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<\/p>\nParrot man. 4S, 1\/120, f\/2.4, flash, ISO 125.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
A bit of lens flare is visible here around the red cap, though it may be from thumbprints on the lens as much as anything. Something to look out for – or to exploit for certain subjects. Nothing quite like a good greasy thumb to give you that ethereal look!<\/p>\n
Nothing wrong with the definition in the above picture:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nParrot Man – detail.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
Down the road my son Winston had to have a snap of the ghoul on the local restaurant’s wall – this is completely unretouched:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nGhoul. Picture by Winston Hofler, aged 9. 4S, 1\/120, f\/2.4, ISO 125.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
Where Winnie saw a ghoul, I saw a ghoulish business which thinks nothing of stealing from Americans daily:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nBankster ghouls. 4S, 1\/120,f\/2.4, ISO 80.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
Once in the Apple Store, pups were everywhere to be seen while water damaged keyboards and dropped iPhones were being attended to.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nPup at the Genius Bar. 4S, 1\/20, f\/2.4, ISO 125.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
And another:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nAnother pup. 4S, 1\/20, f\/2.4, ISO 125.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
Apple likes to get ’em young, and there was a plenitude of snap opportunities in the kids’ play area:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nTrying the iMac. 4S, 1\/20, f\/2.4, ISO 100.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
In the next snap, I zoomed in using the un-pinch gesture to see what the quality would be like. The answer is that whereas most of the above will print well at 13″ x 19″, this one starts to break up at 8″ x 10″.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nIntent. 4S, 1\/20, f\/2.4, ISO 100.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
Don’t be fooled by those blurred backgrounds. These were done in Photoshop CS5 using the Magic Outliner, Refine Edges and Filter->Lens Blur. But then you wouldn’t know that unless I told you! You can see just what a great job Adobe has done in coding this technology in the close-up of the Parrot Man’s whiskers and the young blonde girl’s hair, above. It takes seconds to do and you can bet this code will be in-camera before too long.<\/p>\n
The Auto White Balance in the iPhone 4S beats the pants off that in the Panny G1 and G3.<\/p>\n
The funky handling of the 4S takes some getting used to, the screen is awful in bright daylight and the camera is better than 99.9% of photographers out there, most of whom seem to contribute to the fora at DP Review. The remaining 0.1% of us actually take pictures.<\/p>\n
That AppleTV? Turned out to be a dud so Apple replaced it, no questions asked, doing the software upgrade on the replacement for me in the store. Can’t grumble – time wasted being more than repaid by some great picture opportunities. And because everyone thinks you are futzing with your phone, no one takes any notice. That’s worth a lot. Now I can enjoy wireless Mirroring<\/a> from the iPhone 4S, when it’s not being used to take snaps or make calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some snaps and observations. When my second AppleTV refused to update over-the-air to AppleTV OS 4.4.1, and as I did not have a micro USB cable to do it over iTunes, I decided to take it to the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store and let the geniuses have at it. While they milled … Continue reading The iPhone 4S – Part III<\/span>