Other things

Just some other tutorials by us and interesting thing I've found online.

In this section we will group some tutorials about smartphones. We love photography, but we are way more qualified in mobile phones, which is the work specialization of me and my brother in the last 15 years. Our passion is Google Android, but we also know how to use Apple products. I had a couple of tutorials from our italian website that I wanted to translate,but not enough to create a section for mobile phones so, at the moment, they are here, with another "hard to define" section. The most appropriate name I've been able to find out has been Photoblog. It's not a blog because there are no comments and is rarely updated: It's only a bunch of interesting things I've found browsing internet, that I want to share for some reason.

Last updates of Mora-Foto: Mora-foto is online since the year 2010, but we started to write down the updates of the english website only in 2020. It will help you to see if there is something new since your last visit, without having to dig the website... (Click to continue...)

Our portfolio We live in a wonderful town in the north of Italy, in the Dolomites: Cortina d'Ampezzo. Its landscapes are absolutely gorgeous, some of the most amazing mountains surrounding you could find in the world. We are not... (Click to continue...)

What's an account? How and why you should create one? A tutorial about the registration of an account. We'll consider the advantages of cloud backup, the importance of a strong password and how to access the files, both for Google and Apple... (Click to continue...)

Photoblog

Amateur vs Pro: Some pictures clearely depicts the quality difference between photos taken by amateur and professional photrographers. Eleven examples that shows how much important is "the eye of the photographer". Go to boredpanda article.

Youtube - COOPH: A really nice video with seven tricks to take photos with your phone. Lorenz Holder is a photographer that will show us how to use the camera of our phone in creative ways, at the time an iPhone 5 Watch the video on Youtube.

Camera history: "A short history of Photographic Camera" is an infographic made by the guys of Retrofuturismo Kitsch that traces the history of cameras. This infographic can be downloaded in a printable version 50x70cm, in 300dpi resolution. View in full res.

360° Mars: A 360° panoramic view taken on Mars by the NASA Rover Discovery. I've always thought it was more red, then I've found out that almost all the old photos had wrong color balance. Use the mouse wheel to zoom. 360 Cities: Curiosity Rover.

W3C validator: it is a grat tool for any webmaster. It allows to check if the HTML and CSS of your website has errors. It's a tool to ensure thay you've respected the web standards. Every page of mora-foto is W3C approved. W3C Markup Validation Service.

Alternative for RAW editing: This is an excellent program for edit RAW files, and is free. It is rich of settings and is certainly more complete than Canon DPP and Nikon Capture, even better in some aspects. The website of the Raw Therapee developer.

1x.com, a great gallery: there are many photography website, but this is one of the best. The quality is so high, that you'll want to change hobby for how much you'll feel diminished. Ok, it's a joke, but not so much... 1x, one of the best gallery on the web.

Hubble photography: In this video we can see how the astronomers edits Hubble Telescope image for the public. I'd never thought that original images were in monochrome and all colors were added in post production... Watch the video Hubble galaxies.

SunCalc: Here is a very useful service for all photographers: It allows you to check the direction, time and position of sunrise and sunset. It uses Google Maps in an interesting way. Click here to calculate time and direction of sunrise and sunset.