Is the Samsung Galaxy S7 camera good enough for night photography?

How well would the Samsung Galaxy S7 handle night photos? That was my question since I purchased the phone a few months ago. The phone was supposed to be one of the best on the market today, as of 9/2016. Is it good enough?

Something I whipped together

I used to enjoy sitting by the window and watching the cars go by. I decided to make a video of the scene so I’d always remember it. Then I decided that it would be nice to be able to remember other things out the window. Suddenly I realized I had enough footage to make a short video. So, here it is. Enjoy!

Project Apollo Archive

I’ve been a huge space fan since NASA started launching rockets into space. I was browsing Hasselblad photos on Flickr when I saw a photograph that looked like it came from the moon.

I clicked on the thumbnail and sure enough it was from the moon. I then saw that they were archiving all the Apollo photographs. Excited is an understatement on how I’m feeling right now. Then I saw the following photograph in full size and I basically fell off my chair:

If you look closely at the full-size photo you’ll see the astronaut actually staring at the camera. It looks like it might be Neil Armstrong.

The photographs came from Project Apollo Archive on Flickr. You can see these and more at the following link:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/with/21037481544/

Hope you’re as excited to see these as I am. Enjoy.

House Centipede

Was greeted with a house guest this morning. A Scutigera coleoptrata, house centipede came by for a visit and asked that I take a couple portrait photos.

Sunlight on the Bay

Was looking out the window on Thursday (6/18/15) and saw the sunlight shining on the bay. The sun originally was near the docks in Oakland. I grabbed my Konica Hexar AF that contained a roll of Tri-X ISO 400 film and started taking photos.

Processing 53 year old Kodachrome II

My family gave me some Kodachrome II film and told me to toss it. I decided that because it was black and white film that it would be a slam dunk to just process it as though it was black and white film. As I found out it was a little more involved than that. However, in the end it was pretty easy to get around the road block.

You can read about my adventure in developing Kodachrome by just clicking on the “Analog” button that is located on the top menu bar.

Adobe Lightroom as a black and white negative proofer

I’m a little behind times and I’m sure people have been doing this for as long as digital has been available, but as they say, better late than never. Throughout the years of processing black and white film negatives the best way for me to make a proof sheet was in the darkroom with a photo enlarger, photo paper and a piece of glass to place over the negatives. However, the past few years I’ve been placing the negative sheets onto my flatbed scanner and scanning it onto my computer to check out the photos. The only drawback was that in order to see detail I’d need to scan at a high dpi so I could zoom in. That took some time.

So how loud is that camera?

I was curious to see how loud the cameras I used throughout the years were. I was surprised at the levels of some of the cameras and definitely not for others.

If everything had already been photographed then why bother taking pictures?

I was looking through some photographs on Facebook and Flickr and realized that I had seen the some of the same photographs from years ago. I’ve seen that orange sunset, that picture of a building, the cat, the dog, the bride coming down the aisle, that person on the rock at a national park, a close-up of an insect, or that lion taking down an animal. When I was taking my photography classes years ago one of my instructors said that “everything had been photographed.”