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Apple Reveals iPhone 11 Night Mode Photo Challenge Winners
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No, the Night Mode doesn’t require the second camera, in fact you can’t shoot in night mode on that new Ultra Wide lens. Only the primary camera supports it. You are right about the part that it is being enabled by the A13 though.
In my view the fact that the results of this competition are being publicized shortly before the SE2/9 launch is a further confirmation that the said phone will support the Night Mode. It’s a marketing tool.
They’re totally hyping up this feature now so during the keynote they’ll come up and say “look at these stunning pics! our customers love the night mode. now available for $399”. Basically what Google did with Pixel 3a last year when the Night Sight was the killer feature of that budget phone (while the current Apple’s flagship XS at $999 had none).
Rustam Shagimordanov / Moscow, Russia / iPhone 11:
Erhm. Well this is actually in Norway. Reine - Lofoton Islands. Lovely shot!
Lightroom and photoshop to the max dude. At least one hour per photo to create works of art like that.
It's why I never really got into photography after I bought a nice camera.... I realised that creating amazing pictures had only a little bit to do with actually taking the shot, and everything to do with spending an hour per pic tweaking it in post production, which I found extraordinarily boring.
Compare them side by side. Not at all the same picture. Start with the patterns in the water.
Perhaps taken in the same place with both devices. Possibly at different times.
These are just stunning! Wow.
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You’re not impressed? That says more about you than the photos. They’re spectacular. Also, Apple wanted to highlight Night Mode, so of course it focused on iPhone 11. You think they should have contests to promote old phones?
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Do you speak Russian? I have no idea what that says. But my guess is that Apple has checked the metadata and done their due diligence regarding iPhone authenticity for this contest. Too much at stake not to.
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Nightmode is great, but I prefer NeuralCam. I snapped this in Amsterdam in January, literally point and click. Nightmode doesn't quite get photos as clear (sadly I deleted the nightmode one from my photo reel)
That was my first thought.
But both images have no significant difference. I am very positive that Apple has scanned for device identity...I’d more like to see a unique photo taken on iPhone 11 vs an identical copy where all same tools and techniques were applied.
I will say though that once iOS 13 was released, I could watch my shots on the XS get some processing done to them. A Night Mode Lite, if you will.
I get ya. We made a leaf peeping trip this year and I'd have loved to have had the wide sensor, but it just wasn't in the cards for me to have gotten my 11 Pro at that time.
beautiful shots!
and yet there are photographers who demonized smartphones cameras, when art goes beyond tools
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almost every photographer edit their pics, 99%
and yet there are photographers who demonized smartphones cameras, when art goes beyond tools
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almost every photographer edit their pics, 99%
From what I recall, you couldn't enhance with PhotoShop or the iPhone tools. What would make these even more interesting, would be comparing the photos with night mode on and night mode off. It's pretty breathtaking what this feature does. These photos are amazing.
Seriously? You are telling me you can't see substantial differences between these two pictures? Not only are they not the same they weren't taken from the same location - it's not just a matter of tweaking colors or cropping, the geometry of the two images are considerably different. Take a look at the pair of arrows I've added to each image below - one pointing down to a corner of the house in the right front, the other pointing up to the corner of the mountain. Notice the vast difference between the spacing of the arrows? This is without even getting into the wave patterns in the foreground. Entirely different pictures. Taken of the same scene, from two nearby spots, but not the same spot.
I have no problem believing the same photographer, having traveled from Moscow to Norway, chose to take similar pictures with his camera and his phone, both of which he had with him.
