L/lVlKK2ysXOl/dire_straits_alchemy_1984_west_germany_polygram_blue_swirl_cd.jpg' alt='Alchemy An Index Of Possibilities RARE' title='Alchemy An Index Of Possibilities RARE' />Steve Jobs was legendary for knowing what he wanted and leaning on his designers until he got it. But according to a new book on the history of the iPhone, he. The Online Photographer. For this fortnights Bakers Dozen readers portfolio, I asked for smartphone photos, and got as many as I thought I would. Alchemy An Index Of Possibilities RARE' title='Alchemy An Index Of Possibilities RARE' />I have to apologize to the many people who sent great shots that I wont be using today. If its any consolation, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing everyones pictures and reading their comments. Great fun for me. With several avenues wide open for exploring, I thought Id concentrate on showing some of the things I think people particularly use smartphones for. To make a colorful beginning, macro shots Lots of people are finding that the tiny sensors with their extreme D o F, excellent lenses, and SOTA processing are ideal for photographing things close up. Alchemy-Oracle-450x292.jpg' alt='Alchemy An Index Of Possibilities RARE' title='Alchemy An Index Of Possibilities RARE' />Depth of field D o F is proportional to focus distanceall else equal, the farther away the plane of focus, the greater the D o F. The closer the object distance, the narrower the D o F more bokeh, in other words. Another way of saying this if you have three inches of D o F when focused on something nine inches away from the sensor, youll have 3. D o F when youre focused on something 9. MCAC houses two purposebuilt gallery spaces and has been described as one of Northern Irelands premiere art spaces. Its increasingly difficult to do anything on your phone nowadays without sharing your geolocation information. Certain Snapchat filters, Facebook status updates. Specifics can vary, but that gets the principle across. Tiny sensors and the very short focal length lenses that are normal for the formats make macro photography pleasant. This would have been a very difficult shot to make with a FF DSLR. Peggy Collins, 5. Lancaster, Antelope Valley, in Southern California shot this orangelicious poppy using a Samsung Galaxy S5. Its far from her only camera, thoughshes been a serious photographer for decades a Pentax shooter mainly and is a part time pro. The inset picture is me cheating on the bakers dozen limitation by sneaking in an extra example of a nice shot that utilizes large D o F. It was taken by David OBryan, 4. Mechanicsville, Virginia, on an i. Phone 6. Rick Forgos nighttime street scene is a perfect example of what I was talking about the other day in the No Such Thing As Image Quality post. Mature artists understand the properties of the materials and equipment theyre using and apply them with sensitivity to best effect regardless of what those properties are. This is a wholly successful shot, regardless of how well it does or doesnt conform to the ordinary and usual notions of IQ. Rick, who is 3. 4 and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, took it with an i. Phone 4s, and says, its one of my favourite shots regardless of the camera used. Heres a particularly pleasing conjunction Huws words, taken of Stonehenge from a slow moving car in traffic where the road narrows. So what does this show us about phone cameras That theyre an excellent way for kids to enjoy photographyIt was taken by eight year old Harriet Hitchin, who lives in England. Her father Huw reads TOP. Aside from being one of the youngest photographers ever featured on TOP, Harriet is obviously also one cool kid Note the shirt in the picture on the left Love it. Father and daughter obviously have fun with photography together. Thanks to both. And nice shot, Harriet. Continuing with the impromptu daughter theme, Bruce Greenes painterly i. Phone 5 shot of his daughter in a restaurant illustrates what I think is another exceedingly important aspect of phone cameras theyre fun to play with. Not that you cant play with other cameras, as I should know, but I often find myself playing with the phones camera in situations where I wouldnt ordinarily be taking pictures, just because I can. And play can be very good for creativity. Full caption A loadmaster from the Tennessee Air National Guards 1. Airlift Wing directs an all terrain forklift onto a C 1. Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Aug. Texas following Hurricane Harvey. More than 3. 0 Kentucky Air Guardsmen and 9. Louisville to Houston to stand up an aeromedical evacuation and air cargo hub. U. S. Air National Guard photo by Lt. Software Patch Testing Procedure. Col. Dale GreerSwitching gears, I think Dale Greers dramatic news photo here illustrates very well what is conventionally meant by the best camera is the one you have with youa role that phone cameras play for many people in many situations. Dale works as a public affairs officer in the Kentucky Air National Guard and frequently shoots news coverage with several D7. Nikons. On the day he shot this, however, he says. Airmen from our base for Hurricane Harvey relief operations. Thus, I was not packing my customary 2. I only had an i. Phone to shoot photos. Good thing he had that alonghis photo went on to receive wide national distribution, including on network news programs. And of course TOP. Anthony Reczek, Moon Over Nubble. Heres another example of not as good being better lifelong New Englander Anthony Reczek, born and raised in Vermont, actually had his big Canon and a tripod along on this night, and took a picture of this scene with it, but says that theres something about this smartphone shot that rivals the cleanerclearer results of the better camera and lens. Anthony recently returned to playing music in nursing homes after retiring from a career as a psychiatric social worker. Burdette Parks illustrates for us the old what if you see Elvis stepping out of a flying saucer principle sometimes cool things you couldnt invent just happen in front of your eyes, and beg to be photographed. This is a shot I grabbed during a rehearsal for a play were doing here in November. The show is Sylvia and the young lady is playing a dog that has an operation in the course of the play. Coincidentally, her pet was visiting us at rehearsal and had just come from the vet. An unposed moment captured due to the quick availability of my phone. Adobe After Effects Key Light there. Burdette is 7. TOP Rural Headquartersin the Adirondacks here in Upstate New York, about halfway between the villages of Tupper Lake and Saranac Lake. Above Ridley Scott. Below Ridley Scott. Continuing the doggie theme because dogs make life better, Tim Bloomquist, 5. Des Moines, Iowa, cant understand why people keep asking him why he named his dog Ridley Scott He looks just like him Well. Id have to say Ridley Scotts ears are just a little bigger than Ridley Scotts. Of course, given the number of pictures on Facebook slightly less than infinityfor the time being anyway and the ease of texting pictures or sending them the old fashioned way, by email, the Number One use of smartphone cameras is doubtless for taking pictures of friends and family and sharing them. Kurt Holter of Frederick, Maryland, sent us this charming shot of his 9. Facetiming with her soon to be one year old great grandaughter near Christmastime last year. Kurts brother, wife, and daughter were all sharing the moment with her. None of them noticed him taking a picture with his i. Phone. Kurts been a full time photographer since he started out with a newspaper in 1. Another of the undoubtedly interesting aspects of phone cameras is that you can get them into places normal cameras wont goor wont go without a little more care and work. When Saturn was going to be occulted by the moon on April 1. Bmc Remedy Client 7.5. Marcelo Guarini prepared his small but optically excellent backyard telescope and waited. Holding his i. Phone 5s up to the eyepiece of the telescope by hand, he took both this still photograph and also a video of the event. The telescope enlargement is around 1. X. Ive seen phone pics taken through microscopes, too, and Ive used mine to photograph through the viewfinders of larger cameras to show readers the layout of the viewfinder.