Yesterday I forgot to post an image. I went to the NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, NC. It was a very dreay, rainy and overcast day. My iPhone was out of space . Sp, I took some images with my friend, Sue Hughes', Samsung mobile smart phone. I did convert the image with her in the window to Sepia tone to give a vintage look. Not really happy with the images but it definitely was an interesting structure. It takes a lot of manual labor and time to put one of these structures together. I forgot to ask her how to get the sharp focus on her at the twig window and was not familiar with her phone functions. Thus the image of her is not sharp but the twigs appear to be. Not sure what the settings were for the image but I would guess the f stop was less than f8. Should have changed WB to shade to avoid the color cast. .
These birdhouses are also not functional and hanging on my friend's wooden fence. Maybe I need to invest in a stuffed bird that really looks real for a prop. With an iPhone unless you are close and can anticipate the pose, forget getting bird pictures. If you crop a photo taken at a distance it will be pixelated. You might be able to use for some altered art project. I took in color but I played around with light and dark exposures and used sepia filter for one. I like the vintage look. Because of small sensor there is some distortion with the planks of the wooden fence in the background. There is supposed to be an app that will help correct disotortion of buildings etc. 
