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Amsterdam Nightshots – around NEMO building

Published on 12 December 2013 by

A bit more than a year ago, I shared some amazing nightshots from the Nokia Lumia 920. Nokia introduced Optical Image Stabilization with this device, and I was stunned what I could achieve with it – you find that post with shots from Amsterdam here.

In a few of the shots you can find there you’ll see the Nemo Science Center in Amsterdam. The design of this remarkable building (designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano) looks like a ship, but it in fact “mirrors” the tunnel it is built upon.

Last night, thanks to a trip organized by Nokia in the Netherlands, I had the chance to capture it again, but now with the Nokia Lumia 1020, pretty close from a boat floating around it.

Now making nightshots is one thing, making them from a moving boat is another. You can’t really fool around with longer exposure time – your shot will be a moving mess sooner than you like.

In this case, I left all settings on auto, except for exposure value. I put that a bit lower to avoid the bright spots on the building to burn in the shots (I have to admit I’m not sure if exposure value was on -0.3 or lower).

Also, to force shorter exposure time (to avoid movement), I used the flash in all these shots. Since it was becoming very foggy that night, you will see the drops reflected in the later shots.

Please keep in mind it wasn’t just foggy but also already pitch-dark out there. You will find the original 5MP shots on Flickr as well. I chose to share these shots in a video and added some music to it – these shots just beg for it.

First, I added the first minutes from Echoes from Pink Floyd’s Meddle, but it appears Pink Floyd doesn’t want their music to be shared: it was muted by YouTube immediately.

So I chose for a modern composition that might remind you of Pink Floyd a bit: Serene for flute and tape by the late Dutch composer Ton Bruynèl. Interesting music as well (at least I think so), and chances you know it already are minimal.

Please choose fullHD and watch these shots fullscreen – and you might want to listen to the music on your headphones.


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A touching time-lapse video from Belgium

Published on 10 December 2013 by

This is just a very short post to share an amazing time-lapse video from Olivier Noirhomme from Belgium. In fact, it’s a compilation of a few time-lapse videos he shot with his Nokia 808 PureView, and he added some very powerful music to it as well.

It will take less than six minutes of your time, and I think they’re all worth it. I suggest you put your headset on if you have one, choose fullscreen and FullHD of course – and experience a short time travel in a city and a forrest. Enjoy! :-)


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More PureView photography from Hungary

Published on 9 December 2013 by

When you’ve been following the PureViewClub for a longer period, you already know Detko Dave, a brilliant young mobile photographer from Hungary and one of the best imaging ambassadors Nokia has (at least I think so).

The last few weeks I’ve been folllowing the work of another Hungarian mobile photographer: Harcz Gergő. You will find his work on Flickr, but he shares his work on Twitter and Instagram as well.

Going through his work, I’m getting the impression he’s really discovering his talent with several Nokia devices, like the Nokia 808 PureView, the Lumia 920, 925 and 1020.

If he has used these on trial or owns them all I don’t know. He’s been getting some fantastic results even with mobile camera’s I have to admit I hardly even touch anymore… So that makes me realize once again: it’s not just the camera, it’s who has it in his (or her) hands as well.

In this post I’ll share a selection from his shots in no particular order. Hover with your mouse over the shots to see which camera took it, and click on the shots to see the originals on Flickr.

Hector

Window

Black and white

Ladybug

Bad weather

Autumn Leave

Spider

Light

Impressive shots right? I think they’re inspiring and even make me want to try out the “old” 920 again. You can buy it for a bargain by now, and in a lot of these shots you’ve seen what it’s capable of! But don’t hesitate to share what you think of these shots below… :-)

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An empty pedestrian bridge, captured with three Nokia camera phones

Published on 6 December 2013 by

You need a bit of patience to capture a scene like this, but it was quite early so now too crowded yet. In this post you’ll find shots from a pedestrian bridge near where I work. It’s pretty long, crosses two railroad tracks and a busy road. With me, I had the Nokia 808 PureView, the Lumia 1020 and Lumia 1520. I made shots in different formats and resolutions, and for comparison I chose the most similar ones.

Light conditions were quite terrible because of a dark sky about to rain. From the shots I chose the results with flash – but I didn’t get the chance to make the same shot with flash on the Lumia 1520 after a few dozens of people left their train to go to work, so you’ll have to forgive me for that. With the Lumia 1520 I did make a raw .DNG version as well, and asked Pixel Peter if he would have the time to work with them.

In this post you will see the resized shots, and the result Peter got from the .DNG files. First the high res and 5MP shots. Hover with your mouse over the shot to see which smartphone you’re looking at, click on it to see the original on Flickr.

Nokia 808 PureView 5MP flash

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Nokia Lumia 1020 – a bird’s eye view from the beautiful Polish city of Warsaw

Published on 4 December 2013 by

A month ago, I shared a beautiful video from Poland, shot with the Nokia Lumia 1020 over the historical city of Kraków - shot with what they call a “Nokia Copter”, a drone-like device with the Nokia Lumia 1020 attached to it.

I wrote “great if you already know the city, maybe even better if you’ve never been there”. This time however, Nokia Poland has produced a similar bird’s eye view from the gorgeous city of Warsaw, and now I’m sure it’s more fun when you actually know the city you’re looking at.

I visited Warsaw  several times and it’s great fun to recognize the places you’ve been before. For those of you who don’t know Warsaw – I’m glad to introduce this beautiful city here :-) Be sure to watch this fullscreen and in Full HD if your internet connection is fast enough.

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Transitions – a beautiful site with stunning shots from the Nokia Lumia 1020 on “Black”

Published on 2 December 2013 by

I just learned Nokia published quite a stunning site with shots taken during a journey in New Zealand – Christchurch, Kaikoura, Broken River, Westland and Wanaka to be exact – how I’d love to go there once!  Here’s what it says on the front page:

“Action sports are about journeys. The people we meet, places we visit and the tricks we learn are all part of it. Whether you’re a beginner making your first turns or a pro with their eye on the next contest or video part, these journeys define what it means to be a rider. In September 2013, six riders took a journey around New Zealand’s South Island, documenting the trip with the Nokia Lumia 1020. This is what we found.”

Check it out, click on the link to find Transitions. There’s lots of more interesting information to read over there, and another great thing about it, is that you can download the shots you like – in the 5MP “raw” (!) format, which means they were all taken with the Nokia Lumia 1020 running on the Windows Phone “Black” update!

I downloaded seven shot for you (hope Nokia doesn’t mind :-) and even shared those on my the PureViewClub Photostream on Flickr as well. Check out the quality of these shots over there, makes me look forward to receiving the Black update even more…

Update: here’s a direct link to the raw gallery.

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