flowers

Just some wildflowers shot on my iPhone 12.

Like the title says. Photos shot on my iPhone 12 on a pleasantly warm mid-April afternoon.

The last one I had to adjust the vibrance down because the camera on my phone starts shrieking in horror when it sees red, which is apparently a common phenomenon, as reds tend to oversaturate the sensor on the camera. The fix is one of those very obvious things: reduce the red in the photograph (or reduce the vibrancy, which achieves mostly the same thing).

My iPhone 12 apparently couldn’t handle these flowers, so I had to adjust the vibrancy down to get it closer to what a human eye would see:

And then the phone, with no horizon line for reference, rotated this photo from its landscape orientation to portrait, so I had to set it back, then tamp down the ultrabright white of the petals. At least doing these things makes me feel I’m contributing to the photography process, beyond just aiming the camera lens at something.

Out for a walk on a misty November day.

It ain’t winter yet. Taken on a walk through the neighbourhood between showers.

Sunflowers, looking less sinister than usual. Maybe.

We are in the midst of a rainy stretch here (boo¹Yes, boo, not “But at least it means fewer forest fires because the forest fires happen up north, not in the Lower Mainland. People here just grumble when it rains in summer or summer-adjacent months, though admittedly it keeps the grass looking fresh and green.), so when I went for a walk yesterday, everything was rather damp, including this striking flower I shot on nearby Fader Street.

Shot yesterday on my iPhone 12. I was mostly interested in seeing if I could shoot through the chain link–and I could!