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.

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.

It is time to change colors on blog a bit. End of last week was rather orange. I got myself talked into flying for lunch to small town of Pella, Iowa, and not during annual Tulip Time. But the place is still nice, with windmills, colorful houses, neat and… well, in middle of Iowa farmland, if you know what I mean. And with bright fall day, HDR was in order.

I took this Orton-effect style image several weeks ago in Reiman Gardens. It is in fact a combination of two images, one sharp and the other blurred by defocusing the image. The photos were combined in Photoshop to create that dreamy, moody effect.

I almost forgot how to blog. Yeah, I know, my blog have been updated last two weeks, but the truth is I set it up before we took off for a trip to visit family back in Europe. I was not blogging for a week and a half. It was rather photographs trip, and I will soon start blogging about my  new experience gained in the field of image taking with serious business potential . But before I have time to organize all the photographs, a simple food and fall related image- wild mushroom. This character was growing on my parents property in the woods. The image is unprocessed and was taken, not surprisingly, with my iPhone.

I took this image in passing, in the hall of Reiman Garden. I was waiting for the rest of the party to check out the Souvenir Shop. It is a very simple image. But I just love those contrasting colors, the green leaves and the orange wall behind it with blue reflections of sky through the window.

Time again to show an iPhone photo. I have some stuff about apps and macro capabilities of this device coming, but so far- I am still reading and learning. So one straight of camera- well, almost. I found Lightroom very eager to get the photos out of iPhone .
Anyway, the huge advantage of iPhone as camera is having it with you all the time. I can take photos of things around when we go shopping, for example, which opens new subjects for me. This one was taken outside our local mall. The lamp above the pot with flowers looked just like  a full moon.

Revisiting my photos from California, I have an impression that I hardly shoot anything other then flowers. Maybe because my host had a real green thumb, and there was so many plants around her backyard. But also interesting plants were all over Davis… And they were not moving, so were easy to photograph. Or I just like photographing plant. No idea, really. In either case, what I particularly like about this image is the matching of flower and background colors.

I am not in the mood for anything much today. I just picked a photo, and played some with sliders in Lightroom. The flowers were far too bright, and I just wanted to tone them down a bit, and lost all the color in the wood in the process. Looks weird, but should go well with my mood.

Just a quickie today. Something fresh from the card. It is getting late, but since I am downloading photos from today’s trip to Southeastern Iowa, organizing and sitting in front of computer anyway, I might as well pick up something and post. I took it while exploring garden in reconstructed old fort in Fort Madison, Iowa.