I love taking pictures. I have an expensive Canon T3i Digital SLR camera and I do still use it, but the percentage of pictures I take with my smartphone continues to grow. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S5, Jim has a Samsung Note 3, and I just gotta show you some of the pictures we’ve taken this month! Below each picture I’ve written a note about the phone’s feature that is being used.
We’ve been in some beautiful places this month, starting with a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida; then a visit to the Denver Botanical Gardens during a Chihuly glass exhibit, and an evening at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, also in Denver. When we left Denver we traveled thru the Rocky Mountains; we hiked by Sundance in Utah, slept at a winery in Idaho, and headed to the Pacific Northwest. We stayed at a Thousand Trails park by the San Juan Islands and took some ferry rides, parked in a friend’s driveway on the Olympic peninsula and visited the Olympic National Park. And we took pictures of it all. Here are just a few taken with our smartphones.
Just a note to the professional photographers out there – I’m not suggesting that these pictures would be good enough for you! I am not a professional photographer, I’m just a traveler who likes to have lots of pictures for memories, and I want them to be as easy to take as possible. I also never print. These pictures might make decent 5X7 prints, but probably nothing larger. I view my pictures on the web, on a computer, and often just on the little screen of the smartphone. These look great there! I did take my Canon camera to Rialto beach and took a couple of photos with the telephoto (300mm) lens that could never be captured with the smartphone:
In case any of you reading this will be attending the FMCA Convention in Redmond, OR during August … we will be teaching our short smartphone photography workshop. You need to come to our table in the Convention info center before the rally begins to register for the class. See the Rally Program for further details.
We will also cover many of these photo-taking techniques in our weekly web-broadcast show about using smartphones and tablets. Check it out at GeeksOnTour.com/weeklyshow, and Follow us on our Google+ page to be informed of each new episode.