This shot did rather well on Instagram last week so I was interested if it was purely down to the fact that I was viewing it on a small mobile phone screen and wondered if it would survive the greater test of a blogpost. I exported the image to my computer levelled the horizon and cropped it to the same shape as I posted it on IG and that was it. The colour is pretty good – texture is visible in the sand ripples out to about 25m and the town is about 1.5 miles back down the beach so I wasn’t surprised that it struggled with the shadow detail in the town. All in all, it is a pretty faithful reproduction of a perfect day unfortunately we had the dog so I didn’t have the DSLR to provide a comparison shot, thought’s?
Scott K Marshall Photography (@skm1963) 
Exceptionnal !!!
Great shot Scott, as they say the best camera is the one you have with you.
agreed – fortunately I haven’t suffered the horror of not having a camera at all (or a SD Card either) for quiet a while.
Looks just fine Scott.
Have you tried ProCamera for the iPhone? It’s not an editing program it’s a camera you use instead of the phone’s built in one. Works much better in my view.
Phil no I haven’t – I will research it now you have mentioned it though – cheers. Just moved to FX and trying to get my head around a much more capable camera 🙂
Sea being my passion I have taken so many shots of the shores yet never have come across such a perfect one 🙂
What a lovely thing to say thanks
You shot this on your phone? Fantastic!
Yes it is pretty amazing tbh sometimes it makes a better job of the exposure – the lens just cant cope with detail – much lighter to carry around
It works for me. The 5S camera is so good, I think a decent ‘tog’ can afford to leave the DSLR ‘brick’ at home every now and then. My brother, just a snapper, took a shot of his new house on Sat with a blazing sunset behind it. The 5S rendered a perfect exposure with full detail in the house and the sky, despite the dynamic range being at least 4 stops, at a guess. Makes me feel a little bit foolish with all my ND grads and chunky equipment!
Yes there have been many occasions the exposure is better on the phone just struggles with detail – what we need is a prime 24mm lens bolted on ha ha
Who need a big camera? Does make you think….just where are we heading
Yes David it is scary – the digital age is not that old but blimey it is going along at pace.
It works well….nice use of the two tone sand as a lead in line
Thanks for mentioning the composition Mark I was rather proud of this one tbh
That’s awesome! I have a 5C as well and it does take nice photos but it’s the photographer that saw this image that makes it what it is….great!
well Laura my ego will allow that very generous comment – ha ha – please come back – cheers
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I’ve seen it on Instagram first but did not realize it is iPhone shot. Nice resolution, colour, details.
Thanks Alexander it is pretty scary what the modern Phone can do – where will it all end
Scott, it looks there is no limit at all. See how many prediction from science fiction writers became true. I agree it is pretty scary.
i like so much,Regards
Brilliant many thanks
It survived here as well! Not bad for an iPhone!
pretty scary really
He, he…
It does! 🙂
cheers thanks Jo