Apple Highlights Holiday-Themed Photos Shot on iPhone XR and XS

[-BigMac-]

How good is christmas time

 

[msama]

I'm amazed how good my photos turn out on my MAX relative to other photos I've taken on older phones and older digital cameras. Some are terrible, most are good, every once and a while I'll get an exceptional one. =)

 

[mikeheenan]

I'm still waiting for them to fix the smearing "beautification" filter.... some video I shot at a concert on my XS Max turned out rather disappointing.

 

[Spectrum]

Does anyone else find the picture of the dog and the kid disturbing? The rug going from in focus to sudden blur is pretty jarring to me. Other than that, it's okay. It gnaws away at my photographic OCD. The background of behind the kid is too uniformly blurred for my taste, quite disturbing to my sense of how lens blur should look.

Yeah the effects are overdone. With a real camera/lens combo I think it would be hard to get these kind of effects without something like a lens baby. The blurriness is trying too hard to the point that it looks faked (which it is).

 

[freezelighter]

No need to buy XS, XR or XS Max.

The X does the same.

RAW is the same.

 

[Substance90]

Honestly, I can't find the first photo appealing with the fake bokeh. It's just optically too wrong. You'd have to really not know anything for not to notice it.

 

[BlargKing]

There are very few people good enough at photographer to be qualified to criticize modern smartphone cameras much. They take some great shots.

Theres plenty of people qualified. And they do take good shots, within their limitations. The average consumer doesn't often bump up against these limitations, but they are there, and I wouldn't be able to do my job with a smartphone camera.

 

[doomfront]

All of the photos I've taken on my XS Max, with people in it have come out super "flat" and blurry (not sure if that's the right way to describe it). Not sure what I'm doing wrong but they all look terrible. I turned off the automatic HDR or whatever it's called, don't have my phone on me to check. That improved it a bit, but they still look really bad compared to the 7 Plus I had before

 

[RWil85]

Not trolling at all..

iPhone 8 Plus user who moved onto an iPhone XS Max.

XS Max is supposed to have better low light performance, better "bokeh effect", Smart HDR, etc. - and a better lens in general.

I cannot help but think that my portrait phots on my XS Max seem blurrier, more "noisy" than on my previous device - except MAYBE for only the most perfect lighting conditions (and even then they seem "smoothed").

I'm trying to make sense of all of the BeautyGate complaints - and there are always posts that speak to both sides, that it is either an actual issue or error on the side of the person taking the photo.

Given the photos above - it seems as though very good photos are certainly possible.

What the heck is the deal here?