My Waveney

Just a quick note here to let everyone know that I have joined “My Waveney”

My Waveney is an initiative funded by Waveney District Council, which aims to promote local businesses in our towns. Their Facebook, Twitter and website will be promoting fantastic local businesses and they will be encouraging the general public to spend their money locally. They also send out a monthly newsletter promoting the businesses and offers.

They also have a membership card scheme, cards are available from selected stores in the towns. Anyone with a My Waveney membership card can take advantage of exclusive My Waveney offers. (I’m offering a 20% discount on all portrait sessions during February)

If you would like further information here’s their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MyWaveney/?fref=photo

 

Editing iPhone photos

In an earlier post I said that my initial thoughts were that I preferred using Snapseed for editing on my photos rather than LR mobile but I thought I should do a comparison to see if the end result was the same or if there was any major difference.

I used a very flat photo taken this morning in very wet conditions and adjusted it as necessary (according to what I could see on the screen) including the conversion to B & W

Here’s the results

Edited in LR mobile

Edited in LR on MacBook Pro

Edited on iphone in Snapseed

2nd edit with Snapseed

I’d be interested to hear what you think and which you prefer/think is best. My own thoughts are that there is very little difference between the two LR images but that the Snapseed was not quite so contrasty. I had another go with Snapseed as you can see.  Of course seeing the image on the Mac as opposed to the small iphone screen does make it easier to assess.

I’ll do a similar comparison on a contrasty image as well to see if that produces a similar result but these results are closer than I had anticipated. Its interesting to note the tone of Teazle the border terrier (in the background near the right hand post) in the two LR converted images compared with the Snapseed due to using the colour channels available in LR which arn’t there in Snapseed.

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Todays iphone offering

I took this one this morning walking the dogs. I rather liked the pattern of clouds. Then I edited it in Snapseed. I used the black and white filter only. There are 6 presets – neutral, contrast, bright, dark, film and darken sky and also the ability to use filters which emulate colour filters in front of the lens with black and white film and each of those can be adjusted by slider to get the exact result you want.

I just used the red filter which darkens skies and adjusted it slightly to reduce the brightness.

 

Iphoneography

Hey, I’ve entered the 21st century and have got myself an iphone. I had rather assumed (especially from the majority of photos I’ve seen taken with them) that you really had no control over the settings but I’ve been very pleasantly surprised at how much control one does have.

I’ll be playing about with it over the Christmas period and post some more in depth thoughts but in the meantime here’s just a couple of photos I’ve shot.

Have a great Christmas everyone and I’ll see you after the holidays.

Just applied a LR preset to the previous image