I was having dinner with friends and they have turtles in the backyard. No, they have tortoises, because turtles tend to water and tortoises are land dwellers. Apparently they like snacking on hibiscus flowers, so my daughter laid a path to draw them out of their nest area. https://youtu.be/a0JA0sejhgk Being the photographer always looking for... Continue Reading →
Bark! Insert Dog Pun (And Video) Here
Amy the Dog in "Dog Years," a movie made with Google Assistant. A few years ago I wrote * about how cool this app was and how easy it made it to share pictures and video snippets in video form. It's better and worse, but still neat and still only on Android and iOS. Click... Continue Reading →
March To The Beat Of Your Own Steel Drum
Taken during the downtown Phoenix Festival For The Arts. The featured image is a portrait rather than a wide angle, and gives a great example how framing can create a different mood and feeling with the same subjects. Here he seems empty and alone, maybe even ignored. In the portrait there is height, perhaps something... Continue Reading →
What Does Prisma Have In Store For Us?
The iOS Prisma app (and presumably Android soon) now has a Store, represented by a tiny little storefront icon. Click on it to open the Store page and you will be greeted by a bunch of little icons. There are a bunch of new "styles" though to be fair they include a lot of color... Continue Reading →
Prisma Goes Widescreen
In addition to new styles, Comic, Old-Fashioned and a Land Rover-sponsored Winter, you are no longer constrained to a square picture, so no automatic cropping. Unfortunately that also means if you wanted a square aspect ratio you have to crop in something else first (Instagram will do it if you export to them, otherwise do... Continue Reading →
Prisma For Breakfast
A new photo style, "Breakfast", brings the total to 29 at the moment. Still swear there are some that disappeared but no way to check. ----David. P.S. Bonus "Composition"