Simon Pierro is a magician and to be more precise, for this video at least, he is an iPad magician. Be prepared to be flabbergasted with these seemingly impossible iPad maneuvers.
Learn more by visiting Simon Pierro’s website which has millions of views!
Whenever I am out and about with people and we are taking pictures; me with my bridge camera (Canon SX 50HS) and others with their smartphones, I often ask if they are shooting HDR images. A few will know what I am speaking of, but many are puzzled.
To put it simply, and HDR (High Dynamic Range) image is one that is composed of three separate photos that are then combined to increase the “degree” of colors and details. Many smartphones can be set to do this automatically, i.e. they take one picture focusing on the shadows, one exposed for the mid-tones and a last exposed for the highlights. These are then combined to render details in all three exposures. The theory is that this will provide the most color and details.
This logically leads to the next question: “Well, how much better will the HDR photos be?” An article written by Eric Renno for Photofocus answers that question.
If you are interested in the technicalities, please read the details in the article noted above. For anyone interested in photography, I believe you will find it interesting especially if you like to edit your photographs after you take them.
SUMMARY – Shooting in HDR generally makes a difference and in most cases you will get “better” pictures that way. Keep in mind, however that the files will be larger so storage space may be at a premium.
NOTE – My wife’s iPhone captures HDR, but also keeps the mid-tone image as well. In such scenarios, it is then up to the user to decide which photo to keep. Your smart phone might do the same thing so it would be a good idea to review them periodically and delete those pictures which are not significantly different. The only drawback is that it is sometimes difficult to discern this on the small smart phone screen. It is still worth a try if your phone storage is pressed for space.
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.” — Seneca
“Talk between friends is always therapy.[ed]” — Jayne Anne Phillips
“Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.” — Serena Williams
“The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.” — Unknown
We continue our series of personalized (vanity) license plates in Arizona. To maintain individual privacy, we try to show as little information about particular cars as possible as long as we can reveal the license plate.
NOTE – License plate photos may have been archived for quite some time. The years indicated on the registration stickers DO NOT necessarily reflect the current status of any given plate!
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“Too much rest is rust.” — Walter Scott
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” — Robert Bresson
“All know the way, but few actually walk it.” — Rumi
“When I was a kid, werewolves and vampires were scary. Now everyone wants to date them.” — Unknown
This video of two Golden Retriever pups running for their food bowl over a period of nine months is fun to watch. The dogs are named Bleu and Colby and are referred to as cheese pups; get it?
Puppies are one of life’s greatest joys and this video brings that happiness to anyone who cares to watch.
“These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.” — Kobe Bryant
“The problem of power is how …to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.” — Robert F. Kennedy
“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.” — Swedish Proverb
“[An] Eagle cam captures stunning footage of an imperial eagle descending over 2,700 ft (830 m) from the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai.”
Goal: Take an Imperial Eagle (with a camera attached) to the tallest building in the world and from that height, have it locate its handler and land on the arm of that trainer. The bird looks around for quite some time until it sees the trainer and then it folds its wings (@ 1:40 +/-) and dives. What details could a human see from that height? (Admittedly, the trainer appears to be in the middle of a large red square, but still…)
Apparently this event was held to draw attention to the fact that these eagles are endangered.
To learn more about how the eyesight of humans and eagles compare, read What If Humans Had Eagle Vision?
“With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back.” — Russian Proverb
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.” — Jack London
“The ability to say ‘No’ is a tremendous advantage for an investor.” — Warren Buffett
“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde
