Barn
I am out today at a client’s who wants his office network extended across the farm yard. This we are going to do with a mixture of wired and wireless devices.
This shot was from inside one of the barns.
Travel Tap – Micro Purification Water Filter Bottle
Jeremy bought me this bottle for Christmas – the specs are here.
This is a really simple, lightweight, way to produce safe drinking water whilst I am backpacking or wild camping. No moving parts, batteries or pumps – drink straight from the bottle or use it to fill another water container or pot. When I wild camped in the Lakes last year I carried 3l or 3kg of water, my pack without the water weighed less than 9kgs – in the future I can top up along the way and save weight.
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Sunset in Branston
I have been working from home today and just noticed this sunset in time. I shot it using Pro HDR to increase the colour saturation and also to make the image a little darker. In Photogene2 I cropped it to a square frame to loose some uninteresting foreground and sky.
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Today’s photo
I went for a short walk around the village today – to try out my iPhone 5 camera and to find a photo for today.
I managed to make at least one image every day during 2012 and I thought I would try something different for 2013, however it looks like I am hooked on getting something “on film” everyday – so it looks like I will try and do it again this year.
Last year the project was done with an iPhone 4 and most of the posts were edited and sent using the phone. This year I will be using an iPhone 5 – it has a better quality camera so I do plan to revisit some of last years shots to see if I can improve on them.
iPhone 5 – camera test
I went for a short walk today to test the quality of the Apple Camera app. The weather was against me being very misty. I used the church here in the village as a test subject.
In this shot I chose to expose for the church.
These two were made using the apps HDR option – I choose the save the orignal shot with the HDR version.
The original image:
The HDR image:
There is a new panorama option which I tried out on the church. It works by panning the camera rather than stitching a number of shots together. This was an easy way of making the shot and there is an on screen guide to assist with that.
I have taken some great panoramic shots using the Pano app so I will give this option a better try out in Scotland next week.
All the church shots are uploaded in full resolution – click on the images for the full size versions.
The tiles were shot using the Camera+ app in high resolution mode and then resized for the post so it will display in Facebook.
I am looking forward to trying all my camera apps during my trip to Scotland and the coming weeks – looks like it may be a photo everyday for 2013 – I haven’t missed one yet!!
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…and the first photo using my iPhone 5
Shot from a lay-by on the A1 – using Pro HDR.
Read about my initial iPhone 5 experiences and setup here at the Octagon Technology blog.
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