Life and Death

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Description

Pacific Sea Nettles, Oregon Coast Aquarium
Taken through the glass with a cell phone
When they turn dark and lose their “strings”, they are dying

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all thoughts welcome

Technical Details

I Phone Pro Max 15
There are LOTS of times I get better shots from a cell phone or IPad than the A1 - especially of sunsets and stuff like this.

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A nice composition and juxtaposition of the two stages of life, Sandy. The cell phone worked well for this.

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Cell phone? Wow, that turned out really good Sandy. Thank you for the explanation of the color differences and life stages in this. Great natural hiSTORY.

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Super!! I’ve been frustrated trying to get good shots in aquarium settings – I should try my iPhone but doubt I could come close to this one – it is truly gorgeous, with no hint of the usual JPEG artifacts or tonal harshness. And you have a lovely and interesting composition with great color!

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Remember, you can bring cell phone images into Photoshop, and tweak them as needed., just like a DLSR image. Minor tweaking done on this - comp, sat, NR

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Very nice, Sandy. perfectly captured, and with a cell phone no less. Amazing what those cameras can do these days. Well done.

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Sandy: Reminds me of similar shots I’ve taken at the same aquarium with a cell phone. I think I was using an I Phone 8 at the time. Using a 13 Pro Max now and shoot a lot of RAW. I’ll even use PS Express on the phone and come up with some nice results. I love the comp on this and the lesson on their life stages. :+1: :+1:>=))>