My old iPhone 4 needed a repair so I went to the Apple Store in Meadow Hall, where, for a reasonable cost, they exchanged it for a re-manufactured replacement. This was a great deal from Apple as the replacement has a new case and battery – giving us a nearly new iPhone, which Diana is going to use.
the roof of the restaurant at Meadow Hall
For a couple of years I have been linking my blog to my Facebook page using a plugin by Marcel Bokhorst but it stopped working eight days ago. I am not sure whether it was the fault of Facebook or the plugin but I could not get it to work again. So I have dumped it from my WordPress site and all of our client WordPress sites I look after and have started to use the Facebook link in the Jetpack plugin.
This break has meant that my “Photo a Day” images since the 6th of February have not appeared on Facebook – they are however still in my blog – here.
Here is one of the missing shots.
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The sunny day gave some great views and added extra highlights to the snow shots. Many of the paths though were really muddy – and some would be best described as streams – it shows how much rain there has been.
this is a panoramic shot taken using the Apple camera app
I had lunch at the Black Rock view point – above the view at lunch
there was a lot of logging activity in the forest – it meant changing my planned route several times but it did supply some material to photograph
I could not post this last night as I had no 3G signal and I have given up on Diamond Resort’s Swisscom Internet. At first I put it down to local conditions but as it persisted this morning I called T-mobile, free from my phone (150), to see if they could help. I had to then pay a reasonable 25p to talk to the support staff but after a couple of minutes discussing the issue with him, he updated the service to my phone – I rebooted it – and it was back on 3G. I have no idea why this happened but the help I got from T-mobile was first class – and I was pleased to let them know this via the text they later sent me.
I went for a short walk today to test the quality of the Apple Camera app. The weather was against me being very misty. I used the church here in the village as a test subject.
In this shot I chose to expose for the church.
These two were made using the apps HDR option – I choose the save the orignal shot with the HDR version.
The original image:
The HDR image:
There is a new panorama option which I tried out on the church. It works by panning the camera rather than stitching a number of shots together. This was an easy way of making the shot and there is an on screen guide to assist with that.
I have taken some great panoramic shots using the Pano app so I will give this option a better try out in Scotland next week.
All the church shots are uploaded in full resolution – click on the images for the full size versions.
The tiles were shot using the Camera+ app in high resolution mode and then resized for the post so it will display in Facebook.
I am looking forward to trying all my camera apps during my trip to Scotland and the coming weeks – looks like it may be a photo everyday for 2013 – I haven’t missed one yet!!
iPhone 5 – camera test Read More »
Shot from a lay-by on the A1 – using Pro HDR.
Read about my initial iPhone 5 experiences and setup here at the Octagon Technology blog.
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I took one more photograph – some cake that Jeremy was about to eat!
This is really it – I have now cloned my iPhone 4 to my new iPhone 5.
Really my last photo using my iPhone 4 Read More »
I am about to swap my phone over to an iPhone 5. So having used the iPhone 4 to both take the photos and post articles to my blog for the last two years – this is probably my last photo and post using it.
The phone has been reasonably reliable – except for the reoccurring speaker issue, so I have bought an AppleCare Plan with the new phone just in case I have a similar hardware problem. I have been pleased with the phone and after we get it serviced Diana is going to start using it.
Why change? I really wanted the better camera the iPhone 5 offers.
I am writing a series of articles for the Octagon website about changing and setting up an iPhone – read more here. and watch out for the first photo and blog post from my iPhone 5.
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