How are you taking your photos these days? Are you lugging around a camera or are you like me, mostly take photos with a smart phone?
The dragonfly photo above was taken with a camera (Canon EOS Rebel T7i). Some subjects don’t want a phone thrust before it! So I mainly take photos of dragonflies and birds with the camera.
With some more stationary insects, sometimes I will take the time to take a shot with a macro lens. Like this one
Earlier this summer a dragonfly was settled enough that I took this with my iPhone
And last year, this katydid posed beautifully for me for a phone shot
But when it comes to flowers, most all my photos are taken with my iPhone these days. It’s something that’s stuck in my pocket so I can listen to an audiobook or music while outside weeding or doing other chores. The convenience has made me both photo prolific and camera lazy.
Since this garden season to a very large extent has been a bust because of my recovering from surgery, about all I can do these days is take a stroll outside and take photos with my phone… framing out the weeds of course!
Here are some of this years flower portraits:
I’ve found that the iPhone camera does have it’s limitations. Sometimes it wants to focus where I don’t want it. There are some distortions that drive me crazy. The colours also don’t always come out accurately. Reds are still hardest to capture correctly, but I’ve found I can get them better if I take red flower photos in the shade. I’ve also found that I’m kind of beating up on my phone more than I did in the past. I’m constantly dragging it out of a pocket or purse just to take a photo. The screen gets smudged and wet with mud at times, too. I’ve already gone through 3 glass tempered screen savers this year alone!
But what can’t beat a phone camera is the ability to take a shot like this and not missing the moment because the camera’s inside the house:
How’s your garden growing? And do you photograph your hard earned beauties like I do??