iPhone Moon
Hey, look! A picture of the full moon!
What’s special about this? Well, *I* took it, so there’s that. But I also took it with an iPhone.
So those of you who have tried taking a picture of a bright moon know that you usually get a giant blob like this.
The iPhone can actually adjust the exposure quite well, but for some reason it can never lock onto the moon.
So here’s the trick: point at a lightbulb and tap/hold to lock the exposure.
Then go point at the moon:
Zooming in, you’ll get a crisp but smudgy picture.
Reminiscent of Percival Lowell, though no canals:
To make it more crispy, I applied the witchcraft of the Photojojo telephoto lens, et voila:
Of course, my photo pales in comparison to the first photos of the moon. This daguerrotype was taken in 1851 by John Adams Whipple in Boston.
Some sources say Daguerre himself made an image in 1839, but it was destroyed in a fire than consumed his lab that same year. John W. Draper made this daguerrotype in 1840 from NYC.
The daguerreotype was taken in 2851? You’d think they’d take a better quality picture almost a millennium in the future! Great tip though, thanks!
Goddamn tachyons, which will have been leading to technological decay.
Can’t wait for the day we can take photos of Mars from our iPhones.
That’s an awesome iPhone trick! I always forget how much I can actually control the exposure.