Posts in Category: PicSay Pro
Rose, with Transient
With our very strange weather here in Maine this spring/summer, only one of our roses is blooming, and so far it has produced only one flower. But what a flower! It even survived the last three days of heavy rain. Not only beautiful, but strong. I think, on closer look, the transient of the title (on the left) might be a mosquito…any port in a storm…I will grant even a mosquito that. Especially after three days of heavy rain.
This is an Rich Tone / HDR shot from my Samsung Galaxy S4’s excellent camera, as I was walking around the yard seeing what the storms had left standing. It was processed on the phone with PicSay Pro.
Wide on the Prairie
The folks at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge are justly proud to have been chosen for one of 20 NEON sites spread across the country. NEON is the National Ecological Observatory Network which has ambitious plans to collect ecological data across a broad spectrum, and across the whole continent to help with future policy decisions. See the informative article on Wiki.
This was taken on a stormy North Dakota day from the newly built installation on a ridge overlooking the native and reseeded prairies of Chase Lake. The raised metal boardwalk is to avoid human contact with the soil, which might effect some of their measurements. The image itself is a sweep panorama with the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone camera. Processed on the phone with PicSay Pro.
Dawn on the Prairie
Just a quick post from the first field trip of the Potholes and Prairies Birding Festival. Samsung Galaxy S4 in HDR Mode. Processed in PicSay Pro on the phone.
Jay on Suet
It was cloudy and dark most of the day yesterday despite the Weather Channel’s promise of partial sun, but the birds are becoming more active at my new feeding station. Yesterday we had a lot of Blue Jays in the neighborhood. I watched them forage not only our feeders but all the yards I can see from the house…whether or not they have feeders out. We are also getting Titmice everyday, and a few Chickadees and Juncos. I put up a thistle feeder yesterday…hoping for some of the rumored winter finches. We shall see.
Blue Jays are always handsome…and they are prettier in a photograph than in real life. In real life it is hard to get by their constant fuss and bother to see the beauty. And it really requires a close view…binoculars or camera…to being out the subtle shades and the fine feather detail that make them more than a big noisy blue bird.
Canon SX50HS at 1800mm equivalent field of view. Bad light. f6.5 @ 1/320th @ ISO 800. Program with –1/3 EV exposure compensation. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.
6/27/2012: Orange Bluets in Tandem
I am still in Virginia at the Virginia Crossings Wyndham Resort doing the corporate retreat. This is another find from my little photoprowel down by the golf course ponds. This is a pre- or post-mating tandem pair of Orange Bluets. There are many Bluets damselflies in North America, and most of them are a bold electric blue…or at least the males are. The Orange is clearly a member of the family despite its color. The male could be mistaken for many of the females of other species, and but none are quite as aggressively orange! Electric orange? It must be the height of breeding for Oranges, since tandem pairs outnumbered single damselflies.
Canon SX40HS in Program with – 1 /3EV exposure compensation. 1680mm equivalent field of view. f5.8 @ 1/60th @ ISO 800. Because the evening light was low I set the ISO manually to get workable shutter-speeds…and even then the Canon image-stabilization was stretched to its limits at such high magnification. This image begins to break down at larger viewing sizes, but it is a fun image on your average monitor or laptop. 🙂
Processed on my Xoom Android Tablet in PicSay Pro for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.
8/17/2011: Experiment in Form and Color
When this posts, I will be somewhere between London England and Rutland Water, up on the edge of the Midlands where they hold the Great British Birding Fair each year. My internet connections over the next few days will be sporadic and totally out of sync with most people who read this bog, so I am preparing a few posts ahead and scheduling them. I may, if I get a super shot in England (it is a working trip and time will be very limited), replace one the scheduled posts with something more spontaneous, but we will just have to see about that.
This is one of a series of experiments…it started out as a photograph, but it is not that anymore. I have manipulated it in PicSay Pro on my Xoom Android Honeycomb tablet…in a process most akin to digital doodling. The original is along side here. PicSay Pro allows you to mirror, twist, squeeze, and otherwise distort your image, as well as to apply a wide range of effects from Lomo to HDR to Gritty to Glow. I did not keep track of the particular set I used on this image beyond the obvious mirror. Like I say, it is closer to doodling than to any thoughtful or intentional process.
You can see a growing set of these at my Experiments gallery on Wide Eyed In Wonder.