Photo Stock Seagull
Amazing. Before leaving for Astir Beach, I posted a Seagull Stock Photo sample to my blog.
10 minutes later when relaxing on my beach bed, I consulted Google and here is the result:
Stock Photo Seagull
We hit Google Top 10 with the post and two more sites from our network!
See below.
Semiomantics the best SEO Framework
The recent optimization namely for media, makes Semiomantics XO Media the best publishing platform for media in as much as automated search engine optimization is concerned; at least that’s what our tests and experience show.
Exceptional is also the technique used to embed media in the RSS feeds, assuring equally high performance on third party sites as well as through our entire network.
I expect to see more Google Top 10 entries later today.
This example illustrates the excellent opportunity we offer to all Ycademy Seminar participants who get the unique chance to expose their work on PhotoMediaStock.com.
iPhone 4 Photo Colors
The above iPhone 4 Photo has been color adjusted. As mentioned earlier, the iPhone 4 renders pictures in a very warm tonal range, namely under outdoor high light intensity conditions such as at the beach. While the sky was blue and the small clouds just about visible, the original picture looks completely hazy, yellowish and out of the real tonal range.
The adjustments concern tonal range and a 2/3 blue color gradient.
iPhone 4 Photo Before
Posted from Vari, Attica, Greece.
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Web & Media Design
In this category you will find News and Information about Web design and Media Design by Yorgo.
YaBanaki Varkiza
The picture shows some of the Beach Beds at YaBanaki in Varkiza; they are probably inspired by the good old Greeks or Romans 
. The fact that they are about 5 feet above the level of the sand where the masses enjoy the beach, gives them a somewhat imperial or divine dominant position as seen on old paintings.
iPhone 4 Photo
The iPhone automatically used the following settings:
F-stop: f/2.4
Exposure time: 1/2320
ISO speed: ISO-80
Focal length: 4 mm
Metering: Average
The metering mode gives us a uniformly sharp or blurred picture. Focusing with the iPhone is easy: by tapping the touch screen the camera focuses on the part of the image addressed.
Posted from Vari, Attica, Greece.
YaBanaki Varkiza is a post from: iPhone 4 Photos
All content Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. All rights reserved.
Contact mail: iPhone (at) yorgo.net
YaBanaki Varkiza
The picture shows some of the Beach Beds at YaBanaki in Varkiza; they are probably inspired by the good old Greeks or Romans . The fact that they are about 5 feet above the level of the sand where the masses enjoy the beach, gives them a somewhat imperial or divine dominant position as seen on old paintings.
iPhone 4 Photo
The iPhone automatically used the following settings:
F-stop: f/2.4
Exposure time: 1/2320
ISO speed: ISO-80
Focal length: 4 mm
Metering: Average
The metering mode gives us a uniformly sharp or blurred picture. Focusing with the iPhone is easy: by tapping the touch screen the camera focuses on the part of the image addressed.
Posted from Vari, Attica, Greece.
YaBanaki Varkiza is a post from: iPhone 4 Photos
All content Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. All rights reserved.
Contact mail: iPhone (at) yorgo.net
YaBanaki Varkiza
YaBanaki may sound Japaneese but in fact it means “for the little bath” and is Greek. At this beach in Varkiza, just a few kilometers south of Vouliagmeni, all names start with ‘Ya…’ such as my preferred ‘YaOuzaki’ which is the name of the tavern (for the Ouzo). The’…aki’ at the end designs a diminutive.
iPhone 4 Photo
This iPhone 4 Photo has been color adjusted to get rid of the over warm rendering by the iPhone.
Posted from Greece.
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Contact mail: iPhone (at) yorgo.net
Dominique de Villepin at Grand Resort Lagonissi
Dominique de Villepin on August 13, 2010
Coincidence or paparazzi? Taking a shot of a friend at the Beach restaurant of the Grand Resort Lagonissi with the iPhone 4, I noticed the former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin in the background when viewing the shot.
Wikipedia teaches us that Villepin’s full name is Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin, a whole dictionary by itself. Mr de Villepin, unlike other “people” preserves also in shorts his ‘alure’ as a states man. The Grand Resort Lagonissi sure is a great place to relax with friends and family. Great idea, Mr Villepin to choose Greece and the Grand Resort Lagonissi.
Below just some black and white excerpts of some other shots from the same day and place.
This is not an iPhone 4 Photo. The focal length is 49 mm corresponding to a 400 mm tele-lens on 35 mm equivalent, shot with a speed of 1/500 and f/4.9 at ISO-250 with a Leica V-Lux-20.
Same camera and settings as before but with ISO-160. A 400 mm equivalent hand-held optical zoom is difficult to stabilize at 1/500 as the pics show. It was worth the try and the sensation of being a mini paparazzi .
Images Copyright 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis - iPhone4Photos.net – All rights reserved.
Posted from Kalyvia Thorikou, Attica, Greece.
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iPhone 4 Photos
The iPhone 4 Photo Camera Specifications
Apple has improved the camera on the iPhone. The high expectations were however met only partially.
Technically speaking, the iPhone 4 Camera is a 5 megapixel camera with a 5x digital zoom and built in LED Flash. Precise other data have not been officially published, however an interesting analysis can be found at the Falk Lumo Blog; the comments reveal additional data to complete the post.
The specifications could be the following:
- 5.0 Mpixels (2592 px x 1936 px)
- 1/3.2″ back-illuminated CMOS sensor
- 35 mm film camera crop factor: 7.64
- 3.85 mm lens focal length
View from My Office at Astir Beach
These specifications put the iPhone 4 at the lower end of 5 MP p&s (point and shoot) cameras, but still ahead of ordinary mobile phone cams. Even if the market tends to develop into higher Megapixel Cameras, Apple kept it at 5 MP which is preferable, namely also for the video function: better fewer large pixels than more small pixels. You guessed it, in the end it’s all a matter of the quality and size of the sensor and the lens.
The megapixel race is meaningless except for the output format (the actual size of the image); it does however not determine the quality of the image. Considering the limitations of the size of the sensor in a mobile device and the short focal length it is preferable to keep the number of MPs low to get a crisp picture.
iPhone 4 Photo Camera Zoom
The absence of an optical zoom has it’s implications: zooming with a digital zoom results in a cropping process to keep the preset output size: the zoom frames in on a smaller area on the sensor and the software blows the resulting picture up to the expected 2592 px x 1936 px. This process, like in p & s cameras leads to a dramatic loss of detail. Exceptions are the Intelligent Zoom functions from Leica for example.
As my experience with the iPhone 4 shows, zoomed images lack sharpness, often luminosity and almost always depth. Of course on the incredibly precise screen of the iPhone 4, these photos still look good; if however you publish them at say 800 pixels wide, the lack of quality is obvious.
On the other hand and comparing with low cost p & s cameras, the aperture of f/2.4 allows for keeping the ISO low even when using the maximum zoom range.
When zooming in, it is obviously more difficult to hold the camera still; this is true in general for p & s cams. Many of them have built in shake reduction features; not so the iPhone. As digital zooming reduces in fact the rendered area of a full frame, you may get a better result by taking the pictures without zoom; you may then crop it accordingly. The advantage of this method: it’s easier to hold still and the picture is taken at lower ISO and there is thus less noise creeping in.
Unless you need a quick shot which you want to shoot up immediately to Facebook for example, there is no reason to use the zoom. In any case whenever you can, just move closer to the subject.
My Office at Astir Beach Vouliagmeni
iPhone 4 Photos at low light conditions
Shooting at low light conditions is not an easy task. Considering the wide aperture of f/2.4 I was expecting some great low light shots but I was rather disappointed, the reason being most likely the quality and size of the sensor as well as of the lens.
My 5 MB Sony Ericsson C902 Mobile phone does a better job on low light; I am not sure the sensor is better, but the Carl Zeiss lens has definitely higher performance.
Or, may be, I have just not yet found the best way of using the iPhone 4 cam in low light.
In any case the built in flash works automatically and does a good job in limited range of distance. The best range seems to be between 3 and 5 meters. No intelligent flash metering seems to be built in. The use as a fill flash helps to improve pictures.
iPhone 4 Photos Quality
From what you can see here on the site, the images rendered by the camera (without the use of post editing tools or apps) have all something in common: they come in a warm tonal range. In most of the cases there is too much yellow/orange. It’s about impossible to render white, even if you take a picture of a white surface.
Also it seems to me that the pictures are pushed for contrast and density.
iPhone 4 Flash
Unfortunately the flash is located right next to the lens which leads to increased red eye effects. Post editing is a must or you may mask the flash with tape … or your finger.
Conclusion and Tips
Besides all the practical aspects such as connectivity to various web services, the iPhone 4 Photo Camera does a pretty good job, namely compared to the performance of its predecessor. While not the best smart phone cam, the iPhone 4 is a nice tool for snapshots and images under normal conditions. It’s not a p & s camera but it reaches the lower end of the p&s scale.
Considering the use of the cam to produce media for web publishing, the iPhone does it’s job far better than most mobile phones.
In fact, I am more impressed by the performance of the camera than by the quality as a phone, not to speak about the lousy reception of the device.
All in all: if you don’t already own a smart-phone, the iPhone 4 is a great way to start getting mobile.
If you have an iPhone 3G and you are not a photo freak, there is not much reason to change, the more that you can load the new OS 4 to your 3G.
If you have a big photo camera and would like to have a small mobile device, the iPhone will not satisfy you as the image quality is way below p & s cams of a price similar to the price of an iPhone.
All in all I don’t regret the purchase of the iPhone as it is the most brilliant device for rapid mobile communication using media … for as long as you have reception and connectivity with a service provider.
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iPhone 4 Photo in Blue and White
Contrast, tone and color have been corrected on this image as the original reflects way too warm colors and not enough contrast. This is a window from Syros Greece.
Sandy Beach in Syros
A good degree of detail, contrast and color fidelity on this one.
