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DollysMom 04-09-2015 01:17 PM

Phone camera pics
 
The camera most of us have most handy to take pictures of our corns are our phone cameras. They may not be what we use for staged shots, but certainly much of our snake buddies' lives are captured by phone.

So I'd love to hear which phone camera you use and what your results have been. Do you have any tips for getting better pics with your phone? Also what apps do you use to do any editing or processing?

I've only taken pictures of my Dolly with my phone so far. If you are curious, they are in my Dolly album under my profile. I don't own an SLR, digital or otherwise. I do own a fairly capable Canon point and shoot with a great zoom. It doesn't do low light as well as my phone IMO, but in order to get good shots with my phone I need to be right there.

My iPhone 6 is pretty capable and I'm pleased with the results so far, but they are admittedly snapshots. I don't consider myself a photographer.

Please, anyone who has a phone camera and an opinion, jump in! Give your thoughts, tips, criticisms, limitations, frustrations, and successes.

One last thought-- I have an iPhone, but a have full respect that there many great phone cameras on other platforms like Android and Windows Phone. So please be respectful of everyone's choice of phone camera and platform.

Dahliasmom2012 04-09-2015 08:15 PM

I have a Samsung galaxy s4. I have trouble getting it to focus on Apophis. I like it but for smaller snakes it is a pain.

DollysMom 04-09-2015 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Dahliasmom2012 (Post 1684407)
I have a Samsung galaxy s4. I have trouble getting it to focus on Apophis. I like it but for smaller snakes it is a pain.

Thanks for weighing in. Yes, you have to get right in on the little guys to get a decent picture unless you have a zoom. Digital zoom doesn't really help and I don't use it.

I wonder if anyone else here with a Galaxy S4 has ideas for getting it to focus. Are you able to tap the screen to tell it where you want it to focus?

Dahliasmom2012 04-10-2015 02:52 AM

Yes. It's impossibly stubborn. With a larger subject it is fine but tiny Apophis it will try and then go right back out of focus. Getting closer makes it worse and zooming just degrades the quality so you end up getting a grainy pic.

Chromatic Corns 04-10-2015 04:22 AM

All my photos are taken with my iphone 5s (was a 4). I think it does an ok job but my biggest complaint is that it can't capture pink very well, or at least I have been unable to recreate how pink my slamon snows (from Walter Smith) are in real life. If your curious, the photos are all on my FB page linked in my signature. I don't use any photo apps either.

DollysMom 04-10-2015 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Chromatic Corns (Post 1684432)
All my photos are taken with my iphone 5s (was a 4). I think it does an ok job but my biggest complaint is that it can't capture pink very well, or at least I have been unable to recreate how pink my slamon snows (from Walter Smith) are in real life. If your curious, the photos are all on my FB page linked in my signature. I don't use any photo apps either.

I have no way to compare the photos to life, but they are beautiful. I'd have never known they were taken with a phone camera if you hadn't told me.

Your snakes are awesome.

DollysMom 04-10-2015 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Dahliasmom2012 (Post 1684428)
Yes. It's impossibly stubborn. With a larger subject it is fine but tiny Apophis it will try and then go right back out of focus. Getting closer makes it worse and zooming just degrades the quality so you end up getting a grainy pic.

Yeah, I've found digital zooms on any camera, worthless. Its too bad it doesn't hold focus for you.

That's one thing I hadn't thought of but perhaps there is a third party camera setting (as opposed to post processing) app on the Android side that will give you more settings. I have a few camera apps but I haven't really played with them and don't know if they are cross platform. I hope that someone who knows will jump in and help out!

Chromatic Corns 04-10-2015 09:22 AM

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I have no way to compare the photos to life, but they are beautiful. I'd have never known they were taken with a phone camera if you hadn't told me.

Your snakes are awesome.

Thank you :) I could be wrong because I can't find the thread but I thought Nanci had mentioned a nice photo app before??

Here are 2 of my favorite pics shot with my phone ~ there is a chance I used the regular windows editing tool to brighten these, but I can't remember.

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DollysMom 04-10-2015 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Chromatic Corns (Post 1684443)
Thank you :) I could be wrong because I can't find the thread but I thought Nanci had mentioned a nice photo app before??

Here are 2 of my favorite pics shot with my phone ~ there is a chance I used the regular windows editing tool to brighten these, but I can't remember.

I wouldn't know those are phone photos without seeing the Exif data. And what beautiful snakes!

I don't do a lot of post processing, but on the IPhone I use PS Express. On the iPad I prefer Pixelmator which is how I resize pics for the forum. I also have tweaked photos on Windows, but I'm usually too lazy to go over and sit at my laptop for that.

Elke 04-26-2015 01:10 AM

Hello!

Can you tell me what morph the top snake is?

Gorgeous!!! Simply, gorgeous!!!

Walter Smith snake?

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Chromatic Corns 04-26-2015 07:20 AM

The two I posted above? The top one is a normal het dilute caramel, anery, motley, amel, and the bottom is a reverse Okeetee. Neither are from Walter, but I do have 2 salmon snows from Walter and they are amazing.

Elke 04-26-2015 07:43 AM

Thanks so much for the quick reply!

Did you mention on your FB page that she is for sale? The top one?

Thanks, again!

Sincerely,
Teresa :)

Chromatic Corns 04-26-2015 08:09 AM

Yes she is, my message box was full but I just cleared some room

Elke 04-26-2015 08:48 AM

Hi Stacy,

Just sent you a PM.

:)

Elke 04-26-2015 09:33 AM

Hi Stacy,

I tried to send a PM but box says full.

I'll take her!

Super excited!

:),
Teresa

Chromatic Corns 04-26-2015 11:23 AM

Sounds good :) Im in Kentucky on Vacation and due back monday. I'll fix the inbox issue and message you then

Elke 04-26-2015 12:00 PM

Perfect!

We can work it all out then.

Enjoy the rest of your vacation!

Sincerely,
Teresa :)

Jessicat 08-21-2015 01:57 AM

Stacy, those are awesome pics!!

I DEFINITELY prefer to use my Nikon D3100. I do admit though, that my iPhone takes pretty decent photos. I also have a Samsung Galaxy S4, and I do not like it for pictures.

iPhone is the way to go if you want to do snake photography on your phone IMO.

Here is an example of a picture I took with my phone.
http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...ada36eff36.jpg

It's not a bad image. It's also not this..
http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cecd70a857.jpg

What can I say.. I guess I'm a perfectionist/ photographer. :laugh:

Chromatic Corns 08-21-2015 11:26 AM

Beautiful pic for sure :) The real nice cameras are definitely better than an iphone, we can't argue that. When I was in my photo class we had really nice cameras and I damn near cried having to give it back, but I can't spend the money on that right now so the phone will have to do ;)

MysticExotics 08-21-2015 12:51 PM

I definitely prefer my Nikon D5100 to my phone camera, but my phone is much easier to use, so a lot of my pics are from my phone (including my avatar pic), but I will do photoshoot days, where I take several pics with my D5100, then sit down and crop and resize them, to post them.

sammihood 09-28-2015 07:58 AM

I use my HTC M8, I find it's mostly okay as long as you take the few extra seconds to get your focus right :)

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/09...42b723ba8f.jpg

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DollysMom 10-29-2015 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by sammihood (Post 1696931)
I use my HTC M8, I find it's mostly okay as long as you take the few extra seconds to get your focus right :)

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/09...42b723ba8f.jpg

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That's a beautiful picture!

Alexandreq1988 03-30-2019 06:40 AM

I always wanted to learn camera photo making, because i love photos but it was hard to me. And now you can by phone take a photo in automatic mode and it will be a good quality.

MaryGriffith 05-09-2019 01:24 AM

I have Redmi note 5 pro and if you click pictures in the portrait mode then it works out best

mrgrtt123 05-14-2019 08:04 PM

I just switch from iPhone 8 to Huawei P30 Pro considering the camera specification.


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