Lightroom Mobile For Vacation Mode

Last month, between Christmas and New Years, I went on a vacation with my family. I have always had difficulty combining photography and family vacations because my photographing style is in not what one would call spontaneous. My photographic style would not be tolerated and so I have always tended to separate photography and family vacations. Also, we walk quite a bit on vacation, and the idea of carrying my dSLR and 24-70 lens around for miles and miles was also not particularly enticing either.

Nonetheless, I decided to try something a little different this vacation. Something that wasn’t so serious, that would force me to be fast and spontaneous and not worry if the image was ‘good’….. but still give me an opportunity to work with the images a bit. So I downloaded Lightroom mobile which, when using the camera within the app, allowed me to take a photo with my iPhone (an iPhone 7, admittedly not up to the abilities of the current iPhone generation) in RAW mode, producing a dng file to adjust. I know that Lightroom mobile is far from the only app to let one shoot RAW with an iPhone, but it is convenient to have both the camera and Lightroom adjustments in one location.

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While walking around Barcelona, I happen to see this colorful mural painted onto a metal door and so out came the ‘camera I had with me’. I took this shot with the iPhone through Lightoom as a RAW dng file, adjusted it, and exported it as a jpg.

I know that Lightroom mobile has been around for a couple years, but this is the first time I decided to give it a try. I do have to say that it was fun to use with my iPhone while I was ‘on the move’.

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