Nicely sculpted acanthus

[Sam]

Thank goodness our cellphones have decent cameras. Abigail and I were browsing an antique store yesterday and I spotted this beautifully sculpted acanthus on a old headboard. I suspect it's from Europe but I'm not sure. Anyway, the quality of design and the chasing is super nice. I'm also a big fan of the progression marks on this type of work.

The size is around 7.5cm or 3-inches.

 

[mrthe]

Very nice Sam , i had bought time ago in a antiquarian market in Barcelona a old large picture frame with an interesting sculpted scroll work maybe i will post some pictures when i will have a decent internet connection, thank you for share!

 

[monk]

i'm beginning to understand why some of the phones cost so much; it's amazing such detail can be captured by these marvels of engineering. what was the approximate size of the work that you photographed ? that's really a great looking piece of work.

 

[Sam]

Monk: it was around 3" or so. Pretty darn good photos for a cellphone (iPhone 4S to be exact). The closeup is the same photo only a 100% crop.

 

[monk]

no apparent image loss with the crop. amazing, is it not ? thanks for the reply.

 

[bronc]

Thanks for sharing that with us Sam!

Stewart

 

[DakotaDocMartin]

Pretty darn good photos for a cellphone (iPhone 4S to be exact).

Sam,

Now you should get yourself a Paparazzo Light - for the iPhone 4

 

[Sam]

What a cool iphone accessory, Doc!

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

yes that is a nice accessory, don't have one. But I have some lenses like a tele, macro and fish eye I can put in front of the lens. Not expensive as it is made in China of course, but works great too.

Here is a link: http://www.telefoonlens.nl/c-933058/iphone-4-en-4s-lenzen/

arnaud

 

[Sam]

I like the polarizer lens!

 

[Andrew Biggs]

I have 2 digital cameras.......and my I-Phone 4s has better specifications than both of them.

I do like the paparazzi flash that Neal posted...........it makes a bold statement

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Gargoyle]

I have 2 digital cameras.......and my I-Phone 4s has better specifications than both of them.

Specs, or actual performance? I've seen a lot of cases where digital cameras may have fantastic specs but a poor quality or too small diameter lens, so that limits what they can actually do. Years ago I had a 1.3 megapixel camera that was outperfoming 5 megapixel cameras simply because of the high quality large glass lens.


That paparazzi flash is definitely a must-have fashion accessory for the well dressed photographer!