At the start of the summer, I downloaded a little photo editing app called Snapseed. This is a great free, no strings attached, editor that is highlighted by its HDR Scape feature. What HDR Scape does is take an image off your smart phone and work magic to make the image look like HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography.
In fact, the app works so well and is so fun to use that I often send images I’ve taken on the DSLR and transfer them to the smart phone so they can be enhanced with the Snapseed editor. The images below were enhanced in this manner. For images that were taken and enhanced all inside my smart phone, see this earlier article: Images With Snapseed.
As I mentioned in the previous article, I am in no way affiliated with Snapseed and am in no way getting money from them. I simply feel that is an awesome editor that everyone should have.
The above image and the one directly below were taken at Forks of the Credit Provincial Park. The images both are long exposures with the above at 2.5 seconds and the below at four. This was done with the aid of a Polaroid Variable Range ND Filter, one of my hack photography tools that has given the most bang for the buck.
The Credit River was quite high the day these images were taken. In the second image, there are usually large rocks just below the bridge where ducks can leisurely hang out and grab a nap. The rocks usually stick out a foot or two above the surface. On this day, the rocks were nowhere to be seen.
The water was actually a milky brown from the current. The HDR Scape function from Snapseed turned that water to a rather cool black colour.
The rest of the images were taken at the train station in Orangeville, Ontario and are of the Credit Valley Explorer train. More specifically, the images are of the undercarriages of some of the passenger cars and the diesel engine.
All the images were taken with the Canon DSLR the transferred to the smart phone for processing with Snapseed. The original images were rather bland on this cloudy dull day.
What can be done with images of rusty, old machinery has been wanting to head out to a scrap yard to find some old cars…
The two images below were a great catch. What this actually is in the photos is the leaf spring on the train engine.
