Olympic - Hurricane Ridge

Olympic National Park - Hurricane Ridge

Had to re-post this one....Tried the blogger application yesterday and it posted in what seemed like very low resolution....might need a bit of practice with Blogger before doing that again.

At any rate I went old school using Photoforge, Classic Pan and Snapseed for Structure....

Sun Studio - Memphis

Sun Studio - Memphis, TN

This is the guitar that hangs outside of Sun Studio in Memphis, TN. I was working on a project several yearsa ago and made this image using a 'lens baby" on my Canon, and, recently processed same on my iPad2.

Sun was opened by Sam Phillips in January 1950. Those who have recorded at Sun are Howling Wolf, Little Milton, BB King, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis to name just a few.

I can not remember most of the apps used for this image. I do know that Photo Studio was in the mix...

Las Vegas - Hipstamtic Impressions

Here are a few Hipstamtic impressions of my time in Las Vegas...Basically straight out of the application with a bit of sharpening and, of course, color correction.....I really like using this application for this type of impression image....

Las Vegas Morning

Las Vegas Morning

Caught a few images on the way to Starbucks this morning and created a composite......Filterstorm, photo FX Ultra, blender and curves adjustment in Photoforge....

Ireland, Blue Door

Blue Door - PaintMee

The original image was made using a medium format digital back. It was then processed in the iPad which resulted in the image below. I re-processed this morning using the PaintMee application on the MacBook. Local image management was done in Filterstorm.

Blue Door - Original

Music Rehearsal

Los Angeles Rehearsal

Out in LA working on a project - made this image using Camera+ and the iPhone 4s. Additional applications were Photo Toaster for the color and the frame and Filterstorm for sharpening and the selective focus management.

Learn this and so much more in the following workshops:

Whidbey Island 4 day iPhone/iPad/IOS5 Workshop


The Last-Pixel Show Workshop in Carmel, Indiana

Vintage Car

A few weeks ago leaving Toledo I came across several vintage cars simply parked on the side of the road. The vehicles took on a extremely mysterious look in the dew filled misty-rainy morning....So of course I stopped and made a few iPhone4 exposures using ProHDR on a tripod....

This one was processed using Photo Toaster and Blur Fx, two new applications for me. Photo toaster retains resolution while Blur Fx is a res killer. In order to retain some degree of resolution I combined the blurred image with the Photo Toaster image in Iris and was able to maintain 3.3 MP of the original 5 MP. I do, however, realizze there are other ways to get this effect but wanted to play a bit with Blur Fx....

Never noticed a preferences page in Blur - anyone know if high resolution is even possible in this application.

Photo toaster is  a fun applications - even has frames...will be added to the list of applications for the Whidbey Island workshop...

Original iPhone4 image of this car below:

Original iPhone4 Image

PS: Anyone know what type of car this is...other then 'way cool'.....

More iPhone 4s

iPhone 4s - True HDR - no tripod

 Still playing with the images from last Sunday...checking out the resolution of this new device and operating system...Image above made with True HDR resting on a ledge - I did a standard input sharpen on the image - standard for me that is...The Empire State Building is approx. 4 miles away...very impressive considering the 8MP camera.....

Image at 100%


Below is the screen capture from Lightroom3...Note the ISO, Shutter Speed and 4.28MM Lens...


PS: Personally while I like a certain degree of resolution, I also like the camera's ability to render in a more expressionist way - just the I like to see both ends of the spectrum - like pushing sliders all the way to the left and then to the right before making decisions....

Screen Capture from Lightroomm3

Ireland - Ring of Kerry

Ireland iPhone4

As mentioned in my other blog, http://hsandler.blogspot.com, this morning I am completely bogged down trying to get out of NY for a month of travel. Going to points west including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Whidbey Island for a workshop and finally Denver.

As I just got my new iPhone 4s this will be an interesting trip doing the test drive...looking forward to seeing old friends and making some power stitches with the new high res camera......

I can not remember very much about today's image other then it was in Ireland on the Ring of Kerry....most likely a pro-hdr image.....I processed in Filterstorm and blender this morning on the iPad2.....

stay tuned to this space for some travel images.......what fun...

iPhone 4s

Panoramic - Lower Manhatan - from Brooklyn

Yesterday was one of those special fall days in New York City, clear blue skies, a few clouds - perfect weather for an iPhone 4s test run. Luck was with me as I was visiting family in Brooklyn who live in a very tall building with a fantastic view of Manhattan.

After some coffee and a croissant I went up on the roof and made a 5 vertical image pano using the TrueHDR camera application. Long story short I only used the darker image for the final pano....the wind was blowing which made it difficult for them to resolve without blur. What was I thinking - you can't hand hold TrueHDR - so many other choices but....

Check out the image size above - yes I left the boxes checked again but there was no resample. This is the native size out of the iPhone after changing to 240DPI and the ProPhoto color space. Pretty neat......new sheriff in town...

There are many many new detail with this iPhone4s.....most people are talking about the iCloud but for me, thus far, it is being able to speak into the phone to text and send emails....oh, and yes, the camera rocks...

Below are details from this image - first one at 100% and the second at 200%..

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