I went out yesterday looking for dragonflies, but I could not resist a short side-trip to the beach to catch the amazing sky over the ocean. This is another shot from my new Samsung Galaxy S4’s camera…using the built in Rich-Tone HDR mode. It has then been tweaked using my one of my normal processing presets in Lightroom. The result is high drama indeed!

Yeah. A phone camera. The thing is, it works. At first I found myself using it, even when I had my Canon with me, simply for the novelty. New toy. But, the thing is, I continue to pull the phone out when faced with a scene like this…because it works. Especially the HDR mode. I would have needed a tripod for even the Canon SX50HS’s in-camera HDR, since it takes three images…and it would have blurred the waves for sure, since they are moving. The Galaxy manages to do capture a decent HDR effect in one shot..or it shoots the multiple exposures so rapidly that there is no lag between. It works. 🙂