonder why yours are doing that?
Hopeful in H-town 
Aidan and I after shoveling and playing in the snow today. The matching outfits were NOT intentional, LOL
*see, this poster doesn't hide
Lori...since '73 I can not even stand the picture of Iggy. He is just too perfect for words.
Oliver, Iggy and Lovey = the perfect family.
cbel 
Wild Angel 
Christine 
Nice phone photos, folks! Here's one I took recently -- but not today, the day of our first actual winter snowstorm of 11-12! This was taken in October 2011 up at my son's college in Massachusetts, out the window of his dorm. Like the one above, it was taken with my iPhone 4. A little better than the sunrise. The lack of color helps. :-)
Thanks again for the thread, Rebecka. Nothing will match your photos, but it's fun snapping shots with the phone!
LSummer 
lola 
Bessie 
joyful 
Cherie Jazzy is so cute....If I didn't have three already and they didnt need so much grooming I would really want a Goldendoodle they just look like adorable bears
Nosila 
IR Photo of the Musconetcong at Sandbar Park. Took it with a Casio G'Zone Ravine last summer with a couple other IR photos. They come out kinda blurry, which could be a combo of a few different things.
I don't really use the cell phone camera that much...pixel density and all that jazz...plus I usually have a P&S available if I want it.
Some Guy, love this shot. I do not know what IR means -- is it some kind of effect you can set on the phone? Very cool.
I took this while I was in Florida last week...lounging by the pool in the 75 degree weather! (much better than the weather situation we have going on here now!)
daytripper 
Beautiful, daytripper! And thanks, alpha1beta! I wonder if I have IR on my iPhone! I'll have to check it out.
M & K Not sure why when I expand the photo on the forum it's sideways? It's the right way as the thumbnail and it's the correct way on my phone. Weird.
M&K, that happened to Rebecka and Wild Angel above, too. The only thing I can think of is that I didn't post my photo directly from my phone. I first sent it to my email and saved it on my laptop, then posted it here to the thread. I'm wondering if you and those others posted directly from your phones? Just a thought.
Oh well, it's still a beautiful picture!
This is a pic I took of the view underneath the Verrazzano bridge as seen from the deck of a cruise ship.
Collegeviewrider 
This picture was taken from the back deck of our rental cottage on some lake in New Hampshire when I was there for bike week.
gpg
I took this one with my 1.3 megapixel cell phone back in 2007 over the Town Pool, but I still like it.
I actually just purchased my first Digital SLR - an old Canon EOS 300d - for only $15 at a yard sale. Now I just gotta figure out how to make good use of it. :o)
Rich 
Chris Rebecka:
Try posting a picture without rotating. It should work fine now.
M & K:
Please re-post your picture, it should be corrected.
@ Rich
That picture reminds of the beginning of "Independence Day" when the alien ships break through Earth' s atmosphere.
sorry last one, i love the sky in this one! i think i have taken some pretty sweet pictures with my trusty mobile device!
>Hopeful in H-town
Yeah, IR is Infra-Red. Most phones don't have a low-pass filter over their sensors like DSLR cameras and P&S cameras, so the sensors can capture IR light. The trick is to block out all the other visible light (ROYGBIV). To do that, you either need a really expensive High-Pass (IR) filter OR you can get your hands on a piece of developed, unexposed slide film (the denser, the better. I usually use Provia 100f or Velvia 50), which is what I did. Hold it over the camera and let it auto-adjust. If your camera has auto-focus, it may or may not work properly. If you don't have a camera that can focus, you will get a soft, slightly blurry image thanks to the limitations of cell phone cameras, and the fact that the different spectrums of light diffract at varying angles through different mediums, and most cameras are calibrated to visible light, so IR will be blurry.
tl;dr - It was a manual trick, not a mode on the phone.
>Collegeviewrider
Those are some impressive photos from a cell phone.
>Rich
$15 for a 300D is a good find.
>Some Guy,
Thank you. The phone I used is an LG Envy2?, with a 3.0 megapixel camera. It does take some really good pics.
I use a Tiffen #87 filter for IR photography. The slide film trick works but still lets some visible spectrum through.
Thinking about it, I don't remember where I put my #87...
MikeGuida 
Another cool trick a lot of phones have now is HDR photography. This technique employes a rolling shutter and some fancy processing by software to make a photo that is closer to what the human eye sees. This is the final product of my iPhone 3Gs using the ProHDR app.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
Chris and daytripper - you both make me dream of the tropics right now. Ah to be lounging on a beach.
Chris I love the ultrawide pano. There seems to be very little distortion if I'm looking at it right? Really neat.
Lori - omg matching right down to the glasses! Too funny.
gpg - my chicken catalog (really) just came, and I'm trying to figure out which breeds to order for spring. What kind is Miss Egg Nog? (Love the name, BTW!) Americauna? Is she nice and hardy during our cold winters?
Cherie - Jazzy looks like a bouncy ball of fun.
Lsummer - congrats on your new baby!! Please post more Mookie shots. What a cute pug puppy!
Art - I've been thinking of converting an old Nikon Dslr (d40) to IR. Have you done any actual camera conversions? (Not sure what a Casio Ravine is.) Wonder if it would be fun. I love the IR look!
And lastly, M&K - I cannot believe that image came from a phone! What kind of phone did you take that with??
Thanks for the information, Art. Very cool effect, indeed. I do have the HDR setting on my phone -- I'll try to work with it. Thanks, Mike.
>Rebecka
A Casio Ravine is a water-resistant cell phone :P
No, I have not done any work on digital cameras, as it requires a lot more work than film ones. I've heard somewhere that you need to adjust the AF sensor when you do an IR conversion too, due to the properties of IR light like I mentioned before. My old film lenses have an IR dot on the focus ring and for IR conversion just put in some ilford SFX or Efke Aura; but a lot of digital gear has left that dot off for the sake of lower cost to manufacture - just like aperture rings >:( A quick search on IR conversions provides this link: http://www.lifepixel.com/tutorials/infrared-diy-tutorials I like how it shows step by step...it really conveys some of the complexity.
mona 
Pic of Leila about an hour ago, while I'm trying to get some activated charcoal down her gullet. (Loong story. Just another fun day at the zoo.)
Indiscriminate Ingestion, eh? I'm sorry, hope she feels better.
(BTW, where are you? in a cessna?)
3wbdwnj No, we were in the back seat of a car having our charcoal. (Of course Leila had to eat Aleve when everyone at our vet's office was in a meeting, and I called and got their answering service. Leila wouldn't have chosen a time when our vets were available!)
Here's an interesting shot. Taken on an iPhone 4 (not by me) and texted to my iPhone 4. Then I emailed it to myself, downloaded it to the laptop, and posted it here. It's in Florida. Makes me wish I was there.
The Man 
The Man - what a cool shot - where were you fishing?
I call this one - iPhone self-portrait with the crazy ear-flaps hat. (The iPhone can do really cool things with the sun when shooting straight into it. I was playing and going for the maximum sunburst.)
Greg 
DB 
Calico696 "The Man - what a cool shot - where were you fishing?"
About 20 mi. east of Point Pleasant. The fish are Mackerel.
So I was brushing my teeth this morning, and looked down at my feet.
Apparently, they all *needed* to be right there with me.
When I tell people we have 3 dogs and 4 cats, the question that inevitably follows is, "And they all get along?" From now on when I get this question, I'm just going to pull out my phone and show them this pic. It pretty much sums up life at the zoo.
Love that picture, Rebecka...it brought to mind that song "Ebony and Ivory"...together in perfect harmony...people can do it and so can our pets.
Love picture of Mookie. My friend has a Pug named Napoleon. You have to know them to love them!
Joyce Polack 
I love these shots -- just regular people, taking cool photos with their phones. This morning I was trying get a video of this mourning dove singing. It didn't sing for me, but I did get this pic of the bird on a wire with my iPhone.
Happy Homemaker Wild Angel,
Oh how FML sums up a cat's thinking, lol. That's the expression mine wear 99% of the time. Because, you know, their life is so rough...haha
Aidan took this pic today,on the ride from the Ortho to school. What a gorgeous day!
Firefly 
Took this last summer at a park in PA. It was a lovely, warm day. I can't wait for summer!!!!!
gpg 
Peggy C. Peggy C.
I believe that was on Nightingale Rd. Blairstown About a mile past the American Bison Farm.
Who knew they sell this stuff by the gallon! Insert Austin Powers voice here- Yeah Baby!!!
Tracy Rebecca life at the zoo is like heaven. Less stress when they r there. I have 3 cats 1 dog. And I look forward to being with them after a long day.....
riverat Can someone please answer this iPhone tech question: how do I post a photo to a site such as this one, directly from my iPhone 4? When I select "add photo..." the "add file" button is shaded out, in other words, I can't select it while posting here from the phone. Thanks in advance. To post photos I've taken with the phone, I've had to email them to myself, download to my computer and post from there. Pretty cumbersome.
Rebecka,
Thanks for asking. I'd love to know as well. I do it exactly like you do...
I am bumping this up there with a photo of my seedlings.... techies, please see question above. Help! :-)
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