Tag: NSW

Australian Winter: iPhone Photography

Guthega panorama. Photo: Sean Radich
Making the most of iPhone’s panorama function and Photoshop Express editing app for this snowy Guthega view.

I’ve said it previously … and I’ll say it again: I love using my iPhone for photography! It’s not just having a conveniently-sized digital camera in your pocket, but it’s the apps to edit the photos, and the wifi & 4G internet connection to upload shots and share them with the world wherever you are … even with frozen fingers atop some of the highest mountains in Oz.

I’ve wondered for a while why the pocket digicam makers haven’t incorporated Android (or Apple) operating systems and touch screens with their wifi? Then you could carry a better camera around to snap photos on the fly, edit in Photoshop Express or VSCO directly on the camera, then upload to Instagram when you get to a wifi hotspot. I wonder if the Canons, Nikons and Sonys would have kept selling lots of point-and-shoot digital cameras, rather than lose ground to iPhones, Samsungs and iPod Touches, if they had features like that?

While you’re pondering these things, take a look at some photos that I’ve shot, edited and now posted on WordPress all via my iPhone. Technology is marvelous.

Click on the photos to open up a gallery…

What a view from the top of Mt Perisher.
Winter hit the high country, with snow covering much of the land around The Alpine Way.
When you don’t have chains, catching the Skitube to Perisher makes life much easier.
Catching a train up to the snow reminds me of my time at the Garmisch glacier GAP Camp.
Zee train, zee train!
About to enter the earth…
So frozen and windblown up top, I thought I was on Planet Hoth.
Guthega panorama
Frozen. Brrr…
The Mile High 2015 riders meeting in the fog.
15 year-old Josh Vagne already has Blue Steel (TM) on lock.
Staying at The Station for the duration of The Mile High is a little bit like school camp. Pod land.
About to drive into a super-intense microcell storm on the Monaro Hwy.
It’s an impressive building.
A bit like a solemn temple.
Church-like inside.
Colourful domed ceiling.
Very modern annex, like Jeff’s Shed in Melbourne.
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East Coast Surf Road Trip With Just An iPhone

Crescent Head beach panorama
Panorama taken with iPhone.

iPhones make it all too easy! In fact nowadays I hardly bother taking my pocket Canon digital camera with me, let alone my new Canon EOS 1D mark IV. So I thought I’d try posting a blog directly from my iPhone with photos from a recent roadtrip from Melbourne to the Gold Coast and edited using just the phone’s auto-enhance & panorama function as well as Instagram, Luminance and Pic Jointer apps.

1800km, 3 days, 4 surfs … and 5 McDonald’s stops. What a road trip.
Hume Hwy/Holbrook. Why is there a Submarine in the middle of NSW?
Goulburn, NSW.
Who said it was a dirty, industrial town? Crystal clear water in Newcastle.
Inviting…
Merewether, Newcastle.
Merewether Beach, Newcastle.
Lighthouse Beach, Port Macquarie.
Port Mac’s lighthouse.
Nature at her finest.
Mother Nature turning it on … and iPhone’s panorama function doing work!
On the road through a scary forest, guided by the moon…
Summer traffic jams in Kempsey. NSW roads are the worst!
Crescent Head. What a magical little place!
Into the blue (and green).
Looks nice here, but a shithole of a town.
Endless sea of cane…
Surf stop in the fading light on the last day.

And the result. Well, WordPress ain’t the easiest beast to tame on a 3 inch touch screen – I couldn’t work out how to change the order of the gallery photos, or caption them. So I think I’ll stick to computer blogging from now on…