December 2021

[John Geerts]

Misty and rainy...

Z6  AF-S 24-70/2.8

[golunvolo]

Today I took a motorbike tour from my hometown, La Línea, all the way to Cádiz. Perfect evening for riding with around 19 degrees Celsius and sunny clear skies. I stopped at "El mirador del estrecho" (+36.05375,-5.55033) From here, there are a short 15 km to the coast of north Africa. On a clear day, you can see a few cities in the other continent. Still felt pretty close today. I love this view

  Z6, 105mm 2.5 ai

[Akira]

Today I took a motorbike tour from my hometown, La Línea, all the way to Cádiz. Perfect evening for riding with around 19 degrees Celsius and sunny clear skies. I stopped at "El mirador del estrecho" -36.05375,-5.55033- From here, there are a short 15 km to the coast of north Africa. On a clear day, you can see a few cities in the other continent. Still felt pretty close today. I love this view

  Z6, 105mm 2.5 ai

Marvelous view, Paco!  One day I want visit Andalucia...

[Hugh_3170]

I agree Akira - great country.  Have visited Spain only once;  must go there again.

BTW, the coordinates are: +36.05375, -5.55033

Today I took a motorbike tour from my hometown, La Línea, all the way to Cádiz. Perfect evening for riding with around 19 degrees Celsius and sunny clear skies. I stopped at "El mirador del estrecho" -36.05375,-5.55033- From here, there are a short 15 km to the coast of north Africa. On a clear day, you can see a few cities in the other continent. Still felt pretty close today. I love this view

  Z6, 105mm 2.5 ai

[golunvolo]

Thank you both. Already fixed the coordinates. I guess the "-" can be confusing.

  Akira, you should definitely come visit!

   

[Akira]

A rotary of a train station with Christmas illuminations.  The lens of my iPhone SE was somewhat fogged, but I liked the diffuser effect.

[John Geerts]

Today I took a motorbike tour from my hometown, La Línea, all the way to Cádiz. Perfect evening for riding with around 19 degrees Celsius and sunny clear skies. I stopped at "El mirador del estrecho" (+36.05375,-5.55033) From here, there are a short 15 km to the coast of north Africa. On a clear day, you can see a few cities in the other continent. Still felt pretty close today. I love this view

  Z6, 105mm 2.5 ai

what a superb view, Paco.

[John Geerts]

A rotary of a train station with Christmas illuminations.  The lens of my iPhone SE was somewhat fogged, but I liked the diffuser effect.

I like it.

Which camera/developer you use for the SE 2020?

[Akira]

I like it.

Which camera/developer you use for the SE 2020?

Glad you like it, John.  I basically adjust the basic parameters like contrast, exposure, highlight, shadow or saturation and crop the images in the default camera app.  I had edited a couple of files in Adobe CC when I started to use my 2nd gen. SE, but I found the default camera app does the job well enough.

[John Geerts]

Glad you like it, John.  I basically adjust the basic parameters like contrast, exposure, highlight, shadow or saturation and crop the images in the default camera app.  I had edited a couple of files in Adobe CC when I started to use my 2nd gen. SE, but I found the default camera app does the job well enough.

Thank you for the explanation, Akira.

I installed Lightroom (part of my CC package) that takes the photo's in DNG.  It also offers loads of development options on the phone, but large screens work better for development.  The default camera app does a reasonable good job.

[John Geerts]

Foggy

[Fons Baerken]

Blue car

Zfc, Viltrox 23mm f/1.4

[Akira]

Thank you for the explanation, Akira.

I installed Lightroom (part of my CC package) that takes the photo's in DNG.  It also offers loads of development options on the phone, but large screens work better for development.  The default camera app does a reasonable good job.

Thank you, John, for sharing your experience with the LR app.  I subscribe Adobe CC, so I can use LR app.  The catalog system of LR is the main reason for me to stick to Photoshop.  Does the LR app create the catalog like the computer versions?  If the LR app only works as a photo editor without creating the catalog, I would want to shoot DNG and process in LR on my iPhone SE.  The only thing that annoys me about the smartphone images is the sharpening effect which makes the images harsh.  If I could shoot RAW (DNG, hopefully not sharpened), that would be nice.

[John Geerts]

The LR - DNG file is free from the  sharpening effect done by the standard iPhone camera-app, it's the basic original file that LightRoom transfers to a DNG file. It's not as fast as the camera app, but that is a matter of experience.   The White Balance is not always perfect, but that may be a matter of finetuning.

You can opt to edit on the phone, but the sync. process with the PC is swift and fast, and it's easy to work with the RAW file in ACR and Photoshop.

[Akira]

The LR - DNG file is free from the  sharpening effect done by the standard iPhone camera-app, it's the basic original file that LightRoom transfers to a DNG file. It's not as fast as the camera app, but that is a matter of experience.   The White Balance is not always perfect, but that may be a matter of finetuning.

You can opt to edit on the phone, but the sync. process with the PC is swift and fast, and it's easy to work with the RAW file in ACR and Photoshop.

Thank you for the details.  I will try the LR app!