Mobile Captures: C&C are welcome

[bedantabd]

Here are some images (cliches) taken / processed with my mobile camera (5 MP). Final NR/sharpening done in CS5. Comments are welcome

[Otavio]

Hello, Bedanta. Nice images. Number 1 is my favourite. A really nice shot, especially considering the limited equipment that was used! The only comment is that I miss the ground on it, although there are the electricity poles. Showing a bit of land would make it still better, IMHO. Thanks for sharing!

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Bedanta,

Good to hear/see from you again.

I have one suggestion and one observation on your nice sunsets.

My suggestion is that you correct the leaning verticals caused by tilting the camera upwards to capture the sky.

My observation is that I can see jpg artefacts - more than I would hope, which makes me wonder if your phone's camera is saving its jpgs in the highest possible quality setting? (It may be)

Unfortunately, although the camera is 5 MP, jpg works on 8 x 8 blocks of pixels when processing, which, at lower saving quality settings, can (in some areas of an image) cause fine tone gradations to be resolved into a 'blocky' (read slightly pixelated) structures equating to a 0.6 MP image overlaid on the 5 MP one. To me, this is more obvious in the first and third images, where some of the brighter clouds have straight (horizontal and/or vertical) edges. The Photoshop sharpening may have made this slightly worse, by adding little dark halos to some of them - or may be the camera did that too.

However, it is quite a subtle effect and many viewers may not even notice it, since it requires a degree of close examination and these shots aren't really about that.

I hope that is useful and not discouraging,

[Shadowman]

Nice images.

[bedantabd]

Hello, Bedanta. Nice images. Number 1 is my favourite. A really nice shot, especially considering the limited equipment that was used! The only comment is that I miss the ground on it, although there are the electricity poles. Showing a bit of land would make it still better, IMHO. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Otavio. There was no land (only a wall) at the bottom and all the drama was taking place in the sky, which I wanted to capture.

[bedantabd]

Hi Bedanta,

Good to hear/see from you again.

I have one suggestion and one observation on your nice sunsets.

My suggestion is that you correct the leaning verticals caused by tilting the camera upwards to capture the sky.

My observation is that I can see jpg artefacts - more than I would hope, which makes me wonder if your phone's camera is saving its jpgs in the highest possible quality setting? (It may be)

Unfortunately, although the camera is 5 MP, jpg works on 8 x 8 blocks of pixels when processing, which, at lower saving quality settings, can (in some areas of an image) cause fine tone gradations to be resolved into a 'blocky' (read slightly pixelated) structures equating to a 0.6 MP image overlaid on the 5 MP one. To me, this is more obvious in the first and third images, where some of the brighter clouds have straight (horizontal and/or vertical) edges. The Photoshop sharpening may have made this slightly worse, by adding little dark halos to some of them - or may be the camera did that too.

However, it is quite a subtle effect and many viewers may not even notice it, since it requires a degree of close examination and these shots aren't really about that.

I hope that is useful and not discouraging,

Thanks Dave.
Some close observations and a nice explanation, which these images do not deserve............ Actually I missed my camera on all those occasions. Anyway, these look quite good on small displays (mobile phones) and that's it...........

Not at all discouraged by your comments which are always useful.

[bedantabd]

Nice images.

Thanks John. By the way, how many Johns do we have in CIC?? Just joking.............