camera phone – Jolene's Life in Focus

Curb Appeal

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012Posted in BellinghamTagged Autumn, bellingham sidewalk, camera phone, fall leaves, photography4 Comments

It never fails. If I don’t have my D90 with me, I’ll find something to photograph.

A few days ago, I was walking around Bellingham and saw these leaves upon the green-painted curb of a shaded sidewalk. I have a Smart Phone, but it’s definitely not in the same league as the fancy iPhones out there in terms of camera quality. Why should that matter? The camera shouldn’t limit my ability to be creative. The best camera is the one you have with you, right? A slight adjustment with a Photoshop app, and voilà!

Camera-less in Seattle

March 23, 2012March 23, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angry Bird, Angry Bird attacks Space Needle, camera phone, camera phone pictures, Guinness, Kells Irish Pub, photography, Seattle, Space Needle10 Comments

On Wednesday I drove to Seattle to pick up my Irish friend, Frank, from Sea-Tac Airport. I didn’t bring my camera because I wanted to focus on being a tour guide and didn’t want picture-taking to “take me out of the moment”. Anyway, that was a dumb idea. I love my Nikon, and of course because I didn’t have it I found all kinds of things I wanted to capture forever. So, I used what I had with me – my cell phone camera. These are some random 3 megapixel images I found interesting. Cheers!

B&W of Angry Bird attacking Space Needle

The Space Needle as seen reflected off the EMP

Deserve

November 4, 2011Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, camera phone, deserve, Droid, fall leaves, photography, Picsay Pro8 Comments

All I had with me was a camera phone on my walk this afternoon when I found this. I enhanced the color a tad with my PicSay Pro app and voilà! Since I haven’t mentioned it in a while, if anyone is looking for a good app for your smart phone to do quick, but quality photo editing, PicSay Pro is the way to go. It far outshines the Photoshop app I found. I paid about $1.99 a year and a half ago for it. It may be a tad more now, but it’s worth it. You can do all the basic editing like adjust exposure, contrast, saturation, etc. But, you can also layer your photos or use Faux HDR, posterize, pencil sketch, duotone, B&W, sepia, tilt shift, etc. etc. and pick from several borders.

Wax Tails

January 10, 2011Posted in UncategorizedTagged camera phone, Candles, cell phone art, Droid, Frozen Candles, Jolene's Life in Focus, Motorola Droid, photography, Picsay Pro, Wax, Wax Tails4 Comments

Sadly, a DSLR isn’t always at my fingertips. However, having spent the greater part of 2010 creating photo “art” on my cell phone, I thought I’d see what my Motorola DROID could do today when I found these candles. The lighting was decent, so the “Wax Tails” didn’t turn out half bad.

Posts on this blog prior to August 4th were all Motorola DROID, cell phone art (transferred over from their original home on Blogspot). When I started pursuing photography more seriously around July, the cell phone art became less interesting, and I only do it occasionally now.