Mister_a Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) Edited April 19, 2019 by Mister_a Links 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 On 18/04/2019 at 14:52, chicovilla said: Love those Toyota Crown Comfort taxis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Few more from the past couple of days: Custard Factory, Digbeth. Good Friday parade, High Street. Good Friday parade, High Street. Extinction Rebellion, Marble Arch. This is normally a massive roundabout with a thousand cars on it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 20, 2019 Moderator Share Posted April 20, 2019 On 18/04/2019 at 14:52, chicovilla said: Before Bali was Hong kong. Probably my favourite place on earth. A few of them are like Bladerunner stills good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 27, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted April 27, 2019 Didn't whether to pose this question in the tech forum or here, but here goes. Two pictures of a butterfly (a speckled wood, I think), taken in our garden last week, with my phone camera. I've cropped them to approximately the same scale, but the lower one was taken on maximum zoom. What I want to know is: why the huge colour difference? The upper pic shows accurate colours, while the lower, zoomed, one has washed out the green chair to grey, and made the butterfly spots look pink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 34 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Didn't whether to pose this question in the tech forum or here, but here goes. Two pictures of a butterfly (a speckled wood, I think), taken in our garden last week, with my phone camera. I've cropped them to approximately the same scale, but the lower one was taken on maximum zoom. What I want to know is: why the huge colour difference? The upper pic shows accurate colours, while the lower, zoomed, one has washed out the green chair to grey, and made the butterfly spots look pink. Eye aids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancvillan Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 The phone chooses the white balance and has done a worse job with the second photo. White balance really just means "the colour of light that was landing on the scene". Different light sources have different colours (it's really obvious between say sunlight and tungsten light bulbs, but even shade is different to direct sunlight light). When you take a pic, unless you set the white balance your camera (or phone) analyzes the image and guesses the white balance from there. My best guess would be that because the phone lacks an optical zoom (it's essentially either cropping in or extrapolating pixels or maybe a combo of the both), the quality of the file produced when zoomed is worse, with higher noise or artifacting, and that throws off the phone's white balance algorithm. It would also depend on what else is in the frame for both - seeing them without the crop might help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The_Rev Posted July 7, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 7, 2019 Weirdly this is actually the guy who is in the background of the last photo I posted in this thread at the Extinction Rebellion over Easter. He's a musician called Cam Cole, here he is busking outside Camden Town tube. Tram outside Snow Hill Beigel Bake, London E1. Waterloo and City line, Bank Station. Bluebells, Lickey Hills. Baker Street, Marylebone. Praed Street, Paddington. Piccadilly, the West End. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 (edited) Brumset. by Nayson, on Flickr Kinda happy with this one. Looking towards town from Small Heath on Thursday. Edited September 21, 2019 by The_Rev a word 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 23, 2019 Moderator Share Posted September 23, 2019 Photographer removes our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world More in article Quote Are you reading this on a handheld device? There’s a good chance you are. Now imagine how’d you look if that device suddenly disappeared. Lonely? Slightly crazy? Perhaps next to a person being ignored? As we are sucked in ever more by the screens we carry around, even in the company of friends and family, the hunched pose of the phone-absorbed seems increasingly normal. US photographer Eric Pickersgill has created “Removed,” a series of photos to remind us of how strange that pose actually is. In each portrait, electronic devices have been “edited out” (removed before the photo was taken, from people who’d been using them) so that people stare at their hands, or the empty space between their hands, often ignoring beautiful surroundings or opportunities for human connection. The results are a bit sad and eerie—and a reminder, perhaps, to put our phones away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 Looks like they're all dilligently practising to become palm readers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raver50032 Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Okay... Here are some of my very recent edits following my attendance at the US Navy airshow at NAS Lemoore last month... Feel free to go all 'Top Gun' for a few moments. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 8, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 8, 2019 Great shots Ravers, I am laughing a lot at the Fighting Redcocks in the bottom one, which isn't a reflection on your photography skills Middle one is the best of the bunch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raver50032 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Thanks Bickster... VFA-22 (squadron) are the 'Fighting Redcocks...' what a name!! I spent quite a bit of time at the show talking to the crew of various squadrons and purchasing squadron patches for my collection. Other notable squadrons based at Lemoore include - 'The Top Hatters,' 'The Rough Raiders,' 'The Argonauts,' 'The Black Aces,' 'The Black Knights,' and my personal favourite for Star Wars reasons... 'The Bounty Hunters.' Interesting fact (interesting-ish) - there are more F-18 Hornets based at Lemoore, California than the RAF have actual number of aeroplanes in their entire fleet. Make of that what you will. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chicovilla Posted February 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2020 Some photos from my Christmas trip to Cuba. Incredibly colorful, vibrant and photogenic. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted February 26, 2020 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2020 This photo is captured with 24.9 billion pixels technology. You can zoom in, zoom out when you look at it. You can clearly see every gesture, even face of pedestrians on the road. Click on the link to see the actual photograph Click 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The_Rev Posted May 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 18, 2020 Not quite 25.9 billion pixels, but I've taken a couple of huge panoramas of town recently. Birmingham skyline by Nayson, on Flickr (approx 13500 x 5000) Pink Digbeth by Nayson, on Flickr (approx 11500 x 8000) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 @The_RevI like 'Pink Digbeth' a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted May 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted May 20, 2020 You've such a good eye, Nays. I walk around London every day and don't see half the possibilities you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 You can buy me a Pret tomorrow then. I'm enjoying taking panoramas at the moment. It's easy while it's quiet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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