Cell Phone Pics

wanderingrichard

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I love US 17. Used to drive it from Sullivans Island north as far as I could go on a day trip. Great scenery. Going south on it to places like Edisto is pretty neat too.
 

Capt Insano Emeritis

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I use a now old Iphone or so messages F2116D7E-216B-4DF9-98CE-68879B6AD357.jpeg04037760-C744-49EB-9C98-E52FA5343A9E.jpeg344F8B8F-0895-4837-97BA-4EF620F60427.jpegfrom Verizon suggest. Anyway, i spent time in darkrooms in months of tinkering in the distant past. Here are some I found from the Richfield Wildlife refuge when they let you get out of your car. A car is but an antiquated version of the nature preserves force fields of the future.
 

M_D

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My wife and I usually go somewhere in February to celebrate our birfdays. This year was the Peninsula

Here’s the lighthouse at the end of Dungeness Spit earlier today
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the Spit
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and the Elwha river yesterday

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all with on old iPhone 6S🙂
 

Jake Watrous

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While cell phone optics will never be on par with dedicated photography gear, the quality has come an incredibly long way. Cell phones are also what we always have with us, and is all many us can justify spending for cameras.

With that in mind, hopefully a cell phone photo thread won't be overkill with all the other great image threads, but might be a good place to discuss issues and tech tips.
Backlit subjects can be a pain with the automatic exposure built in to smartphone cameras.

Even the latest iPhones, and I assume others, aren’t smart enough to do it reliably on their own. It can help to lock the exposure on the sky, adjust the exposure down some, and then recompose and focus on your subject.

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Choosing to shoot during the hour surrounding sunset can help, too.
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Sometimes, though, that doesn't work. So walk up to your subject so they're the only thing in the photo, make adjustments and lock exposure on them, then step back and recompose for the photo you want.

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And hope that someday they bake a spot meter exposure setting into the camera app.
 
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Kenneth Yong

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FWIW, my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, has spot, as well as matrix and center-weighted metering, under the Expert Raw mode.

I think the S21 series also has spot metering. The S23 series definitely does.

Kenneth
 

Jake Watrous

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FWIW, my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, has spot, as well as matrix and center-weighted metering, under the Expert Raw mode.

I think the S21 series also has spot metering. The S23 series definitely does.

Kenneth
Very cool!
 

SculpinSwinger

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Same area as above. Still smells of creosote even though the tops of the posts are rotted. The top rails looked bigger than railroad ties and were over head height. Short return on one end, just stops after a hundred yards or better. On a high bank above the slack portion of the side channel.

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