fractal leaves, iPhone challenge Day 54

This was taken pointing the iPhone straight up, with HDR turned on.

The patterns in the branches remind me of some of the details in Julia and Mandelbrot sets.

macro work

Using the surface of my cat's eye to show the street scene below. This was shot with a 18-250 mm zoom lens on a Canon 7D from around 10 inches.

iPhone photo day 50

The clouds were very pretty from 2500 AGL.  I am always impressed with the capability of the iPhone 4. Not as good as the Canon 7D, but still quite nice.  And it will act as a GPS.

roiling clouds, Day 41

Most camera light meters will try and set things at middle gray (18 %).  As long as you understand this, you can figure out which area you want to be bright and which you do not.  If I were to take this photo and exposed on the Palace of Fine Arts, the clouds would have been blown out and not very interesting.  So, I exposed on the brighter part of the clouds in the upper right.