Also From Las Vegas

While walking from my hotel to the convention center, I noticed a little sideshow in the parking lot. Three or four motorcycle riders were jumping over the Boost vehicle from a ramp set up on the right. I stopped where the palm trees framed the rider in mid air (a little hard to see because of the lack of resolution on the iPhone). Also, I had to click the camera shutter when the rider was lined up with the palm tree on the right in order to get him in the middle. Cheaper cameras often have a delay between when you push the button and when the image is captured. You have to practice a little and then try a couple of times to get it right. I got lucky and got this on the first try.

Pics from the Road (literally)

This week I was on my way to Las Vegas for the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show. Somewhere around the city of Nephi, in Utah, the sun rose lighting the sky. I quickly grabbed my iPhone and rolling down the window while going 75 miles per hour, snapped the image above. The air was clear and you can see the remants of three old hanging glaciers on the mountain.

Airplane Windows

"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

I fly alot in my job and everyonce in a while, I'll pick up the iPhone and take a shot out the window. The top image was taken enroute to Las Vegas while the bottom image was shot coming back to Salt Lake City.

New York City

Took a quick trip to New York City and stayed at the Marriott Marquis in Time Square. This image was shot out the window using my iPhone.

The iPhone does pretty well in a pinch, but with no focus or lighting control, you get just what you expect.

While the images are not really "print" quality, they work well in a DVD production or streaming video because those technologies have a lower resolution requirement. It has to do with the difference between printing with ink (dots) and illuminating pixels (light). An image that is very small or even low quality can often look pretty good on a TV or Monitor.

Try taking an image with your camera phone and then printing it out and viewing it on your monitor. You will see the difference. Don't delete those images! You never know when you might need them.