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ReeFlex 240 mm
Comment appelle-t-on le phénomène où un objet apparaît plus près qu'il est en réalité parce que jumelé à un autre objet? C'est ce qui se passe ici. Le gratte-ciel est en réalité plus loin qu'il le semble dans la photo, d'environ 3 kilomètres.
How do we call the phenomenon where an object appears closer than in reality because it is juxtaposed to another object? This is what is happening here. The skyscraper is in reality further than in the photo by about 3 kilometres.
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Ace is a Mini BerneDoodle. He is just over a year old now. He’s a ball of energy and a lot of fun. He’s wicked smart. Sometimes too smart if you know what I mean….. love him to pieces. This used to be Tank’s chair. But he has arthritis now and can no longer jump up here so Ace has taken it over. That’s Tank at the bottom left of the chair.
This is a boardwalk through part of these woods in Co Wicklow, Ireland .. location is currently being used for filming for a new Spielberg movie
Closeup of resurrection fern on low branch of a Live Oak tree in Vero Beach. Much more colorful than usual due to recent heavy rainfall. Gives the trees a shaggy look especially when accompanied by Spanish Moss (latter absent in this image).
Where Does It Get Its Name? Rain is key to the plant's common name. P. polypodioides is called "resurrection fern" because, in dry weather, the fern's fronds curl up, turn brown, and seem to be dead—that is, until the next rain, when they turn green and spring back to life. (Wiki attribution)
Jour 190
La nuit dernière, dans mon rêve, je suis assis de l'autre côté du bureau d'un collègue. Nous discutons lorsque je me rend compte qu'aujourd'hui il porte une chemise identique à l'une des miennes. Je mentionne que c'est bien que je ne porte pas cette même chemise aujourd'hui.
Pour honorer ce rêve, j'ai pris plusieurs photos de cette chemise avec l'appli ReeFlex Pro Camera et les lentilles ReeFlex Telephoto 2x et Wide Angle. Je les ai mélangées et éditées dans Pixelmator Pro.
Last night, in my dream, I'm sitting across the desk of a colleague. As we talk, I realize that today he is wearing a shirt identical to one of mines. I mention that it's good that I'm not wearing the same shirt today.
To honour my dream, I took several pictures of this shirt with the ReeFlex Pro Camera app and the ReeFlex Telephoto 2x and Wide Angle lenses. I blended and edited them in Pixelmator Pro.
(Wikipedia)
Scarborough is a coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located approximately 14 km northwest of the city centre in the City of Stirling local government area. Located along the coast of the Indian Ocean, it was named after the English beach resort Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
It has a population of about 14,300 people (2011 census), of whom about 25% were born overseas, mostly in the United Kingdom. It has a landmark high-rise hotel, the Rendezvous Hotel Perth Scarborough, originally built as Observation City in 1986 for Alan Bond, in anticipation of a demand for accommodation when the 1987 America's Cup challenge was held at nearby Fremantle. Scarborough Beach was the venue for the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships for the years 2007, 2008,2009, 2014, 2018 and 2023.
Scarborough Beach
Scarborough Beach is an entertainment precinct within the suburb with restaurants, bars and a nightclub. Since 1999, the local council has deployed a strategy for issues including traffic, parking, zoning, coastal landscape and recreation.
Alan Bond
One of the issues was whether or not to allow further high-rise development on Scarborough Beach. The 24-level Observation City hotel development (now Rendezvous) was very controversial in the 1980s but proceeded despite a long and intense public campaign against high-rise beachfront development.
Perth businessman Alan Bond, who built Observation City, had ambitious plans to convert the entire Scarborough Beach "strip". After securing most of the real estate, his plans failed to proceed because he was unable to purchase the family-owned fast food restaurant Peter's by the Sea. The restaurant still exists today after it refused to sell despite Bond making inflated offers on the property, and it has taken on historical significance with the locals ever since. Subsequent amendments by the City of Stirling have specified a height limit of eight storeys.
In April 2019, the ocean-side Scarborough Beach Pool opened.
Despite a considerable social history over decades, Scarborough Beach has one listed physical heritage feature, the 'Rotary Clock Tower of Scarborough Beach' otherwise known as the 'Scarborough Clock Tower.
An imposing structure, good to be visiting this location again, especially for testing out my iPhone.
It was a rainy day with overcast in the sky, the ground as you can see has already been darkened by the rain water. The temple looks a little out of place with all the modern towers around it but its imposing size, striking colors and design ensured that your attention is on it instead of the surrounding concrete towers.
This was shot in 48mp ProRAW Max format, very large 87.8mb file since this is essentially uncompressed RAW in hybrid DNG format. Handheld of course, no tripod necessary especially since iPhones have IBIS now.
On my 5K screen, this looks at least as good and in some areas even better than shots taken with my m4/3 Olympus OMD E-M1 Mkii. For context, m4/3 sensor size is at least 2x larger that the 1x camera sensor on iPhone 15 Pro Max. Thanks to the iPhone’s ability to stack multiple images for each shot, the sky is almost always perfectly exposed and we’ll hardly ever blow out the highlights in the sky which is a common problem with small sensor cameras. All this without the hassle of fiddling with GND filters which doesn’t work all that well with a jagged skyline.
Post-processed from the original ProRAW file with 3rd-party software, contrary to information on the internet, the 3rd-party software need not have to be compatible with Apple’s hybrid DNG RAW format.
If I had uploaded this without any mention that this was an iPhone shot, how many would have guessed that this is a smartphone photo?
Between 48mp ProRAW Max, 24mp and 12mp modes, I’ll avoid 12mp at all cost when possible. The new 24mp file is really quite good but if we are going to do a fair bit of post-processing, then the 48mp ProRAW Max is the best option. I don’t quite understand the purpose of 48mp HEIF Max though.
I still use my Sony GM lenses, Olympus m4/3 gear and Nikon DSLR gear but it’s funny when you see “photographers” on camera gear forums still talking down on the new generation of smartphones. In some ways it’s just like how the dinosaurs didn’t know what hit them when that giant asteroid smacked down onto earth.
The previous uploaded photo of the stone lion with simulated bokeh was an iPhone 24mp HEIF file;
A word about Apple’s iOS updates of late, they seemed to be causing a lot of grief for iPhone users. I had 2 iPhone 11 Pro Max bricked for no reason within the space of a month and the Genius Bar was of zero help!
The expression used to be "Frienza yours are Frienza mine " !!. This takes me back with a beautifully turned out Vauxhall Frienza 2.3 litre with the droop snoot front spoiler. Excellent silver paintwork.
I used to run a Vauxhall Magnum 2,300 cc with the droop snoot spoiler exactly the same shape as this one.
It was in a dark red and gold colour scheme and looked very dandy in its day. It got converted to rally use but was a handful driving it - understeered into corners then oversteered out of them. But I used in the Manx International in 1978 and 1981.
Nightmare but after a few years I built a Vauxhall Chevette with the engine and gearbox from the Magnum and that handled like a dream and was very successful.
Shot take with iPhone 15 ProMax and processed in Lightroom Classic.
The floor of this memorial plaza had caught my attention with its distinct pattern.
A picture of the cobblestone floor of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
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The granite boulder, which has a calculated mass of 50 tonnes, is a glacial erratic, thought to have been transported from Scotland (from an island in Strathclyde bay) and deposited about 10,000 years ago by retreating ice during the last Ice Age. It sits on a relatively flat area of Silurian metasedimentary rock. Or, if you are a local it’s just referred to as the ‘The Big Stone’
As this street leads to a well-known shopping area, it is naturally busy.
A picture of a small street in Taiwan that leads to a shopping area.
While I await the delivery of a new “professional” camera, I aim to explore just how capable an iPhone is – especially for macro photography. Shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, there’s plenty of power, even when exploring more technical subjects such as ultraviolet fluorescence.
Plants in the allium family vary vastly in the size of their blossoms, from the gigantic “big ball” alliums to the more subtle wild onions, such as this. While the wide-angle lens on the iPhone 15 series is certainly capable of getting up close to them, the resolution is lower than the main camera. This is one of the reasons to look at the iPhone 16 Pro models, which improve the macro capabilities with a higher-resolution sensor for the wide-angle camera; There are, however, other ways to improve your game. I use the Moment 75mm add-on lens which significantly improves the magnification of the main camera, allowing me to shoot 48MP RAW files.
48MP RAW from a phone isn’t the same as 48MP RAW from a larger sensor on a traditional interchangeable lens camera, but it does offer more flexibility. Better ability to crop into the frame, better dynamic range, and better colour correction than would otherwise be afforded by shooting with more “basic” modes. I believe the default camera app now allows you to choose this, but I prefer Halide for many other bits of additional control as my camera app.
The image is shot in a dark room, with UV flashlights aimed at the subject. The exposures can be a little lengthy, so a 3-second timer is helpful to touch the camera lightly and then give it time to settle before the exposure starts. A simple Bluetooth camera trigger works to make this more instantaneous, and only costs a few dollars. You still want the camera to be rock-solid steady and easy to position, so a good holder is essential. The best I’ve tried is this one from Platypod: www.platypod.com/products/platypod-grip
Post-processing to get the most out of these images has a few tricks, mostly to bring out the hidden colours in some parts of the flower. Allium flowers fluoresce mostly into the blue spectrum, with yellow-green pollen and stems. In order to make sure that these colours (other than blue) are properly represented in the final image, I employ a one-two punch: sway the white balance to be warmer (slightly diminishing the blue), and then increase the vibrance and saturation to re-balance the colour palette. The blue will come back, but so will the other colours that were less prominent. White-balance corrections are far more powerful when shooting in a RAW format.
Here's a “normal light” version of this image: donkom.ca/bts/IMG_5234.jpg - the fluorescence is quite transformative!
