People coming to this blog might be questioning my abilities to take a decent photograph. I do myself sometimes. Just before Christmas I saw a guy in Waitrose, Lymington’s car park taking photographs of a strangely beautiful dusk sky. I thought ‘I wish I had a camera’ then remembered that of course I did on my phone so I went ahead and took some snaps. I couldn’t believe how they were coming out not remotely like what I was seeing but very weird and in a grotesque way, rather beautiful. I hadn’t a clue what I had done wrong.
What can go wrong with photography
When I got home and in good light I checked the phone’s camera and found that I had chosen solarisation by accident. Here is another spooky picture.
A weird dusk - solarised photography
This photograph seasonally shows the mistletoe in the trees.
Mistletoe in solarised dusk
The next photo shows how odd sodium lighting can look.
Sodium light
Having discovered this attribute of the HTC I took a couple of photographs of my patio garden – one of which is doubly tricked up by re-photographing it on the computer display to double the amount of solarisation.
Patio Garden Solarised
Patio Garden double solarised
For on short time I became a bit hooked on this peculiar photography. Here are a few more.
Abstract
Mystery photo
Oh I have just remembered taking the last picture. It was of two pizzas at the Conservative Club in Lymington. Somebody went berserk and bought 17 pizzas for some celebratory reason.
Back to the HTC Wildfire S. Well as a phone it is a bit quirky, I found that scrolling through the phone book/ contact list gave unexpected results, like it would certainly start dialling somebody you had just gone past. So slightly sadly I have let it go and contracted myself to an iPhone 4, a much better phone but the camera is not so quirky (I think).
