Here is where I take my appreciation of technology and my love of photography and mix them together for a whimsical voyage of visual fun. I recently upgraded my phone from the LG Voyager to the LG EnV Touch. The EnV Touch is modeled after the Voyager with many wonderfully delicious features, including it’s ever-fantastic digital camera feature. The phone has a 3.2 megapixel lense with automatic focus and… (drum roll please) … a flash! It’s a bright flash too, sufficient for 10-15 foot object distances with little to no effort.
You can take pictures in six different resolutions (2,048×1,536, 1,600×1,200, 1,280×960, 640×480, and 320×240 pixels), five white balance presets, and five color effects. It also has three focusing modes: autofocus, macro mode, or manual mode, the last of which lets you pick one of seven points on the screen to focus in on. You can toggle the flash on or off, adjust a self timer if you want, or select one of three shutter sounds (there’s also a silent option).
The camera also has a few special shot modes: Smile shot, which automatically takes a picture when a person smiles; Panorama, which stitches together five photos shot from left to right; Intelligent shot, which automatically adjusts the white balance and color saturation based on the surrounding environment; and Facial Makeover mode, which removes all blemishes and unsightly marks from a person’s face. There’s also a name card reader mode that is specially tuned to take pictures of business cards and then extracts the contact information and saves it in your phone. I don’t really get a lot of business cards, but I think I’m going to start asking people for them all the time now.
I’ve been using my camera phone more than my beloved Canon Digital Rebel XTi (although I plan on carrying it around a lot this weekend when I’m in downtown Boston). I upgraded the phone about a week ago and have since taken a lot of random photos playing with the various features. It’s been a bit of a learning process but I’m having fun and some of the result photos have been a bit surprising and unexpected. Also, none of these photos have been altered in any way, shape or form. They are coming to you straight from my cell phone to the internet.
Self Portrait: Cloves, Car rides and friends
Buddha the Cat: Living on the Edge
You can practically feel the WHOOSH as they skate around the rink.
Panorama of Venice Beach with San Gabriel fire smoke in the background.
Fear. Can you smell it?
Sleep with your eyes open.
There's nothing quite like getting up close and personal with creepy crawlies.
Happy dogs mean happy people.
Lynch Park, Beverly, MA
Panorama of the rocky Beverly coast: Lynch Park, Beverly, MA
Peace and serenity where the sea meets the green and the trees. Lynch Park, Beverly, MA
Danvers State Insane Asylum was built in 1878 on top of Hawthorne Hill. The property, having been abandoned for almost 30 years and right after the psychological indie thriller Session 9 was filmed there, the whole estate was recently converted into an apartment complex, leaving the main Kirkbride building intact. In the initial stages of refurbishing the inside of the building, there was a fire that destroyed much of the new construction. The damage has since been fixed and the apartments are now inhabited. Was the fire a coincidence? I'll let you be the judge of that.
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Danvers State in the afternoon sun. Danvers, MA
The dog days of Summer.
It's always good to be prepared.
In that last pic, in the mirror’s reflection, it looks like a headless bus driver. Ha!
Haha, you’re so right, I never even noticed that before. Creepy!