This Ain't Your Grandfather's Photography, Part 2 - Immediate Results

The weather last night allowed me to go outside and frame a shot I have been wanting to capture for awhile - an upward view of trees behind our house that are lit with landscape lighting. I enjoy shooting these kinds of photos if there is potential for me to do something with them in the post processing. It's also a humbling angle to shoot from, because it requires me to lay on my back while the wooden giants stare down at me, annoyed.

As you can see, my session didn't disappoint, with one head scratching difference between the above two captures. The one on the left was shot with an app that allows for full control of my iPhone's ISO, aperture, etc. while the one on the right was taken with the native iPhone photo app doing the work. And again, I continue to wonder if taking shots with a full control camera saving to RAW format is for me. My journey with photography is more about unique composition and topic viewing versus getting the technical settings correct before clicking the shutter. I am sure long experienced and high end photographers would insist on the RAW approach because it's the purist's route. And, if knuckling down to learn photography's "Magic Triangle" netted me better results than my iPhone, I would consider digging in to its confusing world of decimals and engineering jargon. But, given what the sensor practically automagically captured on the right versus the left, I am getting closer to leaving my DSLR home unless I want to grab some telephoto based stuff.

I am getting better, more robust shots with the ones the iPhone grabs - which when set to "Live" is really not a single shot being captured, but a series of captures it then uses some local logic to cherry pick what it feels is the best version. The RAW shot is one and done, leaving me to wonder if what I got will be worth post-processing.

The mobile phone photography approach is my chosen way for what I intend to capture...Canon and other manufacturers need to steal some of the concepts.