Photo Challenge – Remastered

The Friendly Friday Photo Challenge will soon begin again at Something to Ponder About and Sandy L’s The Sandy Chronicles. As such, I am reviewing some of my older photography posts and came across this one.

This pic that was part of Sally’s Phoneography Challenge in years gone by.

Would I change anything?

No – I still like this photo. In particular, the fine hairs on the petals of this Jacaranda flower.

The phoneography challenge was the brainchild of Sally at Lens and Pens and each week has a different theme and tip for improving your phoneography.  I changed the angle of the light for this photo after photographing it on a previous day. It is a Jacaranda flower that flowers here generally in November.

Sally’s Tip for Macro Photography: Here is a quick tip that will benefit you as you explore the world of macrophotography. Be ultra aware of light flow as you take your subject with your device. Turn off your flash to minimize shadows: determine if that allows for a better image. Try to use natural light, which is my favorite setting.

 

Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Devices Photo Challenge: Macro (Web)

Crazy web taken on an aging Nexus 4 –  early one Autumn morning

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Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Devices Photo Challenge: Editing and Processing

Doodling with a pencil or paintbrush can assist in tapping into the right side or more artistic side of your brain as the logical left brain gets silenced.

I developed a new logo for my artwork a day or so ago, whilst doing just that. As there was blobs of crappy mistakes in the original taken with snapseed,  I employed the phone camera apps Picsart and Aviary to help me edit and process the photo into something better and useable.

Taken on my Nexus 4 with snapseed.

This is posted for Sallys phoneography challenge which happens each week on a Monday US Time at Sally’s blog. Join in here

A new logo for your business from a phone photo of a product….

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Phoneography and Non-SLR Photo Challenge: Nature (Lysoen)

Lens and Pens Phoneography Challenge for this week comes from the ferry departure for Lysoen, and the home of Ole Bull.

Nexus 4 – no filters/enhancements – Just text added

I really like how clear the water was here. No heavy industry and hydro power means the area is really clean. Such a refreshing change from seeing empty plastic drink bottles littering the foreshore.

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priorhouse.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/burger-bach-and-a-walk/

sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/phoneography-and-non-slr-digital-devices-photo-challenge-nature-hanging-in-there

Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Photo Challenge: Black and White (Architecture)

Monochrome

As it happens, Sally at Lens and Pens also picked an architectural subject for this week’s phoneography Black and White theme. And with a lot of contrast, architecture is often the perfect subject in monochrome.

This group of buildings spans three decades, eighties, nineties and noughties with a brighter foreground of more recent years. Modern history of a city of 35 years told in three buildings.

These photos were taken with an aging Nexus 4, and I applied a few basic filters (just for fun) through Picasa.

Focal Black and White

Film grain – not my favourite result

and the original:

Original colour photo

I think the focal black and white, which teases the viewer with a taste of colour, yet retains the cold rigidity in the architectural forms and for that reason, is my favourite. What do you think?

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Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Photo Challenge: Macro (Hot chocolate)

For this week’s Macro challenge – from Lens and Pens

‘Hot Chocolate’

Even thought I prefer to drink my hot chocolate in a ceramic mug, I liked the effect of the crystallization of the cocoa and sugar on the glass’ edge, do you?

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Taken with a aging Nexus 4 – warmed and saturated slightly on Picasa

Something for you and your phone camera to ponder on…

Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Photo Challenge: Nature

The Water was so clear here, and I like the curve of the walkway contrasting with the lines of the jetty on the horizon.

Taken with an aging Nexus 4: no filters

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Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Photo Challenge: Challenger’s choice- Street Photography

It’s Challenger’s Choice, this week,  from Sally at Lens and Pens and I chose Street Photography. To keep with Sally’s featured topic of architectural lines, I have chosen this photo, taken in Trondheim, Norway with my Nexus 4.

I really like the contrast of the new glass roof of this renovated hotel, with the old walls of the original bakery from 1897, complete with iron fire escape rungs and the reflection within the windows.

You can find the Clarion Collection Bakkeriet, in Trondheim Norway,  famous for its wooden bridge, pictured below.  The Nexus 4 also performed reasonably well in the low light selfie, taken in the streets of Trondheim, at 11pm at night, posted below.

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