It was a hotel
This was the Grand Hotel Lincoln.
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Photography
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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Really my last photo using my iPhone 4
I took one more photograph – some cake that Jeremy was about to eat!
This is really it – I have now cloned my iPhone 4 to my new iPhone 5.
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Last photo on my iPhone 4
I am about to swap my phone over to an iPhone 5. So having used the iPhone 4 to both take the photos and post articles to my blog for the last two years – this is probably my last photo and post using it.
The phone has been reasonably reliable – except for the reoccurring speaker issue, so I have bought an AppleCare Plan with the new phone just in case I have a similar hardware problem. I have been pleased with the phone and after we get it serviced Diana is going to start using it.
Why change? I really wanted the better camera the iPhone 5 offers.
I am writing a series of articles for the Octagon website about changing and setting up an iPhone – read more here. and watch out for the first photo and blog post from my iPhone 5.
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