Twilight in 'La Siembra'
On a less comic note, this is a picture of twilight in the mountains of 'La Siembra'. In case you are curious, don't bother looking it up. You wont find it in any encyclopedias, and it appears as a small dots on very little maps.
This is one of the times where I want to throw my camera phone in a bucket of water and buy one of those overly expensive, extremely heavy, huge lens cameras. This photo doesn't do the scenery any justice. I was beautiful degradation between night and day over the sky. To the east it was completely dark, with some constellations already visible. While to the west, the sun was still inching away on the horizon. One of the most lovely sceneries I've seen in my life.
posted by Saotome at
9:55 PM
2 Comments:
I hear you, my brother, and it doesn't apply only to camera phones, but to most under-US$1000-cameras, even more if you don't have any additional lenses or filters. Instead of focusing on more mega pixels and such, camera makers should focus more on better built-in lenses, more flash control, and more accesible filters. As a self-proclaimed photo aficionado, I find that there are two things that are very hard to capture:
-Depth of field: take a picture of a mountain or any really big structure, and you'll see what I mean. It will look tiny and unimpressive.
-Nighttime/low light conditions: You'll either get the natural or special lighting washed out by the flash, or capture nothing but darkness, strange dots and image artifacts if you don't use the flash. There's no point in between.
As you can see, you managed to have both on the same pic, so, tough luck. But look on the bright side, if you had a really great camera, it would be also great in size, wouldn't carry it everywhere, and hence, would not have the awesome pics you have posted here.
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Ivan, at Thursday, 04 January, 2007
You do have a point. Besides, when I have the piece of mind to spend 1K for a camera, that means that I have taken care of a lot of stuff, and live in a reality where i don't have time or will to continue writing in this blog.
In the meantime, let your imagination fill in the gaps, or at least take my word for it.
By
Saotome, at Thursday, 04 January, 2007
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