It almost was no-blog Friday. I want to look through all the images in took in last few weeks and pick up some stock uploads. I checked the blog to see the stats, and here it is – no post scheduled for today! I new it will happen, I am so busy recently, that I am scheduling most of the content on weekends for the following week, and then forget about it until I have time next weekend.
Either way, we took some neighborhood photowalk last Saturday, and this is one of my favorites of the day.

When I took two images combined in the post photograph, I was not completely sure, what the result I want to achieve. The depth of field was very shallow, and I took one focused on the grass, and one focused on the rock. I combined them in Orton-type effect, which gave me this dreamy look. You almost see how the grass moves with the wind. But it was not all. I wanted some more, so I went for split-tone, spending some time balancing exact colors I liked.

Today’s image comes from the same session Tomasz mentioned several days ago. We were finishing off our evening in the studio, when I thought- how about paring a yellow gerbera with a yellow lemon? He was not very convinced at first, and when I set it up and took several images, I was not so sure myself. But it somehow transformed on the screen into quite an interesting still life.

It was a beautiful day, I was off work, I was running errands and just had my iPhone with me. I took a number of images of those berries, all around town, and was so disappointed when I uploaded them on my computer. Side note- I never put an iPhone image on blog before I see it on a big screen. What happened, and what I have not seen on the small screen on the iPhone was how dark the berries came out- there was too much contrast between overcast sky and them. So I took my big camera and retraced my steps, to take the images I wanted!

Today we’ve decided to shoot some flowers. Iza bought two nice gerberas so we tried to arrange them into something eye catching. After several tries of face shots I came up with an idea of simulating nice spring morning with the flower pointing itself out straight up into the sun, trying to catch as much of the heat as it possibly can. Quick rearrangement of flashes, blue gel on one of them and here is the result:

Now if only the real sun was so kind and show up again…

We took s short walk in the park, just looking for something, anything. There were some red-branched bushes, with drops of water from settling fog. They were so photogenic and hard to photograph at the same time, due to movement from the wind. But from one of the keepers, I made a simple fine art matte. What I enjoy about the image is the drop, the color of the branch, and all the colors of the blurred by the fast lens background of remaining part of the bush.

I was not using my iPhone camera recently too much. As I mentioned before, the noise in low light situations was driving me nuts, and I was hardy ever outside during the day. Really the first occasion came today, when I went to run some errands and saw those beautiful red berries covered with light snow which came out absolutely unexpectedly in the morning. Those below I was able to photograph nicely with my small camera, but it did not work for the large berries on the trees because of the contrast between them and the sky- for those I went home to grab the big camera, and I will post them on some other occasion.

One thing I realized taking all those pictures with my iPhone for last several months is that it performs awfully in low light situations. I follow thebestcamera.com feed, and it doesn’t seem to be a deal breaker for all those pictures, but it bothers me nevertheless. Anyway, I decided to post something far less grainy this time, I took this picture one of freezing days this winter, freshly after snow fall. I have been trying to picture the newly arrived winter, an that detail shot did it for me.

Last week, just about time everybody and their mother was doing Christmas shopping, we got ice storm. I just love photographing trees covered with ice. I only took few snaps with iPhone, planning on going out next morning with “big brother” camera, but before I got up, the warmer front came and it all melted.

I took this image in my parents house. My Mom has all those plants around the place, inside and on the stairs. The heather, collected probably around the yard (the house is in the woods), looked like a good photograph. I used Camera Kit app and red post-processing filter to make the colors pop. I have so many different app, but when I start working on an image, I tend to start from basic .
Anyway, I love the feeling of texture in the image, and the resulting colors, and I feel that that grain is something coming out of every iPhone photo, and it just looks good on some images.