Photography

Photography is another one of my passions, particularly because of how easy it is on the iPad. The latest iPad, in particular, has a pretty amazing camera that truly makes it worth doing. The earlier iPads I owned and iPhones (original iPad and original Mini, as well as iPhone 6) really were not up to par and I didn’t get into using the devices for photography. This all changed with the 2017 iPad I now own and the space I have on it allows for some unrestraint photography to take place I only dreamed of before — I have 128GB.

The camera offer zoom options while retaining quality is another plus as well as options such as Live Photos, Panorama, and more. The outside camera (not Facetime camera as much) is what really impresses me, but they both have improved across the generations. However, Panorama is really something that I have been playing with as of late. Apps also are something constantly making the iPad so seamless to use and play with in post-production.

A lot of these photographs are also from various travel trips I have recently embarked on following my return to Poland. I love to capture the beauty of new places that I visit and finding unique architectures, street or anything of note to capture and share.

I have also been experimenting with adding photo manipulations and enhancements below actual photographs here. With that said, here are some of my photography work using Apple’s tablet. Keep in mind most of the images below including the first versions shown (closest to original source) are all modified in some way or enhanced using software such as sharpness, hue, vibrance, etc. and all done by me as well as the photos taken.

Keep in mind that to not make the images too large in size in terms of megabytes or memory they take up so they could embed on here without landing the cache too much for viewers I kept them at 1080P, or less, so some artifacts formed due to this after I added various touches or effects, but I ended up fixing some of this.

Berlin Wall, my visit around 2018:

Bakersfield, California 2017

New Year’s concert in Warsaw, Poland around 2018:

Warsaw, Poland statue mural:

Lisbon, Portugal (me in the photo – I did not take it but did enhance it digitally like most of the photos here):

Sri Lanka Trip 2024:

Stegna, Poland:

Disney (concert hall) building in Los Angeles, California

Original photo I took at Sopot, Poland:

My own versions of the manipulations of the above- changed via Artstudio on Ipad:

Warsaw, Poland:

A botanical garden and coastal area in Bulgaria near the city of Varna:

Trakai castle, Lithuania:

Sri Lanka:

Me somewhere in Portugal:

Lodz, Poland: me at a pub/club and music venue in the park called Willa:

An interesting sky I saw one day while walking in the botanic garden of Lodz. I think some planes must have flew by earlier:

Reichstag building, Berlin:

Combining three separate photos I took on my travels into one image (two being street art one being a painting in some museum of sorts fot the space-like void or background):

My distortion and manipulation of famous staircase in Vatican, called Scala Elicoidale Momo. I also took the photo before manipulating it myself looking downward (note, more versions below):

Air show, in Warsaw, Poland:

Lodz, Poland:

Dubrovnik, Croatia:

Malbork Castle, Poland (former Teutonic knight stronghold in medieval times):

Malta:

Gdansk, Poland:

Urban landscapes. Photos all, or mostly all, taken in Warsaw, Poland:

More Warsaw urban buildings:

A monument in Lisbon, Portugal:

Caves near salt lake area in Israel I visited — this was also near these old Roman structures in the cliffs surrounding the area:

Strange clouds forming while I was on a beach in the Maldives:

Vatican, Rome:

London, England:

Warsaw, Poland:

Downtown Warsaw, Poland showing the famous fake palm tree:

Lodz, Poland:

Somewhere in Portugal off the coast where the ocean is:

On the other side of the Vistula river where Praga district lies in Warsaw, Poland:

Rooftop of Hotel at Tel Aviv, Israel:

On a boat trip off the coast of Malta:

Old town, Warsaw, Poland:

Fixed the face from above can you see which one?

Here is an example of me using software to fix photos where the image was either very blurry on some areas of the photo or totally covered/thumb blocking view/or just missing areas within the image. I can do this for companies as well and as other images below show even enhance or change photos to something else completely unique:

Original photo I took on a trip around the caves of Algarve, Portugal:

Me fixing it via software and various tools available on the iPad or desktop as Photoshop (although I used iPad apps for this one):

A creek area photos I took to sort of add curves and other enhancements and make it almost (to me at least) look like a jungle or Vietnam:

My graphic design or added birds to the image:

Ocean:

Below is an image of a bird I took on a Polish coastal town of Stegna and the image below it adds blur to the background to make the bird really stand out:

Both of the images below are enhanced via software of an image I took at a Lodz, Poland zoo facility with sea life present — although the image below has more software tricks and some blur involved as well as color changes:

More photos and photo manipulations or enhancements or graphic designs made out of a photo and later turned into new ideas or designs:

One of the last fragments remaining of the ghetto wall in Warsaw I took a photo of:

More varied photographs:

Portugal (Lisbon if I recall correctly):

Lithuania:

Photographs turned graphic design:

Another wolf picture I took and this one if I remember right was in london (the one above originally in Praga district of Warsaw):

Rome, Italy: I took the original photo while traveling there a few years ago and the interpretations or photo enhancements/graphic designs below come off of it:

For some reason this version with a blur made it look like a face which I like and almost added a shadow appearance to the tower in Berlin at Alexanderplatz:

Now I turned it into a pure graphic design and may work with it some more but my graphic design sub page is too long already so I am leaving it here for now:

Although the sharpness added a lot to it or gave it flair, it also introduced some artifacts on bottom. I am thinking of either using a mask to combine it with a less sharp of an image for the bottom or cropping it out, but at the same time I sort of like the slight artifacts or pixelation there.

This was taken originally from a plane I was on to Canary Islands:

I added even slightly more sharpness and now the mountain has like an outer stroke or highlight showing, which I like:

This is just an older showcase of my photo enhancement or manipulation skills — I an add flair and greatly enhance your photographs this way and even bring life to them:

The original photo does not have those gloves. I created them digitally, as well as totally transformed the photo into a graphic design as you see below:

Scala Elicoidale Momo in Vatican:

This is just a small sample of the photography I do and offer, as well as what exists on my iPad. I will be expanding this section as I see fit and adding more works in. I also can manipulate photos with artwork as you can see from the various blog posts I have put on here describing some or my methods and apps I use.