Pictures / Video taken with your Lumia Icon

Here is one of my daughter in the gunner's seat of a Blackhawk helicopter. The depth of field of this camera is great!

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Here is one of my daughter in the gunner's seat of a Blackhawk helicopter. The depth of field of this camera is great!

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Now this is some really bad parenting. First off you're letting your daughter play with guns, but the big one why would you let her hang out the side of a helicopter in mid flight..
 
Now this is some really bad parenting. First off you're letting your daughter play with guns, but the big one why would you let her hang out the side of a helicopter in mid flight..

Think about how I felt...hanging on to the durn thing AND taking a picture without falling off! Hahaha!
 
Went on vacation to Michigan's Upper Peninsula last week. Probably the greatest week of weather in the state ever (top to bottom, east to west), had 3 Great Lakes available, glorious fall colors coming in, and it was a first for our boys.

Took all shots on my Icon (and a ringer or two on the 928). Used primarily Nokia Pro Cam, stock camera app, HDR Photo Camera, and a smattering of others. Post processing was usually reframing/cropping, and some gentle tweaks in Photoshop Express (exposure adjustment, either overall or highligh/shadow, clarity).

Used all the tricks I've learned over the years, plus some from here. The manual controls are such a godsend versus "auto" they make all the difference. Whether manually setting ISO, prefocusing to get better speed, dropping exposure in the glare of the sun, it all worked out. Add in wandering around and moving to get better shots and I am really pleased with the shots!

These first few are sunrise over Lake Huron from St. Ignace. Auto was setting ISO to 1000+, had a very grainy sky. Manually setting to ISO100 and using balcony railing to steady made a huge difference.

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Bird in flight
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A new day has begun
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Some fall colors

Shot with HDR Photo Camera, "Bright" setting
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Pro Cam and cropped down, slightly brightened for this one I believe.
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ProShot in HDR mode
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Sunset over Lake Superior from McLain State Park. Just managed to catch the kids playing, gives me a very "summer's last stand" kind of feeling.
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Sunrise the next day. It took several shots to get the park chair in the right angle/spot...between shivering, being in pain, and dive bombed by skeeters, it was hard to to hold still as well. ;) I have several preceding shots where it's obvious I'm looking for a good composition (or a steady hand).
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I have several shots of this sunset that night -- this one is courtesy my wife's dad though -- bit shaky but as a personal memory I love it.
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Home away from home
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The detail on the driftwood arch here was incredible.
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Gonna sneak this one in, see if anyone can guess the twist -- had to prefocus and try to time things to catch the action. Moved around quite a bit to get a good angle, was up on the deck at first, then at this view but regular height, finally getting it lower made all the difference in the world:
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Went on vacation to Michigan's Upper Peninsula last week. Probably the greatest week of weather in the state ever (top to bottom, east to west), had 3 Great Lakes available, glorious fall colors coming in, and it was a first for our boys.

Took all shots on my Icon (and a ringer or two on the 928). Used primarily Nokia Pro Cam, stock camera app, HDR Photo Camera, and a smattering of others. Post processing was usually reframing/cropping, and some gentle tweaks in Photoshop Express (exposure adjustment, either overall or highligh/shadow, clarity).

Used all the tricks I've learned over the years, plus some from here. The manual controls are such a godsend versus "auto" they make all the difference. Whether manually setting ISO, prefocusing to get better speed, dropping exposure in the glare of the sun, it all worked out. Add in wandering around and moving to get better shots and I am really pleased with the shots!

These first few are sunrise over Lake Huron from St. Ignace. Auto was setting ISO to 1000+, had a very grainy sky. Manually setting to ISO100 and using balcony railing to steady made a huge difference.

I do miss the midwestern fall, living in Georgia now. I grew up in NW IN, so I loved going up to the east coast of Lake Michigan into Michigan in the fall. Or down to Brown County or Parke County, Indiana. Here in GA, half of the trees (my guess) stay green since there are so many pines here. Still beautiful - and you get the mountains, too - but the colors are just not the same.
 
More pictures from my exercise walks...
But I'm really liking this camera!
All pictures are completely unedited, just resized...

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lets add 2 more...
The camera catches detail and contrast very well, in the pictures of the grapes and the tree stump, if you zoom in the detail is very acceptable for a cell phone camera, well I would say even for a stand alone point and shoot camera.

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Tiny crop of bigger picture. Almost threw it away before I saw the potential. Slightly edited in Lightroom.
 
sumac even though a "weed" always adds nice red colour to the fall foliage...
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I've taken allot of pictures with cellphone cameras, and mostly I think they are all shat. However, the Nokia cameras always amaze me,
the colour is very nice not to washed our or overly saturated, plus they pick up detail and contrast very acceptably,
not just for a cellphone camera but very close and almost equal to most point and shoot cameras.
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