Good Morning

I’m often amazed at the iPhone’s ability to make a picture the looks better than the same picture made with a DSLR.  This shot was an afterthought.  I had been attempting to shoot this scene of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise for a good half hour but could not manage to get a shot I liked.  I finally gave up and started to head back to the car when I decided to snap a couple of iPhone shots for the heck of it.  Once I got back home and started looking at the shots, I liked what I saw.

This shot was made with the native iPhone4 app.  In the original, the sky was a little too bright.  So I used the FilterStorm app to make a curves adjustment to darken the sky. I applied this adjustment with a graduated filter mask.  Next, I re-opened the image in Camera+ and applied the Clarity scene adjustment and slight increase in vibrancy with the Vibrant color effect (at 20%) .