What's the best phone accessory you've ever bought? A decent case, earphones? For me it's a $3 tripod from Walmart.
It transformed my phone allowing me to use the long exposure setting. Something I thought was only used by people with expensive DSLRs and tripod setups. Admittedly the longest exposure (for my phone at least) is only 30 seconds. But it has allowed me to take night time pictures and include the stars as the background.
The village duck pond. I believe the light in the sky is polluting light from the city a few miles away in that direction.
These are photos from my previous night time walk. Using the nightmode setting and a steady hand I was able to get fairly pretty, but blurry pics.
Creepy trees
I loved the way this tree was lit up by a security light behind me, but the lighting was pushing nightmode to the limit. Way too blurry. I may revisit this spot with my tripod.
If you zoom in you can see the branches almost look furry, I believe this is the AI on my phone filling in the blanks.
One thing while editing dark pictures was when I turned my phone screen brightness up, artifacts started appearing around the edges. I'm now very conscious that they may appear to laptop users in my old posts, something I'll have to check for from now on.
Nightmode wasn't cutting it, so armed with my pocket tripod I checked the weather conditions on https://www.goodtostargaze.com/ and took a walk away from the light pollution of the city.
Same spot, different settings
After a lot of walking I couldn't find a gap in the hedgerow to take a picture of the horizon. Worrying that my walk would be fruitless I pointed the tripod directly upwards and snapped the sky through the trees (that you can see if your screen brightness is high enough) getting these shots.
This is where I need to learn about ISO settings. It seems different ends of the scale capture more red, and on the other end more blue.
Orion
Light pollution can sometimes be pretty
On the walk home I stopped a few times to take photos looking back. These trees are the ones that framed the first two star pics. Sadly this was the only photo that came out clear. I think because the wind picked up and was moving the tripod, or maybe it was my phones way of telling me to go to bed.
This pocket sized tripod has definitely opened up more possibilities for my photography with my phone, but I am still planning on buying a camera before I travel later this year.
I hope you enjoy my photos and it inspires you to try out the long exposure setting on your phone.
It's amazing what a tiny piece of kit do to improve our photography. You captured some excellent images with this little tripod.
I've got one just like it that I use for second unit film on my videos. Very handy for low angles. 📷👍
The only difficulty I've had with it is remembering to take it with me. 🤦♂️
Awesome captures... that final one with the moody sapphire blue sky is especially awesome.
Thank you. I think I prefer the blue tone ones too. Although the yellow tinted are probably closer to what your eyes actually see, the blue is much more romantic.
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Those are some nice shots Sneeze...specially the trees.
Trees are strange...during daytime they seem ever so magnanimous and benevolent...but at time they appear ever so menacing...do you ever get that feeling?
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