Cell phone photos

[jk_lewis]

I know I'm gonna come through as a grump (again), but PLEASE, if you must take pictures of your trees with those inferior cell phone cameras, and if you want help and comments on the trees, TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN HOW TO TURN THEM UPRIGHT.

I don't -- and won't -- do photography with a cell phone, but there must be some way to diddle with the pictures after you take them or when you upload them here so that we who hope to help you with whatever don't get a stiff neck trying to imagine what the tree might look like upright.

Or, do it as a courtesy, if nothing else. You are trying to learn bonsai, so it's probably not too much to ask that you take the time to learn how to operate your "camera?????

 

[Cadillactaste]

Many don't realize they are sideways. I learned this myself on a garden forum. You need to keep your phone sideways...if you hold it upright like to make a call...your photo turns sideways...if posted on Facebook then saved...it will turn them right side up I believe. But...viewer with phone...their phone shows it the right way. So most are unaware. My computer is shot...pulling info onto memory stick to be able to hopefully get the new one up and running this weekend.

I hope I'm not one of the few with sideways photos. Because I have no way to know...until I have access to a computer again.

But good point...and post. Many may not be aware of this problem with sharing cell phone photos. Now that it is brought out...many will learn from it.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

I know I'm gonna come through as a grump (again), but PLEASE, if you must take pictures of your trees with those inferior cell phone cameras, and if you want help and comments on the trees, TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN HOW TO TURN THEM UPRIGHT.

I don't -- and won't -- do photography with a cell phone, but there must be some way to diddle with the pictures after you take them or when you upload them here so that we who hope to help you with whatever don't get a stiff neck trying to imagine what the tree might look like upright.

Or, do it as a courtesy, if nothing else. You are trying to learn bonsai, so it's probably not too much to ask that you take the time to learn how to operate your "camera?????

Do you really think people do this intentionally?

The problem is, they're upright when selecting them, the thumbnail is upright, and they don't appear sideways until the post is published.

fwiw, most iPhone5 cameras, at 8MP are probably higher resolution than many 3-year old cameras. More important than the camera used (whether it rings or not), angle and background will make or break a photo of a bonsai.

 

[Tona]

If cell phones are all someone has, they can download them to their PC and open "Paint". This allows them to re-size and rotate pictures anyway they need to. If they are sending them directly from their phone it's a different story.
Tona

 

[drew33998]

Some phones have better cameras on them than digital cameras do. Not my crappy IPhone but there are a few out there

 

[tmmason10]

I learned this the hard way after many sideways pictures, which as Brian said look upright when uploading them. With iPhones, take the picture with the phone horizontal and the main button on the right side. I think this applies with samsungs too, my wife keeps posting sideways videos of our baby to Facebook!

 

[yenling83]

I think you can get a decent pic with a cell phone camera now a day. A cell phone or any point and click cannot match an SLR, but the cameras are getting better on phones. I took this one with my Iphone recently.

 

[jk_lewis]

Many don't realize they are sideways.

I can understand that -- once. I think. BUT, if you post your photo and it turns out sideways, for heaven's sake why don't they edit their messages AND FIX IT!

And as for cell phones and quality photos, I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. Kodak Brownie cameras used to satisfy a lot of people, too.

 

[sherwoodschwartz]

this is why i don't post pics. my camera sucks. this is about as close as i get can and still make out what i'm photographing. my elm bench:

 

[jkd2572]

I think lighting is the issue most of the time. My iPhone 5 takes great pics and not so great pics. I can do the same thing with my camera. I will never post pics online that are not pulled fom my iphone or my iPad. I use nothing else to go online. Yes I have computers, but the are for work.

 

[lordy]

My sister just got a Windows-based phone by Nokia that has a Carl Zeiss lens on the camera. It takes better pics than my $1200 DSLR, mostly because of the lens. Of course, she has no idea how to use it correctly, but that's another story...

 

[mcpesq817]

Was this thread really necessary? If the pictures bother you, can't you just move to the next thread?

 

[fore]

I can understand that -- once. I think. BUT, if you post your photo and it turns out sideways, for heaven's sake why don't they edit their messages AND FIX IT!

And as for cell phones and quality photos, I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. Kodak Brownie cameras used to satisfy a lot of people, too.

I've opened my sideways pictures in Picassa and Lightroom. If I rotate them, they still come out sideways. I didn't realize it was caused by holding the iphone vertically. I'll not shoot that way again, so Thanks Brian and Tom for pointing this out to me. So I'll def. make an effort jkl

 

[johng]

I've opened my sideways pictures in Picassa and Lightroom. If I rotate them, they still come out sideways. I didn't realize it was caused by holding the iphone vertically. I'll not shoot that way again, so Thanks Brian and Tom for pointing this out to me. So I'll def. make an effort jkl

If you are shooting with an apple mobile device the home button needs to be to the right in order to take and upload pics that will show correctly. (As mentioned the camera also needs to be held in landscape mode...sideways...and not portrait...up and down.

IT may not be a forum preference, but I always upload to an independent host(I use google picasa) and then use the embed code to post on forums. Allows me to edit and rotate pics if necessary, maintain control of my content, and to post the pic in a size that doesn't require any clicking or further steps from the end viewer to see well. I also think that it reduces forum bandwidth...but I could wrong about this.

This said...some forums want to own your content, so they insist on uploading directly to the forum. They claim it is to maintain thread integrity and suspect that is the case most of the time.

Jim...turn your monitor sideways if it bothers you!

 

[davetree]

You can take any kind of picture with an iPhone and have it come out oriented correctly with a free camera app called camera+. Take your pictures sideways, upside down, it doesn't matter. This app will always orient them correctly.

 

[jk_lewis]

Was this thread really necessary? If the pictures bother you, can't you just move to the next thread?

I can and often do. But, believe it or not I come onto these forums to HELP people with their bonsai. But if they're too danged lazy to learn how to properly use their camera and upload useful pictures, I'll likely find myself passing them by. Their loss.

 

[jkd2572]

I take pics holding my iphone Vertically. They automatically go to my ipad using apple photo streaming. I then post here from my iPad. The photos never load sideways. I don't know how you guys do that.

 

[Nybonsai12]

I take pics holding my iphone Vertically. They automatically go to my ipad using apple photo streaming. I then post here from my iPad. The photos never load sideways. I don't know how you guys do that.

It's funny, i used to take pics with my Ipad and try and upload them. No matter which way i did it they posted upside down or sideways. I started taking pics with the iphone and then when they went over to the ipad through the photo stream I would post them that way and that solved the problem.

 

[jkd2572]

Maybe that's why I never have problems with posting. I always do it from my iPad.

 

[Poink88]

It's funny, i used to take pics with my Ipad and try and upload them. No matter which way i did it they posted upside down or sideways. I started taking pics with the iphone and then when they went over to the ipad through the photo stream I would post them that way and that solved the problem.

So the solution is...BUY both iPhone and iPad!!! (Apple is very smart) Otherwise, you iPhone users DO NOT post pics! LOL