Day 348, 365 Day Project

We have paper Christmas Stars in our front window. One has a light bulb inside and I liked the way it illuminated the adjoining star. Tonight I choose to use the Canon 7D and 24-70 f2.8 lens as I needed the compression factor that the lens gives in order to get the composition that I was looking for. This was shot at f5.6 and 70mm at 1/125 sec and 3200 ISO. After downloading it to the computer I cropped it a bit and re-sized it to download to the iPhone. Using Snapseed I added a bit of texture and vignetting with the grunge filter and added the frame before uploading back to the computer and then posting here.

Day 347, 365 Day Project

I was testing out a few new apps today to see what they are capable of. The first is one called "16 Mega Pixels" which is suppose to give you a larger file from your the camera in your phone. As the iPhone 4 is only 5 MP it does offer a nice possibility to make your files larger. The app seemed to work well here yielding a 43MB (4480 x 3360) file compared with the standard 14 MB ((2592 x 1936) file. There does appear to be some sharpness loss but since I had limited subject matter today more testing is required.

I then tested the Luminance app to see what it's filter set had to offer. There are 19 presets and a few are interesting to use and I choose the Dystopia on this image as it gave the look I wanted. I finished off using Real Camera+ to select the frame as again I wanted to see what was offered in different apps for alternative choices in borders. This particular one worked well with today's image.

Day 346, 365 Day Project

One of our small Christmas Decorations, a little town scene with skaters. I came in close with the iPhone and snapped a few frames. I first brought the image in to Snapseed to make some minor adjustments and then in to PhotoToaster to add a texture that fit the scene.

Day 345, 365 Day Project

Today I was out for most of the day and had a chance to shoot a number of images to work with. I present three of my favorites as it was a little hard deciding on showing just one. The above is my favorite. After shooting the images with the iPhone I brought the above one in to PhotoToaster for a little tweaking before settling on this result. The bottom two where post processed in Snapseed and i feel I achieved the desired results.

Day 344, 365 Day Project

The boy's have been extra good this week and I thought I would treat them to one of their favorite meals, Little Caesars Hot and Ready Pizza and Crazy Bread. The place was really busy so to kill some time I discreetly tried to shoot a few images. I liked this one and while waiting brought it in to Snapseed and did a little post processing to finish the shot off.

Day 343, 365 Day Project

We had a Chinook blow through Calgary today (a warm west wind that comes in off the mountains for those of you not familiar with the term). This cleared up a spot on my front lawn allowing me to put up our inflatable penguin and the deer decorations. I like the late afternoon sun so I shot an image with the iPhone. Using Instagram today for quick processing I used the choose the Kelvin filter to finish it.

Day 342, 365 Day Project

These plastic flowers adorn our washroom up stairs, sitting silently in the corner. Tonight they became my subject. Shot with the iPhone I decided to use the PhotoToaster for post production to learn what this app can do. I used four different settings, first was adding a texture with canvas, then using the spotlight filter, adding a vignette and finishing it off with a ragged frame. I am happy with the result, but still need to work with the app a bit more to gain familiarity with what it can achieve.