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Thanks very much for the tip. Just grabbed it and looks good.
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np, i find myself using Big Lens more than Camera+ maybe cause it's my new app or maybe cause i like the blurry effect, either way still has more effects and more lenses.. Still Camera+ may do a better job on adding the effects at the right places.
So far not seeing the advantages of Camera+? Its edits do not seem to do much, and as far as I can tell during the picture taking process there is no real change from the standard camera except the iOS camera takes real HDR images instead of post process them. (which is a problem with moving objects). It has some neat filters, can can crop/frame an image, but that is about it?
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Use the standard camera. Just use camera + for the editing. If u know what ur doing its amazing. Specially with an iphone 4s and even a 4. Little tip for anyone using camera +, dont stop at one filter. Save it then apply another filter and so on.
VydorScope said:
Use the standard camera. Just use camera + for the editing. If u know what ur doing its amazing. Specially with an iphone 4s and even a 4. Little tip for anyone using camera +, dont stop at one filter. Save it then apply another filter and so on.
On my wanderings on a cool fall afternoon I stumbled upon a neat little mushroom scape. I had both my 5D Mk II and my iPhone 4s and figured what the heck - an apples to oranges comparison.
iPhone 4s:
Canon 5D Mk II w/ 100mm f/2.8 macro lens:
So for me, the most important and critical camera is the one you have on you.
iPhone 4s:
Canon 5D Mk II w/ 100mm f/2.8 macro lens:
So for me, the most important and critical camera is the one you have on you.
With Camera+ is there a way to save the original photo instead of overwriting it with the edits?
iPhone 4S look way better. I don't know why people like this pull focus effect so much. It actually makes me mad to see it used so much, especially in youtube videos.
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Oh, and here's the best photo I've taken on my iPhone 4S. I'm no photographer, but I just think this photo looks really awesome, especially for a phone.
It's not a "pull focus effect". Pull focus refers to a technique used in video to switch between focus planes to direct a viewers attention to what the director wants one to see.
The above "effect" is just the way the macro lens works. To get the same framing with different focal lengths some things had to be "sacrificed".
The iPhone photo is at f/2.8 and 4.3mm <-extreme wide angle. I had the phone very very close to the mushrooms. I was testing out it's macro abilities. With that my working distances was a few inches at best.
The 5D photo is at f/5.6 and 100mm <- telephoto and not adjustable. To prevent too thin of a depth of field, I stopped the lens down to f/5.6. To fully match the same depth of field I would have had to stop the macro lens down to f/22 or so and thus not get a very fast shutter speed at all. My working distance was over a foot from the subject.
In other words - sorry I made you so angry that I couldn't make my macro lens work like a wide angle lens.
On another note - yes your photo is a nice photo. I would've kicked the flash on to kill the shadow from the hat but it still is a nice keeper.
So the Cannon 5D cannot take photos that look like how one sees the world? Where there is a slight focus on a particular object, but nothing else is blurry or indiscernible. I'm not trolling, I just don't know anything about cameras.
Looking back, my post had a little more vitriol than I intended. Sorry.
Looking back, my post had a little more vitriol than I intended. Sorry.
This what effect?
I just mean how you cannot see anything in the background. I knew what it was called in videos, I figured that it would be the same in photos. I probably should have researched it first, but I really don't even know where to start. I'm completely oblivious to the entire world of photography.
Sometimes, photographers want to isolate a subject so that it stands out more and is not blending in to the background.
Let's use your photo for instance. The subject is the man and the fish. He is wearing an earthy colored shirt with lines diagonally. The lower part of his shirt and the fish tend to blend in with the background. Now I am making a huge assumption here but the main subject is the fish and man. This is where blurring the background would benefit the photo. Anyways, I digress and am changing the course of the thread. Yes some people use it too much for the wrong reasons but it is effective in bringing out the subject when the background is unimportant.
So the Cannon 5D cannot take photos that look like how one sees the world? Where there is a slight focus on a particular object, but nothing else is blurry or indiscernible. I'm not trolling, I just don't know anything about cameras.
Looking back, my post had a little more vitriol than I intended. Sorry.
No the 5D can take tack sharp photos front to back no problem. With the right lens and situation. The mushroom scape above is small. Each mushroom is about 1 inch tall. Under those conditions I was using a specialized lens for taking those types of photos. If I had a wide angle lens and took a photo of the same as yours it could be tack sharp front to back. I was just out and about trying to find a couple of bugs.