Taco Tuesday side shot using Samsung S8+ and Adobe Photoshop Elements

My recently acquired Samsung S8 plus has a 'pro' mode where you can save pics in in RAW form. For all the non-photographers out there it is an uncompressed picture file. What that does is not to shrink the shot into a jpeg with some algorithms to make the pic look nice. RAW sounds what it means. It's literally a raw file for someone to tweak the way they want. A typical jpeg file size on this phone is around 2-3 megabytes. A RAW file is around 24 megabytes so you can tell there's a lot more info to work with.

So yesterday I took a few shots and I used a sideshot which came out decent. I wanted to remove a few things to reduce clutter and distractions.

If you look at my before and after you can see the trailer on the right is gone and so is the light post. A few other things were removed too. I'm pretty slow at it so this took me an hour and while I could have done more I didn't since it's not going to be for distribution.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

after and before pics. Oh what an hour makes!

same pic as above but I wanted to go big

Immirsed in Virtual Reality with the Samsung VR Experience for my S8+

I paid $99 + tax extra for Samsung's VR promo which not only included the VR goggles and remote I got their 256GB micro sd car as well as AKG bluetooth over the ear headphones.

These alone sell closer to $500 so it was a good deal. They actually sold out within days after the preorders of the S8 and S8+ started arriving to homes.

I have to say I'm digging it even though it gave me a little vertigo.

I'm loving the S8+ phone as well. Glad I upgraded.

My unboxing video is here! Watch it for some unpacking tips. 

Out with the old (LG V20) and in with the new! (Samsung S8+)

I finally swapped out my LG V20 for a Samsung S8+ and I'm really happy so far. I haven't done a review on the S8+ yet but I can tell you it's MUCH better than the V20 except for the microphone pickup quality.

I did an unboxing and Ringke case review. full review coming on my Youtube channel.