Painterly Version

Los Angeles Convention Center

  California USA

Cell Phone Photos

August 2012

 Photos taken by Alex Yu 

Panoramic Photos

The panoramic picture of the West Campus, Azusa Pacific University (top two) was created by merging thirteen photos taken with a regular camera (Nikon D700) and a wide-angle lens (Sigma 15-20mm). Needless to say, the end product has ultra-high resolution. On the contrary, all the rest in this page were generated by sub-standard equipment: a cell phone. Recently when I attended a seminar in Los Angeles Convention Center, I was fascinated by the geometrical design and the grandeur of the center. Unfortunately, I didn't bring any regular camera with me at that time. What I had at hand was a Motorola Droid phone only. I told myself, "Something is better than nothing." True. The image quality of cell phone photos is poor. True. The pin-hole lens is not wide enough to cover a large area of the scene. Nevertheless, I took multiple pictures using the cell phone. After I put many pictures together, I found that the resolution of those integrated pictures is acceptable, and their view resembles an authetnic wide-angle perspective. The moral of this story is: just do your best with limited resources and you will be surprised.