Continuing with the idea of producing a StillWalks video entirely from photos and sound recorded on my iPhone, one of the difficulties with doing this is the lack of control you have of white balance with the phone camera.
It is possible to get some degree of balance of light by trying different angles for a shot and avoiding, where possible, extreme differences of light. Other than that, you have to take pretty much what you get and do what you can in post processing. Zooming can help in some circumstances but I try not to use this much as it loses what crispness there is in a shot as the zoom is digital rather than optical.
You can buy all sorts of add-ons for phone cameras these days, such as zoom or macro lenses, tripods, etc., but my aim is to find out how, if at all practical it is to produce a StillWalks video with the basic iPhone and free apps.
Having said that, I am using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to make the adjustments necessary for video production. The images below are the same shot but with different adjustments made but I am not going to go into the details of this now – I am keeping that for another day (or blog).
Suffice it to say that there is more work involved in the post processing of images taken on my phone than there is for those taken on my camera, so what I have saved in not having to lug heavy kit around with me, I have lost in the time needed afterwards in preparing the images for use. Hopefully this may be less the case with the sound recording!
I have just looked at this post on my old MacBook Pro and considering the way the images look on this screen, I think it best to refer people to an earlier post with a reference to screen calibration!
http://stillwalks.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/whats-the-colour-like-at-upper-lliw-reservoir/
And here I was being told the iphone was killing the DSLR 🙂
Not yet lol :-). We mustn’t let people be happy with any old thing. Phone cameras are fine so far as they can go but for me that means mostly only for viewing on phones or tablets.