Thursday 7 July 2011

[Music] Kyuss - Gardenia [live].


Awesome song, awesome performance. Homme's guitar work is spot on. Man... [just a shame they censor/dont sing the lyrics at the end]

[Photography] iPhone-ography.


Been playing about the camera and the various editing apps on the iPhone.  The camera is very nice, much better than on any previous phone I've used.  The apps are great.  I've used most of them before on the iPod, but there were some such as Hipstamatic that you can only sue with a device with a camera, so those are new to me.  The photos here are on either Hipstamatic, Instagram or Lo-Mob.

Also, the iPhone 4 camera has a built in "HDR" function, that seem to take multiple exposures when you fire the trigger, and blends them to obtain a more range within the highlights and shadows - much in the same way proper HDR tools do it, but with less benefit and control.  The output from the HDR function is a bit hit and miss.  Sometimes it really gives a nice lift to the shadows or the sky, but sometimes it just makes it look like the contrast is all wrong.  Luckily it saves the "neutral" version too.