Tuesday, November 26, 2013

1. Long exposure time, high F-stop and low ISO. Overall the photo is a bit whited out on the clouds coming down the side of the ridge. In the center of the ridge there is a line created by some kind of glare. The hill in the lower right foreground is much brighter than the rest of the trees. The photographer could have use a filter to darken those areas.

2. The photo should have framed up the rocks better. The photo emphasizes the water which is blurred by the long exposure. The rocks and sky would look better with the rock placed on the bottom third line of the photo.

3. Jumping squirrel is a bit flat. Only half of the squirrel is in focus and the branch that the squirrel is about to land on is way out of focus. The background is mostly green except for a small spot of brown in the bottom left

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Android in the RAW

The following story is notable as it will be the Second mobile OS (after Win Mobile on specific Nokia phones) to support taking photos in RAW. The advance will mean easier post editing and better color capturing in mobile photography. Apple iOS is not likely to follow suit for a long time if at all. Given that they are slow to change and RAW files take up a large amount of memory iOS devices do not have expandable memory. 

Source code snippets open door for raw photos on Android via CNET

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Photo Credit: Spike Walker
This is a photo of the crystiline structure of Adrenaline. This photographer specializes in Micro-Photography of the structure of many different materials. They can be found here.

Thursday, November 7, 2013


This photo has some very nice distict layers in it between the silouette of the land & trees, with the clouds, and Northern Lights.