austinshackles

In the HDR version the foreground looks about how it actually looked at the time.  Not sure which picture I prefer, to be honest.  They both have merits.

Mist from this morning was still there this afternoon, more or less the same shot with different lighting.  This is a touch under exposed on the foreground.

Not sure the power company would approve of making their lines wiggly. That said, for a phone, it's surprisingly competent at this trick. If I could afford it, I'd be quite tempted by the Samsung NX (?) which combines interchangeable lenses and a decent sized sensor with the android system and, one would hope, trick modes like the phones have.

The on-board HDR has not really achieved much here. The tones are slightly flatter without gaining significant detail and the loss of the deeper shadows hasn't made a better picture of it, so I prefer the standard shot in the other image. We learn by trying things and deciding whether it's worth the effort - in this case, not convinced it was. It might be that by taking separate exposures and doing the HDR manually, better results could have been achieved, but the phone camera app doesn't have bracketed exposure as an option.

The phone's built-in HDR mode has coped admirably with eliminating the glare and bringing out the detail in the mist in the distance. The foreground is more the right general tone but looks a little over-processed, although that's not uncommon with HDR images. Somehow the whole thing looks a little lacking in sharpness, which may be down to camera shake - it's harder to hold the phone steady than a real camera...

Reading in AP there are quite a few photographers using smartphones in place of cameras: in my case, the phone is always with me, on this day the camera was at home. This is not a bad image but some of the detail is lost in the glare from the early morning sun, just out of shot to the left - including a focal point, which is the mist flowing over the distant hills. Commendably little flare from the lens on what is hardly a high quality optical setup, though. The foreground is also a bit dark - where I was standing there's no mist.