Posts Tagged: iphone


9
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 28|365 iPhone in the Dark

I have always wanted to use my iphone as a light source. Today I did just that, it was sort of a pain because I had to hold it up above me and get the lighting right. But I managed to pull it off. It was really surprising to me how much exposure was needed to get the shot. I was shooting all the way up at ISO 6400 and wide open. You can see all the grain from the high ISO but I think it kind of goes with the photo. So my phone put out a lot less light then I thought it would, but its still nice to know that I have a light source if need be.

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: iPhone hand held to camera right.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm ƒ/1.4 | ƒ/2 | 1/100th | ISO 6400

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7
Jan 10

Self-Portrait Day 7|365

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Booya! One week! I decided to make this photo because I’m always on my computer when I’m not at work. Editing photos and having them printed. Doing the whole Facebook, Flickr, Wordpress stuff.  So I guess this is why I would call my work away from work.

Anyways I’m pretty stoked on this picture because I used no artificial lighting. I have always had it in my head that I needed a speedlight or a studio strobe to make an awesome image. But really all I needed was to sit down at the table and trigger the camera. Why does it look so good without artificial lights? Because I have a huge bank of windows to my left side (photo right) then I also have a smaller one to my right (photo left) which I shut the blinds on to get more contrast out of the photo. I also decided to turn this photo black and white because well I’m wearing black on a white wall, with a black macbook and white apple logo. It just looked right haha. Hope you liked it!

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: Large set of windows to camera right creating my main light. Then second smaller set of windows to camera left to add fill.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm f/1.4G | f1.4 | 1/13th | ISO 400.

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9
Sep 09

First 16×20 Print

This is the first time printing something bigger than 11×14 for me so I thought it should be documented. The print is from Melinda’s bridal photoshoot just a few days ago. We selected an image from the shoot and printed it out 16×20 for the wedding reception. It turned out really nice, super sharp. The place that printed my image so nicely is Cory Adams Photography they do a awesome job! Jon there had this photo printed for me within thirty minuets of me sending him the file. As for the frame I just picked it up at Roberts Craft. Anyways I hope to print something much bigger very soon.

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27
Aug 09

DSLR Camera Remote App

Those who know me know I’m pretty nerdy when it comes to gadgets. Well I’m pretty excited today because onOne Software just releases DLSR Camera Remote version 1.1! What does this mean you might ask? It means finally us Nikon shooters can use this app! Not only did they add Nikon to the new update but also a auto import function for lightroom, burst settings, and a few other things.

Here is what you got to do to set this all up. First go to onOne Software and download the app from iTunes. I have the “Lite” version it only cost 2 bucks compared to the full version that costs 20. With the lite version all I can really do is fire the camera. If you get the full you can do whatever. Live view, burst, change shutter speed, ISO, the works. Now that you downloaded the app to your iPod or iPhone, go back and download the free software server this app will be running on your computer.

Now what you want to do is launch your server app on your computer grab your camera and the USB cord that came with it and plug one end into the computer and the other into (you guessed it) your camera. Make sure your camera is on. The make of your camera should pop up on the onOne server software. Then launch your iPhone or iPod’s DLSR Remote app and select your computer (Make sure your wi-fi is on). And there you go! Just push the button.

As you can see in this photo I’m triggering the camera from my phone and you can see the previous shot on the screen. Pretty niffty!

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10
Aug 09

iPhone GeoTag for Photographers

If you have an iPhone you know you love it. Now your just about to love it even more!

While in Barnes and Noble with my girlfriend Kari I picked up the iPhone book by Scott Kelby and I was flipping through it when I came across the GPS section and how every time you take a picture with apples camera app. It geo tags your images! Thats right it bakes the longitude and latitude right into the images metadata.

Why is this so cool? Because now when you go out scouting places to shoot photos and snap a picture with your phone the location of where you were standing when you took the picture will never be forgotten. So ten years down the road you can easily find out where you took that photo and go shoot some photos at that location.

Now how do you see and use this metadata? With lightroom its a snap! Just go to your library mode select one of your iPhone photos. Then on the right hand side will be all your meta data telling you what camera was used, shutter speed, all that stuff. But if you look at the EXIF section of it all your see GPS and some numbers. Guess what if you click on it. It will launch your web browser going right to Google Maps and pin pointing where you were when you took the shot, well I would say within 100 ft. I added some images to the end of this post to show you exactly how it all works.

Here is the image I captured

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Here is where I click to launch Google Maps in my web browser

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Here is my Google Maps result.

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