This is The Ivy in Edinburgh. I took this shot just as we came out of Rose Street & was impressed by the reflections in the building. The entrance to Rose Street is the gap in the buildings in the reflection that can be seen on the left-hand side.
This is just across the road from where we stay. I did these shots with the phone inverted so that the camera lens was close to the ground for a ground-level perspective. I’d found a wee twig on the path that I could rest the phone on. The focal point can be altered by leaning the phone away from you or back towards you.
In this first shot, I tilted the phone toward the ground slightly so that nearer objects, like the twig, come into focus & the background is blurred.
Twig with fallen tree background
For this second shot, I tilted the phone back towards me a wee bit so that the background came into focus.
I know that no explanation is required, but I thought this shot would benefit from one. The other morning, I noticed that the moon was reflecting the colours of the dawn, turning it an orangey sort of colour. There was no time to set up properly, so this was shot freehand at the full extent of Snappy’s 18-300mm zoom lens
As I’m working a lot with AI at the moment, I thought I’d add my latest piece of Hot Mods generated artwork as a bonus. I used the moonshot above as the baseline for the following picture.