Category: iPhone

CAT – cats against trump

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The best I can do for the moment after the first full week of the Trump presidency is to create this fictional organization with cats. The cats, of course, are my cats, at least the Gingersnaps Beau (pictured above) and his brother Luke. I’m wondering if that’s a wise thing to do, to drag such innocent creatures into the Trump political swamp.

Photo was first taken with iPhone 7 Plus in low light, then post processed using VSCO and the S3 preset, then processed again in Instagram using the Sierra filter. There’s a lot of lost detail, and the smudging looks like a cross between plastic wrap and paint. I like the coloration but it can only stand to be seen on a phone screen. As it grows larger on bigger screens the visual defects begin to be seen, and I don’t mean pixel peeping. I’ll let this stand as a personal warning not to do this in the future.

it’s not easy being green

whbeebe

There was one spot where the red was held at bay at Health Central. I happened to literally stumble across it while headed back to where I’d parked. I managed to carefully find just the right location for this composition. In retrospect I like the vertical surfaces overlayed with the complex shadows from above. Later, in VSCO, I straightened out the vertical lines and general orientation (which VSCO makes incredibly easy to do) before final touch up and running through the KK1 preset. Once again, on the iPhone 7 Plus. The combination of the Plus’ camera and the tools (apps) you can download from the App Store are incredibly powerful, yet easy. The more I use the iPhone 7, the more I want to use it for the visual arts. The fact it just happens to make phone calls is now incidental to me.