Somewhere on the Rhine

On my recent European river cruise I brought along my M4/3 camera and lenses but ended up shooting almost exclusively with my iPhone 15 Pro. My experience has been that the iPhone does as good, or sometimes even better, than my Lumix GM5... and it is so convenient compared to the "bulky"(really, that mini camera!) full-time camera.

The Apple provided camera app does a good job but I experimented with a number of other alternatives. In this case I used the new Adobe Indigo app that proudly lists "computational photography" as one of its virtues. This is obviously somewhat controversial. Purests even scoff at the "A" (auto) setting on cameras and computational photography takes things to a whole new level. One advantage of the Indigo app is that is allows seamless integration with Lightroom, my usual editing software (with occasional side trips to PhotoShop). 

As most photo apps these days, Indigo automatically takes multiple exposures and under the hood does its magic to cook-up the final image. I believe because I was on a moving boat this contributed to the water effect in this image, although it could also just be the result to the wave action of the river.

I do like the resulting image which seems a bit dreamy in my opinion. What are your thoughts?

Like a castle

On the waterfront

Alleyway

Curious

Rhine castle

The other side

This is the same church as the last post (see the steeple in the left corner of this photo). It does look like quite different from this angle. The older post is dominated by ocher tones but on closer inspection you can see the muted walls and red trim that is most prominent in this post. Proof that point of view can make a difference. 

Steeple

Purple door

Lufthansa

I did not post any images in the first two weeks of October because I was traveling. We started out in Toronto (see the previous few posts), then flew on Lufthansa though Germany (Munich, see above), then on to Italy. We had two weeks in Italy: Florence, Rome and Sorrento/Amalfi.

Over the next week or so I will be posting images from our travels, but I will do my best to avoid the obvious tourist snaps and instead focus on details that I found interesting and is in keeping with my blog statement.