So I noticed that Snapseed had a bug-fix update after work today, and eagerly installed it. Did 2.0.1 squash the bug? Before I get to that, I thought of something I forgot to check earlier… the newfangled Photos app I won’t be using… Sadly, it doesn’t see the edits either. (This was likely a silly …
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Snapseed 2 has a problem…
Like the title says, the new Snapseed has a problem. A big problem. As mentioned previously, Google updated their Snapseed app not long ago. It’s a big update to a good app, but it has a fatal flaw. As it’s readily available from the lock screen, I most often shoot with the iPhone’s built-in camera …
Hipstamatic Disposable update 11 – 3 years later
I’ve been looking through my archives lately, and I came across the pictures I shot with Hipstamatic’s D series app. I didn’t recognize them at first, but one benefit of keeping a blog going this long is the ability to go back in time. I wondered how the D series would fare on the iPhone …
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From the Archives: the CyberShot DSC-T9
My second digital camera—if you don’t count the one in that Nokia phone, if it even had a camera, and I don’t think it did… I don’t even recall what phone that was, so I don’t—was the Sony CyberShot DSC-T9. I bought it in 2006 and carried it around fairly religiously until the iPhone 4. …
Flowers: C-5050/D7000/FG
This is, admittedly, sort of a random, grab-bag of leftovers. Let’s look at them in order of sensor size. Once again, digital wins in terms of contrast, color and saturation; film wins in terms of soul. And, again, they’re all pictures, and all have some sort of purpose. It’s probably more preference than anything. I …
Bokeh Battle: D7000/FG
Bokeh really is all about the size of the recording medium. Again, it’s contrast, saturation, sharpness vs raw physicality. But this time, the difference between the 1.5 crop and the ‘full frame’ is obvious… InshaAllah one day I’ll get my hands on a medium format or 4×5 (or 8×10…) and see what real bokeh looks like.
Different Circumstances: D7000/FG
So these pictures are more or less different: one is in a greenhouse on a bright, sunny day; the other is at a roadside picnic spot on a cloudy day. But there’s something similar, maybe, compositionally anyway. Again, the differences come down to saturation, contrast, sharpness. But there’s also grain & bokeh. The grain off …
