UFOooo!

Photo Walk for Exercise, Moody Park on Longacre, Fairview Heights, Illinois

While walking through the park late one night, I was startled by an unexpected noise. While reaching for my trusty iPhone 4, I spun around just in time to witness, what I can only explain as a once-in-a-lifetime experience, this rotating disc pictured in the photo. And, no, the disc is not one of those soon to be unidentified objects that folks my age call a CD.

(Disclaimer: Actually, it wasn't late at night. I'm usually in bed shortly after dark. And, some "slight" post-processing might have been involved.)

This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 and transferred to the iPad via the Photo Transfer app. I used iPhoto to crop, adjust contrast, add spot lightening and darkening, and select a black and white filter.

Snapseed was used to add additional spot lightening and darkening, along with the tilt-shift and center focus filters. ArtStudio was selected to provide brush strokes and spot blurring effects.

I returned to iPhoto to further adjust the black and white filter, and finished with TouchRetouch HD to clone grass in the foreground.

This second photo is the original, unprocessed image.

Using Mobile Camera as Excuse to Exercise

"Shade!"

If you enjoy taking photos on a daily basis, such as with Instagram, why not try to turn your quest for the perfect picture into a secret exercise program. Today, I decided to commit to such a program, and, hopefully, putting my plan in writing will help me stick to the routine.

Today's photo walk for exercise (Day 1) was at Longacre Park, Fairview Heights, Il.


For this photo I used the iPhone 4 and native camera app. The Photo Transfer app was used to copy the picture to my iPad for contrast processing with iPhoto.

Hopefully, Day 2 tomorrow!