Apple Highlights Photos Shot by iPhone 12 Users: Portraits, Cityscapes, and More

[organic bond]

Bigger sensor means bigger lenses means thicker device.

But on another idea, I don't know anyone that carries around a separate camera anymore. I've laughingly watched people use iPads as cameras, which is pretty hilarious. Getting images off of a portable camera has always been a PITA, requiring dongles, cables, incantations. It would be cool if Apple enabled AirDrop to be used on portable cameras. When it works, AirDrop just rocks. No dongles, cables, incantations; point and click, so to speak...

The camera companies all seem to have their ways of massaging image data inside their devices. Making images easier to transfer to Apple devices would be fantastic, and then Apple software can 'Appleize' the images. *shrug*

I do. It's worth it, if I'm hunting for photos there's no way I don't bring my Canon PowerShot G5 X Mark II. Portable, light, but amazing.

 

[ikir]

Awesome shots!

 

[citysnaps]

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I wonder how this image was captured. Even on a tripod, my iPhone 12 makes muddy astrophotography shots.

Did you have night mode turned on?

 

[CouldBeWorse]

I wonder how this image was captured. Even on a tripod, my iPhone 12 makes muddy astrophotography shots.

Make sure the self-timer is on. Hitting the shutter button makes the phone shake.

 

[Edsel]

Lighting and composition are key to good photography. A pin hole camera could capture an amazing photo. Good equipment can help, but are useless without perception.

 

[44267547]

Absolutely. It has little to do with the camera. It's more about imagination and what moves you. Even though I have dSLRs and mirrorless cameras, I've been shooting with iPhones since 2011 and exclusively for about the last 6 years. The key is always having a camera (for me an iPhone) with me in my pocket. I use them as point-n-shoot devices. I do a little post-processing in Lightroom. But that's something I always did when using "regular" cameras.

Here's a photo I made looking upwards at some trees in a residential neighborhood in Palo Alto, California. The view reminded me of person's carotid artery that feeds one's brain. So I snapped a photo with the phone I had at the time, an iPhone X.

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So get this:

I was reading the title for the thread article, it says “Apple highlights photo shot by iPhone 12 users: Portrait, Cityscapes and more...”

I thought the word ‘Cityscapes’ in the thread title actually said ‘Citysnaps’, and then I remembered that you’re a photographer and I figured you’d be in the thread. So for a second there, I thought they were demoing your work in this thread based off my misreading.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I do. It's worth it, if I'm hunting for photos there's no way I don't bring my Canon PowerShot G5 X Mark II. Portable, light, but amazing.

I too used to carry a separate camera too. Because I loved being at concerts and seeing the pictures people around me were taking with their Android phones, and mine just sucked. Sad... Shooting videos were sometimes clearer, but such a pain. Now, pictures seem better. One thing I really still want to get is a small underwater camera. I saw a case for an iPhone to make it an 'underwater camera', but it looked like a bad joke. Plus underwater cameras need filters and special flash changes so the photo is not awash with the 'dust' floating inn the water before the lens. It's like hitting the high beams in a blizzard. All of the sudden you can't see anything but the advancing snow. (Never use high beams in a snow storm, just saying)

I loved my APS Canon Powershot titanium camera. Me and that thing traveled nearly the entire Caribbean and parts of Mexico and Canada. I never left for a vacation without it. I've got tons of memories tied up in the pictures that camera took. Then I got a small Sony camera and around that time APS was dying. I finally took apart the Powershot. It seemed a fitting end, rather than tossing it. I think I even found some of the fine sand it was exposed to over the decades. I got a little emotional... I've thought of rounding up all of the APS canisters I have and having them all reprinted onto a DVD so I can see them all over again. Some of the physical photos have been lost over the years.

Things move on... Cheers...

 

[xBigGx]

I always wondered, mostly because I never had an iPhone... Are "regular" users capable of taking such photos? I'm assuming they aren't just "point and shoot." Are they retouched in Photoshop? Or are the advanced camera settings (iso, exposure, etc) adjusted so that these photos come out so pretty?

These are shot with the 11 pro at night ... just to test, no special composition, no special settings, just point and shoot and no retouch ...

 

[typecase]

Did you have night mode turned on?

Of course. I had it on a tripod too. The max it did was a 3 second exposure though and it lead to very muddy stars.