S5 x Major

A few test shots with my Samsung Galaxy S5 phone a few months back that I never posted.

I pretty much never use my phone for taking pictures except the occasional souvenir shot, but I was curious to see how it would come out compared to what I was used to with my previous Galaxy S2. Expectedly so, it's much better. Not today that I'll rely solely on that as my travel/street camera, but still, it can be useful when you don't have anything else at hand and are prepared to work a little bit on the pictures in lightroom.

Stars x Lightroom

Those shots were taken without much preparation in the summer of 2013, during a road trip in the US national parks and canyons, and post-processed in lightroom only today. I usually tend to limit myself to basic retouching in LR on my pics, except for an occasional removal of something ruining an otherwise nice shot, thanks to photoshop's awesome "context aware fill" feature. But I must admit, I feel a little bit like a cheater on those, since the RAW files look nothing like this when imported in the software. Well, I guess it's ok though ? That being said, this makes me want to shoot some more, this time with more preparation and thinking !

Get The Shot @ Le Local

Apache x Real Deal @ Le Local

Apache

Real Deal

Krysta x RX100

Some more pics taken with my friend's compact camera, the RX100, when Krysta visited me.

I know I said that already, but next time I see you, we'll have to shoot more pics :)

RX100 x Paris

Yet some more random shots while testing the RX100 camera, this time in Paris.

Tour Montparnasse.

Métro, Ligne 6.

The Dark Side

I considered using that light for pictures for some time now, but never found the inspiration.

Then the beard solved it all.

RX100 x Marseille

Randomly shooting some stuff around Marseille to test the RX100 camera,

as I'm considering bying a compact camera for travels, hiking and everyday pics,

when I don't want to carry the DSLR stuff.

La Gineste.

Plage de la Pointe Rouge.

Blurred Skateboarding

Already tried it once with mixed results during a bowl competition, but this time I think it came out pretty good, and it could be really cool with some more work. Shot @ Embarcadero, SF.

Fit

 

Finally, a mere 2 years later,

some more pics from the photoshoot for GMTraining's flyers and business cards.